In my case, its just my father in law who lives with me and watches my daughter.

But many upper middle class people have nannies, au-pairs, etc. Upper middle class isn't very large, but they are certainly the demo for an AirBnB in a tourist destination. Average people don't really travel much.

Even if you don't have a babysitter, having a kitchen to feed your kids yourself is huge.

> Average people don't really travel much

Maybe in the US, here in Europe I feel it's absurdly common for even the low middle class to travel around.

This is a strong statement. In much of the US, an au pair can cost less than full-time professional daycare.

Similarly, many US households have access to a car. Most American vacations are road trips.

Getting a 3 bedroom vacation rental instead of a 2 bedroom and driving the au pair up in the back seat is not solely the province of the super-rich.

[For the record: I do not have an au pair, nor have I taken a babysitter on a trip.]

I knew a girl on tinder who did that. It's really neat and definitely takes away the "very rich" thing. I mean 1 extra plane ticket is expensive, but not prohibitively so if you want a babysitter that also gets a free ride to a new place.

I don't have personal domestic staff but I have the same requirement: somewhere I really can live like at home and cook for myself and my family. In Switzerland this is called «Ferienwohnung», «résidence locative» and «appartemento per le vacanze». Even my parents rented holiday homes when I was a child.

They are called grandparents and you don’t need to be super-rich to have them in your family, just to not be an a__hole to your parents.

Do you really refer to your parents as a 'babysitter'?

I even refer to myself and my wife as a "babysitter" when, well, sitting our kids. We're also cooks, drivers, cleaners, and so on.

It's a job, sometimes you do in the family sometimes you outsource. No need to be super-rich for it.