They know what they’re doing, and they do it well. Vrbo is the OG alternative to Airbnb which was serving up sophisticated scotch rentals to travellers long before Airbnb rocked up to the party with a case of mass-marketable strawberry alcopops. One day, you stumble upon the bottle and voila-the next 16 hours are a finely-aged blackout-blur of fruity caramel textures with a smoky undercut tone. That’s Vacation Rentals by Owner (stylised as Vrbo), 13 years Airbnb’s senior. Imagine you bought a magnificent Speyside scotch and tucked it under the house to age only to forget about it for two-and-a-half decades. Who is Airbnb’s Biggest Competitor? Introducing Vrbo! Places you can go to find something dope on those days when Airbnb is being… These hand-picked platforms aren’t necessarily the sites better than Airbnb, but they are the best alternatives to Airbnb. The fact is that there are other home rental sites like Airbnb where you’ll find something just as good. If not, maybe better… and even at a better price! Healthy competition is good! it breeds a better market. But it is a smart, sexy, and savvy-consumer move to widen your net. It’s not that you want to stop using Airbnb outright. Worse yet, the platform is so damn popular that finding vacancies can often be a real struggle! Prices have inflated rivalling that of even the ‘stinkin’ hotel industry’ with hefty fees creeping in at every step of the checkout. Top-dogs push higher prices and become bloated on their egos, which is what has happened to Airbnb. Not literally, but they are top-dog, both in the vacation home rental space and largely in the accommodation industry. The thing is that now they are the stinkin’ hotel industry. They near-single-handedly revolutionised the accommodation rental space, put power in the hands of locals, and kicked some sand in the face of the stinkin’ hotel industry- woo! Airbnb is great! No Airbnb-alternative booking platform is trying to take that away from them.

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