Other websites like Airbnb — without the cleaning fee surprise
Airbnb invented short-stay rentals and then kept adding fees on top until the final price stopped resembling the search result. SpareHolidays is a different shape: real people resell unused hotel bookings, vouchers, and travel credentials at the price they paid, minus the part they can't use.
Stripe escrow. ID-verified sellers. Fees on every card before you click — never appended at checkout.
Airbnb vs SpareHolidays
Different products, but the comparison searchers actually want.
Fee Transparency
10% buyer fee shown on every card
Escrow Protection
Stripe escrow until you confirm
ID Verification
Stripe Identity required to list
Buyer Protection
7-day dispute window post-completion
Listing Moderation
AI screen + human review
Payment Security
PCI DSS + Stripe
Why people search for other websites like Airbnb
The pattern is consistent. Searchers know what they want fixed.
No checkout-stage fee reveal
The €92/night becomes €146/night by the payment screen. We show our 10% buyer fee on the listing card. The price you see is the price you pay.
Escrow you can read
Money sits with Stripe until you confirm the booking transfer worked. If it didn't, the refund mechanism is in the same dashboard you used to pay.
Sellers are real people, not portfolio hosts
Every seller is an individual ID-verified through Stripe. Nobody's running a side business with 40 listings and an autoresponder.
We don't replace Airbnb. We sell what people couldn't use.
Hotel bookings someone can't take, vouchers expiring next year, train passes, flight credits. The thin secondary market for travel that Airbnb doesn't touch.
How SpareHolidays is different
Most travel-resale advice on the internet is written by people who've never tried it. The standard "alternatives to Airbnb" article points you at Vrbo, Booking.com, and Plum Guide — same product category, same fee structure, different brand on top. That's not an alternative; that's a competitor.
We're a different shape. Somebody booked a non-refundable hotel in Lisbon for next month and life happened. They list it here at 30-50% off, you buy it, the booking transfers to your name, the seller recovers most of the value. Nobody is running a portfolio. Nobody is hiding a cleaning fee.
It feels weird the first time you list a booking somebody else is going to use. Then you realise it's just a refund mechanism that works. Yes, we're early. The inventory is thinner than Airbnb's. The trade-off: you're not competing with thousands of other buyers, and the listings that exist are real people, not professionalised supply.
Honest about what we are. We don't position ourselves as a replacement for Airbnb. Airbnb is a short-stay rental marketplace. We're a secondary market for travel bookings that won't be used. Different problem, different solution.
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Hotel bookings, vouchers, flight credits, train passes — at the price the original buyer paid, minus what they can't use.
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