What are the best sites to list my vacation rental on?
At BookingTeam.com, we specialize in helping property owners manage and share their listings with popular rental sites to get the highest booking conversion rates. From our experience, results are usually very random, some sites might pick up very well on a certain rental but not work at all on another rental. There usually is no way to know which listing will do well on which site. Below are some of the sites that are great for listing vacation rentals. By being on all of the sites you greatly increase your chances of optimal results for your listings.
Booking.com
The site has over one million properties and claims that every week 6.3 million room nights are booked. When you use Booking.com, you pay based on commission, so you only pay a percentage of each booking that is processed. In certain circumstances, such as a no-show, the site won’t hold you accountable for the fee. Our system reconciles the invoice for you automatically so you won't pay too much.
HomeAway
HomeAway is part of a larger network of rental sites with global reach. When you list your property on HomeAway, you get access to the rest of that network too, which includes VRBO and VacationRentals.com and a handful of other strong sites too. Listing costs are based on one annual subscription fee. Our integration with the site also features instant booking and is mobile-friendly, which makes the booking process simple and painless for guests.
Wimdu
The platform lists properties from over 150 countries, but if you have a vacation property in Europe, Wimdu is a must list rental site. Listing is free, although there is a commission fee for each booking. One of the best perks is that you can also use it to rent out a space in your home and share it through being a host. Plus, the site even offers professional photography services for hosts that list with them.
TripAdvisor and FlipKey
As part of the TripAdvisor family, FlipKey has impressive features and advantages. For one, TripAdvisor has a long history of being a trusted booking site. Tripadvisor recently took in about a dozen of excellent booking sites, such as Housetrip and Holidaylettings.co.uk. Guests come to the main TripAdvisor site to read reviews and research places to stay. Naturally, the next step is to book, which they can do easily from the TripAdvisor sites. It’s also free to list a property. For each guest payment, 3% is deducted as payment handling fee, the guest also pays a commission on their end which is automatically added on top of your pricing.
9flats
The rental site 9Flats may not be the most well-known, but it has its charms. One of those is that it provides insurance for hosts for up to 500,000 Euros in damages to rented properties. In addition, it is geared to providing authentic, local experiences for guests. Listing is again free, but comes with a 15% minimum commission fee per booking.
There are many more booking sites, Booking Team also manages your property on Wimdu, Agoda, and AirBnB, each of these rental sites have something unique to offer guests, property managers, and owners, and each comes with its own algorithm. It is hard to know beforehand which one will really take off for your listing. Creating and posting your vacation properties on each individual site is incredibly painstaking, tedious and time-consuming.
Instead, use BookingTeam.com. Our software makes it possible to share your listings with hundreds of popular rental sites in a matter of minutes. Once a listing is shared, our team can manage your bookings, calendar, guest communication and much more with you from our easy-to-use dashboard.
You need to try the HotelTonight app... some people are scared about not booking hotels ahead of time but you can trust that they always have available hotels and they're top notch quality for unbeatable prices.
In NYC for instance you can always get a room that is around 300-400 USD per night for 100 USD if you booked the same day. I have friends who have done entire euro trips with it as well.
That's right, in fact NYC is one of the most pricy cities to stay in a hotel. You should opt for an apartment next time, with fairer prices, and much more space and amenities.
I would love to book an apartment for a month if this is even possible.
For my travel purpose, I always used booking.com. I feel its much easier to book through this site. But its always good to have other options as mentioned in this post. Will look more into it. Thanks
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But, don't you need chance to find good deals in the last night. You may end up with high prices at peak times.
Booking.com seems like a good way to stay in hotel; however, they are also doing short term rental for apartments just like Airbnb. There's no reason why you shouldn't use Airbnb if you cannot find comparable apartments on Booking.com.
Landlords are afraid of not getting paid. Renters are afraid of getting scammed. I guess there should be a better technology to bridge the gap. Perhaps, a smart contract on Ethereum can produced? What do you guys think?
For sure. Those are very interesting implementations. Swarm.city is working on such an escrow type of service, but without middleman.
You didn't list AirBnB as an option.
