How home exchange works
How it works
Home exchange simply means that you and your family agree with a family from a different area to live in each other's homes during your holiday. The length of the holiday exchange is entirely up to you.
Sign up
Set up listing
Search destinations
Contact partner
An Intervac membership offers you the freedom to explore neighbourhoods and lifestyles not available through travel guides. When specifying your preferred exchange destinations be sure to choose “Open to all offers”. You may find yourself vacationing in a Danish fishing port on the Baltic Sea, or a ranch in western Canada, a village in rural France or a barge moored in central Amsterdam. If you are flexible you can let serendipity take you to places you never dreamt of!
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Set up your listing
Set up your listing. As soon as you have opened your account, your enter your member area to fill in your details and start creating your listing. It is important to repeat that until you have actually completed your listing, it remains invisible to other members.
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Go to “Create my listing”
After you have logged in, on the member home page, in the left-hand column just underneath the orange navigation box you will see a set of links titled \"My Listing\". Begin by clicking on \"Edit My Listing\"
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Fill in form
Fill in the form with your desired travel dates, information about your family, your home, and your surroundings. Don't forget to save your changes by clicking the orange button at the top, or the bottom of the page.
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Your destination wishlist
Använda \ "Min Lista \" navigering klicka på \ "Destinationer Önskelista \" för att börja att uppmärksamma andra medlemmar på din önskan att besöka deras område. Som standard \ "öppen för alla länder \" är vald, men du kan ange så många länder, regioner och städer som du vill. Ju mer du väljer, desto bättre dina chanser att få erbjudanden från människor i dessa orter använder Reverse Search för att hitta potentiella utbyte partner.
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Place your google markers
Using the \"My Listing\" navigation check the position of your Google Maps marker by clicking on the link \"Place Google Marker\". If you are offering a second home, or want to use latitude and longitude to place the marker more exactly there are forms and instructions on this page for doing so.
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Additional text and photos
Ta dig tid och titta på andra medlemmars annonser. För att göra Er egen annons så attraktiv som möjligt. Samla ihop bilder av ditt hem, din familj och husdjur, ditt grannskap, och din region. Nu är du redo att ladda upp bilderna skriv (obegränsad) fritext och fyll i dina uppgifter. Du kan göra båda dessa saker genom att klicka på \ "tillfoga text och bilder \" i \ "mitt Objekt \" navigation.
Search destinations
We have advanced search functionalities which will help you find your perfect match!
- Ett foto med en bra text, är viktigt
- A map of surroundings
- Search facilities
- Reverse search
- Match alert!
- Integrated messaging system
Need help from our national representatives to find a good match?
Vi har trettiofem nationella representanter runt om i världen och de flesta av dem har varit medlemmar som du och gjort många utbyten ibland tjugo år och mer. Våra agenter vet knepen, och de kommer att göra allt de kan för att hjälpa dig. Intervac finns i ert land, och talar ditt språk.
Contact prospective partners
Our messaging service allows you to send an inquiry by clicking on the "Send Email" link you will find on every listing when you are logged in. You will automatically receive a copy of messages that you send through the Intervac online system.
Contact templates
Introduce yourself
For each holiday you are planning, compose a contact template introducing you and your family to potential exchange partners. Include interesting information about your home and neighbourhood, and be sure to include the dates you are available for an exchange.
Prepare to be contacted by others
Prepare a couple of answer templates for replying quickly to offers you receive. You can write one for offers that you are not interested in, and another for offers that interest you but for dates when you already have an exchange or are not available. When you receive a message from another member, you can easily load one of these templates into the response box online and edit/personalise the text for that response before sending.
You could also prepare a contact template for use in the initial agreement phase.
Detailed guidelines and online help 24/7
We have detailed guidelines for home exchange that are updated regularly in light of our organisers and their members' experience. Our online system is well documented with plenty of help text to give you a boost when find yourself stuck in the middle of the night.
