VRBO vs AIRBNB Experiment

[Mike Kirby]

We only have one STR, all the rest of our properties are LTR's. We started the STR in June of 23 and only listed on VRBO for the first year and a half. The people in this forum convinced me we should be on more than one platform so on Jan 1 2025 I added our property to AIRBNB as well as VRBO. After one year on both platforms I'm reporting back that we got exactly 50% of our bookings from VRBO and 50% from AIRBNB. We had 38 weekends booked for the year. 19 of the booked weekends were for two nights.

I have one question for the group for 2026, we are considering changing to a 3 night minimum. What do you think? Will we be shooting ourselves in the foot? 

[Lauren Kormylo]

@Mike Kirby did adding Airbnb increase your total bookings and revenue?  Or did Airbnb just replace some of the Vrbo bookings?