Not that I use it. Just curious as why it wasn't listed.
Hi Deanlogic, AirBnB is one of the most known ones and is also very powerful. We wanted to write more about the other less familiar ones, but did mention airbnb in the last part.
Ah.. missed that last blurb. My bad. Thanks.
I guess AirBnB is the most popular site nowadays.
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@bookingteam.com Such nice serendipity. Perfect timing because I'm about to take my first trip across the country.
I was not aware that there were this many great sites. Thanks for the consolidated posting.
Sounds like a perfect alternative to get the most out of your properties. Thanks for sharing!
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Good info. I've mentioned your site at my last REIA meeting and coffee meetup as it seems the vacational rental folks only know homeaway and airBnB.
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Do you have any success with your rental properties thus far?
Yes. I have been fortunate to be profitable on all my rentals each year.
I also made sure to "buy right" as I call it. Which starts by running the financials through this basic property calculator I created in microsoft excel.
If the cash on cash return is not acceptable after factoring costs (mtg. maintenance, vacancy, etc.) than I wont even look at it. The calculator is out on the web for anyone to grab, you can grab it at ScaredyCatGuide if you want it.
So I'm curious how you actually evaluate cost for vacancy, maintenance, etc. I've been investing in real estate for about 6 months and it's so hard to predict when your tenants going to leave etc.
Agreed that most people only know about the larger/advertised travel sites. As a travel nurse, I have mainly used Airbnb site. It wasn't until recently I discovered other sites. It can sometimes be difficult to find furnished housing for longer than a week and at least 13 weeks.
I trust on Booking.com only, awesome deals
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You need be using Airbnb. The model that Airbnb uses is the same as Uber and Amazon and many others... the model is brilliant and is taking over quickly. I personally like how affordable Airbnb is, how profits go to average consumers, not shareholders, and the easiness of being able to book a place same-day, whenever, wherever.
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A customer of mine has 2 homes in France he rented through girtes.nl and homelidays.com, heij paid + - 300, - per year to the websites, I read on your website that the bookingteam.com service is 124, - per month ? Or can this customer do it with the free listing, the idea seems good, if I have a week of time, I will create a free account and see the possibilities thanks in advance and success
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Thank you for letting me know. At least now, I have other options other than booking.com website.
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I was just talking with a buddy about booking sites, scary stuff. Guess I'll just link him this blog. :)
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Booking.com for sure.
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I have no ideas about so many booking sites available there and your site is awesome to make the best use of them
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It's good to see websites that are so much better than just craigslist or something simple like that. Still a lot to choose from though, I'll have to narrow down the selections and do some more research. Good post though, bud!
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I mostly let my cousin crash at my place when i travel but now i will start charging that burger a pretty dollar! My couch looks like it's seen life as a waiting bench at DMV i practically have to change stuff i have never used in that house! Lesson learned the hard way!
I used to use Booking.com, I think their site is most user friendly and the price is fairly acceptable, promotions have been launched sometimes which always gives me a good deal.
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Will really consider it!
Very important post. I will take a look of your software for my next trip. Thankyou. @bookingteam.com
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What about AirBnB? Got a friend working with them...
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Thank you for your post! I have a home listed on Airbnb and Homeaway, but am always looking for new markets.
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Amazing idea. It will be nice if you can also aggregate listings for those look to book similar to kayak.
I looked at your NYC listings and there are only 21
https://bookingteam.com/listings-no-map/#s
I am guessing you show only those that use your service for listing. It is not useful for me unless you can aggregate full inventory or give me a cashback for using your service.
Also please show rate on listing page. I have to click listings to access them
One last suggestion, please make it free for first year, that is the best way for people to make sure they love your facility and get the crowds on to your platform.
Thanks for the info:)
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Very usefull advice, I will definitly take a look at this post again when i need to order my vacation.
Wait you post this in Airbnb and your blog never has highlights Airbnb as a place to list? What's going on here? Airbnb is literally the biggest, by BILLIONS of dollars, site you can list a short term rental on. If you have a rental you really must list on Airbnb!
