Latest reviews about Vacation Rental By Owner

AnHa says "Good experience - will go to this site again!" about Vacation Rental By Owner

AnHa — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:19:23 GMT

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housefull7 says "VRBO is the place to go to find your home away from home." about Vacation Rental By Owner

housefull7 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:37:33 GMT

I found VRBO several years ago while looking into the possibility of using a vacation rental instead of the traditional hotel. Having a family of seven it is quite expensive for us to find a hotel that can accomodate our entire family in one room or suite. I was surprised at the number of rentals available. Also, it seems that they have rentals available in places that I truthfully was shocked to find. The site is very user friendly, there are no surchages to renters and you can communicate entirely through their site if you want. You are able to immediately look to see if a particular rental is available during your time frame as well as see a detailed list of amenities at each rental. We have now used VRBO to rent on three different occasions in three different areas. I have had a smooth experience each time and only have great things to say about the site. Each rental has been easily accessible as well as clean and we found that they were described to a tee. If you...

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coolteacher says "World Wide Selection of Places to Stay" about Vacation Rental By Owner

coolteacher — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:26:09 GMT

Vacation Rental by owner or VRBO is an exciting tool to use for those travelers wanting more living space when they are away from home. In many occasions places found through this website are more inexpensive than well-known hotels.

I have used VRBO in many occasions with great satisfaction. It is perfect for my family of 5 since we normally have to stay in two hotel rooms because we have teenagers. Now I just find a condo that fits my family comfortably for less money than two hotel rooms. Last month my family and I stayed in Paris for 10 nights and I used VRBO to get an apartment in a great location. Staying in a hotel would have been very expensive and would not have allowed me to save money by cooking some meals at the apartment.

VRBO is easy to navigate. In most cases, you deal directly with the owner, "cutting the middle man" and saving money. If you are not dealing with a management company, you may even ask the owner for his/her best rate-many are willing to "bargain"...

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mrkstvns says "Can be decent, but CAVEAT EMPTOR" about Vacation Rental By Owner

mrkstvns — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:06:17 GMT

VRBO is a cool site for finding private homes, villas, apartments for rent. You can save some serious coinage by using them well.

Gotta be careful though. You're dealing with private owners, NOT with a company. Build the trust relationship. Sometimes photos are not accurate. Sometimes "gotchas" are not disclosed (like 10 miles from town on a mule track that can't be navigated by anything other than a dirt bike). Read carefully, talk to the owners if you can, ask for more pictures...

The other thing to be aware of is prices. Sometimes the properties are a good deal...sometimes an owner overvalues his place and prices it beyond what it should be. Do your homework to make sure YOU get a good deal!

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Matt says "VBRO.com has some great properties at all price ranges" about Vacation Rental By Owner

Matt — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:49:23 GMT

We recently used VBRO.com to find a great property in a prime resort in Mexico. The site is well designed and easy to use. The family that we dealt with was very responsive and trustworthy. All around a good experience.

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Kristy says "Orlando Vacation Rental: VRBO worked for us!" about Vacation Rental By Owner

Kristy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:10:03 GMT

The last two times we went to Disneyworld, we rented a house from Vacation Rental by Owner Online Service or VRBO. I had heard about the site from CyndiA, and thought I'd try them. We had such a great experience with them, we not only used them the next time we went to Florida but also when we went back East.

One of the main reasons I was looking at renting a house over staying in a hotel is that there would be seven of us. Most hotels hold four and a few up to six but it is very hard to find one that will take seven. This means we have to get two rooms, doubling our hotel cost.

The other reason was that with a house, we would have full kitchen access allowing us to cook our own meals. This is great for us because we have a variety of eaters from vegetarian to no red meat to dairy sensitive to downright fussy! Therefore, it isn't always the easiest thing to find restaurants that please everyone. Add in the advantage of not eating out every breakfast, lunch and dinner and it was a great option...

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CyndiA says "Rent a real house from a real person and have a great vacation." about Vacation Rental By Owner

CyndiA — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:19:29 GMT

I was not a happy camper growing up, and I mean literally. My dad always took up camping and fishing. I thought I would plan much better vacations, but sadly my boys hated motels and tourist neon. They would have loved my dad's vacations. They didn't love my first ones. I had to come up with a new plan.

I found Vacation Rental by Owner online at www.vrbo.com and that was the end of our vacation woes. I get a house for a week, and we all do our own things - some together and some not. We have our down time to rest at the house we've selected, and it's kind of like home but much more relaxing and really a break from the grind.

For my family, I always look for something out in the woods and on the water. This means the boys can fish and do those kinds of things. I can cook and read while they are sticking worms on hooks. But, I can still see them from the vacation house.

I would have thought this would have been a really expensive option, but one house we love to get in Murphy, NC is only $250...

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