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Re: Why is it costing more to rent in redweek vs. Airbnb? (by KC):
adams589 wrote:I paid $2100 including tax & fee via Airbnb (262/nights) for eight nights at the Marriott Grande Vista in Orlando. This is for a 2BR, 2 baths suite. I am looking at redweek, and I would have paid $357/night (not including fee + taxes) for the same accommodation. Trying to understand why redweek is more expensive than AirBnB. TIA.
Timeshare owners (NOT the listing sites they choose to utilize) identify their own rental prices and different advertising platforms have different fee / commission structures. You can usually find very different rental costs for the exact same timeshare product on 4-6 different listing sites that come immediately to my mind. RedWeek is not inherently more expensive than others, although RedWeek imposes some gratuitous fees that benefit only them (...not the listing owner and not the renting tenant). Over the years, my observation has been that the most competitive pricing for directly comparable rentals has very often been found right here on RedWeek. That may be changing with relatively recent new ownership (...and assorted new fees for rentals) at RedWeek.