Safety / Playa del Carmen and Cancun

[Phydeaux]

We like using VRBO rentals a lot. You can see exactly what you are getting before you go. My husband has told several people that he wished we had known about it years ago. For the MF and other costs of a timeshare, we could have stayed anywhere we wanted to. But, we got into timesharing before the internet was so readily available to find great rentals. We do like staying in a condo or house and meeting the neighbors.

Ditto...

 

[Tacoma]

I also enjoy renting homes from airbnb or vrbo type places. If they were as readily available as today I definitely wouldn't have as many timeshares. Definitely my go to for only a few nights in big cities. Timeshares have advantages though too like pools and hot tubs, other visitors to talk to instead of being on your own, and call me unlucky but I have had toilet issues twice in a private rental. I think being able to mix both is awesome and allows me to feed my travel bug.

 

[dioxide45]

We like using VRBO rentals a lot. You can see exactly what you are getting before you go.

This isn't our experience, you can make some pretty shotty places look great in photos.

 

[Phydeaux]

This isn't our experience, you can make some pretty shotty places look great in photos.

Not when you know what to look for Always helps to read the reviews and check other sources also. Perhaps we've been fortunate, but we've not had a negative experience yet. Had an awful one back in the TS exchange days though. through Interval International, exchanged into a TS in PV that was a supposed "5 Star". The place was s dump.