Why not Choose My own Homestay Family?

[Albert jhon]

In nowadays of automated-self-serve-online-do-it-yourself-web-based-point-and-click, it hardly seems necessary to pay the additional buck to a third party company to find homestay accommodation for myself when refining their plans trip abroad. Or does it?

This is the question many international students and travelers are wondering. We book our own hotels after all -- so just why NOT homestay?

The short answer in a nutshell is that homestay is not a hotel. It is an unregulated industry. While a hotel is required legally to meet certain minimal standards of sanitation, safety, and service, homestay melaka with swimming pool have no such mandated oversight.

This means that booking your own room with an unknown family directly is a complete crap shoot -- while you may get lucky and land yourself a fabulous accommodation, you may just as likely book yourself in the homestay from terrible.

Let's face it -- every family that posts online will try to promote themselves as the best option for you. It's in their interest after all. But what's in your best interest?

A placement Agency? Really? Isn't the homestay placement agency just in it for the money? Why if he or she really care if i have a great homestay experience or not? Well, let's just call it the unseen hand of the free market.

Consider: A homestay agency that doesn't worry about the standard of its homestays is no better than a bad homestay family. In fact, they are worse -they are a bad business as well, and a bad business will not stand the test of time. A good homestay company on the other hand will build its reputation, expand its services across cities and areas, move its model, and naturally expand as part and parcel of a natural development nurtured on sound and honourable business practices.

So an experienced professional homestay company doesn't find the best possible homestay for you -- they find it for them. Only by causing you to be a happy customer will they win. And if a family they have chosen happens to be less than what it ought to be, you can believe that as the customer, you will be right. And that comforting assurance when you are far away from home in a foreign land without any other support network is well worth small premium a long established professional agency will charge.

Homestay should be more than just a destination for a lay your head and get some food on the fly. It is a window into another culture. It is an invitation to live, share, and experience a fully foreign lifestyle from the inside.