Looking for Villa in Tuscany/Umbria
Oct 13th, 2004, 06:55 PM
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Must admit that I work with this company (as a freelancer) but I can tell you that they are wonderfully nice people and very reliable. If you like, you can take a look at
www.florencevillas.com
www.florencevillas.com
Oct 13th, 2004, 07:06 PM
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The Parker Company has a whole catalog of villas, apartments, etc. I'm sure you reach them on line for information and a catalog. My suggestion is that you get moving on it as we hve used them before and some apartments we wanted were already booked 8 months out.
Also just go online "italian Villas" and many should come up.
Oct 14th, 2004, 06:47 AM
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As someone who has gone more on features of the house, and less on location - - I partly with agree bob, and partly disagree. A five-BR (plus?) moves you into a subpopulation of properties in the top 15-30%, size and price-wise, based on my experiences looking for houses of that size. I have two relevant experiences in Italy, and two in France (same property twice), and I have "kissed a lot of frogs" looking at other properties.
There is a broad spectrum of price (even when expressed as price/person or price/bedroom) because larger properties represent a wider spread of amenities - - ranging from basic to absolutely luxurious.
In the three rentals I have rented of that size, none was <i>walking close</i> to a town or village (i.e., more than a mile). In fact, in both cases in Italy, the "driveway" (road, unpaved, in both cases) accessing the house from the main paved road was well over a half mile long. Seclusion is considered an important plus when offering the kind of property you seek, but for American travelers on vacation, it may seem like isolation that is more than you were hoping for.
In one case (my first), I think we failed to appreciate what it meant to be "less than an hour away" from SO, so many places - - we viewed it as a "glass half full" since we had so many day trip possibilities. But we failed to appreciate that it meant we had to drive a minimum of 20-25 minutes to get to essentially anything that was particularly interesting (this was roughly half way between Arezzo and Siena).
Still we really enjoyed the house, its spacious roominess, its pool and grounds, and the sense of "home" it gave us away from home (we were a group of two adults and 11 teens).
I totally agree that slowtrav.com is the alpha and omega of where you need to go for info on the dozens (hundreds) of agencies and properties they represent.
I have previously posted info on my own favorable experiences with several: domani-usa.com or rentvillas.com or regencyintapts.com - - but what I have to offer is a drop in the bucket, compared to the aggregate of info at slowtrav.
Best wishes,
Rex Bickers
Floyds Knobs, Indiana
There is a broad spectrum of price (even when expressed as price/person or price/bedroom) because larger properties represent a wider spread of amenities - - ranging from basic to absolutely luxurious.
In the three rentals I have rented of that size, none was <i>walking close</i> to a town or village (i.e., more than a mile). In fact, in both cases in Italy, the "driveway" (road, unpaved, in both cases) accessing the house from the main paved road was well over a half mile long. Seclusion is considered an important plus when offering the kind of property you seek, but for American travelers on vacation, it may seem like isolation that is more than you were hoping for.
In one case (my first), I think we failed to appreciate what it meant to be "less than an hour away" from SO, so many places - - we viewed it as a "glass half full" since we had so many day trip possibilities. But we failed to appreciate that it meant we had to drive a minimum of 20-25 minutes to get to essentially anything that was particularly interesting (this was roughly half way between Arezzo and Siena).
Still we really enjoyed the house, its spacious roominess, its pool and grounds, and the sense of "home" it gave us away from home (we were a group of two adults and 11 teens).
I totally agree that slowtrav.com is the alpha and omega of where you need to go for info on the dozens (hundreds) of agencies and properties they represent.
I have previously posted info on my own favorable experiences with several: domani-usa.com or rentvillas.com or regencyintapts.com - - but what I have to offer is a drop in the bucket, compared to the aggregate of info at slowtrav.
Best wishes,
Rex Bickers
Floyds Knobs, Indiana
Oct 14th, 2004, 04:52 PM
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Slowtrav is great. Thank you. I have the Parker Book plus Cuendet & Solemar. I was hoping someone had rented a villa with 5 bedrooms. The last time I rented a great one bedroom apartment in Greve but this time I'm taking the whole family so it's a bit different.
