VRBO experiences
We’re starting to travel more with our adult kids and their plus-ones. Upscale hotel/resort rooms aren’t appealing due to total cost, not to mention the inability to “hang out” as a group at random times. So we’ve turned to VRBO and AirBNB.
Am I the only one that feels like picking a property is like playing Russian Roulette? I swear I spend inordinate amounts of time carefully reading descriptions, looking at pics, reading reviews, and only selecting properties that get very high reviews AND have many reviews.
And yet, our success rate on the property coming close to matching the online listing is only about 65%. Is there a trick I’m missing? On our last two week trip we stayed in three different VRBO’s. Two were great. We had to leave one of them a day early because the females in particular were grossed out by the place (which was $2k/night). Unfortunately it wasn’t anything the owner could resolve quickly - it was that they simply hid all the ugly aspects of the place in their online description. But the home had 150-ish reviews and their score was “10”. Trust me, we are not that discerning, so it’s not that our standards are exceptionally high. We were staying in Holiday In Express and Hampton Inn’s not long ago, so we are not lodging snobs.