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Describe the trip. Get the stays. Book direct — no guest fees.

Search independently-run stays in plain language — place, dates (approximate is fine), who’s coming, what it has to have, the vibe — and get exact, close, and similar matches with real availability and real totals. Then book on the host’s own site with no guest service fee.

Find a stay How it compares to Airbnb

What makes it different

Type the trip as you’d say it — “Florida Keys, Oct 3–11, roughly, 2 adults and a dog” — no destination box, date picker, or filter grid required
Approximate, flexible, and exact dates are understood from the words you use; closed dates show the nearest open window instead of nothing
Exact matches first, then close matches (nearby or other dates), then similar stays by vibe — and a short honest note about what was and wasn’t found
Real availability from the host’s own calendar rules and real totals from the host’s own prices — the number you’ll see at checkout
Book on the host’s own site — a Haven-built site or the host’s existing independent website: no guest service fee, and hosts pay nothing to be found, so the direct rate is usually the best rate

Marketplace search makes you do the translating

You know the trip you want: a jungle home in the Caribbean near nature and away from the tourist strip, the second week of March, give or take. A marketplace asks you to turn that into a destination field, a date picker, a guest stepper, and twenty filters — then hands you 800 listings to crawl, with a service fee waiting at checkout. Haven reads the sentence. It works out the place, how firm your dates are, who’s coming, what must be there, and the feel you’re after, ranks every bookable stay honestly against all of it, checks the host’s real calendar and prices, and tells you plainly what it found. When it can’t find the literal ask, it says so and shows the closest real options — never a dead end, never a padded page.

Dates are rarely exact — search boxes insist they are

“Around October 3–11” becomes ±3 days automatically; “a week in July, flexible” searches the whole month; “exact dates” keeps them firm. Closed dates surface “Available Oct 4–11” instead of hiding the stay.

Filters can’t capture “quiet, design-forward, near the water”

Every Haven stay has a grounded dossier of what the host actually wrote — setting, amenities, local spots, experiences. Your vibe is matched against that, not a checkbox.

Zero results, or 800 of them

Results are tiered — exact, close, similar — with a concierge note explaining the shape of the answer and one-tap refinements (“try nearby: Key Largo”, “add dates”, “with a dog”).

How a search works

You describe the trip

One box, your words: a place (or not), dates (exact, approximate, a month, or none), who’s coming, pets, must-haves, and the vibe or occasion — “apartment in New York during concert week, walking distance to the theater”.

Haven reads it into a structured intent

The place is pinned on a map, the dates and their flexibility are resolved, the party and must-haves are captured, and the vibe is kept in your own words. You see what it understood as chips — and can correct any of it.

Every bookable stay is ranked honestly

Location (inside the place, nearby, elsewhere), fit (sleeps enough, allows the dog, has the hot tub), and meaning (the stay’s dossier vs your vibe) combine into exact, close, and similar tiers. Nothing is invented; a stay that doesn’t fit is not stretched into the top tier.

Real availability and real totals stream in

With dates, each result is checked against the host’s own calendar rules (blocked nights, minimum stays, check-in days) and priced from the host’s own rates and fees. Closed literal dates show the nearest open window. Prices are never shown without dates.

A short note says what was — and wasn’t — found

One or two honest sentences, a grounded why-line per stay (“12 km from Marathon, sleeps 6, kayaks included, open Oct 4–11”), and refinement chips to tap next. If nothing matches the literal ask, it says so and pivots to what’s real.

You book direct on the host’s own site

Each result opens the host’s branded site — one Haven runs for them, or the host’s own independent website when they run one themselves. You pay the host’s rate, their fees and taxes — no Haven guest service fee. The same search runs in Haven’s mobile app on the same API.

Key capabilities

Built for

Travelers who know the feeling but not the filter

“Somewhere warm and slow for two, late February, no dates fixed” is a complete search here.

Families and groups with rough dates

Say “around spring break” or “the week after the 4th, flexible” and see what’s actually open, with the real total for everyone.

Remote workers and writers

A month somewhere quiet with real Wi‑Fi and a desk — described once, matched against what hosts actually wrote.

Pet owners

“With our dog” is read as a hard requirement — stays that don’t allow pets are demoted and labelled, never slipped into the top tier.

Because it’s one platform

The search answers from the same live data the hosts run their businesses on — that is why it can promise real availability and real totals instead of estimates.

Live calendars, not cached listings

Every result is checked against the host’s own calendar rules and priced from their own rates — the same engine their booking page uses, so the card total is the checkout total.

The host’s AI picks up where search ends

Open a stay and the same grounded assistant that knows that listing answers your questions — amenities, policies, the area — before you book.

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Open to your AI assistant too

Haven publishes an open stay-search API and MCP server, so AI travel tools can run this same search and send you to the host’s own site.

Built for the trip you describe — not the filters you tick

Marketplaces are built to surface as much inventory as possible behind structured fields. Haven is built to understand one traveler’s trip and answer it honestly from a curated, direct-booking catalog.

Marketplace search (Airbnb, Vrbo)

Destination field + date picker + filters; flexible dates are toggles; results are hundreds of listings; a guest service fee is added at checkout.

OTA trip-planner chats

A chat that suggests destinations and then hands you back to the same filter grid — the conversation and the results live in different places.

Curated brands (Wander)

A small, operator-run luxury catalog you browse; you book the brand, not an independent host.

Haven

One sentence in, a ranked and honest answer out — exact / close / similar with real availability and totals — and you book direct on the host’s own site with no guest fee.

AI Guest Chat with Built-in Observability

Once you’re on a host’s site, the same grounded AI answers your questions about the stay.

Vacation rental website builder

For hosts: the platform those direct-booking sites are built on — and how your listing gets found here.

Frequently asked questions

The search reads your sentence into a place, dates, and how firm those dates are. “Approximately / around / roughly” widens the window — ±3 days by default, or the tolerance you state — “flexible” or “a week in July” treats the period as open, and “exact” keeps the literal dates. Dates without a year mean the next time they occur. When your literal dates are closed, a stay shows the nearest open window (“Available Oct 4–11”) instead of disappearing.

Yes. Availability is checked against each host’s own calendar rules — blocked nights, minimum stays, advance-notice and check-in-day rules — and the total is computed from the host’s own rates, fees, and taxes with the same estimate their booking page shows. Prices are never displayed without dates.

No. There is no guest service fee. You pay the host’s rate, cleaning fee, taxes, and any card-processing fee the host chooses to pass through — shown before you book on the host’s own site. Hosts also pay nothing to be found in the search and Haven takes 0% commission.

Haven only lists independently-run stays that are set up to book direct on their own site, so the catalog is curated rather than exhaustive. When nothing matches the literal ask, the search says so and shows the closest real options — nearby places, other dates, or similar stays — instead of padding the page.

“A quiet place to write for a week” is a complete search. Without a place, results are ranked by how well each stay’s dossier matches your vibe and must-haves, labelled “Best matches / More like this / Similar”, and the concierge note tells you which regions those stays are in so you can narrow.

No. Search and browse are open to everyone; you only create an account if you want to save favorites or keep your trips in one place. If Google One Tap applies it offers a one-click sign-in, but it never gates the search.

Yes — Haven’s native mobile app uses the same versioned search API as bookwithhaven.com/stays, so a search means exactly the same thing on every screen.

Next step

Describe the trip. We’ll find the stay.

Place, dates (approximate is fine), who’s coming, what it has to have — or just the feeling you’re after. Real availability, real totals, book direct with no guest fee.

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