Winnipeg is fast becoming the number one Holiday “getaway spot” for home-trading travelers everywhere.

With impressive sceneries that have attracted the eye of Hollywood and apartment rentals to stay within budget, the flourishing neighborhoods of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba are quickly rising in the hot lists of holiday getaways for low budget –yet highly rewarding, vacations. If you are not familiar with trading houses holidays, we suggest the wonderful film “The Holiday”, however it basically is just that: you trade in all your property, rental, owned or otherwise for someone else’s!

While the concept might seem crazy at first -strangers living in my house/apartment for how long?- there actually is a serious industry behind it and with proper research you can find a comfortable apartment, house or lodging of any kind really, pretty much anywhere in the world. The most advisable thing to do though is to follow the trend and your passion of course!

The trend right now is cold and safe, sure beaches look glamorous on your traveler channel and most of us want to drift away to some Caribbean island in some romantic getaway: a hotel room, an apartment, perhaps even a little house on the shore; but statistics show that most of these destinations are less suitable for the trading home traveler, since there is the off chance that the counter party might not want to come home: immigration issues have arisen. So snowy activities are taking the lead and Winnipeg is winning by a nose!

Winnipeg offers a broad variety of activities to visitors which together have earned it the rising spot on the most wanted list: sports including, hockey, football and baseball –so the fellas will be pleased; great orchestra and opera presentations as well as local bands playing in clubs everywhere-check the local facebook pages; several music, film and theater festivals year round and a windy to snowy weather that Chicago’s got nothing on! Even better, since the parks and local scenery are well worth the visit.

If, however trading your house with a total stranger makes you uneasy and sets lose all your hidden OCDs then we have great news for you: Winnipeg apartments for rent are so cheap, you might try to consider getting your own Winnipeg apartments to sublet and visit occasionally; many visitors from South America and the Mediterranean have set up camp there, visiting the country during the lovely festivals and holidays when the town comes alive with movie stars or Christmas trees, carolers and snow.

The modern neighborhoods, Wall Street feel (Winnipeg’s downtown economic centre)–without the danger of being run over or watching a distressed man jump of a building, and the multicultural background that is now growing within Manitoba’s capital, only add to its appeal and exciting attractive. In fact, you may find yourself taking pictures to such familiar backgrounds your friends might ask you if you were to the set of a movie, given that the location and low prices of really affordable rentals are exactly what caught the eye of the producers of movies such as: “Shall we dance?” and “The Assassination of Jesse James.”

So yes ladies and gentlemen, Winnipeg is the hot spot at the moment are you getting your bags ready? I know I am.