Plan your stay

From Christmas to Easter, roughly December to April. The busiest weeks run from about 20 December to 15 January, when stays are longest and villas are booked earliest. Easter and Thanksgiving weeks are treated as holiday weeks, and the rest of the year offers more choice and more flexible terms.

Earlier than you might expect. The year-end weeks are booked from the January before, and the summer is the practical deadline for a comfortable choice. Outside the holidays, a few weeks' notice is often enough.

Yes, and each owner sets it. Outside the holidays a few nights is usually fine. Easter and Thanksgiving weeks often ask for about five nights, and the year-end weeks usually seven, sometimes more.

Our villas start at three bedrooms. For a couple or a small group we can also suggest a condominium or townhouse.

Families and friends above all, often several generations together, plus golf groups, couples celebrating, wedding parties and companies. Many guests come back to the same house year after year.

Yes. Each villa has its own team, set by the owner and written into your agreement: most often a housekeeper and a cook, and in larger homes a butler or waiter. The cooking is included; the food is not. The staff are looked after by the owner, so their meals are not your cost.

Yes: a second housekeeper, a chef, a butler, a bartender, a nanny or someone overnight, arranged through a trusted local agency and quoted for your dates.

Almost certainly. Casa de Campo® is large, and carts are how everyone gets around. Some villas include one; we can add more.

Check-in is from 3 PM and check-out by 10 AM. If your flights fall outside those times, tell us and we will ask the owner what is possible.

Tell us your dates, your group and what matters most to you. We send you the villas that are free, with photos and details, and confirm the price for your exact dates. Once you choose, you sign a rental agreement and the villa is yours.

By wire transfer. Usually half is paid when you sign and the balance by a date set in your agreement. A refundable security deposit is due about 30 days before you arrive.

Damage, breakage, extra staff hours and any extras you ask for during the stay. After you leave and the house is checked, it is returned less any agreed charges.

The terms are in each villa's agreement, and they are strictest over the holiday weeks. Read them before you sign, and take out travel insurance.

Yes. Casa de Campo® charges renting guests a registration fee for each person and each day. It is usually separate from the villa price, and we include it in your quote.

We show you clearly whether all applicable taxes are included in your quote or added on top, so the figure you agree is the figure you pay.

Yes. Send us your wishes before you arrive and we place the bookings: tee times, Minitas cabanas, tennis, riding, spa treatments, boat days and transfers.

Some villas welcome pets and most do not. Ask us and we will tell you which ones do.