Home Exchange or Moderate Villa for a month in Italy
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Susan--we have rented four different villas from The Parker Company over the past 6 years and each has been wonderful, well-equipped and architecturally interesting. They have villas to accommodate from 2 to 20 people. Order the catalog from www.theparkercompany.com<BR>Good Luck.
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Susan, try www.slowtrav.com and the related message board, www.slow talk.com. These are two non-commercial sites with volumes of info about renting in Italy. <BR><BR>Donna, while the Parker Company has a beautiful catalogue, I've found them to be way more expensive than other companies, sometimes for the very same properties.
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I would not hesitate to recommend the villa at Punto San Vigilio (Lake Garda) which we used for the Fodorites' Italy 2001 trip. Rented through rentvillas.com<BR><BR>I have also had a good experience with www.domani-usa.com and www.regencyintapts.com<BR><BR>And your idea sounds wonderful to me - - it is truly a dream of mine someday, to spend a protracted stay (perhaps a whole summer) at a gorgeous villa - - and have all my siblings and inlaws, children, nieces, nephews, etc - - come over and let me show them around!<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>
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Hello Susan, My Susan and I spent 8 weeks in Europe celebrating our 40th in 1999. We traveled a wide circle, starting in Spain and ending on the Romantic road of Bavaria. If you plan to have a car I would suggest starting in France--perhaps Nice--to take advantage of the car lease plan--much better than rental. Also, a month in one location would get boring for me. Why not pick 2 or 3 locations in Italy.<BR>A base camp in 3 locations will allow you to see most of Italy. I would pick a Lakes location, Tuscany, and the Amalfi coast. I would also pick May or Sep as the best time to go. Let me know if you need more details. Oh yes, do start at slowtrav.com--a great site for any renter. And, I agree that the Parker properties are lovely but much more expensive than others or the same ones from different sources.
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If you are interested I have a part of villa for rent in Florence.7 people maximum.<BR>You can see looking at www.genie.it/utenti/carlo.nocentini
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We had a group of 5 families and rented five different apts. in same villa -Podere Torricella. Very close to Florence. Had a pool and very nice restaurant on site and we rented it directly with owner at tuscany.net. They also had a magnificent property next door that would have several bedrooms if you wanted to stay in one place. Had its own private pool and was a stunning building. It is Villa Il Turco. You can see both properties on the tuscany.net site. It was a lot cheaper to rent from them than the same property from other agencies as you're dealing directly with the owner. <BR>