New Vacation Rental Websites to Check Out

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• Maria - January 13, 2009

  I propose www.spain-holiday.com to add to your favourite travel websites. You will find holiday ideas and accommodation in Spain, at the beach, in the mountains, weelchair friendly holiday homes, etc. It definitely woth a visit.

• Red73 - January 13, 2009

  I recently used FlipKey.com to rent a house in Vermont. It was so easy and fun to use to. At first we didn't know where we wanted to go, but that's what makes Flipkey so great. Its easy to browse through a bunch of different areas. Once you choose a area you can sort easily by price or bedroom numbers to whatever meets your needs. Booking a place is just as easy. Its a simple as writing a email to the property manager., who was very quick to respond. I often go to Flipkey and mark favorite rentals for later trips. I highly recommended Flipkey as the go to vacation rental website.

• marciacarey - January 13, 2009

  Rentalo.com allows you to make a destination request or specific rental request and has amazingly diverse choices.

• VisitFlorida - January 13, 2009

  As both a user of vacation rental by owner websites to find vacation rentals and to advertise my own rental, I continue to be amazed at how VRBO is so often recommended. It's a dinosaur of a site, even with it's recent "upgrades." It's very time consuming to find rentals that meet all your criteria if you are looking for accommodations and inquiries are rarely responded to. While I get lots of inquiries for my rental, the ratio of inquiries to hits is awful and the ratio of bookings to inquiries even worse. I list on three sites: VRBO, HomeAway and WeNeedaVacation.com. My results from HomeAway are similar to those I get from VRBO. WeNeedaVacation.com has a full search where the visitor can specify everything he wants, including amenities and dates plus price. The inquiries I get are serious and, in fact, about 30% of my inquiries are via phone. My personal website link is prominent on WeNeedaVacation.com, where it is not on the other sites, and does help sell people on my rental. I may get a few more hits and inquiries from the other sites but over 80% of my bookings come from WeNeedaVacation.com. I'm sold on specialty sites.

• Hibatchi Pilot - January 13, 2009

  My wife found a site, www.getmorevacations.com, where you can choose from vacation rentals that provide you with golf rounds, tickets to amusement parks, water parks, deep sea fishing, kids fishing trips, zoos and other interesting things for free every day of your stay. Works out great for us - I can go play a round of golf for free and my wife takes my nephew to the water park - her admission is free and we only pay for my nephew. Last trip to Destin, FL we saved about $400-500 on things we normally have to pay for on vacation. I pick a rental from one of getmorevacations partners and then I see if anyone has written reviews on it at Flipkey.com. So far, everything has worked out great! Most of my friends are pilots and I've turned them on to staying at vacation rentals through this site and now they get all their golf free when they travel. The site should really take off this year with so many people looking to save money.

• ekegley - January 14, 2009

  I just used Flipkey to book a vacation rental in the first week of 2009. Found it incredibly easy to use; it gave me great locations that fit my search criteria, I was able to contact the management companies of the rentals and I received prompt replies. I read the reviews of previous users, which helped us narrow down the best choice. We chose a place that was highly recommended by other users, and were really pleased. The rental was fantastic, and the managers were very helpful in the booking process and during our stay. Flipkey made it so easy to search for what we needed, instead of prowling the internet and comparing sites. Plus, knowing what real people thought made us much more confident in our choice. Would absolutely use Flipkey again!

• Leles - January 14, 2009

  For holiday rentals worldwide I would like to make a special mention to www.myholiday.com During my last holiday in Cannes (France) me and my family rented a beautiful villa hrough MyHoliday.com Now I am looking for a new villa on MyHoliday.com for the next summer holidays in Toscana (Italy). Highly recommended!

• JWD - January 19, 2009

  I stumbled upon The Society to book a ski-in ski-out home in Vail. Worth checking out for the high end rentals. www.TheSociety.com

• Kristina Larsen - January 22, 2009

  A must-know travel site is Momondo.com. Its a travel search-engine which compares prices on low-cost flights hotels and car hire. What separates Momondo from the other engines on the market is its search for European TRAINS. This is a new and cool feature that you can only find on Momondo. It allows you to can compare prices on flights and trains at the same time, which saves you time and money and gives you an opportunity to choose the "green" deal. So, feel free to check it out: www.momondo.com

• VICKY - February 3, 2009

  you can check www.alwaysonvacation.com...having 75000 registered user and 24*7 customer care support, easy to list your property within competitive rates

• CulinaryTourist - March 17, 2009

  for the best home rentals for food and wine enthusiasts, I recommend www.beautiful-places.com; top homes homes in wine country many have vineyards, culinary gardens, gourmet kitchens et al. They also can arrange special one of a kind activities and arrange all sorts of cool folks to meet.