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Ironically the amount of people that want to get out of town for a weekend is likely higher than ever. Was just looking at flights tonight, $42 round trip from

• hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
  AirBnB has always had a really high concentration of units in cities, though, were people are leaving, and a lower concentration of units in "typical" vacation destinations like beaches and mountains when compared to a site like VRBO. That has changed a lot over time as AirBnB has expanded and VRBO has tried, especially after it was acquired by Expedia, to get more urban inventory, but my guess is it is still largely true. The more traditional vacation homes on VRBO are also the types of homes where I would prefer to be in a quarantine, as opposed to a place that looked (and felt) like it was obviously someone's primary residence most of the time.
  • jcims 7y ago
    Yeah we almost exclusively used VRBO for 10+ years as the family was growing. The thing here is i wouldn't want anything to do with a metro or vacation spot. I'd be looking for a place in some backwater town that nobody would have any interest vacationing in. That kind of setting seems like the domain of AirBnB. My local town has three properties on AirBnB, for example, and nothing on VRBO within ten miles.