Anyone know of a way to do this? We (older healthy couple) would so like to leave the city sometimes and spend a few days in a quieter corner or Ireland-just for walks, etc, dont have money for hotels etc.
BUT how do you find people interested in spending a few days in Dublin on a swap basis? Any such in-ireland exchange sites exist?
Hi,
there are a couple of agencies that you can register with to do houseswaps.
We're a member of homelink (www.homelink.ie) there are a few others - you could try to google houseswap to find them.
You pay a fixed amount per annum (E90 I think) and you can do as many house exchanges as you can do during a year. You can upload pics and a description according to a standard format onto the website and people can e-mail you or you can approach them.
We've done it 5 times so far and highly recommend it. We've 3 kids and it's the best thing to exchange with a family that have toys in their house too!
Of course you can specify that you prefer not to exchange with kids as well. We've exchanged in Europe and Ireland.