Planning
How to Plan a Cooking Rota for a Group Villa Stay
By the third night of a group villa stay, the same two people are always in the kitchen while everyone else sits by the pool.
Planning and logistics, page 2 of 8
Suriya plans the parts of a villa trip that nobody thinks about until they go wrong, the airport run, the grocery order, the room allocation for eight adults. She writes about the logistics that decide whether a week feels like a holiday or a house move.
Planning
By the third night of a group villa stay, the same two people are always in the kitchen while everyone else sits by the pool.
Groups and Family
The listing photos show an infinity pool, a glass staircase and a terrace with a 6 metre drop to the olive grove.
Groups and Family
Search for a villa for twelve people on a Friday to Sunday in June and you will find plenty of options.
Villa Types
On our second night in an off grid villa in the hills above a Portuguese river valley, six of us ran the kettle, a hair dryer...
Games
A villa holiday is not all sunsets and swimming. There is the rainy afternoon, the long gap after lunch when nobody wants to...
Groups and Family
The arrival scene is always the same. Eight tired adults come through the villa door, someone says "we'll sort rooms out...