This Vacasa rental is a dump. Can I get my money back?
The vacation rental Carol Wilson books for her group through Vacasa is infested with rats and insects. Vacasa offers to refund one night. Can they get all of their money back?
VACATION RENTAL
My vacation rental had cameras in the bedroom. Can I get a refund?
Angela Hall finds cameras pointed at the bed in her Hawaii vacation rental. She checks out and Vrbo offers to refund her for a hotel and the remainder of her stay. But it never does. What’s going on?
I found a chipmunk in my vacation rental. I want my money back — all of it!
A woman who rented a beach house on Lake Michigan is horrified to find a chipmunk nesting in her bedroom. Now she’s trying to get her money back from Vrbo.
He tried to cancel a reservation and receive a refund. Vrbo charged him $31,995 instead
Can a Vrbo take $31,995 from your bank account and leave you with nothing? It happened to Gerry Bauer. Here’s how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you.
Vrbo offered a refund after my husband lost his job. Where is it?
When Betsy Bair’s husband loses his job, they cancel their Vrbo rental. Are they going to lose all their money even though Vrbo offered them a refund?
Vrbo took my $1,270! Can a vacation rental host cancel my stay and keep my money?
Can a vacation rental host cancel your reservation and keep your money? Shannon Jenkins wants to know after her host decided to pocket the money she paid Vrbo for a four-day weekend in Sonoma’s Russian River Valley.
Want to avoid vacation rental surprises? Read this
When it comes to vacation rentals, there are surprises — and there are surprises.
A berry good time in Southern California, Temecula edition
Temecula may be one of California’s best-known wine regions, but I’ll always remember it for something else: the fresh fruit we harvested on a recent visit to this out-of-the-way Southern California destination. That’s right, we saw the horde of tourists go one way, and we went in the other direction.
Excuse me, your vacation rental is missing some amenities
If you rented a vacation home this summer, you probably have a story like Michelle Lawson’s. She has lost count of the times she has checked into an apartment, only to find that it’s lacking something important, such as towels, soap, a working dishwasher or an Internet connection.
I survived a week in this “charming” Airbnb. Here’s what I learned
It’s 2 a.m. and it’s 49 degrees in my bedroom. I wrap myself in a cover and hobble through a pitch-black living room, feel my way past the tiny kitchen, and jab the thermostat in the hallway.
50 degrees, it lights up.