If you’re thinking about booking a vacation before the leaves begin to change colors, then consider doing something a little different this year – try renting a green vacation home! Vacation rentals, instead of a hotel or campground, can let you live like a local in whichever city you choose to visit. No matter whether you’re looking for Southern charm in a city such as Charleston, South Carolina, or midcentury class in Austin, Texas, a green vacation home is just a click away thanks to the internet.
There are plenty of online marketplaces to find vacation rentals, but it takes some commitment to wade through their listings to find eco-friendly rentals. Don’t worry, we’re here to help. Below you can find a few sites that cater to those who want extended leisure without being harmful toward the environment.
GetawayGreen
Whether you’re in the mood to hike a mountain, canoe down a river or relax by an ocean, GetawayGreen can get you close to nature without harming it. This community of vacation rentals spans the globe and focuses on sustainability. The site, getawaygreen.com, is exclusive to rentals with environmentally friendly features, and everyone who stays with GetawayGreen helps fight climate change thanks to the company’s green initiatives.
Every month GetawayGreen donates 10 percent of its proceeds to a charity or organization that works to reverse global climate change. If it’s just you and your significant other or an entire group that’s interested in vacationing green, then explore what GetawayGreen has to offer.
Green Vacation Hub
With an expansive list of green hotels, houses and bed-and-breakfasts, Green Vacation Hub is an efficient way to sift through hundreds of rentals with sustainable features. What makes Green Vacation Hub unique are its six areas of evaluation for lodgings: energy efficiency, water efficiency, recycling, air quality, food and fragrance-free. The site offers listings all over the world; if there is a place you want to visit, you can do so in an environmentally friendly fashion. By visiting greenvacationhub.com, you can see all the site has to offer. It even offers tips to be more Earth-friendly when travelling.
Carolina Mornings
While this site is region-specific, Carolina Mornings offers many vacation rentals for those interested in visiting the colorful Blue Ridge Mountains in the Asheville, North Carolina, area. Carolina Mornings has many places for people to stay across the Asheville area, but distinguishes those that are eco-friendly.
Through its EcoFriendly certification program, rentals are evaluated on several criteria such as low-flow toilets, solar panels, LEDs, composting and recycling. You can see Carolina Morning’s entire list of green property features, and all of its green listings, at carolinamornings.com.
EnvironmentallyFriendlyHotels.com
Since 2005, EnvirontmentallyFriendlyHotels.com has offered green places to stay for travellers and eco tourists. Managed by HealthyStatys.com, the company has thousands of hotels and vacation rentals for people to choose from. It has a search engine that allows you to choose what you’re looking for in a rental, and ranks rentals based on a green leaf rating system.
The company also participates in 1% for the Planet, an alliance committed to donating 1 percent of sales to environmental groups across the globe, and is committed to being an eco-conscious and health-oriented business to help travellers stay green and healthy.
Other options:
Sites like Airbnb and VRBO have thousands of vacation rentals, but you’ll have to search around to find places that are specifically eco-friendly. Sometimes these sites curate lists, such as Airbnb’s “It’s Easy Being Green,” but more often than not, a quick internet search will do the trick.
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But, in my experience, Europe embraces vacation–sometimes in ways that make no sense. I’ve frequently found restaurants that close for two weeks during peak tourist season–because the owners want to take their own vacation time. I’d think they would close in the offseason and make money while they could, but the vacation culture is strong.
This summer, my family is basically staying put, for a variety of reasons. We’re making a couple of short trips, but otherwise staying in our home in Switzerland (which, admittedly, is a prime vacation spot in and of itself). And it’s impossible to get anything done.
My lawyer has been on vacation for the past three weeks and will be back next week. I have some things I need her to look at, and they have to wait.
Getting a doctor’s appointment? Good luck! At least the walk-in clinic runs year-round.
While this affects my day-to-day life because I’m physically here, it can also affect your business, even if you’re based in the United States. When someone says, “The Geneva office is closed for three weeks,” they aren’t joking, and no one around here even bats an eyelash. So, how do you do the international part of your business when everyone else is at the beach? Here are some ideas:
Plan ahead
This is going to happen every year. Some countries are worse than others, with everyone going at the same time. One of the problems is that European schoolchildren tend to have shorter summer vacations–six weeks is common–compared with the 10 to 12 weeks American schoolchildren get. Don’t cry for the poor, suffering schoolchildren here–they get an additional eight weeks throughout the school year.
But those six weeks are going to vary from country to country. German and British schools tend to get out at the end of July, while Swiss schools close the last week in June. So, you’ll have better luck with your London office in July than you will with your Swiss office. Go ahead and ask when peak vacation season is and plan accordingly.
Partner with larger companies
While small businesses can be excellent partners, if you will need people year-round, without fail, a large company will be a better bet than a small one. The multinational corporation isn’t going to shut down its Paris office for the summer, but the small business might close its doors for the entire month of August. Ask when you are building relationships. They won’t think to bring it up, because it’s often a normal part of doing business here.
Embrace vacation yourself
Go. Take a vacation. Step away from the office and your phone and your laptop. Europeans have proved that the world doesn’t end if you go on a vacation. If you’re good at what you do, people will be waiting for you when you get back. It’s OK to take some downtime.
Just make sure that if you do come to Europe for your vacation that the restaurants will be open in the small village you thought looked charming. Otherwise, you may be miserable during your vacation.
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