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Submit SuggestionThe main European alternatives to Airbnb are Holidu (Munich), HomeToGo (Berlin) and Interhome (Zurich area, since 1965): holiday rental platforms and agencies headquartered in Europe. Airbnb is based in San Francisco, and its contract partner for guests in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK is Airbnb Ireland UC in Dublin, a subsidiary of the US group. The European alternatives work differently: they mostly rent out holiday homes and apartments through professional managers and agencies, not rooms in private homes. Europe has no equally large peer-to-peer marketplace for private hosts.
| Portal | Headquarters | Ownership | What it offers | Holiday homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holidu | Munich, Germany | Independent, venture-funded | Search engine and marketplace, plus managed "Holidu Homes" | Yes |
| HomeToGo | Berlin, Germany (registered office Luxembourg) | Listed company | Search engine and marketplace, also shows Vrbo and Booking.com listings | Yes |
| Interhome | Glattbrugg near Zurich, Switzerland | HomeToGo group since August 2025 | Agency with its own portfolio, not peer to peer | Yes |
| GuestReady | Trogen, Switzerland | Independent, venture and crowd funded | Manager of city apartments | Only managed apartments |
| CHECK24 | Munich, Germany | Mostly founders and management | Comparison portal for holiday rentals | Via partners |
| TUI | Hanover, Germany | Listed company | Tour operator, holiday homes powered by HomeToGo | Indirectly |
| Booking.com | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Booking Holdings (USA) | Hotels and apartments | Yes, but US-owned |
Four further portals on this page are not holiday rental alternatives: trivago (hotel metasearch), HRS (hotels, focus on business travel), lastminute.com (flights, hotels and package holidays) and GetYourGuide (tours and activities, the counterpart to Airbnb Experiences).
Holidu was founded in Munich in 2014. It combines a search engine over offers from partners with its own managed homes in Europe and also acts as a manager for owners. HomeToGo started in Berlin in the same year and shows listings from agencies, individual hosts and other portals. Bookings are partly made directly and partly passed on to the partner. Interhome manages and rents holiday homes, chalets and villas in more than 20 European countries, with a focus on the Alps, the Mediterranean and Scandinavia. Guests book with Interhome as the contracting party. It was sold by the Swiss Migros group to HomeToGo in 2025, so part of its stock can also be found on HomeToGo.
Booking.com B.V. is headquartered in Amsterdam, but belongs to Booking Holdings Inc. in Norwalk, Connecticut. trivago is a Dutch N.V. with its operational base in Düsseldorf; Expedia Group holds 59.2 percent of the shares and 83.9 percent of the votes (31 December 2025). Both are marked as having a non-European parent. The big US booking brands Expedia and Hotels.com have their own alternatives pages.
Travellers who prefer a hotel to a holiday rental will find European hotel chains in a separate category. Flights are covered under airlines.
All portals are collected in the category travel booking portals.
There is no European platform of the same size for private hosts. Holidu, HomeToGo and Interhome are European providers of holiday homes and apartments, mostly through agencies and managers.
Booking.com B.V. sits in Amsterdam, but its parent Booking Holdings is American. It is listed with a non-European parent notice.
At Holidu, HomeToGo and Interhome, which also list many private apartments through agencies. GuestReady offers managed city apartments.
Yes. HomeToGo completed the purchase from the Swiss Migros group in August 2025. Interhome keeps its brand and is still based in Switzerland.
trivago, HRS, lastminute.com and GetYourGuide serve hotels, flights, packages or activities and do not rent out holiday homes.