Whether you're Searching for good hotels in Nairobi or looking for accommodation in Prague, as a tourist on a budget you should consider the benefits of self-catering holiday living over the more traditional hotel. Invariably, renting a vacation apartment is cheaper than staying in an hotel, and it can also be more rewarding.
While hotel living is luxurious, including room and bell service and various in-house restaurants, it does not always encourage guests to go out and experience the culture of the country in which they are staying. In this way hotels, and all the finery they entail, can be somewhat limiting.
Self-catering apartments on the other hand force holidaymakers to live independently in their vacation destination. People are required to rely on their own tastes to guide them towards restaurants, for example, and necessitate that vacationers take to the markets to buy ingredients with which to cook.
This leads those staying in self-catering apartments to immerse themselves to a greater extent in the culture of the country, and to experience its lifestyle in a way that is more authentic. However, it is necessary to remember that if you are planning on booking an apartment or villa, you will need to organise your own sight-seeing trips and this may take a little research.
In short, there are many benefits to staying in a hotel: the service and in-house restaurants make life a lot easier. However, self-catering holiday apartments allow for a sense of freedom that hotels simply don't, and for this reason and their cost effectiveness, they might appeal to you as a better option.