This quarter Holiday Goddess is happy to introduce the PLU (People Like Us) home exchange website with over 6000 homes to swap in 110 countries.
The website’s Sydney founder, Drew Seitam set up PLU for interstate Australian exchanges initially but the website has grown to be the third biggest internationally.
Nearly 200 Trust Pilot review give PLU 4-5 stars.
The exchange is free or you can sign up for Premium Membership for an annual fee of $159 – less than you might pay for an Air BnB apartment.
From Iceland to Canada
You can exchange an apartment in North Iceland or try dog-minding in Canada. There are plenty of beach houses too including one at Primrose Sands, Tasmania, in one of the most secluded and stunning islands in the world. Sunsets included.
From Primrose Sands to Florence
Holiday Goddess Editor Jessica Adams exchanges her beach house in Tasmania “with plenty of choices including Florence or London, over our spring and their autumn,” she says.
“You’d be amazed at how many Londoners want to escape to a secluded, quiet, low-population beach town without tourist parks or high-rise,” she says. “In fact, Tasmania is one of our most visited destinations on Holiday Goddess. We’ve covered London, Paris, New York and Rome in our HarperCollins book series, but what we’re finding in 2026 is that people want low-key, laidback escapes – preferably on islands. Of course, Tasmania is the island below an island!”
Founders Drew Seitam and Wife Kathy
Drew: “In 2016 Kathy and I had been very fortunate to be offered the holiday home of a friend of a friend in Tuscany, in the fields just down from Cortona. We were there for two weeks and we spent most of our time exploring locally, cooking, walking and dreaming of being Italian. We were nearly at the end and thinking of our future travels and wondering “How can we do more of this? How would we afford to do this every year?”.
We came up with the idea of home exchanging, something which I thought was a unique idea at the time! Obviously, it wasn’t unique but I had never heard of it, let alone done it. I hadn’t seen the movie and I had no experience. Being a software developer, I just thought I’d build it myself.”
