Vacatia is the resort marketplace for vacationing families and friends. Our mission is to make family vacations better and to help family resorts thrive. We make it easy for guests to find and instantly book their perfect resort residence, combining the space of a home and the services of a hotel. Vacatia provides real-time rental listings, large photos, floor plans, and detailed resort information, supported by Vacatia Guest Care and multiple flexible payment options. We work with 600+ select professionally managed resorts and resort residence owners at leading hospitality, vacation ownership (timeshare), and premier independent resorts. Vacatia also partners with select brands to operate vacation ownership marketplaces. Vacatia is a member of the Family Travel Association and the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), which named Vacatia the winner of the "ACE Innovator Award: Industry Partner" category of the 2017 ARDA Awards. Vacatia is venture-backed company founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
Vacatia (vacatia.com) has 306 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.1 out of 5.
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vacatia.com
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Accommodation & Lodging
Location
Mill Valley, California
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2026
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This is my second day on vacation and my family is still not in the unit that we booked for the 21st through the 28th. I called yesterday and spoke to the Westgate Myrtle Beach and they told me my unit was ready. We arrived after a 13 hour drive to be stuffed in a very small Hotel room, because they rented our unit!!!!!!!!! The hotel room is a 2 Star at best. Very small. I have called Customer Service and have left my number numerous times. I have also sent emails with no response. However I did get an email from Camilla about enjoying our stay. What a joke. This is by far the worst experience I’ve ever had on a vacation rental. The fine print did not cover them renting our unit and sticking us in a hotel room at a ridiculous rate of what we paid for the unit. The hotel gave us a 50$ gift card for their restaurant and waved our resort fees but also promised to resolve first thing this morning. I checked at the desk this morning and they basically did not understand how or why this was an issue. I don’t understand how a resort and Vacatia can double book a unit and leave the consumer hanging.
Response from VacatiaJul 24, 2018
Mr. Abner, I am very sorry to hear of your poor experience. Our Guest Care director has tried to reach you, and has left you a message with her contact details. Please return her call at your convenience so we can resolve. Thank you.
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Kristina Asheim M.
Worst vacation ever
Worst vacation ever! Fortunately, it was only a 2.5 hour car ride to go back home. The villa was dirty, smelly, and old. There were not enough tables in the restaurants to accommodate all the guests or lounge chairs by the pool. If we were not at the pool by 9am, we sat at a picnic table - so much for relaxing in the sun. If we were not at the restaurant by 5pm, we ate PAPA JOHNS - I can do that at home. I tried to book some spa services for myself and my daughter and the girl at spa reception was so rude, instead of relaxing - I left annoyed. NICE! We only stayed 2 of the 6 nights we had booked and 1 week later I still have NO REFUND. I will be calling my credit card company tomorrow to see if they will cancel payment equal to my refund amount. I will never use or recommend VACATIA to anyone - not even people I don’t like. Total waste of my vacation time from work and my kids spring break was ruined, not to mention, now the headache of refund issues. What a mess!
Response from VacatiaMay 11, 2018
Kristina- Just following up on our previous call where you told us you left the resort early due to a medical emergency, with no mention of a negative resort experience (which the resort has confirmed to us). It looks you will need to share the doctor’s info with the resort to request refund approval. As an aside, I did want to mention should there be any questions or concerns while you are at a resort, our Guest Care team can very likely be of assistance in resolving them, if you contact us while there. On our call, you did mention you had documentation. We’ve been unable to reach you again despite several attempts to help, so please give us a call!
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Clari S.
Though the property was nice
Though the property was nice, immediately after checking in, they directed us to a sales man. No ice on the freezer, no cleaning services or changes of towers, etc, and after paying the rate I did and not able to check it n the until very late, they were not accommodating with a late checkout. Not a good experience.
Response from VacatiaJul 13, 2017
Clari- We are sorry to hear of the less the perfect situation at the resort. We will contact the resort's management to let them know of your experience. In the future, please contact Vacatia Guest Care while you are at the resort and we should be able to assist! Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback so we can work to improve our guests' vacations!
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Pearl C.
vacatia was good but the resort was …
vacatia was good but the resort was NOT, But when I contacted a rep at Vaca she was more then happy to assist me and even put me up in another hotel if needed, but this hotel had vomit and urine on the floor worse smell ever, complained the first night about the urine smell, they found the vomit and cleaned it up but urine was still there complained a second day thats when they finally moved the bed and saw the urine stain!
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Martagina A.
We are disappointed staying at your …
We are disappointed staying at your condominium.
Response from VacatiaJun 28, 2017
Martagina, this is Brian Streich, an Executive at Vacatia, and I'm sorry to hear you did not enjoy your stay. One of our Guest Care Advisors will be reaching out to you shortly so we can learn more about your stay and see if there is an opportunity to work with resort management and assure future guests don't have the same experience.
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Mariah E.
It was the worst experience ever
It was the worst experience ever. Took 2 hours to check-in. I was not aware of I would have to check-in at an off-site location. I was sent to 3 different places before reaching the correct location. Unacceptable and highly doubt that I will book with you all again.
Response from VacatiaJun 16, 2017
Mariah, my name is Mike, and I’m the CMO of Vacatia. I am sorry for your terrible experience. I know our Guest Care team has left you multiple messages but has yet to hear back from you. We'd like to confirm the details so we can help make this right. Your reservation confirmation email included "Special check-in instructions: - The check-in location differs from the property location. To check in, go to 10511 Front Beach Road, Panama City Beach, FL 32407." We would like confirm that this is indeed where you checked in. Please give us a call and thank you for bringing this to our attention. My apologies once again...
