{"id":2857,"date":"2007-04-15T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T08:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2007-04-15T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T08:40:23","slug":"private_room_we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Private Room Websites in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/04\/15\/TRG6GP6DRI1.DTL\">Arthur Frommer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If a &#8220;private homestay&#8221; is the key to an affordable visit to London, the same is true in Paris and Rome. Different from bed and breakfasts, homestays are the rental of a single room in a house or apartment whose owners are supplementing their income by taking in transient visitors. Such lodgings are available for as little as $35 to $40 per person per night, as compared with at least double that price (and sometimes more) for a room in a modest, commercial guesthouse or tiny hotel.<\/p>\n<p>In my April 1 column, I listed several organizations that make such rooms available in London, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happy-homes.com\/\">www.happy-homes.co<\/a>m and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.athomeinlondon.co.uk\/\">www.athomeinlondon.co.uk<\/a>. Immediately, I received letters requesting similar Web sites for low-cost private homestays in France and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Paris room rentals: The notion of taking a foreign visitor into one&#8217;s apartment was once anathema to the average, privacy-seeking Parisian. To do so just wasn&#8217;t &#8220;French.&#8221; In a cultural shift that I won&#8217;t try to explain, slightly more than 200 Parisian families now have begun renting rooms in their homes or apartments &#8212; and these make up the inventory of three Parisian bed-and-breakfast services (more commonly known as chambres d&#8217;h&ocirc;tes) offered to tourists from around the world. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Frommer: If a &#8220;private homestay&#8221; is the key to an affordable visit to London, the same is true in Paris and Rome. Different from bed and breakfasts, homestays are the rental of a single room in a house or apartment whose owners are supplementing their income by taking in transient visitors. Such lodgings are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}