Renting an RV, camper or apartment in Europe.
We have been looking at this as an option for an extended stay this summer but the prices seem to be utterly outrageous and way out of our budget.
Does anyone have any experience or advice about this?
Does anyone know about possibly buying something then selling it at the end of the summer?
If we can't make this work, we are looking to get a small apartment, probably somewhere in Italy. Any advice on this would be appreciated as well.
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What if you couldn't sell it at the end of summer?
Here are a few sites where people list their apartments for rent:
https://www.airbnb.com/
http://www.vrbo.com (Stands for "Vacation Rentals By Owner"
We used air bnb to rent an apartment in Reyjavik, Iceland for several days and it was great. We used vrbo to rent a house on the Big Island of Hawaii for a week. It's great when you have more than two people and need more than one room.
The people we have dealt with have all been very nice.
We just completed a 3 week road trip across Mexico and back and stayed in about 7 airbnb places. Each was different and each was wonderful.
The problem is that even though the daily prices are great, they generally don't offer much of a discount for a monthly stay.
I have looked and not been able to find a site with primarily monthly or longer stays. VRBO has some, but they tend to be expensive.
Thanks, though, I will keep looking.
I have found a few other sites that are not US based and it looks like they might have better deals.
We are currently over in a small town above Puerto Vallerto. It's really lovely here but scorching hot at this time of year and not yet raining.
DH is moving the boat back to Baja in about 3 weeks and I am driving back to the states for a wedding.
on April 18th, we were there a month. We've rented an apartment for this year but won't be going back until end of October, maybe we'll meet up one day.
Too bad we didn't talk sooner.
Anyway, I hope we do meet up some time.
which doesn't help. We rented a car and drove all over France, Italy and Switzerland and it was really easy. Think they are all stick shift though.
How exciting for you. Planning is part of the fun, huh. Iceland sounds great - oddly, not too long ago - perhaps it was a promotion - but you could get a first class ticket on Icelandic Air for $1000 - think it stopped there and then went on to Paris.
I was just glancing through my AFAR magazine and came across a rental site
TheThinkingTraveller.com The name sounded good - but pulled it up and
and they are exclusive villas to rent. 23,000 euros a week with chefs and maids and gardeners and a masseuse!
Look at the produce on your terrace
Doubtful on Nola - we are going to the beach for a week for a wedding in June. But, miss Nola every day. Are you renting a house uptown again?
Loads of fun so far!!