Should I rent a house or an apartment when staying in Sri Lanka?

There are different types of travellers. There are ones who travel from one part of a country to another on work assignments, projects, or as usual for a vacation or on a trip with friends or colleagues at work. Then there are travellers who travel from one country to another on the same set of reasons. We are providing you what you should concentrate on when you are moving from your country to Sri Lanka on a vacation, business project, or on a work assignment for a short-term period.

It is clear that if you are sent on a work assignment for a short term most probably the company will sort your accommodation. It is very rare that this will not be the case on such assignments. However if you are to sort out your accommodation on arrival or prior coming here then you may use the platforms such as ‘My Lanka Property’ to get your matter solved. If it is a vacation or on a business project and if your stay is longer than three months information or discussed areas below would be very valuable.

What would be your advantages and disadvantages? Yes, that is one of the good points to start from but one of the key factors deciding whether you should go for a house or an apartment is to know your requirement. If you are coming for a longer vacation with many places to travel in mind then it is much better that you should rent a small house that is available for short-term rental basis. You don’t need this place to be with all facilities because you’ll be travelling across the country booking different hotels, villas, and guesthouses. However if your vacation is less travelling but taking breaks after a trip and then travel; it is always advisable to invest on a apartment than a house so that you’ll enjoy the comforts whether you are travelling or not.

At the last part let’s turn our concern towards the individuals who really do face this problem of selecting whether it should be a house or an apartment. Some offices will send you on a short-term assignment to Sri Lanka and then they’ll place you in a hotel till you sort out your accommodation. Some of the projects will tell you that you need to be based on Sri Lanka from a particular date to a certain period. What should be your choice? It really depend on one point only that is how well you know Sri Lanka and how easily can you access the day-to-day needs and also where will you be placed. If you are placed in a remote area where there is no apartments available then it is important that you have an agent sort of person who would assist you in getting things done at least for a period. Also you should make sure if you are investing on a house that the agreement is without any problems and that the house has the most required basic standard of comfort that you are used to.

If you are going to be based on Colombo for the project or assignment invest on an apartment because most of the required needs and wants are sorted because they follow more uniformed structure compared to rented houses when it comes to settling bills etc. also they mostly are placed where much required supermarkets, clothing stores are closed by.