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I was about to mention Airbnb, but I noticed you addressed it in the comment section. I was hesitant to use them vs. renting a hotel room, but you get so much more when you go through an individual vs. a hotel. I'll have to check out the other companies you mentioned.
Try VRBO.com which means Vacation Rental by Owner ;)
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why not Kijiji , it seems to be pretty main stream in Canada at least. If you want to increase your scope, it is surely a great alternative to increase your reach and exposure to different markets.
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These are a lot of great sites! Thanks for sharing and making my search easier!
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Cool info. I will take a look at few of the site you mention. Thanks
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Hi, I have same units listed on airbnb, booking and agoda. Will bookingteam.com help me on my double bookings by syncing all these calendars?
Here's my listing :
https://www.airbnb.com/users/5234333/listings?user_id=3514452&s=50
Yes, we certainly can help you with that. Have a look at our website and click on getting started. You have some very nice units by the way, and excellent reviews, congratulations!
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I am hearing of a new site coming soon, NO Commissions to owners and NO Fees to guests. 100% free to everyone. Only Facebook users will be able to join and use. The future of the Vacation Rental Industry is FREE just like so many others businesses. Why should Vacation Rentals be any different?.
I'm part of a company called Rentivo - we build software to help owners & managers take direct bookings.
I strongly agree with your comment. Companies like Airbnb & HomeAway are taking huge fees from both owners & guests and it should be free. I'm very excited for a couple of projects we have in the works :).
I know for a fact it's on the way, it has happened in many other businesses but not the vacation rental business all because there are huge amounts of investment at stake (Air BnB currently value 40 billion $ and ready to go public)
So giving it all away for free is not really an option for them and for a newcomer to arrive and disrupt the market would take a lot of investment and no investor would invest as they would look at the business model and say the return is too small.
Well very soon (By Christmas) there will be a company ready to launch a FREE vacation rental site, no commissions and no fees to users. It's free to join but only Facebook members will be able to use it.
It is going to be an industry changer. The site has already been live over 8 years and has excellent Google organic rankings but has more or less been left dormant since it was launched but now it's been given taken and is currently been transformed so when launched will take the industry by storm.
It will b accepting Bitcoin, Dash and several other Cryptocurrencies so will be already ahead of all the current players.
The site will work like any other booking site but every booking will be making savings of minimum 15% but up to 50% in many cases and 100% in several cases (I kid you not). All theses hidden costs will be revealed when the site launches.
It's going to be like a whistleblowing site on the current vacation rental industry, people will be so amazed at what is going on and shocked to see how they the customer pays for in all in the end.
15%-100% on every single accommodation booking made on the planet.
One more hint I can give to the name of the site is, it has 3 words in the title and two of them are "Vacation Rental" and it currently has a fairly good PA and DA on Google.
........ ....... .... changing the vacation rental industry one booking at a time.
It also has a catchy 3 letter abbreviation
Its official launch will make headlines all over the world in the likes of The New York Times and Huffington Post so international attention.
Even better the owners do not give a toss about having lots of cash of they just want to have some fun to change the industry for the good of all.
Changing the world can be so much fun when it's not all about money.
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New booking sites come and go constantly and the established ones change their commission structure and listing rules very often. Ultimately, property owners need as much exposure as possible and I would list my units on several platforms. However, before doing this, I highly recommend investing in your education. Play with the platforms for a while. There is no substitute to learning how each platform works from the perspective of a tourist. Go on their website and search for properties, ask questions, check listing details, read the Ts&Cs and in general, get a feel for what it means to book a property. In theory, yes, everything is hunky-dory and the promise of easy rentals is very attractive but believe me, I managed more than 1,200 properties in Central London and it is not that easy.
So, my advice to you guys, put your tourist hat on for a week or two, test-drive the platforms you want to list your property on and then you can definitely take a more informed decision.
Education pays. Always. Rent safely and profitably by investing in yourself first.
Happy rentals people!
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Air BnB is the latest here and lots others places. My friend in London just posted his flat on there, so must be nationwide.
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Maybe lonely Planet should be here as well, and Couchsurfing. Cheers! keep up the good posts (:
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