All travel consumers are looking to cut their costs for renting a vacation villa while simultaneously ensuring the highest quality home accommodations for one’s family or group. Our Orlando Villas 360 site is designed to do this.

Is this possible? The answer is yes, but one must follow a few recommended steps or actions to find the best villa deals. Here are our Top 5 tips for slashing your holiday home and villa rental costs while planning an Orlando Florida vacation:

1. Consult the Calendar – Vacation resorts, just any other free market, closely follows supply and demand factors seasonally or during the year. If you can plan for flexible travel dates to Florida, this helps provide alternate options that increase your chances of saving money on nightly villa rates. Plan around the holiday periods so you avoid the heaviest demand periods. Management companies are most willing to negotiate on the cost to rent a holiday villa in the lowest historical occupancy periods. Consult our blog post on the best months to visit Orlando Florida for specific travel suggestions.

2. Plan as Early as Possible – One will want to plan your vacation and vacation villa accommodations out as early as possible, and especially if you are flying to Florida. Airlines consumer watchdog groups indicate that the best times for booking airfares are at the 6 week out time frame or as much as 3 1/2 months out (Source: ABC News). Making your Orlando travel plans early also allows you to assess the various resort and community options available plus grabbing good villas before they are rented.

3. Check the Communities – When one consults online resources, most sites focus on the rental villa itself. Although this is obviously very important for your personal comfort and enjoyment, the quality of the resort community is extremely vital as well. Our specific site contains detailed profiles on over 80 resort communities to give you that extra level of detail for your personal comfort and peace of mind. As we always say “all vacation home communities in Central Florida are not created equal”. Community recreational amenities, for example, may vary greatly from one resort to another.

4. Assess Your Family or Group Needs – Just as one might maintain flexible travel dates to find the best villa deals, one must also assess your specific needs to optimize sleeping arrangements. In other words and for example, a smaller home would be required if you can pair up kids for bedrooms with Twin beds (rather than King or Full). It obviously gets trickier for groups rather than families, but it nonetheless makes sense to sit down and assess the needs of every person to “right size” your rental home.

5. Itemize Your Itinerary – Haven’t made up what parks you wish to visit? It really does pay to consider what attractions you have in mind in advance so you can minimize your travel time to the parks. Moreover, the highest villa rental rates tend to be those nearest Walt Disney World® (see the supply and demand comments referenced above). However, for your family or group, the closest villas to WDW may not be what you need or want. There are some excellent rental values closer to Legoland® (to the south) or to the Orange County Convention Center (to the north). Itemizing your vacation itinerary helps you pinpoint the best location for renting a villa in Central Florida.

Click on the following link for more rental basics – How to Rent a Vacation Home in Orlando or for our visual video channel for vacation villas in Orlando. Although it took a lot of work to produce, our OVH 360 YouTube vacation home channel has over 328,000 visitors/hits as of this date.

If you need help finding a vacation villa in Orlando that meets your needs, give us a call at 407-966-4144. The OVH 360 team has reviewed most of the vacation resort communities in Central Florida to enable you as a consumer to find the best villa deals and values. There are some great vacation villa deals out there, but one must be selective.