Excellence Luxury Villas
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Grand châteaux & contemporary villas
The full range of luxury — historic estates and sleek modern retreats, all handpicked.
Grand Châteaux & Historic Estates
Moats, turrets, vineyard terraces and centuries of history — all exclusively yours.
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Contemporary Villas & Riviera Retreats
Infinity pools, floor-to-ceiling glass and sea views — modern luxury at its finest.
Explore Italian villas ›Summer Villas & Châteaux
Private pools, sea views and golden hour — from Provençal mas to Amalfi clifftop retreats.
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From Tuscany to Lake Como
Italy's finest private villas — 3,800+ properties across the country's most celebrated regions.
Ski Chalets & Alpine Retreats
Ski-in ski-out excellence in Courchevel, Val d'Isère, Verbier, Zermatt and beyond.
Luxury Villa Rentals Worldwide
27,000+ handpicked private estates — châteaux, villas, ski chalets and island retreats across 60+ countries
Châteaux, mas and Riviera villas — France's 4,200+ finest private estates
France is the world's most sought-after destination for a luxury villa holiday, and no collection comes close to ours in depth or quality. In Provence, rent a honey-stoned mas surrounded by lavender fields between the Luberon and the Alpilles, with a private heated pool and a kitchen stocked from the morning market in Gordes or L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. On the French Riviera, choose a sleek contemporary villa above Cannes with panoramic sea views, a Belle Époque townhouse on Cap Ferrat — among the most expensive real estate on earth — or a stone retreat above the Estérel with the red cliffs meeting the cobalt sea below.
The Loire Valley — UNESCO World Heritage Site and the Garden of France — offers moated châteaux sleeping 20 guests within a ride of Chambord, Chenonceau and Villandry. The Dordogne delivers medieval bastide villages, prehistoric caves and turreted châteaux set above the river's great meanders — one of France's most beautiful inland landscapes. In Bordeaux and Burgundy, wake up surrounded by grand cru vineyards in a privately rented wine estate. In Normandy, manor houses look out over the bocage, the orchards and the long Atlantic beaches of Deauville, Étretat and the D-Day coast. Brittany's wild Atlantic headlands and granite manors offer something entirely different: sea air, oysters, and a solitude that feels genuinely remote.
Every one of our 4,200+ French properties is individually vetted. Every private pool checked. Every kitchen assessed. Every owner's track record reviewed.
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Mediterranean villas from Tuscany to Mykonos — Europe's most iconic villa destinations
Italy's 3,800+ properties span the full breadth of the country's extraordinary variety. In Tuscany, rent a hilltop estate above Florence or Siena, surrounded by Sangiovese vines and cypress alleys. On the Amalfi Coast, a clifftop villa above Positano or Ravello with the Tyrrhenian Sea below and lemon groves on the terraces above. At Lake Como, a Belle Époque villa with a private jetty, where George Clooney's neighbours have long valued their privacy. In Puglia, an ancient trullo cluster in the Valle d'Itria, the whitewashed cones rising from silver olive groves that have stood for a thousand years. And in Sardinia, a contemporary villa above the Costa Smeralda with the most turquoise water in the Mediterranean directly below.
Spain delivers Marbella and Zagaleta mansions with the Sierra Blanca behind and the Mediterranean ahead, Ibiza fincas with legendary west-coast sunsets, Mallorca hilltop retreats in the Tramuntana and beach villas on the island's quieter northern coast. In Greece — Mykonos, Santorini, Corfu, Crete, Zakynthos — infinity pools above volcanic calderas, Ionian coves so clear the boats appear to float in air, and island hopping by private yacht between islands that have defined the idea of a summer holiday for generations.
Browse Italy, Spain & Greece ›Every experience, arranged before you arrive
The finest villa holiday is never just about the property itself. It is the hot air balloon at dawn over the Loire Valley, the Dordogne mist still lying in the valleys below. The private horse ride through Bordeaux vineyards at golden hour, the château visible across the vines. The surfing lesson on a wild Atlantic beach in the Basque Country. The truffle hunt through Umbrian oak forest with a specialist and his dog. The private chef arriving at your villa with a basket from the morning market and cooking the best meal you have eaten in years.
Our concierge arranges private yacht charters island-hopping the Aegean, helicopter transfers from Nice airport to a Saint-Tropez villa, wine tours and private tastings at grand cru estates in Bordeaux and Burgundy, private ski instructors in Courchevel 1850, cooking classes in a Florentine kitchen, flamenco evenings in Andalucía, and sunrise yoga on a clifftop above the Amalfi Coast. Whatever makes your holiday extraordinary — we arrange it before you arrive.
