House swap holidays

After nearly 60 years, HomeLink continues to help like-minded families arrange house swap holidays all around the world. We specialise in providing personal support at every stage of your house swap from preparing your web page to providing feedback on your return - and everything in between!

The options on the right should answer many of your questions about home swapping. You can join online or if you'd just like to have a chat about how a house swap could help you and your family, do get in touch.

Advantages of home swapping:

no hotel or accommodation costs
swap cars and avoid car hire costs and benefit from the use of their child seats, roof box, sat nav etc
live like a local and have a more authentic experience of their culture
feel part of a local community - friends and neighbours are often on hand for a chat or help
enjoy the space and comforts of staying in a home
plant and pet care is common by mutual agreement
enjoy their bicycles, music, books, toys, games and often babysitters
unlimited holidays - some members swap 4 or more times every year

2nd Year Free

The only way to find out if home swapping is for you, is to try it! Our aim is that all of our first-year members should do at least one house swap. If you don't manage to arrange an exchange in your first year with HomeLink we will extend your membership by another year for free.

Longer holidays ... and more of them!

Once you've arrived at your destination, a house swap costs no more whether you stay for a week or a month, so members tend to stay away longer. They also travel more often and some members are always planning their next house swap - so you could have Easter in Amsterdam, Whitsun in London, Summer in Florida, Christmas in New York and then a longer swap to Australia when you find the time!

House swap: getting started

Provide your home details and holiday requirements on our Join Now form
We prepare your initial web page (we call them "listings") and send you log in details
You then edit your listing to add more information and photos of your home
Now you are ready to start planning your first house swap holiday!

How to arrange a house swap:

Browse home swaps by country / region or use our Advanced Search facility to locate homes of interest
Contact these members using our secure message facility to suggest a home swap
Other members will be able to see your home swap listing and will contact you if they are interested
Share plenty of information, ask lots of questions and get to know each other before finalising arrangements
Formalise the house swap using our Exchange Agreement Form

The best advert for a HomeLink house swap are the comments from our happy members...

We always travelled a lot before we had children but then we found it far harder to afford the kind of destinations we wanted - until we discovered Homelink. In the last 3 years we have been to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, France (twice), Germany and Austria as well as Yorkshire, London and Manchester. And every single swap has been amazing. So when the opportunity of a year in Provence came up we just knew we couldn't pass it up.

Home exchange for us has been a completely life altering experience and we are completely evangelical about it. The Ramsay family, Whitby. Read more comments from happy HomeLinkers...

Personal support for your house swap

Many people considering a home swap holiday for the first time have many questions and so it can help to have a chat about how home swapping may work for you and your family before you decide whether to go ahead and join. Please do contact us if you have any questions about house swapping or if there is anything else we can do to help

At HomeLink we know that some members need a bit of help with the online side of home swapping. We provide a personal service so that you can get the most out of your HomeLink membership and we're happy to help wherever we can, be it adding photos, suggesting improvements to your listing or making changes - just Contact Us and we'll do it for you.

Best wishes ,

Caroline Connolly

Address: 7 St Nicholas Rise, Headbourne Worthy, Winchester, SO23 7SY.
Email: caroline@homelink.org.uk
Tel/Fax: 01962 886882