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ILUXURYTRAVELS

The Guides — One per Folio

What the estates in the Collection actually cost.

One guide for each folio of the Collection — the Mediterranean, the Alps, private islands and atolls, and the Americas. Indicative rates by season, what staffing includes, transfer and access logistics, and when to book each destination.

By amenity — across every folio

When the house is chosen for what it comes with.

  • Staffed Villas with a Private Chef

    Every house on this page arrives with a kitchen brigade of some description. What separates them is whether the chef is included in the nightly rate, engaged daily, or invoiced per cover — and that difference is usually worth more than the headline price.

  • Luxury Villa Rentals with a Private Helipad

    A helipad is rarely about the aircraft. It is about the ninety minutes of coastal road, ferry queue or mountain pass it removes from the arrival — and, on several of these estates, about the only practical way in during peak season.

  • Luxury Penthouse Rentals

    A penthouse buys two things a villa cannot: a front door inside the city, and a building that runs itself. What it gives up is land. This collection is for stays where the address matters more than the garden.

  • Luxury Beach House Rentals

    Beachfront is the single most expensive word in a villa listing, and the least precisely used. This collection separates houses that open onto sand from houses that look at it.

  • Large Villa Rentals for Groups

    Once a party passes ten people, the house stops being a house and becomes logistics. These are the estates and compounds built for that — enough bedrooms of equal quality, enough kitchen, and enough separate space that nobody is trapped in the same room for a week.

  • Honeymoon Villas and Retreats

    A honeymoon is the one trip where the house is the itinerary. These are the small houses, overwater villas and island retreats built for two people who intend to leave them as little as possible.

The Destination Journal

Stories and travel notes from the places we let.

Where the guides give you rates and seasons, the journal gives you the week itself — tables worth booking, drives worth taking and the villas we would take them from.

Read the journal