You want to take a vacation.  You’ve decided on a location, how you need to secure accommodations.  Once upon a time, vacationers would go straight for the hotel directory as a common practice.  However, today’s savvy traveler is demanding more amenities and room to spread out, especially with children.  The truth of the matter is however, that most people don’t know about how affordable the resort lifestyle is.  Most resorts offer condos rather than hotel rooms.  This is a fabulous option for vacationing.

Once you’ve vacationed condo style, you won’t want to go back to hotels.  The differences are vast! 

Hotel travel is very space restricting.  You have everyone sharing one bathroom, one closet, one drawer and really no place to get away from each other for naps, privacy, television watching, things we take for granted at home.  While typically you’ll find a coffee pot and perhaps a microwave and bar refrigerator, it’s still very limiting even for morning coffee.  Everyone is stepping over suitcases, dirty clothes and “stuff” they brought along on vacation.  It’s a mess!

Condo travel is really a home away from home.  Depending on the number of travelers in your party, you can enjoy studio, one, two, and three bedroom condos sometimes accommodating as many as 6 and 8 to the unit.  Everyone has their space, sleeping area, dresser drawer, and closet space.  Nobody is bumping into each other, sitting on beds all day and feeling cramped up. 

When you arrive at your condo destination you can unpack and put things away just like home.  You’ll find extra storage closets, entertainment centers and a stocked kitchen with all your major and small appliances, your dishes, cookware, baking dishes and utensils for cooking.  Most have washers and dryers.  It’s really, just like home.  Just bring your clothes and food.

While the idea of eating out all the time sounds like fun, in reality, it can get very expensive to do that.  Just making your own breakfast and packing some sandwiches for the road that day can help tremendously on a budget.  Plus there’s just nothing like getting up in the morning and putting on that pot of coffee or brewing that first cup of tea without having to shower, shave and shine to go out.  It’s very enjoyable to get up and relax on your porch, watch the news, have your breakfast and then head out for the day doing whatever your vacation calls for. 

Most vacation condos will offer maid service for an extra fee.  Certainly if you run out of towels, soaps, etc., housekeeping is happy to run those over to you.  Many people find it’s no big deal to throw the dirty dishes in the dishwasher and make their beds, or simply leave them unmade for the week.  Whatever is going to allow you to relax and be comfortable is they way to go.  If it’s maid service, just check with the resort and make sure those services are available at the time you wish to make your reservations.

You can find condos as well as vacation homes for rent online.  If you find yourself taking a vacation at least once a year, you may want to consider a travel club membership, such as Global Resorts Network whereby they offer many condo rentals at discounted prices.  For a 7 night 8 day resort stay, it will run you between $298 and $799, most cap at $698.  Locations are worldwide and currently have over 5000 3, 4 and 5 star resorts to choose from, most of which are condo style.