How a hideaway
is chosen

What you are booking

Take the villa alone, or have the week arranged around you.

Five things, on every villa, in the same order. Hideaway is the villa, the grounds and the court, and it is always included: it is the thing you are booking.

The four after it are the week around it. A Concierge who designs the week and stays on call through it. A Driver for the airport and everything after it. A Chef, for however many nights you want someone cooking. A Coach, on your own court. Take the villa on its own and none of them appear. Take the week arranged and all four are in it, quoted as one number before anything is confirmed.

None of it is all or nothing. Every listing ends with a trip plan: pick your week, then set each of the four to what you want of it. The Concierge for the week, or not at all. A Driver for the airport alone rather than the whole week. A Chef for all of it, or for the nights you want one. A Coach every day, three days, or a pattern of your own. The plan prices itself as you build it, and you send it to us with your preferences. We refine the costs against your dates and handle every detail from there. Getting back to you quickly is the part we hold ourselves to.

Every villa says which of the four it can do, and where one is not available it says so on the page rather than leaving you to find out. In a few regions we are still finding the right coach, so that pillar reads as on request until we have someone we would hand our own week to. Bear with us on those. The sourcing is the slow part, and it is the part that matters.

What we check, every time

Reliability, privacy, comfort and quality decide everything. These are the seven things we hold a villa to. There are no scores: it is good enough to be here, or it is not.

1. 01

   The Villa for a Group

   Can everyone sleep well and eat at one table?

   Bedrooms are what a group remembers. Every room a real one, with its own bathroom, so nobody arrives to a study with a sofa bed in it and it makes no difference who gets there first.

   Then the table. One table that seats everyone, every night, is the difference between a group holiday and a set of people sharing a villa.

2. 02

   The Setting

   Can you hear anyone else?

   Privacy is the whole product. Nobody within sight or earshot of the pool or the court, no passing traffic, no shared access.

   And what you see from the terrace at seven in the evening, which is when people decide whether they love a place.

3. 03

   The Padel Court

   Is it private, on site, and good enough to play on twice a day?

   The court has to be inside the boundary, reachable without leaving the property, and yours for the whole week.

   Then the court itself: surface, glass, net height, run-off, and lights that work when the sun goes down. Plenty of villas list a court and hope nobody checks.

4. 04

   The Kitchen

   Can someone cook properly here, and is there good food nearby?

   Some weeks want a chef every night; some want one long lunch out and a barbecue. Either way the kitchen has to work: space to cook for twelve, equipment that means it, and good food within a short drive.

   And the chefs. We work with people who cook at a level worth staying in for, and we keep the same ones, because reliability matters more than novelty.

5. 05

   The Relaxation

   What happens to your body between matches?

   Padel twice a day for a week is more than most bodies are used to. A pool worth swimming in, a sauna, ideally something cold, and shade in the afternoon.

   Every villa here has a pool. What sits around it varies, and the listing says which is which rather than leaving you to assume.

6. 06

   The Service on site

   Is the villa looked after while you are in it?

   Housekeeping every day, or someone running the villa for you. Clean towels, fresh sheets, the kitchen put back together, the court swept. Nobody in your way and nothing to ask for.

   The listing says which of the two a villa has, because they are not the same thing and the difference is worth knowing before you book.

7. 07

   The Feeling

   Does the group go quiet when they arrive?

   This is the one that cannot be measured, and the one that decides it. Some villas are correct in every other way and still feel like nothing.

   The ones that make it here have a moment: the last stretch of track, the first sight of the court through the trees, the terrace at dusk. You know it when the group stops talking.

What this means for your week

We tell you what is missing

Every villa has something it does not do. It is written on the listing, in plain words, before you book rather than after you arrive.

One price, agreed first

The villa, and whatever you add to it, quoted as one number before anything is confirmed. Nothing appears on a bill at the end of the week.

Only partners worth their name

The coaches, chefs and drivers are held to the same standard as the villas. People with years behind them, working where their name is already known.

One group at a time

You take the whole villa. No other guests, no shared court, nobody else on the property except the people looking after you.