Making the Most of Short Stay Apartments – Restoring the Work Life Balance

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.

Mike Horton is an IT consultant at Plymouth. He often recommends short stay apartments to guests staying for more than a week.