BreakAway Vacation Rentals is a vacation rental listing site created to give owners, managers and travelers more freedom and choices when it comes to renting vacation homes. But not everybody’s like us!

Many of the giant vacation rental websites go to great lengths to collect their booking fees. Their strong determination to boost revenue through “service fees” has caused several pain points in the process. We’ll discuss a few of them we’re noticing. Let us know if we missed any in the comments! 

Travelers Are Charged More

First, travelers pay more than the property is normally rented for. This is due to added fees that are charged when a reservation is made on almost every large home sharing website.

Depending on the house a traveler rents, the fees can cost a traveler $500 or more than the “real” owner’s price.

If a listing site doesn’t charge a booking fee, they’ll

What if vacation rental listing sites joined forces and cooperated instead of competing with one another?

The team at BreakAwayVR would like to explore this unorthodox idea.

Just like anything, there could be potential challenges that would need to be worked out. However, we believe if vacation rental listing sites are able to create some common sense synergy and collaborate with each other we could help the community further by cooperating instead of competing.

Think about the potential impact this type of mutually beneficial cooperation could have for our indsutry.

Could a “Vacation Rental Listing Alliance” help organize and defragment the book direct initiative behind the scenes while amplifying the reach of the book direct message to the world.

What if we could aggregate vacation rental inventory and possibly help cross promote rentals for owners and managers.

What if we were able to create a network of cooperative book direct/no

Altea Spain Vacation

Altea is a town and a municipality located in Spain. This destination is located within the Alicante Province of Spain; the area makes an amazing vacation spot, because it’s located at the seaside.

The town of Altea is located on the majestic Costa Blanca, one of the most beautiful coastal regions in all of Spain. At this Mediterranean coast, you can find some of the most popular and reputable resorts in the country.

There are many luxurious and beautiful resorts in the region, many interesting and unique places for you to explore on this seaside destination. The Altea area is a special vacation spot due to its authentic charm and beautiful natural landscape.

The town and the surrounding area are quaint seaside spots which are excellent for recreation. The small picturesque town with all of its cultural and historical attractions are surrounded by a beautiful natural scenery,

How To Increase Your Brand’s Engagement On Social Media

Today’s post is about how you can leverage hashtags for vacation rentals. In my last post, I shared my *free social media marketing guide for vacation rentals (download link). I wrote it to help vacation rental owners and managers create out of this world content for their social media campaigns.

If you haven’t yet done so, go ahead and download it. It’s totally free and you’ll get your copy instantly (use the link above)!

The guide was designed to help you create content that people want to engage with on social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others.

Couple the guide with today’s tips and you’ll dramatically increase the number of likes and shares your social media posts get.

I’ll share more on why “likes” shares and social engagement matters to your vacation rental business and brand. I’ll