{"id":642,"date":"2018-02-07T15:53:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.swiftflats.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2018-02-07T15:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:53:27","slug":"save-time-and-money-by-looking-for-your-accommodation-with-swiftflats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.swiftflats.com\/en\/2018\/02\/07\/save-time-and-money-by-looking-for-your-accommodation-with-swiftflats-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVE TIME AND MONEY BY LOOKING FOR YOUR ACCOMMODATION WITH SWIFTFLATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine that you go for Erasmus to Bilbao and you have to rent a room to live in the city. You have two options, one that will take you to your new room spending a lot of money and a lot of time, and the other, with which you will find the room of your dreams in 4 clicks and with all <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.swiftflats.com\/be-careful-with-what-you-rent-and-where-you-rent-it\/\"><b>the security<\/b> <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that SwifFlats offers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OPTION A<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Before going to Bilbao, you searched for the flat at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiftflats.com.\"><b>www.swiftflats.com.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You were two days looking for the apartment that you liked most,<\/span><b> about 4h per day from home. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, with SwiftFlats, you not only find a floor with the facility of 4 clicks, but with the &#8220;Basic Pack&#8221; of 125\u20ac you get a <\/span><b>safe rent, medical coverage *, civil liability *, online assistance to help you with any questions related with the flat during the entire stay and contract with the owner of the lease <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(for mobility grants).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it would be!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-655\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.swiftflats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sparkles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OPTION B:<\/span> <b>You arrive in Bilbao and you do not have a house yet,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so decide to stay for a week in the <\/span><b>cheapest hostel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you can find: <\/span><b>14\u20ac per night<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in low season, which <\/span><b>total 98\u20ac<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There you must share a room with another 7 people and the hostel does not have a kitchen, so you should eat out every day or try to eat in the common area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average price of the daily menu in Bilbao is between \u20ac 10-15,<\/span><b> so eating every day out<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a week, would be a total of \u20ac 140 and \u20ac 210, and <\/span><b>without breakfast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. All this already makes a <\/span><b>total of between \u20ac 238 and \u20ac 308<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand you still \u00a0have<\/span><b> to search the flat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, hours scrutinizing various internet pages to find what is left. This will more or less take you <\/span><b>about 4 hours online<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During these 4 hours, let&#8217;s say you spend half of the hours calling the owners, to see if the flat you have seen is available and to see if you can visit it. <\/span><b>Here it is not only the cost of the calls, but the handicap that the owner could maybe not speak English and you can not communicate well with him.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now it&#8217;s time to <\/span><b>move around Bilbao<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to visit all the apartments that you have decided are worth seeing. Let&#8217;s say that this process is about <\/span><b>3h between trips<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by public transport (metro 91 cents each section in an area, tram 73 cents and the bus 65 cents), <\/span><b>see the different flats, etc<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So there are now <\/span><b>7 hours online and offline<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-643\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.swiftflats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tarjeta-barik-512x273-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.swiftflats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tarjeta-barik-512x273-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.swiftflats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tarjeta-barik-512x273.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Bilbao for public transport, the Barik is used, which costs \u20ac 3 and you put money in blocks of 5-10-15-20 and 50\u20ac. With an estimate of <\/span><b>5 trips per day<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (only to see flats), in the week they are just<\/span><b> over a lil 30\u20ac<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making all these calculations the estimated expenditure of money and time is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8211; \u20ac 366-436 in 7 days<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (\u20ac 62.28 per day)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8211; 49h total weekly online and offline<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (7h each day)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Searching with SwiftFlats, do not say more than, you not only saved money, but you gained time and tranquility. 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