How to search for accommodation when traveling as a family with some company?
We have started traveling with our kids. Luckily they seem to have inherited the liking of travel. In our no-kids travel era finding accommodation was never an issue. Now it has become a major concern. We are a family of four with the occasional additional company of other families.
Especially with company, finding accommodation is really difficult, except for the holiday parks, but in our opinion that has nothing to do with traveling. With hotels you are often limited to either really expensive suites, or fragmented rooms (sometimes connected through a door), mostly with only two persons per room.
We are planning to resume our old travel behavior, but hostels and B&B no longer seem an option, when traveling with small children.
Is there a good general search strategy for accommodation, when traveling with one or more families with (small) children?
Best Answer
Funnily, when backpacking in South America we regularly ran into hostels that had families staying there - like the one (Che Legarto?) in Iguazu - the kids kept hogging the pool table ;)
However, another option for you could be AirBnb - I was skeptical at first but it's now got a huge selection in most places, and includes rooms and entire houses for rent.
Another option is booking.com - great for searching by person/room size - you can say, sort all the results by price for those with 4-bed rooms. And it regularly seems to have some quite useful sales.
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