Colorado · California
Mountains or coast, depending on your vibe. You book straight with the people who run the home, so the total you are quoted is the total you pay — with one 4% booking fee instead of the 14.1–16.5% a marketplace adds.
No account required to see availability or the all-in total.
Where do you want to be?
Pick the ground first and the dates second. Each one opens on the homes that qualify for it, and the test they had to pass to get there.
The portfolio
Each page names what the house is not, alongside what it is. The stairs, the cameras, the thing a photograph will not tell you.
San Diego, CA · House
A single-story coastal house near Mission Bay with a heated saltwater pool, a spa and an outlook over the bay.
Evergreen, CO · Cabin
A log-sided A-frame on a private wooded acre, deep in lodgepole pine at 8,957 feet.
More homes are coming, in Evergreen and San Diego and beyond. Each one gets described down to what it is missing before it goes live here. Search what is open
Where we are
You can book in Evergreen and San Diego today. Denver and Coronado are here because guests drive through them on the way — those pages are local writing, not a claim to operate there.
Thirty minutes from Denver. A world away from it.
Seventy miles of coast and a 70-degree year.
Also written up, without photographs of our own yet: Denver, CO, Coronado, CA, Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
The direct way to stay
A marketplace adds a guest service fee at checkout — Airbnb publishes it as 14.1%–16.5% of the booking subtotal. Ours is 4%, which is 10.1–12.5 percentage points of the booking you keep. Here is exactly what changes when you book on this site instead.
Marketplaces add a guest service fee at checkout — Airbnb publishes a range of 14.1–16.5% of the booking subtotal. Ours is 4% of the nightly rate plus the cleaning fee, which is 10.1–12.5 percentage points of the booking that stays with you. What you pay is the nightly rate, the cleaning fee, applicable taxes, and any add-on you asked for.
Every line is on the page: rate, nights, cleaning, tax, total. Nothing appears at the last step, and nothing is folded into a nightly rate to make a headline number look smaller.
Not a listing platform passing a message to a host. The same people who write the listing hold the keys, so a question about the house has one answer and one person behind it.
Cancellation terms, house rules and what happens if something breaks are written on the page before you book, in plain language, not summarized into a tier name.
Do the arithmetic yourself
Put in a nightly rate and a length of stay. It applies Airbnb's own published fee range on one side and our 4% booking fee on the other, and shows you the difference — with the sources next to it.
Assumption: the nightly rate and the cleaning fee are identical on both sides. This compares fees, not prices. If a marketplace listing of the same home is priced differently, the comparison does not hold — check both totals yourself before you decide.
Figures checked 2026-08-07. Taxes are the same either way and are excluded from the comparison.
On the map
Approximate locations shown to a block. Exact addresses go out with your confirmation.
Click a pin for the home. Where a home publishes a direct rate the pin shows it. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Founded 2026
Nomad Vacation Rentals LLC was formed in 2026. Holding two homes lets us do something a large portfolio cannot: publish every fact we have on each one, including the parts that cost us bookings. The price has nothing hidden behind it, the house rules and check-in terms are published in full, the card is taken on a PCI-certified checkout we never see, and one named person answers for every decision.
Nomad Vacation Rentals LLC · formed 2026
What you will not find here, and why
Meet your host
I design and develop these homes myself, and I host them myself. When you book here you are dealing with the person who built the house and who answers for it — the rate, the condition and the policy you are held to.
Sean Normoyle, founder · based in San Diego, California
Nobody has stayed yet, so there is nothing to quote, and every review we ever publish will be attached to a booking and left unedited. Meanwhile there are four things on this site you can check yourself before you pay anything.
Published, not summarized
Nothing below is behind a checkbox at checkout. If a policy changes, it changes here first.
You are quoted the nightly rate, the cleaning fee, applicable lodging tax and any add-on you selected. 4% booking fee, not 14.1–16.5% is added at any step, and the nightly rate is not raised to absorb one.
Payment is taken over TLS on the PCI-certified checkout our booking platform provides. Nomad never sees, handles or stores your card number. Which company appears as the merchant on your statement depends on the platform plan the home is on, and it is named on your confirmation.
Cancellation terms are set per home and printed in full on that home's page and in your confirmation email. There is no tier name to decode — you will see the dates and the amounts.
Until a home is published, its terms are not final and are not shown.
Every home publishes its own rules — occupancy, quiet hours, pets, events, parking — on its page, before booking rather than after arrival.
The Journal
Show logistics, shoulder-season math, and the honest version of the book-direct argument with the sources attached.
Local know-how · 8 min read
Where to park, when to leave, what the rock does to the temperature, and why staying in Evergreen usually beats staying in Denver.
Book direct · 7 min read
A guest service fee, a host commission and a payment margin. Here is where each one lands, using each platform's own published figures.
Itineraries · 7 min read
Snowshoes at nine, green chile at one, hot tub under Orion at ten. A two-night itinerary built from what our guests actually do.
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