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The directors and staff at Vintage Travel are thrilled and extremely proud to have won the prestigious Telegraph Travel Award for the Best Villa Operator of 2019, as announced during a recent ceremony in London.
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
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
We had to let you know about a fantastic family holiday competition 2012, which is being run by our friends at Sudocrem. With the launch of their new moisturising and sunscreen mousses, Sudocrem are offering a luxury Spanish family villa holiday as the main prize of their latest competition. This holiday competition 2012 can be
101 Holidays have launched a fabulous writing competition, giving you the chance to escape on a pampering two-night break to taste a touch of Britain. Write a short hotel review of 140 characters or less, ‘Tweet’ it on Twitter and you could win a two-night stay for yourself and a guest in a Hotel du
Last month, The Sunday Times revealed its top 50 cool villas. Vintage Travel are proud to report that they were featured within the list 3 times. The villas mentioned are listed below. The Sunday Times also made the point that there are too many bogus holiday firms that are ready to take your money for
Vintage Travel’s 2011 portfolio has become even more idyllic and grand with two new beautiful properties added to its books. Lou Calvel in the Lot region in the south west of France and Villa Magnolia in the hills above Lake Trasimeno in Tuscany, epitomise our commitment to finding the most stunning of villas in the
Vintage Travel’s ‘Discover’ brochures 2011 To provide you with an even greater understanding of the location you have chosen to take your holiday, the accommodation you will be staying in and the many treasures you are likely to uncover, Vintage Travel has composed three glossy, glamorous and ‘brimming with information’ brochures, new to 2011.
Get your hands on one of our stuning new Discover brochures here! To provide you with an even greater understanding of the location have chosen to take your holiday, the accommodation you will be staying in and the many treasures you are likely to uncover, Vintage Travel has composed three glossy, glamorous and ‘brimming with
A great Christmas gift idea for the travel buff. If you’re wondering what to buy your travel-bugged loved one for Christmas this year, then look no further, as Tripit.com has launched a new online gift card designed to making life easier whilst travelling. In case you are wondering who tripit.com is, it is a mobile
Looking for something other than turkey this Christmas? Get inspired right here! If you are fed up with eating – or particularly cooking – turkey and all the trimmings on Christmas Day and then feeling obliged to eat turkey sandwiches, turkey curry and turkey soup until you are left with a meatless carcass well into
The summer might be slowly winding up, but in many European destinations, the less ‘rasping’ heat of high summer, the less crowded bars and beaches and the lower priced flights, makes September the perfect month to jet off to sunnier climes. To guarantee a last minute trip is as economical as possible, be sure to
We’ve recently asked some of our French holiday villa owners to lay on a little welcome pack for arriving guests and very happy to report that they are coming on board with the idea. This means that whatever time of day or night you arrive at the villa that you always have the essentials to
For gorgeous villas in the Med which cost less than £200 per person, per week, check out our luxury villas and houses with private pools in areas of local tradition and culture. Here’s a small selecton of properties under £200 per person, per week. Gozo Ta’Marie is a lovely four bedroom, four bathroom Gozitan town
You’ve arrived at your luxury villa ready for a well earned holiday… now, there’s nothing worse than opening your suitcase to find a load of creased clothes. This article will give you the secrets to packing a suitcase, minimising creasing and getting more in a tight space. Step 1 – Be realistic about what to
Savings of up to £300 are available this summer on a week’s rental of Koknar Evi – a lovely property on Turkey’s Lycian coast . The maximum saving is applicable during peak season weeks and means a week’s rental – from 19 July to 23 August – is reduced to £1195. Or, in May, a
We are pleased to include a Naked Wines voucher for £25 off your first order, and introduce the innovative ‘wine angel’ initiative. We like Naked Wines for their refreshing approach, and the fact that they offer excellent wines from regional producers in many of our areas. They also offer the chance to try those producers’
Our very own Pat Sumpter and her husband discover some Turkish delight in beautiful Kalkan – the Kulube Hotel. I was delighted to visit Turkey for the first time last year to view the villas in our collection and sample a brief stay at our feature waterfront hotel, the Kulube. With children having long since
We’ve recently added a further two properties to our ever growing portfolio. Villa Julia is in Binibeca (Menorca) just 500m walk from the beach. It sleeps 8 and has extensive, pretty grounds fringed with shady palm trees and a stunning view over the ocean. It’s perfect for a family vacation with all the mod cons
Late Winter and early Spring across the Continent can still be rather chilly, making the thought of swimming in your villa’s private pool a little daunting. But don’t fret… many of our villas have heated pools. A great example is La Vallée, a four bedroom, four bathroom house sleeping eight situated in South West France
If you’re a prolific internet user then it’s more than likely you’ve stumbled across a blog before… you can’t deny it because you’re on one now! But with so much information about travel being published every second on the internet through blogs how do you know a good travel blog from a bad one? Well
We’ve just been notified of a very interesting set of results from a survey undertaken by staysure.co.uk, a leading over 50s insurance provider, that have found nearly 60 per cent of holiday goers would forego their hair dryer, 2% would leave their toothbrush, 25% would leave their make-up behind and wait for it… 5% would
You’d be excused for not knowing about the Hulda Festival, it’s not been hugely publicised here in the UK. The festival has in fact been running since March 2009 and finishes in November 2010 and celebrates the coalescence of arts and sciences around Hulda, the 100-year old sailing boat of the Turkish-Swedish artist Ilhan Koman
We’ve been hunting high and low for some of Europe’s most desirable luxury villas to rent and are proud to tell you about our latest 5. La Morera, Alaior (Menorca) This is a gorgeous 4 bedroom villa that sleeps between 7 & 8. The key features are its own private pool, a tower to relax
