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Easy, Great Communication with the Owner.
By Mark G.
Response from Houfy· Oct 22, 2025
Glad to hear it was an easy experience and communication went smoothly — that’s what Houfy’s all about! Thanks for the review.
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Houfy is the largest vacation rentals direct booking marketplace for rental property types such as homes, condos, cabins, apartments and rooms all over the world. The Houfy community offers more than 87,000 vacation rentals with no booking or service fees. Guests and hosts save money by booking vacation homes directly on Houfy. Easily search for a Houfy property and book your next condo, cabin, or house directly with a Houfy host anywhere in the world.Our mission is to empower everyone to book direct and save on service fees.We designed Houfy with hosts for hosts to be a true digital market place, not a middle man!
Houfy (houfy.com) has 662 customer reviews on The Fair Hearing, with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5.
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Easy, Great Communication with the Owner.
By Mark G.
Response from Houfy· Oct 22, 2025
Glad to hear it was an easy experience and communication went smoothly — that’s what Houfy’s all about! Thanks for the review.
Adding listings to houfy was a breeze. We received our first booking and everything went smoothly. This is a great site for direct bookings
By Thy
Response from Houfy· Oct 15, 2025
Thank you Thy
Easy to book and much more economical!
By albee
Response from Houfy· Oct 15, 2025
Thank you Albee
SEAMLESS. Ease of communicatioin.
By Douglas
Response from Houfy· Oct 14, 2025
Thanks Douglas
I strongly suggest anyone interested in staying at Lake Chelan book their room with the very kind attentive owners of the Cabana's. Their rooms are clean, modern and well appointed for a very comfortable stay at a great location within walking distance to great shopping, dining and recreation. We return year after year to enjoy the comfort they provide.
By Scott
Response from Houfy· Oct 8, 2025
That’s wonderful to hear! Sounds like you had an amazing stay with great hosts — exactly the kind of experience we love seeing on Houfy. Thanks for sharing and for supporting owners who care!
Love Houfy! No fees for the guests or hosts, unlike Airbnb and VRBO. Always better to book direct through Houfy!
By Casi
Response from Houfy· Oct 7, 2025
Thanks Casi
I added Houfy as a direct booking utility for our VRBO business. I have several local FB groups that I'm a member of that allow advertising for direct booking where our condo is located. While marketing our HOUFY listing is tedious, we did finally receive a short stay booking to get started. Our VRBO listing gets tons of exposure and we are able to stay at 85% booked through that, but the HOUFY booking avenue helps with short (in between regular bookings) stays. I found setting up the listing on HOUFY with the importing function of our VRBO listing to be very helpful. I also find the syncing of the calendars to be accurate and timely within an hour or so and the review pull from VRBO is also a great feature. The only negative I would have with my HOUFY experience is when I was setting up the payment processing, HOUFY promoted square versus stripe and offered a promo code to get a first booking discount. So, I decided to use square and setup my account, linked it to HOUFY and after doing so, got a message during the linking process that they don't recommend square because users are getting "non descript" declines on bookings making it problematic for the owners and travelers! Well, I had already gone through the whole process to link it so I have kept it. With the recent booking, I did see that message come through, but it must have processed again or the traveler attempted a second time (they never reached out to me with any issue). I think HOUFY should iron that out or find an alternate vendor to recommend and stop promoting square on their platform. I really hope that we can get about 10% of bookings through HOUFY because it adds to our profitable bottom line to not have all the VRBO outrageous platform fees.
By Karin
Response from Houfy· Oct 2, 2025
Thanks Karin for your detailed review. We are actually working on integrating PayPal the next few weeks. Hopefully this will be live by the end of October. Right now both Square & Stripe work very well for our hosts; we will remove any messages within our system promoting one versus the other. Thank you for mentioning this. The Houfy Team.
Houfy is a convenient platform for communication and logistics. The site was particularly helpful in securing a vacation rental and coordinating our check in and departure.
By Jonathan
Response from Houfy· Oct 2, 2025
Thanks Jonathan