Been w/ VRBO around the world for roughly a decade. Love it! Always had a great experience from St. Andrews Scotland to SanFrancisco, CA and everywhere in between. THIS experience with Vacasa was the worst I've had lifetime. With VRBO, I typically receive responses from owners in hours, but certainly within a day. No response from Vacasa in 9 days....after 3 attempts, I finally received a response that didn't address my questions. Attempted to move my 3-night stay by 1 day (M/T/W nights move to S/M/T nights)...better for me, and better for owner b/c I was taking a single day they didn't have rented between two bookings and freeing up a day they could book. I was told i could add a day and be charged extra but they wouldn't credit the Wed night stay. I had to spend 45 minutes on the phone to talk w/ a manager about this. B/c of their inflexibility, we decided to leave our reservations as is.
When we got there at 5pm, the door code didn't work. We sat in the hallway with our bags for nearly an hour while I attempted to get a code which would work. They kept giving me codes that didn't work. After half hour, I finally said that maybe they should send someone from the management company to let us in with a key while they figure out the problem, but they stated that 'they could put an a request but couldn't guarantee anyone could get there that evening'. WHAT?! I could go on about how only one of the two beds had a complete set of sheets, etc...(in a 7am call w/ Vacasa after the first night I requested they drop off a complete set of sheets and a blanket before that evening, they responded that 'they could put in a request but couldn't guarantee that we'd have bedding by that night'. Unbelievable!! You get the point. Vacasa has serious problems. Again, I've been execeptionaly happy with all of my VRBO experiences around the world until this particular stay and the problems were all to do with Vacasa's management, not the property itself.