A lady approached me today to ask whether I knew people who did this and whether they found it a good experience or not so I am asking for responses. Also are there any internet sites that you would recommend that she looks at, does she have to join something in particular etc?

Rosemary

We have done it a couple of times. Exchanging our house in Boston with someone else's in Spain. We had a pretty good experience both times. There are a lot of home exchange websites out there. We used homeexchange.com

- Eric S.

Thanks Eric, I told her to trawl through the internet as I have no idea so it is really helpful to be given a site that someone has used successfully, I will pass it on to her.

Rosemary

We've done it twice using Home Exchange 50plus - Home Swap Exclusively for Seniors
We had one really good exchange for two weeks so we arranged another exchange for two months with a different house , that one was not so good as the couple missed their grown up children and wanted to come back earlier .. The Guardian also has a good selection of holiday swops https://www.guardianhomeexchange.co.uk/