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Want to save some money on your next vacation rental?
Book with Recreation Stays directly on our website! Our Best Price Guarantee means you can avoid those pesky guest fees from Airbnb, VRBO, and Expedia and save up to 20%. We promise you won’t find a better price online for the same property and dates.
Book Direct
No booking feeon top of the nightly rate
- ✓Best Price Guarantee on the same home and dates
- ✓Counts toward your RS+ tier
- ✓RS+ member discounts of 5% or 10%
- ✓Deal with us directly, start to finish
Airbnb
+20%guest service fee, roughly
- ×No Best Price Guarantee
- ×Does not count toward RS+
- ×No RS+ member discount
- ×Changes go through the platform
Vrbo
+15%guest service fee, roughly
- ×No Best Price Guarantee
- ×Does not count toward RS+
- ×No RS+ member discount
- ×Changes go through the platform
Guest service fees are set by each platform and vary by booking; the figures above are typical. Everything else — the home, the door code, the team — is the same whichever way you book.
It’s time to change the vacation rental experience with a new kind of vacation rental management company.
Recreation provides more than a vacation rental. We've built the company on a foundation of luxury hotel operations in order to craft a better experience for you.
Travel is evolving. The days of the single purpose trip are gone as people seek better work / life alignment, and lean in to longer stays with blended needs. That's why we've focused our in-stay experience around the pillars of sleeping, working and living.
We take what you love about hotels and what you appreciate about vacation rentals and bring them together in to one perfect stay. Plus, our team is here for you throughout your stay, ready to help with anything.
Think of it as all the comforts of home, just better.
Stay safe with us
We're committed to your safety including sanitizing and disinfecting after every visit.
Find Your Perfect Vacation Rental
Luxury hospitality principles crafting better vacation rentals
Book with confidence
Our goal is to provide you with an outstanding experience that earns a five-star review, and it all starts with finding the perfect place for your trip.
Every Recreation vacation rental listing has professional photography, a detailed guest book, and honest, transparent descriptions. Plus, you'll always get the best price on our website, guaranteed.
Stay with confidence
Each of our vacation homes is cleaned by a professional housekeeper using a detailed checklist to make sure it's not only spotless but all of the homes amenities are stocked.
Our check-in is contactless so when you arrive simply use the smart lock and you're in.
Every home is stocked with plush towels and soft linen, high speed WiFi, and all the kitchen and bathroom essentials you'll need.
And in case you need us, we're only a call or text away.
A luxury hotel experience in a comfortable space all your own
Our Additional Booking Platforms
FAQs
Because you skip the guest service fee. Airbnb adds roughly 20% and Vrbo around 15% on top of the nightly rate; booking here you pay $0. On a $130 nightly rate that is the difference between $130 and $109. Our Best Price Guarantee means you will not find the same property and dates cheaper elsewhere online.
By door code, so there is nobody to meet and nothing to coordinate. You can arrive any time after the property's normal check-in time, usually 4pm.
By email, 24 hours before your arrival date.
We take all major credit cards. Payments are processed through Guesty Pay, the payment system built into our property management platform, so your card details are handled by the processor rather than stored by us. The charge appears on your statement as Recreation Stays, LLC.
Twenty-five. The person making the booking must be at least 25 years old and must be one of the guests staying.
We run 24/7 guest services support, so there is someone to reach at any hour rather than a message you hope gets picked up in the morning. Contact details come with your check-in instructions.
Yes — RS+ is our loyalty program, and it is free to join. Only direct bookings through recreationstays.com count toward your tier: stays booked through Airbnb, Vrbo or other platforms are not eligible. Status updates within 72 hours of checkout and is reviewed annually.
If a property cannot be booked for your dates it is either already reserved or offline for maintenance. We take deep cleans and maintenance seriously and would rather take a home offline than let it slip below standard.
Not in ours. We have a strict no-party policy in every home we manage, guests agree to it during booking, and every property has a noise monitor so we can step in before a gathering becomes a problem.