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Juan A.
we have the worst service ---1 room …
we have the worst service ---1 room full of roaches dirty --we asked for the sheets for the beds at noon time and the came at 2 a.m knocking the
door waking all us --scary !!!! 2 time we were making a juice and
a roaches dropped from the ceiling to the glass **we took the glass downstairs and show to them with the pictures of roaches all over --and they did NOTHING !!
Also, they charge additional for the room because they did not have the complete kitchenette which it was advertise and pictures with the kitchenette -----the worst service and hotel ****************never get this hotels and company which they did not did anything and ruined my vacation with my kids -------------horrible
Response from VacatiaMay 25, 2017
Juan, Just following up on this poor resort experience from March. We appreciated speaking with your sister and wife for details. As you may know, our executive management reviewed the situation with resort management and were happy to process a significant refund for you the day after your check out. Our apologies again for this unfortunate series of events. We started Vacatia to help families have great vacations and this time did not get it done. We hope you will give Vacatia and our 631 handpicked resorts another chance in the future.
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Martin C.
GREEDY LIARS
Back in August 20016. I booked a room Maui hawaii(Hololani rentals). Immediately upon booking I realized that there was no note of unit being equipped with air conditioner. I immediately I'm talking minutes after I booked I statmrtes chatting with Leah and expressed my concern to her. Leah could not find any information in the website about the unit being equipped with AC unit or not. She then suggested to get back to me the following business day. Which never happened. I had to call back myself. At this point they couldn't even find my booking or info. Took them several days. I also spoke to a Lauren over the phone at Vacatia and told me that she had forwarded my issue to the manager and that they would get back to me in an estimated time. They didn't so I called them. I was forwarded to a person named Dan. I requested a unit with AC due to medical issues with my kids. I explained that they needed to be in a controlled environment. He explained to me that none of the units in that building had Air conditioners. So I requested accommodations somewhere else. To justify my children's needs. He then proceeded to tell me that he couldn't make that decision at the time. He needed to speak to a supervisor and then would get back to me. He didn't so I called them again. I was forwarded to Lauren. Which in return told me that the supervisor is Dan. So Dan lied to me about whom he really was. I was very perplexed about why he would do such a thing. This was a serious matter. No one appreciates being miaelead this way. Lauren then transfers the call to Dan. He sounded annoyed and hesitant by my issue. Basically told me that it was my fault for booking without paying attention and proceeded to arrogantly lecture me about my decision and the responsibility I had to take. Months later I'm stuck with a bill for services that where never rendered to me or my family. Without any regards to me or my family. Vacatia rift along with his employees took advantage of me and practiced very poor business etiquette. Not once was Dan the supervisor was willing to make other arrangements with me. He had the power to make a difference and make our vacation possible and instead took our money and ran with it. Never to follow up with me. Simply took our money without remorse. It's very unfortunate that when you open up the link to website they do nothing but praise a pleasant family oriented stay at any of their destinations. But beware. There's a hidden agenda. When you the customer figure things out. It's a too late. For they VACATIA. Will do nothing for you except take your money without regard.
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Response from VacatiaMar 3, 2017
Martin, my name is Caroline, and I’m the CEO of Vacatia. First and foremost, I am very sorry for your terrible experience. I’m asking our team to update me directly of your situation. I would like to understand in detail how we failed you, so we can make this right and ensure we don’t repeat the same mistake in the future. My sincere apologies again, and I’ll be in touch shortly.
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Martin and Lilliana,
I reviewed your calls and correspondence with us tonight. It's clear we made a series of bad mistakes. Ultimately as the CEO, the responsibility falls on me. Please accept my sincere apologies for how we mishandled your situation.
Our first mistake was not making it clearer on our site that there was no A/C at the resort. Although it's common for resorts in Kahana not to have A/C because units are cooled from the trade winds, you are right to point out that we should not expect guests to know this information. It's also understandable you prefer not to take the risk of staying in a unit without A/C.
Our second mistake was not having proper escalation procedures in place when several of our senior managers were out of the office. When the resort denied to return funds for your non-refundable reservation, our team was unable to escalate the matter to the senior executive that had the direct relationship with this resort as he was on an international flight. Our guest care manager was also out of town, and to further add to the confusion, you spoke with two separate agents named Dan. The last Dan you spoke with was unsure if he could take over supervisor duties when his direct manager was unavailable, which led to him being referred to both as a supervisor and not a supervisor. Although we made improvements to our training and escalation procedures since you spoke with us last August, you clearly saw the holes we had in our organization. I am very sorry you had to witness our growing pains.
Our biggest mistake of all was our lack of empathy to your situation. We founded Vacatia to be a different kind of travel company - one that focuses on delighting families and friends - and a company that treat our guests like family. Your situation became more complicated because the resort was unable to make an exception, but that was no excuse for us to treat you like a "case", and not a person. From listening to call recordings, it's clear you were worried about the situation not resolving in-time to re-book at another resort before your pending travel date. Because of this, we should have proactively contacted you every half hour, even to report we were still on the phone with the resort, instead of burdening you to call us to receive updates. I also should have been contacted considering the complexity of your situation and direct managers being out of town. It's something we would have done for our family, which means we should have done that for you.
I will contact you separately by email with my personal contact information so you can reach me directly. I hope you allow me to make amends as best as I can. Vacatia will absorb this charge. Refunds have already been applied to your credit card. And at your convenience, I would be grateful if you can allow me to personally extend my apologies over a phone call.
Sincerely,
Caroline Shin
CEO, Vacatia