Hi P-Ranchers,

London host here, same happen to us. I have heard that most of guests through VRBO comes from USA because its well known over there. I asked VRBO about it and they denied but checking on some reddits, they also confirmed. So VRBO is depending on the area your units are I think. In london for me VRBO is not going well while bdc/bnb going quite well. 

I’m in the USA and can also confirm I have 0 bookings from VRBO and constantly booked (90% occupancy) with airbnb.

The increased service fee to 15% on airbnb for having Hospitable as the PMS is a real burden though.

.I have high occupancy through Airbnb, super host status and guest favorite status and almost no VRBO booking and not one BDC booking. I can’t see to figure out why. I have 2 STRs and 1 MTR

Here are my numbers for 2025 YTD per channel on 3 STR in Vermont, taken from the Metrics screen.

We just enabled Booking.com in January and I’ve been surprised at the amount of bookings it brings in. VRBO is almost non-existent. One trend we’ve noticed with VRBO is that people LOVE to book big expensive vacations in the future and then cancel them. Very few follow through.

Here are my numbers for 2025 YTD per channel on 3 STR in Vermont, taken from the Metrics screen.

 

We just enabled Booking.com in January and I’ve been surprised at the amount of bookings it brings in. VRBO is almost non-existent. One trend we’ve noticed with VRBO is that people LOVE to book big expensive vacations in the future and then cancel them. Very few follow through.

Jason, did you do anything specific with yourbookings.com listing? Was it pretty much the same as an Airbnb listing or did you adjust pricing, your approach… I’m just trying to figure out why I can’t get any traction.