What is Vayo?
Vayo, announced on 14 October 2026 as a standalone company within Booking Holdings, describes itself as a personal travel agent. You connect your email inbox and it turns travel confirmations, including bookings made elsewhere, into organised trips, flags what's missing and suggests options. With your approval it works in the background, for example claiming a refund when a price drops or grabbing something that opens up; Booking Holdings plans to add direct booking, a native app and planning with travel companions.
Cost: Free (No paid plan listed). Booking: Sends you to book elsewhere. Works on: Web.
Best for: Frequent travellers who book across many sites and want one assistant to organise and watch over every trip.
How Vayo uses AI
Reads travel confirmations from your inbox to build trip plans, learns how you travel, and watches prices and availability to act with your approval.
Booking: Sends you to book elsewhere.
Keep in mind
- Invite-only private beta
- Requires connecting your email inbox
- No direct booking yet; Vayo sends you to the hotel's own site or another platform when that is the better option
- Initially focused on frequent travellers
Is Vayo free? Cost and plans
Free. Free during the private beta, no card needed. Pricing after the beta has not been announced.
Vayo alternatives
Tools for a similar task. Sharing a task does not make them interchangeable, so compare what each one does.
Sources
Sources checked . This listing summarises what the provider and other cited sources say; it is not a hands-on test.
- Vayo. Where your trips live.vayo.com, checked . Supports: Private beta, invite only; free, no card; inbox confirmations into organised trips; price-drop refunds and openings with your approval; sends you to other sites when better; a Booking Holdings company
- Booking Holdings Launches Vayo with Planned $100M Investment (14 Oct 2026)prnewswire.com, checked . Supports: Personal travel agent; private beta with waitlist; free invite-only access; focus on frequent travelers; works with reservations made elsewhere; plans to add direct booking, native app and companion planning
What we could not confirm
- Which email providers are supported
- Countries where the beta is open
- Post-beta pricing