Are you looking for a home exchange where you can enjoy your stay without needing a car — meaning shops, sights, and key amenities are all within walking distance or easily reachable by public transport?
Or do you live in this kind of destination and are looking for guests who would enjoy a stay without needing a car?
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Interesting post. Shops are walkable from our home, but 15 mins walk. Fairly flat and pleasant and safe. Quiet roads through housing estates and parks or a canal tow path.
I am not sure I’d want to do half trolley worth of shopping and wheel it back though. All the supermarkets in our part of England have home delivery anyway, so visitors can just get the shopping delivered. It’s either free or £5 to have it delivered.
Everyone who has stayed with us has borrowed one of our cars. Insurance is about £40 for 10 days. If you cannot drive or are determined to walk then…
Our town Maidstone is the county town of Kent and the best thing about it tourism wise is quirky shops and some very good ethnic restaurants. A world class French Restaurant that my friends own and I’ve eaten at a lot of good French restaurants including in France. Great Thai and Nepalese and Indian restaurants and one very good Portugese Brazilian place. Also has a really beautiful large park, donated by the founder of the Shell Oil Company. That has a miniature railway for families which is very cheap and quaint as railway enthusiasts bring their model steam trains and run them. It’s very big and the pride of the town.
A good tip for SE England is Google the traffic situation in the town you are staying. Some towns like Reading and St. Albans and Cobham Surrey are terrible for local traffic and walking is really going to be attractive if you are a visitor. However in most of Kent (with the notable exception of Tunbridge Wells) the traffic is very light and parking is easy and either free or cheap. It depends on two factors. The population density and how well off the homes are and whether everyone has a car. The richer towns in the high population areas (like St. Albans) have constant heavy traffic. In other towns far less traffic.
We travel as 6 or 7 all adults except 1 child.
Preferred destination France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Swit, Austria, near swimming lake or sea.
We offer and we need a larger sized family home.
We normally drive our own car, or hire, so don’t need to borrow one.
Information such as being able to have groceries home delivered is very useful information!
Maybe it would be a nice feature to allow home listings to include the amenity “no car required” and allow that to be a filter criteria for search.
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Yes there is an option in the search filters for selecting homes that are accessible by public transport (as specified by their owners).
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The other thing I would say is public transit mostly services cities in our area. I have snoozed our beach place but the immediate area is easily accessible by walking while rideshare is available for some other major attractions if you don’t have a car, by european standards I think that wouldn’t be car free. But in the US I would tell someone yes, you can get by without a car.
