Flexible Dates, Flexible Matching and Flexible Destinations

Flexibility is at the heart of a new, improved browsing and booking experience that we are introducing today with three new ways to search on Rental—Flexible Dates, Flexible Matching and Flexible Destinations.

Flexible Dates, which we started rolling out in February, makes it easy to find the best places to stay if you are flexible on when you go. Rather than searching with fixed dates, you can search for a weekend getaway, a week-long vacation or even a month-long stay. Since launching the tool we have already seen over 100 million searches using it.

Flexible Matching offers a wider selection of listing results when you search for a place to stay by surfacing homes just outside of your search parameters. This way, you never miss out on a great stay that falls just outside what was specified in a search—for example, if you were searching for a beachfront home and set the max price per night at $250, we would still show options priced just above this.

Flexible Destinations is a new way to plan trips when finding a unique place to stay is more important to you than traveling to a specific destination. It helps you discover incredible properties in places you might not have thought to search for and adapts to your location. For instance, it surfaces ryokans in Japan, trullos in Italy, or castles in Spain. From adobe houses to wagons, Rental has over 170,000 one-of-a-kind properties to choose from and the number of searches for these unique listings has grown 94 percent so far.