Vintage Travel shines in the Conde Nast Readers’ Travel Awards 2013

Vintage Travel is proud to announce that we came in the top ten of the ‘World’s Best Villa Rental Companies’ category of the highly prestigious Conde Nast Readers’ Travel Awards. The criteria for the voting is based on a number of components, including the range of villas a company has on its books, the facilities and equipment provided in the accommodation, the welcome and information pack, the services and staff, on the ground support and value for money.

Vintage Travel scored a mighty 83.28%, which put us in a highly impressive sixth place.

For more than a quarter of a century, hotels, travel companies, villa rentals, airlines and cruise ships have been competing to receive the much-esteemed seal of approval by the Conde Nast Readers’ Travel Awards. Unlike many awards which are decided by industry official and ‘experts’, with the Conde Nast Awards the real experts decide who are the winners, the travellers.

Those with a thirst for travel and who are determined to share with the world their experiences and opinions can participate in this celebrated and influential survey. So admired has the Conde Nast Readers’ Travel Awards become that in 2012, 47,000 participated in the survey, determined to give their thumbs up or thumbs down on different aspects of their travel experiences.

It has to be said that the quality of the accommodation, resorts, travel companies, cruise lines and every strand of the industry featured in the awards seems to get higher every year, with 2013 being no exception. These high-status travel industry awards comprise of a heady and diverse mix of categories. From the ‘Top Islands in the World’ award to the ‘Best Places to Ski and Stay in North America’ category, to the ‘Number 1 Cities Around the World, to ‘Top 100 Hotels & Resorts in the World,’ the Conde Nast Travel survey dissects the industry and enables discerning travellers to have their say.

It was however the ‘World’s Best Villa Rental Companies’ section in which Vintage Travel excelled. Offering villas to cater for every taste that have been meticulously hand-picked, each with a private pool and all in the most heavenly of locations, it is not difficult to understand why Vintage Travel ranked so high in this category.

Cleanliness, top-notch facilities, full on the ground support and great value for money accompany each and every one of our diverse selection of villas, hence why Vintage Travel scored so highly in this year’s prominent Conde Nast Readers’ Travel Awards.

Vintage Travel sponsors Marie Curie Cancer Care in a star-studded fundraising event

As well as providing many great villas with private pools to discerning holidaymakers looking to escape the mainstream trail and diverge off the beaten track, Vintage Travel is involved with charity work. For the last three years, Vintage Travel has been supporting Marie Curie Cancer Care at the fundraising event known as the House Builder Brain Game.

This year’s event was held on May 2 at the Emirates Stadium in London with Vintage Travel donating a luxury 7-night break on the beautiful island of Mallorca. The donation managed to raise £3,600 for the charity in an auction, which was held on the night as part of the exclusive event’s proceedings.

The Emirates Stadium opened its doors to a glamorous flow of guests, which saw people from the construction industry gather on the May 2, to lock intellectual horns with each other as they competed in a star spangled quiz, where the quiz-master (or mistress) is a famous celebrity.

This year’s House Builder Brain Game attracted a number of A-lister celebrities, including Chris Tarrant, Barbara Windsor, Ainsley Harriot, Mark Clemmit and John Challis. Tony Christie performed “Is this the way to Amarillo,” which managed to fire the guests up and get everyone moving to the beat!

The guests from the construction industry pay anything from £2,000 to £3,000 for a ten-seat table on at the Marie Cure Cancer Care event and by the end of the night £119,000 had been raised, including the contribution by Vintage Travel.

Vintage Travel received a letter from the event organiser, Gemma Howell, thanking the company for its loyal support, stating that the support “was hugely valued by everyone at Marie Curie.”

Vintage Travel is the only travel company which supports Marie Curie Cancer Care and will continue to do so in the future, with high hopes that for next year’s star-studded House Builder Brain Game event, they will achieve a total donation of £10,000.

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