January 19th, 2020
Find the perfect BVI Villa and save money on your rental at BVI Traveller.
A lot of vacationers regularly use Airbnb, HomeAway, Trip Advisor and VRBO to book their vacation rentals. What they may not realize is that in order to use these services they are paying, in addition to the cost of the rental, a booking fee of up to 15% of the total rental cost.
The current fees are as follows:
As one can imagine, these charges could add up to a big chunk of change. For example a $10,000 villa rental on TripAdvisor charged at 8% would result in the guest being hit with a whopping $800 bill.
At BVI Traveller we never charge a booking fee. We connect you directly to the villa owners or their agents thus saving you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on your next BVI vacation.
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter