Connect Vrbo to Campiamo

Vrbo and Campiamo exchange calendars using iCal: each side publishes a calendar link and reads the other's on a schedule. A booking on Vrbo blocks the dates in Campiamo — and therefore on your website, your widget and your other channels — and your Campiamo bookings block the dates on Vrbo.

New to calendar sync? Read how channel sync works first for what iCal can and cannot carry.

A good fit for holiday homes

Vrbo lists whole properties — a holiday home, a lodge, a cabin — which is exactly the shape calendar sync likes: one listing, one Campiamo pitch type, one unit. If the pitch type you link holds more than one unit, one booking will close the whole listing; the unit-count rules from the Booking.com guide apply here unchanged.

Step 1: Create the connection in Campiamo

1. Go to Channels in the dashboard sidebar.
2. Find Vrbo and choose Connect.
3. Pick the pitch type this listing corresponds to.

Keep the dialog open — you'll paste a Vrbo link into it, and take a Campiamo link back to Vrbo.

Step 2: Copy your Vrbo calendar link

In your Vrbo owner dashboard:

1. Open Calendar.
2. Choose Import & export calendars.
3. Choose Export calendar and copy the link — it ends in .ics.

Step 3: Finish the connection in Campiamo

Paste the link into the Calendar link from Vrbo field and save. Campiamo validates it immediately and refuses anything that isn't a calendar feed, with an explanation.

Once saved, Campiamo shows your calendar link. Copy it.

Step 4: Import your Campiamo calendar into Vrbo

Back under Import & export calendars in Vrbo:

1. Choose Import calendar.
2. Paste your Campiamo link and name it "Campiamo".
3. Save.

Both directions are now connected.

What syncs, and how quickly

Campiamo → Vrbo: every unavailable date for the pitch type — bookings, manual blocks, closed season, availability windows — published 365 days ahead. Vrbo decides how often it re-reads your calendar; expect periodic rather than instant.

Vrbo → Campiamo: read every 15 minutes. Busy dates become blocks marked "Booked on Vrbo" — not bookings, because the calendar file carries no guest details. The guest's name and payment live in your Vrbo dashboard. Cancellations release the blocks on the next sync; Sync now on the Channels page forces an immediate read.

When something is wrong

"That link did not return a calendar feed." — you've pasted a signed-in page rather than the export link. Go back to Import & export calendars and copy the .ics link.

Vrbo shows you blocked when you expect to be free — the export includes season and availability-window closures by design, so Vrbo can't sell a night you're shut.

Blocked dates with no booking to open — that's a Vrbo stay: dates held in Campiamo, guest details on Vrbo.

Every sync is logged on the Channels page, and the note on double bookings applies to Vrbo as to every iCal channel.