Villaway was launched in 2007 with one goal - to provide the best holiday property search facilities on the internet.

Frustrated by the limitations of the current offering, we’ve developed an intuitive, multi-level search system that allows you to specify all the features you need in your ideal property. There's no more trawling through pages of ‘near matches’ - with Villaway you can find your exact match, anywhere in the world.

With the best holiday rental searching anywhere on the internet, Villaway makes it simple to find exactly the property you want.

You don’t need to be a geography expert to find your ideal property. You can search by countries, regions or sub regions or draw your own search area. If having the features you want - a barbecue, a private pool and access to a beach perhaps - is more important to you than the country they are in, then you can choose from properties throughout the world. To make it even easier, we’ve saved some of our holidaymakers’ most frequent searches under our themed holidays section. You can choose from romantic, family, historic, cultural or luxury holidays.

With our advanced search, you can choose from a wide range of themes, property features and local activities and rank them in order of your own priorities. At every step along the way you’ll see how each choice affects the number of results. If you change your mind about what you’re looking for, there’s no need to start again. You can change any of your options without losing any of the rest of your search.

For those of you who tend to have a similar type of holiday every year - a week’s skiing every winter, for example - you can save your search and run it again next year. Booking a holiday with friends is straightforward too. Our Friends Group facility automatically emails your property shortlist to your friends - so you’ll all get a chance to choose where you want to go.

We’d love to know what you think about our advertisers’ properties. Throughout 2007, we’ll be building up all the feedback we receive through our feedback forms into star ratings for all of our properties. We’re confident you’ll be so thrilled with the results of booking through Villaway that you’ll want to tell everyone. When you introduce either a holidaymaker or an advertiser to us, we’ll reward you with our Tell a Friend payment of 10% of our commission for every booking they make.

We hope you enjoy using Villaway. And… have a great holiday!

With Villaway you only pay for results! You get free advertising and only pay a small commission when you have a booking through us. When you keep your details up to date we reward you with priority listing on searches. Managing your bookings is straightforward with our free Availability Calendar and Price Calculator, which you’re welcome to link to from your own website.

We’ve got the best search facility anywhere in the holiday rental market, so you can be confident that your Villaway contacts really want your property. We’re confident you’ll be so thrilled with the results of advertising on Villaway that you’ll want to tell everyone. When you introduce either a holidaymaker or an advertiser to us, we’ll reward you with our Tell a Friend payment of 10% of our commission for every booking they make.

You’re paying nothing to benefit from our professional online and offline marketing program. Villaway is rolling out 6 parallel language versions throughout 2007, so your advertisement will be translated into six European languages — giving you access to new markets. We’re even offering a translation service to ensure your contact with customers doesn’t get Lost in Translation.

To make your life easier, we’re also offering some extra services:

Text messaging

You won’t have to wait by your computer to snap up enquiries. With Villaway’s text messaging service, we’ll send you a text as soon as there’s a query on your property — so you won’t lose a vital booking.

Featured Property

For a small fee, you can benefit from home page position with our ‘featured property’ site.

Advertise your holiday property with Villaway, and watch the bookings come in!

Jan Taylor & Kevin Bayes: Directors

Both of us have a wealth of technical and business experience in a number of disciplines. Jan is an engineering consultant who has worked in the oil industry and has led the software development department of a multinational company. Kevin has worked as a Company Director of an oilfield service company, establishing and developing business lines within the Asia Pacific region.

We’re committed travellers who have lived extensively overseas. Our drive to create Villaway was born out of frustration with the current market offering. We were sick of trying to find the perfect holiday property without being able to select the features we really wanted.

Nothing was giving either holidaymakers or advertisers exactly what they need:

• For the holidaymaker it’s the ability to search and prioritise a wide range of property features, activities and locations, to come up with a property that exactly matches what you want.
• For the advertiser it’s free advertising, low commission rate, management tools and added-value services — and the knowledge that you’re getting customers who really want your property.

For Villaway, we’ve designed a fully flexible search engine that gives holidaymakers the ability to choose their ideal holiday rental from a huge range of property features, activities and holiday themes in locations throughout the world.

Our aim was to create the best holiday rental property search facility in the market. We’re confident that we’ve succeeded!