Vacationistas Blog

I’d been waiting to see how HomeAway‘s Super Bowl commercial would turn out.  Of course, with them being the 800-pound gorilla of our industry, we’ve got to keep our eye on them. Their whole concept of “Ministry of Detourism” seemed like a stretch anyhow…just sort of a vague concept with a negative word in the [...]

So, we’d been thinking we would have free Standard Listings for a while prior to our public launch and then they’d go away.  Well, don’t look now, but they’re back already! We’ve decided that ANYONE can create listings for their properties for free and just pay for whatever upgrades they choose.  Who says you can’t [...]

Yesterday I added a new feature – the ability to share both search results (like ‘Alabama Vacation Rentals‘) and individual properties via a service called AddToAny.  This lets you share via services like Facebook, Twitter, regular old email, Social Bookmarking sites, you name it.  This is nice for Travelers who may be planning a trip [...]

We’re getting ready to launch our full service starting on February 1st.  If you haven’t yet listed with us, this is your last chance for FREE Standard Listings!  We’re still gonna be cheaper (and better) than the other major vacation rental websites, but hey – who doesn’t want FREE? UPDATE  2/5/11: NEVERMIND!  We’re actually going [...]

It seems that there has been a rash of messages that were submitted as rentals inquiries lately.  It seems to read legitimately, with content something like this: I would like to come with my Daughter on the 5th through of 15th March for a Vacation. Please get back to me with the rent to be [...]

So far in 2010, Vacationistas has been doing a sort of “soft launch” to get our system up and running and have the bugs worked out as we get ready to start 2011.  We’ve got a lot of big plans for the upcoming year – we’ll start letting you all in on them in the [...]

Hi there!  We’re going to start publishing stuff about Vacationistas in the near future.  We’re just getting this out there now.