How to Travel Around The World with The Best Homestay

 

Travelling is not just about visiting a new places, it is about learning and experiencing the difference between us and the other side of the world. It is a golden chance for us to immerse ourself to other culture and learn more about them. Through immersing ourself to other, we could understand and learn their food, language,  believe, and  tradition.

These are the way to get the best experience of homestays. 

1) Location

Location is the most directly characteristic that affect the experience of customer. To find the best location, first you need to decide the place you were interested. After choosing the most attracting place, we need to check the safety and accessibility of transport in that place. Safety is to avoid any unnecessary unplanned event happen. Besides, accessibility of transport in to make the trip more convenience as we could go to most of the place easily.

2) Review and Ratings 

The review and rating of a homestay, is the past experience of other customer who stay at the homestay before. Rating and review session is a place where customer could share their experience and advice to other customer. While reading their review, we could pat attention to the services, location accuracy, cleanliness, culture and overall experience. Customer could consider the highest rating, as it might give you the best experience. 

3) Engage the Host

To know more detail of the homestay, communication is the key. Try to contact the host and check whether they hit you expectation before booking a homestay. Inquiries about the hospitality, exact location or local insight. This could give us a more clearer image of the homestay. A good responsive host usually boost up the experience of travel. Explorer could also ask for recommended location to visit or some personal tips and guidance from the host. 

4) Additional Services

Additional service such as guide tour and activity, language assistances, meal and catering or transportation arrangement. For example, host could provide transportation to renter from airport to homestay when they arrive. Host could also provide translation service for foreigner traveler. Other than that, host could give some advice about local tours or culture experience such as workshop, traditional craft demonstration and historical site.

5) Pricing

Checking the pricing of the homestay is one of the most important process. Explorer should choose the most suitable price of homestay for them. Beside choosing the prices of homestay, you should double check the transparency of pricing. Make sure there is no hidden fees or changes. Other than that, explorer should also check the taxes or additional fees such as service fees. Be mindful that without chcking the taxes or service change might cause overbudget or overspend.