Everybody knows what hotels can offer wherever you go with their services, tiny rooms and receptions open day and night, but is there any benefit of booking a vacation apartment for your city break? Is it any better? What about services?

First of all, the most important advantage of hiring an apartment is better rates. You don’t have to pay the huge staff, there is only a single person, who gives you the key and perhaps another one responsible for the cleaning. What you also have to consider is space, while in a cheaper hotel – I’m not talking about 5-star suites here – all you have is a tiny room and a small bathroom. In a holiday rental, you have at least one large room or even two or three bedrooms, a livingroom, a dining area, and so on . Do you really require so much space? Well, if you travel with your family, you can hire a larger apartment and stay together, and the price you pay will be a portion of several hotel rooms. It’s the same if a small company of friends travels together, you can be at the same place, paying for one accomodation only.

What about services? Well, if you miss room service, a sauna, an own restaurant and porters, a vacation apartment is not your choice. Generally these flats are self-catering, but at the same time a well equipped kitchen is at your disposal, where you can cook anything, whenever you want, if you need it, but most of us anyhow prefer to eat out in self-discovered local restaurants. The number of variations is huge, for example , when searching for Budapest apartments, you can select from extremely cheap studios to luxury two bedroom apartments with riverview, with two bathrooms, fancy furniture, balcony, etc.

What else have apartments to offer? Discounts. Many of the owners are individuals making a living out of renting out their downtown flats, this means that they are much more flexible than hotel reservation agents. Especially for weekday or off-season stays, you have a good chance to go down with the rates a bit. If your stay is very long, perhaps several weeks, you can even reach a surprisingly good discount.

Considering discounted flights and cheap apartments, you can improve the budget of your holidays radically, and the experience is the same. The money spared on your lodging can be spent on dinners in great restaurants, entrance tickets or possibly on another vacation .