Working
away from home, for anything more than a week, is a draining experience. You
don’t have anywhere to relax, you’re constantly eating out and all you really
want to do is lounge around in your shorts watching the football. Or just go
out to catch a movie – something normal, like you would do when you’re back
with your friends and family.
Short
stay apartments make an excellent compromise for the worker on tour. It isn’t
home, of course, but it’s the closest thing you will find while on the move.
You get to cook when and how you want. You can slob around in your pants all
day if you like (as long as it’s not a day when you are supposed to be at work
of course!) and you can watch the football to your heart’s content.
In
other words: short stay apartments are not hotels. They’re furnished,
completely autonomous apartments designed to give business people on short term
contracts (or staying for long term conferences) a chance to live a normal life
while they are away from the bosom of their family.
Making
the most of short stay apartments is the same thing as making the most of any
city in which you live. You can go out and explore because you don’t have to
work to the timetable of a hotel or a bed and breakfast location. You are no
longer beholden to the idea that the menu stops saving at 10; or that you have
to wake up a night porter to get in, if you return after 11pm.
So
you can go and sample some of Cambridge’s pubs – of which there are many
notable examples. Or you can go out and catch a film, watch a play, go to a
gig. Whatever’s on in town, when you live in short stay apartments you suddenly
get the opportunity to become a part of it.
Cambridge
is one of the most foot and cycle friendly cities in the UK. Hire a bike to get
around town in the most efficient way. Everyone else rides bikes – to the
extent that cars are second class citizens – so if you’ve always liked the idea
of staying healthy while you commute, now is the time to try it. Much of the
centre of Cambridge is closed to cars, or is laid out in a way heavily biased
towards the cyclist.
Cambridge
is also a city of genuinely outstanding architectural beauty. The famous
cathedrals and churches; the university buildings; they combine to create an
atmosphere only rivalled by York or Oxford. When you live in short
stay apartments in the area,
simply wandering around in the evenings and on your days off, finding little
quirky hangouts for a meal and a drink while the world rolls by outside – all
that is part of the joy of living in the city like a proper resident, rather
than staying in a hotel like a hibernating dormouse.
Cambridge
has plenty to offer both business traveller and holidaymaker. Staying in short
stay apartments gives you the best chance of finding it all.
