Book vacation rentals and hotels without paying commissions and booking fees.
StaySavr promotes direct contact between guests and accommodation providers. For both vacation rentals and hotels.
Direct contact means that guests can get the full details of the accommodation and ask any questions direct to the owner. Asking those questions to a call-center doesn't help one bit!
For the accommodation provider, it means getting to know your guests before they arrive and building trust.
For owners and guests, it means avoiding fees and commission that typically add 20% to the cost of renting or at least 15% to the cost of booking a hotel room.
The middlemen (Online Travel Agent) sites are waging an ugly advertising war and the guests end up paying! With StaySavr, we are actively discouraging the advertising war by refusing to pay for it.
One day, sanity will return to the market and the OTAs will return to being advertising platforms. Until then... there is StaySavr+
New update November 2023: For many months, the extension only worked marginally on hotel sites. Now, that has been fully fixed and Orbitz.com and Agoda.com have been added. Contact information is shown for about 90% of hotels.
Latest reviews
- (2019-09-24) SWLinPHX: Back to basics! Now you as a guest/traveler can talk to the owner/manager directly before booking and ONLY pay what they charge and receive. That means NO service fees, NO added taxes and NO processing fees! This is one of those apps/extensions that seems too good to be true -- but in this case it's not. It's just an industry secret -- one that you have now finally discovered.
- (2018-11-30) Renan Aguiar: The best extension for travelers! Cheaper bookings for free?? I'm in!
- (2018-07-13) Peter Luscher: Brilliant. A must-have extension for any traveler looking to stay at a vacation rental property. Contact the owner directly and save up 15-25%.
- (2018-05-03) Tim Krug: A great tool to avoid excessive booking fees on HomeAway/VRBO. Enable the extension, search for a rental property, see the owner's contact info, and book directly to save big $!
- (2018-04-30) Cyndy DeMeter: A breath of fresh air (and hope!) in the market dominated by Homeaway (Expedia), AirBnB, Booking.com and TripAdivsor. Pay attention to this app and save a LOT by booking direct with owners of vacation properties. It's the OWNERS who take care of you - not the big companies!
- (2018-04-28) R O: Love this wonderful service!! Thank you!
- (2018-04-28) Judith Dower: This is a great tool, for both owners and guests. Lets you see direct contact details, book direct, no service fee and owners can offer you a better price, as there are no fees for you to pay on top. Brilliant!
- (2018-04-25) Linda Carlson: This is a fantastic application! I have used this add on to obtain contact information that has been blocked on HomeAway and other booking sites. Talk directly with the owners and save $ on every booking. The fees charged by Expedia, AirBnB, HomeAway, Trip Advisor and so on, just keep climbing! Why spend 15 - 25% extra for your vacation stay when you don't have to. Check out the staysavr.com web site for more details.
- (2018-04-25) Richelle Ahlvers: Love it. Talk directly to owners and save yourself hundreds of dollars on every trip. Don't believe the scare tactics - deal directly with owners! #BOOKDIRECT
- (2018-04-25) Nikki Salter: Book directly for the best rates and easy communication with the rental owner. Win-win!
- (2018-04-25) Brian Phillips: This could be a fantastic way to break through the big agencies stranglehold on excessive fees.
- (2018-04-24) Jeannie Johnson: Staysavr is a HUGE money saver!! Thanks for letting guests communicate with owners to avoid those pesky platform fees!
- (2018-04-24) Ivor: If you want to talk to owners directly before booking holiday accommodation with the big advertisers, then I thoroughly recommend this extension. You know how it is, there's lots of info in an advert but you really just want to chat to the owner to get a real feel for what they're like and the place that they're renting. Unfortunately e-mail just doesn't cut the mustard when you want to communicate properly - the only way is to talk in person. I've been using the original version (StaySavr) for a while (don't be put off by low usage figures, this is a well established product). Download this extension to show the owner's number so that you can contact them directly. As the late great Bob Hoskins used to say in the UK TV ad 'It's good to talk'!.
- (2018-04-24) JIM MURRAY: GREAT WAY TO BOOK DIRECT WITH OWNERS AND AVOID PAYING BOOKING FEES TO BIG COMPANIES. SPREAD THE WORD!
- (2018-04-24) weeziepow: Is free and works perfectly well. Spread the word about booking direct with owners and saving fees.
- (2018-04-24) Thom Youknow: like this add on, works perfect, and get all bookings cheaper now.