Maybe you can consider to rent a holiday house or apartment using one of the many sites that offer this choice:  you can find holiday apartments, holiday homes, villas, chalets, bungalows worldwide.

 There are places for the summer by the beach, skiing in the winter, quiet remote places in the countryside and mountains or places for sporting and cultural activities.

There are a lot of online rental services, all of them offer extremely detailed ads where you can find the available dates for rental, daily or weekly prices, photos, description of the place and all other information that can help you with making a booking. Usually there’s a feedback system too, where the tenant and the householder can judge reciprocally allowing the other site users to know beforeheand the degree of reliability.

Here’s a list of the top 5 vacation rental booking sites:

Wimdu: a fast growing online platform for private accommodation of all kinds, Wimdu offers range from a room in a shared apartment to a New York penthouse.

Airbnb: with more than 10 million nights booked worldwide, Airbnb is the world leader in travel rentals. It connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 33,000 cities and 192 countries.

Casamundo: offers a wide variety of holiday homes across Europe with the best prices guaranteed and a booking platform that offers the users the security and reassurance they need.

Homeaway: the world's leading online marketplace for the vacation rental industry, with sites representing over 773,000 paid listings of vacation rental homes in 171 countries. Through HomeAway, owners and property managers offer an extensive selection of vacation homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, including more room to relax and added privacy, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations.

Flipkey: features 240,000 vacation homes located in over 11,000 cities throughout the world, every owner is verified by FlipKey staff to ensure you are only dealing with nice and trusted people. Besides, there are over 5,000 special deals featured on the site every day.

 It’s pretty easy to use these sites: all you have to do is register, choose the place where you want to go, the numbers of persons travelling with you and select the check-in and check-out dates. Once you get your search results, you can quickly book the house or request more information about the rental.

But try seeing all this for another point of view: imagine how much money you can earn if you start to run your own online booking website… And all you need is a reliable platform built by a passionate and experienced team ready to support you