Our Price Setting and Listing Policies

We describe here our pricing policy for “Alta Vista,” “Bella Vista,” and “Casa Pacis,” and why we are now predominantly taking bookings only via our own website, “acviews.com.” See also HERE for more details.

The high fees charged by Airbnb and HomeAway (and others, such as TripAdvisor) to our renting guests — as well as to ourselves as hosts — have become a thorn in our vacation renting concept. The pandemic has taken it to the tipping point. Seeing our valued renting guests charged fees and commissions as much as 20% in addition to our own fair pricing is, in our view, unconscionable.

The only viable option is to go back to handling bookings primarily ourselves, via our acviews website, without charging our valued guests fees and commissions. At this time and day, in a world-wide economic paradigm shifting from growth to a sustained-level orientation, the micro-market for renting vacation rental properties should function without an intermediary that takes one-fifth of the revenue for doing very little in return, while essentially representing themselves as if they were the owners of the properties we list on their platform.

Therefore, we lean on our valued past renting guests to book their next vacation in Sea Ranch and Tahoe-Donner on the acviews platform (you can go directly to https://www.acviews.com/booking-form) at the lowest reasonable, affordable net rates.

9/4/24