how to do a house swap – how many holidays

What’s even better than going on holiday and living like a local? Going on holiday and living like a LUXURY LOCAL!

Our apartment in Barcelona was stunning – and here’s exactly how you could stay here yourself for a whole lot less money than your average hotel.

ENTER STAGE LEFT: Love Home Swap!

This is the second time we’ve used Love Home Swap (remember that insane New York apartment with the Emmy Award? Yeah, that one was one of them too) so to say we’re impressed is a total understatement. I really love how not only the quality of homes on the site are proper BANGIN’, but also that there’s nice ‘community vibes’ – because no one’s there to make money out of you. Everyone’s just after the same thing – somewhere nice to stay.

In this video, I’ll break down how we found this particular apartment and how we used Love Home Swap’s clever ‘points swap’ feature to stay. We also go to our friends’ incredible Barcelona wedding, get a chronic hangover (standard) and properly explore the neighbourhood of Eixample.

Who am I?

Hi pals – I’m Chelsea.

Or ‘Chelsea Travel’ as my friends like to call me.

And that’s because I’m just ever so slightly obsessed with booking holidays.

This ‘obsession’ kicked off a year long challenge where I tried to see how many holidays I could do for half the price the average Brit spends in a year.

What ensued was 10 incredible getaways that included staying in a $1.7 million apartment in New York, a free 2 week stay in Paris and even a business class flight to Benidorm (I kid you not, lads). All of which were captured on my Youtube channel, how many holidays.

Once complete, the challenge got picked up by a whole host of news sites and shared by thousands, and so I thought ‘eh up – people do like a good deal, don’t they?’.

So here I am – continuing on in my cheap holiday search and hoping to help you make the most of your money as well.

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