How booking works with VIVLA

One of the best things about owning a second home in Spain is the freedom to use it whenever you want — pack your bags, get there, smell the roses. When you have a Vivla home, that freedom is built into the product. Our booking system combines the latest technology with a dedicated human team, so each stay is planned with the flexibility, care and ease you need.

You don't need to plan every single week of the year in January. Some dates matter — a birthday, an anniversary, a long August holiday — but the beauty of having your own Spanish villa is being able to visit when you feel like it. Below is how the system works in practice.

How many days do you get per share?

Each Vivla share gives you 44 days of use per year — that's around 6 weeks. You can split those days however you want: long stays, short escapes, weekends, specific high-demand dates. The full calendar is yours to design within your share.

Long stays of 1–2 weeks are booked at least 31 days in advance through the Vivla app. Short trips can be booked anytime from 24 hours up to 60 days ahead. Both count toward the same 44-day yearly allowance, so you control the trade-off between fewer long holidays or more short getaways.

The fair rotation system: how owners pick dates

The first year, the booking order is determined by your purchase date. From the second year onward, Vivla applies an innovative two-round rotation system designed to guarantee equity year after year.

In the first round, the system identifies the owner who had the worst calendar in the previous year and gives them the first pick. In the second round, the order is determined by who got the worst draw in round one. The result is a year-by-year balancing mechanism: nobody is permanently disadvantaged, and every owner gets great options every year.

Booking opens in June for the following year, leaving plenty of time to plan ahead.

What if you can't use all your weeks?

Vivla owners are not locked in. If you can't use a stay, you have three flexible options:

1. Pass it to your guests

You can transfer a stay to family or friends. They check in just as you would, with the same access to the home and concierge.

2. Exchange it for another Vivla home

Offer a week in your home and you get a week in any other Vivla property within the same season. This means a co-owner of an Ibiza villa can spend a week at a mountain home in Baqueira, and vice versa — the same investment unlocks the entire Vivla portfolio.

3. Rent it out and get the income back

If you can't use a week and don't want to swap it, you can put it up for rental. Vivla's team handles the listing, pricing, vetting and management on platforms like Airbnb plus our internal client network (which generates 65% of the bookings). Income from these rentals is applied directly to reduce your monthly ownership fees, with full transparency through the app.

App, calendar and human support — all in one place

Owners can book, modify or cancel any stay through the Vivla app. The same calendar shows your stays, the stays your co-owners have selected, the weeks available for booking, and the weeks marked for rental or exchange.

Beyond the app, your home manager is one message away. For long stays, last-minute changes or special requests — a private chef, a baby cot, an early check-in — the team is there to make it happen. The model is built so that the app handles the routine and the humans handle the exceptions.

What this means for your second home in Spain

The booking system is the part of Vivla that turns an ownership share into an actual lifestyle. You don't worry about maintenance, about coordinating with co-owners, or about an empty house draining your bank account 46 weeks a year. You just plan your year, log in, pick your dates and go.

If you want to see exactly how your weeks would work in a specific home, browse our portfolio of available homes or talk to our team — they can walk you through the calendar of any property in detail.