Here’s a First Look at the Expedia-HomeAway Vacation Rental Experiment
Photo Credit: A property that joined HomeAway after its acquisition of Bookabach. HomeAway
Skift Take
This current version of the Expedia-HomeAway vacation rental beta functions more like an advertising relationship would than a tightly integrated booking process. These are very early days for the partnership, and what you see undoubtedly won't be the finished product.
Expedia and HomeAway have taken baby steps and begin their beta as HomeAway for the first time began very modestly offering a few vacation rentals through Expedia.com.
Skift managed to get a first look at the beta, or at least one version of it because Expedia likely is playing around with several ways to promote HomeAway's vacation rentals, interspersed with the 260,000 hotels available on Expedia's sites.
The first thing that strikes you about this version of the beta is that there is no vacation rentals tab on the Expedia homepage -- although that could come later.
From the Expedia.com homepage, I searched for a three-room vacation rental in Seattle April 12-1
