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What Are the UK’s Favourite Destinations?

Written by Ben Doyle on the 12. of May 2010  |  1 comment

Every month, flight comparison website Skyscanner releases its search data for the UK. By ranking destinations based on the number of searches for flights with UK departures, it is able to demonstrate the locations in which the UK shows most interest.

April’s Top 50 Destinations list was released on Friday. It is dominated by beach resorts, but still includes TEN HouseTrip cities:

  • London (7)
  • New York (9)
  • Amsterdam (10)
  • Barcelona (12)
  • Paris (17)
  • Rome (21)
  • Edinburgh (24)
  • Prague (28)
  • Berlin (29)
  • Lisbon (39)

Expect to see more and more HouseTrip cities appearing in this list, as HouseTrip continues to add to our top destinations :-)

Staying at a short-term rental in Berlin for the European Venture Market

Written by Arnaud on the 23. of May 2009  |  No comments

At the beginning of last week the HouseTrip team went to Berlin to participate to the European Venture Market (looking for investors for our second-round).

Of course, for our lodging we stayed in a short-term rental and we could once again verify for ourselves that the value we get is just much better than hotels. For a price the third of a normal hotel room, we got a wonderful 150sqm loft in a Berlin historical building, with 3 bedrooms and all the amenities one could expect in a great home!


loft-living-room

The living room of our Berlin rental


A funny anecodte is that we – obviously – started to speak about HouseTrip with our host and, after hearing us describe the project, he told us that about a month ago he had been interviewed by people wanting to launch a similar project from Switzerland… After a moment of reflection – telling ourselves that there musn’t be that many Swiss entrepreneurs in our industry – we simply noticed that it was us who interviewed him!

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