Our Unique Advantage
The singular goal of A Season Away is to make you feel like a local and not a tourist on these several week to several month holidays. You define what kinds of experiences and lifestyle you want and we make it happen.
A Season Away works with you to create the experience of a lifetime.
Every guest is unique and every vacation is planned to fulfill their greatest expectations. A Season Away advisors and local VillaHosts work together with you and your travel advisor to make sure that no detail goes overlooked and that your time away is truly memorable.
Local VillaHosts provide you and your guests with an insider track to the region and act as a gentle guiding hand.
Unlike some villa companies who hand you the keys and vanish, our charming VillaHosts are there to introduce you to the local shopkeepers, take you to their favorite restaurants and expose you to the best the region has to offer. They can be as active or as in the background as you wish, but they are always available to enhance your experience.
A Season Away focuses its efforts on only a few parts of the world, and we know them very well.
Expertise has its rewards. We focus on:
Italy (Tuscany – Lucca, Florence, Chianti, Amalfi Coast, Umbria and Cortona areas - and the Italian Lakes), and
France (Provence, Paris, St. Tropez, Burgundy and the Basque Country)
Our villas are all hand-picked to offer the best-in-class experience and a broad, selection of world-class homes.
We understand that the villa lifestyle is not for every traveler and we will work with you to make sure it’s right for you. A villa home or apartment gives you the freedom to immerse yourself in the local atmosphere; to come and go at your own pace, exploring the region and becoming, for a while, a part of the area and its daily life. A Season Away villas and apartments have to meet the most exacting standards and have been personally inspected by A Season Away and many of the world’s premiere travel advisors.
We offer you the much sought-after VillaBooks.
VillaBooks are 100-page compendiums on everything from how to work the lights in a villa to the best shops and restaurants within a stone’s throw of your home. Books include everything from detailed regional highlights on sights, activities, dining and shopping to a detailed section on how to get the most out of Italian and French living.
How A Season Away operates.
Rather than simply renting a villa, we start by working with you and your travel advisor to find out what you want to accomplish on your extended holiday. Then we work together to find the right region to accomplish those goals. Then – only then - do we recommend a villa or apartment.
So look around this site as a way to start a conversation about a dream trip in France or Italy so you can live like a local. Use some of the tools in the Information Booklets Section to refine your goals, then contact your travel advisor and begin to make it happen... it’s your time to dream...
