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Villas to luxury apartments: Picking homestays over hotels is more fun

The rising trend in travel and hospitality offers guests privacy and comfort for a cheaper price

Homestay in a serviced apartment offers privacy, luxury and the freedom from hotel rules of behavior. (Stock photo)
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Homestay in a serviced apartment offers privacy, luxury and the freedom from hotel rules of behavior. (Stock photo)

Namrata Kohli New Delhi
Chemical engineer Subhash Tandon opts to live in premium-serviced apartments during his professional assignments. Be it in Milan, Yokohama, Taiwan, Sharjah, and more recently for a private vacation with his family in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. 

“For short duration like two nights, I always prefer a good hotel over homestay. But for a longer stay, I prefer a premium-serviced apartment with a kitchen,” said Tandon, who lives in Delhi. For a five-day break along the banks of the Ganga river in Rishikesh, he and his extended family wanted a place that felt like home.

Welcome to the post-pandemic pleasure of homestays over