FAQ — Bella Vista, Casa Pacis, Alta Vista
Fees - what fees, if any, are you paying when you rent from ACViews?
When you book your vacation through ACViews, you pay only for rent, cleaning, and the required taxes. You pay for no hidden fees, commissions, or other expenses.
Our family has owned Casa Pacis as a personal vacation home and made it available for vacation rentals since 1983 (Bella Vista since 1993, and Alta Vista since 2004, Casa de Luz since 2008, Alegria since 2012, and Amor since 2023), providing multi-day rentals during these years to multitudes of guests.
In addition to featuring our homes on this "ACViews" website (the name stands for “Affordable Comfort and Views”), we list them sometimes with reputable vacation rental listing sites, such as "Airbnb" and “VRBO.” These listings sites provide booking service and charge a substantial commission and fee for their services (about 20% of rents). They add these charges on top of all rental related charges. Therefore, as guests you end up paying for the normal rental charges PLUS THESE COMMISSIONS AND FEES AND THE COMPOUNDED COUNTY TOT TAXES ON THOSE.
When guests book directly with us, such as via our website, you will NOT PAY ANY of these extra charges. Direct bookings via acviews.com are, therefore, ABOUT 20% MORE AFFORDABLE THAN BOOKINGS FOR THE SAME ACCOMMODATION AND DATES VIA AIRBNB, VRBO, OR ALIKE.
The upshot is that we offer our guests avoidance of substantial third-party service and booking fees by encouraging booking directly through us, WITHOUT CHARGING EXTRA FEES. See also here.
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Furthermore, all bookings in Sea Ranch and Tahoe-Donner for periods less than 31 days are subject to Transient Occupancy Taxes (TOT; currently 15.5% in Sea Ranch and 13.25% in Tahoe-Donner). Rentals for “extended durations” of 31 nights or longer are, therefore, relatively much more cost-effective than short-term rentals. For example, booking of Casa Pacis by the same party for 31 nights ends up costing, in bottom-line total, the same as a typical rental of that home for just 14 nights. As a substantial benefit for our guests we therefore ADD 17 MORE NIGHTS FREE OF CHARGE to a 14-night booking, thus extending the booking beyond the mandatory TOT time frame. (This benefit is, of course, only available when, at the time of booking, the reservations calendar shows availability of 31 contiguous nights that include the 14 requested nights).
For our rentals in Brazil we charge an all-inclusive daily rent until, on day 15, the stated monthly rent is reached, and the next 15 nights are then free of charge.
There is, of course, no requirement to stay in the rented property for the entire time, but if you contemplate to stay just a day or two beyond two weeks, you are typically better off booking for 31 nights than for the exact number of days you project to be there. Of course, we cannot permit subletting.
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