If endless scrolling through vacation-rental sites has gotten you nowhere, these design-minded platforms might be the solve.
It was the era of live like a local, until commercial-property investors flooded sites like Airbnb and Vrbo.
Soon, it was tough to find those characterful stays in a sea of dime-a-dozen homes.
A set of six one-bedrooms in Bacalar, Mexico.Credit:Courtesy of Boutique
Now a new generation of booking platforms is hoping to solve the conundrum of curation.
Its entirely different from what you find on most platforms.
Here, six of the best sites to search now.
A two-bedroom in South Africa’s Karoo.ELSA YOUNG/COURTESY OF ART HOUSE COLLECTION
Being purposefully small allows us to attend to every stay in a very hands-on way, Brundyn says.
(Dommeans home in Polish.)
One quintessential example: a renovated Edwardian warehouse in Londons Clerkenwell neighborhood thats now a sparkling three-bedroom.
A waterfront two-bedroom in Oslo.Einar Aslaksen/Courtesy of A-One
A three-bedroom in London.Voytek Ketz/Courtesy of DOMstay
A one-bedroom house in Seoul.Texture on Texture/Courtesy of Stayfolio
A one-bedroom near Hastings, England.Courtesy of Kip Hideaways