A new website gives you the chance live the high life on a budget
By Phil Boucher 'The Independent.'
The website lets London's jet set rent out their luxury penthouses while they're abroad.
Christmas may traditionally be a time of good will but this is often lost in a haze of exhaust fumes as we venture on to the roads and railways to visit friends and relatives. Around four million Britons are also expected to journey overseas for the festive period by ferry or plane.
Yet regardless of who you are, where you go or how brilliantly you cheat at family charades, at some point you will have to return home. And, for many, this will entail strolling into a property that is cold, slightly less tidy than you remember and very possibly coated in the shrivelled needles of a dead Norwegian spruce.
Thankfully, it doesn't have to be this way. A range of internet-based property companies now make it possible to rent your home on a short-term basis to visitors from around the world, meaning that your property can be occupied, warmed and thoroughly looked after whenever you're away.
Better still, websites such as onefinestay.com not only do the hard work of attracting the visitors, they also clean your home from top to bottom and take care of any maintenance issues that might occur during the stay, making the whole process almost entirely hands-free. A visit can be one night, three weeks or three months – it all depends on how long you want to keep away –and can costs a little as £119 per night.
"The best way to imagine it is a five-star hotel stretched out across London," explains the founder of One Fine Stay, Greg Marsh. Full Article via 'The Independent.'
