What the Journalists say about HomeLink
Ian MacNeill : CARP magazine May 2006, page 51.
My wife, Lisa, calls it the “wish book for adults.” She anticipated its arrival in the mail earlier this year as enthusiastically as a four-year-old waiting for Santa's sled to bump onto the roof. It's the latest home exchange directory from HomeLink International ...
Anita Draycott : My husband and I holidayed in Australia last September and it cost less than if we had stayed home in Toronto. While our neighbours there were packing away their golf clubs and raking leaves, Bill and I were enjoying the surf and sun of Aussie springtime.... Welcome to the wonderful world of home swapping.....
Andre Mayer : Everyone loves staying in hotels while on vacation. But do it for too long and not only do you risk burning a hole in your wallet ..... Tired of shelling out for high-priced accommodations, some seasoned travelers opt for home-sharing, in which they trade residences with vacationers in other countries.....
Helen Kaulbach : Two years ago,we had a one-month holiday in Australia’s premier vacation area, the Sunshine Coast. We stayed in a beachfront, luxury two-level penthouse in Mooloolaba. We’ve had many more offers than we’ve been able to accept, from ... Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Germany, from the US - even a couple from within Canada. We can afford such luxurious holidays, not just once, but two or three times a year, because we’re members of a Home Exchange Club
Barbara Carver : With a home exchange, I lived free in Paris. Last summer I was a Parisian. My family and I would wake up in the morning to the sound of pigeons in the courtyard garden, and I'd head out to my neighbourhood boulangeries for butter croissants and pain au chocolate.....
Diane Redfern : I was excited and glad to be finally doing a home exchange – my first, although I have always touted the concept as a great idea for solo travelers .... The more typical exchange would have Ilene and Stephen Ferris staying in my British Columbia condo while I used their Salt Lake City home...... we were all members of HomeLink International .....
Elana Scraba : In August, our days started and ended on the south terrace of a rooftop apartment in Nice. Did we win the lottery? No. This summer, we exchanged our Edmonton home for two apartments in Europe—one in Vienna and one in Nice. Our exchange in Québec City was our eighth. We are confirmed home-exchangers.....
Globe and Mail
 Ivor Tossell : "Looking to live like a New Yorker, Parisian or Los Angeleno? These days, home-exchange websites are trading small-town thrift for urban cachet by unlocking hip houses and local savvy" See article in Travel section April 19, 2006 "City Swappers".
Catherine Daley : Bonnie and Bruce LaRue were excited when they spotted a koala bear in the backyard of their borrowed home in Adelaide, Australia. David Bamford and his wife, Susan King, were staying in the LaRue’s home in Toronto as part of a house exchange program. See "Trading Places".
Sharon Aschaiek : Ideally, travelling should be an exercise in fun, relaxation and new experiences..... Exchanging involves swapping your home with someone else’s in another part of the world for an agreed upon period of time. It’s free accommodation for both parties, with each side still getting to enjoy the comforts of home.
Jennifer Aitkens : I found a cheap vacation through a travel agent this fall, but if my time had been a bit more flexible, I could have saved even more money with a home exchange vacation. ..... Home exchange networks allow individuals and families to swap homes so that both parties can enjoy inexpensive vacations.....
Anita Draycott : My husband and I holidayed in Australia last September and it cost less than if we had stayed home in Toronto. While our neighbours there were packing away their golf clubs and raking leaves, Bill and I were enjoying the surf and sun of Aussie springtime.....
Jane Naisbitt : "I've read about house swapping. It's something I've always dreamed of doing," I explained to David ..... By March we were confident we had found the perfect match and were ready to sign house and vehicle exchange contracts with the Charbonnel family from Rennes, France.
Shelly Sanders Greer : We had come all the way .... from Oakville, Ontario .... to England to experience cultural history, but the hands-down favourite for the kids? The red phone booths!  We were here on home exchange, ..
we had actually traded places with another family for two weeks.....
Camilla Cornell : Luc and Geneviève Legendre took their three children to Vancouver last summer, spending three weeks in Kitsilano, an upscale neighbourhood overlooking the ocean, in a well-equipped four-storey home. Through HomeLink Canada they exchanged their Québec City place for that of Daphne and James Ryan .
Mary Moszynski : Andrea Johnston, along with her husband and two children, is gearing up to spend two weeks in Guadalupe, an island in the Caribbean owned by France.....
They're among the thousands of Canadian families that participate in home exchanges each year.
Susan Pigg : When Torontonians Jamie and Meagan McIntyre made their first overseas trip with their two young sons, they were delighted to be picked up at Dublin airport by a stranger and whisked off to a place with all the comforts of home.... arranged through HomeLink International house exchange program.
Alex Newman : "Condo swappers"
A place in Paris? English mansion? Resort-style lodgings? Residence exchangers have many options. It's the low-cost way to see the world, make friends and stay in some wonderful homes away from home.
[See Sat. Oct. 29, 2005 in "Real Estate" section]
Amy Brown-Bowers : "We didn't like the bus tour but we liked Europe," says 80-year-old Toronto-based musician, Doug Randle. After coming across a newspaper article about home exchanges 10 years ago and talking to others who had done it, he and his wife Pat signed up with HomeLink Canada, a branch of a Brussels-based home exchange organization. 'You can swap your rental.'
Apartments are popular with swappers April 26, 2008
Paula Brook : The English family is coming next weekend, Ruth Wilson explained to me in a gasping voice. They'll need the space -- and the Wilsons will need their space when they invade the English family's home in the village of Bishops Stortford, near Cambridge. Yes, this is one of those stories about home exchanges .
Gerry Bellett : Offering a modest home in Chilliwack BC for a holiday home-swap seems a trifle ambitious when the competition ranges from castles in Scotland, ancient farmhouses in Provence, villas in sunny Tuscany and bungalows on lagoons in Bora-Bora.