After a long day of work, you want to be able to come back and relax in the comfort of your own home. If you traveling for work, you are probably being put up in a hotel that is hard to picture as your home. Hotels feel impersonal and don’t provide certain comforts a home would offer. A growing trend over the last few years has been short-term apartment rentals. Traditionally, companies have focused more on vacationers but now they have moved into rentals for business trips.
Homey Feeling
Hotel rooms can only offer you so much comfort. Renting a short-term apartment gives you a home away from home. When you stay in a hotel, you cannot cook for yourself, meaning you have to spend money on food. If you don’t want to eat fast food, your expenses can rise very quickly. Being able to stock your apartment with food and cooking is a much better option. Most hotels do not have a laundry room accommodation, while some only have a dry cleaning service. Being able to do your laundry in your apartment and not having to walk to the nearest laundromat is another excellent perk. Rental properties tend to have more closet space, meaning your clothes won’t be wrinkled from being stuck in the suitcase and in a cramped closet space.
Space
If many coworkers are traveling for this corporate event, having more space for them would be better. Sharing hotel rooms can get tight and splurging for more than one room could start to burn a hole in the company’s pocket. A rental gives you the space to be able to lodge multiple employees at a lower price. It also benefits everyone being in the same proximity for traveling and quick meetings.
Pricing
Home and apartment rentals tend to have less price flexibility. While this might sound like a negative at first, it means these rental properties cannot fluctuate prices like hotels do during peak seasons. Prices are more constant when looking at rentals and if planned right you can save money even during peak travel seasons.
Long-Term Work
Though it is a short-term rental property, it works for long-term conferences and tradeshows that can last for a couple weeks. Spending money on a hotel for that long could get pricey for your employer and a rental property could be perfect for this situation.