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Space, privacy and freedom for every generation
A private villa delivers what no hotel ever can: the freedom to be entirely yourselves, at your own pace, in your own space. No dining room schedules. No neighbours. No compromises. The pool is yours. The kitchen is yours. The garden is yours. Dinner is whenever you want it, cooked by whoever you choose.
Families with young children love the Algarve, Mallorca, Puglia and Corfu for their calm, shallow-water beaches and easy pace. Couples seeking romance choose Santorini, the Amalfi Coast and Saint-Tropez. Multi-generational groups of 12, 20 or 30 find their natural home in a Loire Valley château or a Scottish castle with its own loch. Groups of friends rent an Ibizan finca and make it their own for a week. Those celebrating a significant milestone take over a Provençal estate, bring their own chef and sommelier, and make it a holiday their guests talk about for years.
For every group, for every occasion, we find the right property and arrange everything that makes it perfect.
Browse family & group villas ›From the Algarve to the Caribbean and beyond
Portugal rewards those who know where to look. The Algarve — Quinta do Lago, Vale do Lobo and Vilamoura — combines Europe's finest golf courses with dramatic golden sea cliffs and exceptional beach clubs. Comporta, an hour south of Lisbon, offers something rarer still: wild Atlantic beaches, cork oak forests, rice paddies and a clientele that prizes discretion above all else. The Douro Valley is the wine lover's pilgrimage — terraced schist vineyards, private quintas and sunsets over the Marão mountains.
Britain delivers clifftop manors in Cornwall with Atlantic surf below, Cotswolds estates with heated pools and walled kitchen gardens, and Scottish castles with red deer on the hill and whisky cellars that predate the Act of Union. Beyond Europe: Caribbean villas in Barbados, St Barths, Turks & Caicos and Antigua. Bali in Seminyak and Ubud. Maldives water villas. Marrakech riads. Kenya, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam. 60+ countries. One collection. One concierge team.
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Why choose Excellence Luxury Villas?
Trusted by discerning travellers since 2008. Featured by Condé Nast Traveller, Forbes, Vogue and the Financial Times.
Every property individually vetted — not aggregated
We do not scrape listings from other platforms or aggregate from third-party feeds. Every one of our 27,000+ properties has been individually assessed by our team of destination specialists for location, quality of interiors, pool and outdoor space, quality of beds and kitchen, and the owners' track record with previous guests. If a property does not meet our standards across all of these criteria, it is not in our collection, regardless of how impressive the photographs may be.
This discipline — which many larger platforms sacrifice in favour of inventory scale — is what earns the trust of clients who return to us year after year, holiday after holiday, often for decades. Our repeat client rate is exceptional precisely because we are unwilling to compromise on the quality of what we recommend.
One specialist. From first enquiry to the day you return.
From the moment you enquire, a dedicated villa specialist takes personal responsibility for your booking. They know the properties in depth, have often visited them in person, understand your group's requirements, and remain your single point of contact from search to departure. There is no call centre. No handoff to a different team. One person who cares about getting it right.
Once you arrive, our 24/7 concierge team arranges everything that makes your stay remarkable: private chefs who design menus around your tastes and cook in your villa kitchen each evening; chauffeur-driven airport transfers in the right car; private yacht charters along the Amalfi Coast or between the Greek islands; in-villa spa treatments; private ski instructors meeting you at the lift in Courchevel or Verbier; restaurant reservations at places you would not otherwise get into; wine tours and grand cru tastings in Bordeaux and Burgundy; truffle hunting in Umbria; and childcare so that parents can have an evening to themselves. Whatever makes the difference between a good holiday and one you never forget — we arrange it.
When the world's finest travel editors need a recommendation
Excellence Luxury Villas has been reviewed and recommended by Condé Nast Traveller, Forbes, the Financial Times How to Spend It, Vogue, The Times and International Excellence Magazine. These are not paid placements or sponsored features. They are editorial recommendations — earned over 15+ years by consistently delivering on our promises to some of the most demanding travellers in the world.
When Condé Nast Traveller editors are asked where to send a reader who wants the finest private villa in Provence, they send them to us. When Forbes profiles the most trusted names in luxury travel, we are among them. When the Financial Times How to Spend It wants to reassure its readers that a villa booking service is genuinely worth trusting with a significant holiday budget, it recommends Excellence Luxury Villas. That trust is not given lightly, and we work every day to deserve it.
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