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If you’ve booked one of our Villa Parade holidays to Mallorca this year and love a great game of cricket, then you may be perfectly placed to enjoy this year’s Balearic Cup.
Mallorca Cricket Club
Teams from Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca will be taking part and with each team believing they will be lifting the trophy, this year’s Cup promises to be a great sporting contest. Certainly one for all you cricket fans out there.
Mallorca Cricket Club
This year the Balearic Cup starts on 10th May, with Mallorca Cricket Club, this year’s hosts, playing Ibiza – a game that promises to be a great spectacle to be enjoyed by cricket-lovers everywhere. Just make sure you keep your eyes open for tickets!
So, if you have already booked a Villa Parade holiday to Mallorca this year and you love cricket then we hope you manage to get a ticket. But, if you haven’t managed to book this year’s holiday then don’t panic, we still have some bookings available (but you may have to be a fast bowler to get one;)
Fixtures:
Mallorca Vs Ibiza, 10th May
Menorca Vs Ibiza, 11th May
Menorca Vs Mallorca, 12th May
If you don’t fancy a holiday in Mallorca, but you are considering a holiday, how about Ibiza or Menorca?
Our ‘Price Match’ guarantees if you find a villa or apartment of the same size and standard, and in the same location as one of ours, then we will match that price…guaranteed!
We are fully protected by the Civil Aviation Authority under ATOL 5717 and through our ABTA license numbers W558X/F9683. This means there’s no chance of you being stranded abroad or losing any money in the event of an airline failure if you book flights through Villaparade alongside your villa.
Want great offers? We have great holiday offers for you to take advantage of. Our offers include:
Holiday accessories, including complimentary WiFi, garden tools and home entertainment systems. We can also arrange for welcome pack and for a chef to cook you up a feast.
If this isn’t enough, we also offer an extensive holiday property list located across the Med. Locations include:
So there you go, just a few reasons why we think we’re different to other villa holidays companies.
We would love to tell you more, so why not get in touch. You can challenge our booking team to find you the perfect Villa Parade holiday. You can visit our website villaparade.co.uk for more details, or you can order your free 2013 holiday brochure – which ever is easier for you ;)
One of the most beautiful and picturesque areas of Mallorca is the Pollenca region. It has a unique charm and beauty, and is the ideal destination for quality, family or group villa holidays.
We offer a range of villas to help you enjoy your holiday the way you want to, and because all of our selected holiday villas come with additional features you can be assured that your holiday will be how you want it to be.
Many features include:
Wi-Fi
Air Conditioning/Heating
Barbecue
Swimming Pool
Gardens
Some of our villas also come with child-friendly features, including gated pools for added peace of mind.
To find out more visit our website at: villaparade.co.uk or why not email our friendly customer service team and challenge them to find the perfect villa holiday for you and your budget.
Oh, and if Pollensa doesn’t take you fancy, don’t worry because we have over 450 properties spread across the Med, including:
WOW! Didn’t Christmas and New Year go really fast? Only seems like yesterday we were putting up the office Christmas tree and panicking about if we had all the Christmas shopping done!
Oh well, like someone once said: ‘Always look on the bright side.’ So with this simple, but brilliant piece of wisdom, we will. So here goes: Now that Christmas and the New Year celebrations have passed it won’t be long until summer is here, and you know what that means don’t you? Yep, it’s holiday time ;)
This year is going to be even better because we are proud to boast that we now have over 500 villas, farmhouses and beachfront apartments for you to pick from – all spread across the Mediterranean, including new holiday properties in Italy (Tuscany, Amalfi Coast and Umbria)
But let’s not forget about our other destinations:
2011 was also the time we made a lot of wonderful friends on Twitter ‘@villaparadeuk’ and let’s not forget about ‘@villaparad_de’ our newly launched Twitter page to support our new German sister site: villaparade.de
We also re-designed our 2012 brochure in time for the New Year. Got your free copy yet? Click here to order your brochure.
As our existing customers will tell you, we do what we can to make your holiday hassle free. We do this by offering a number of extras; these can include hot tubs, Wi-Fi, heated pools, BBQs and entertainment systems.
We also offer a number of additional services to help your holiday go swimmingly, such as flights, car hire and even travel insurance. Our website goes even further! Via our site visitors can chat on line to one of our friendly booking team – all of whom have first-hand experience and local knowledge for the resorts we offer. Visitors can also register to receive our free newsletter, which is packed with lots of travel and holiday information – even the wonderful Holly Bell ‘@HollyBellMummy’ has been kind enough to supply three fantastic recipes for the next three issues – her Christmas cheesecake is published in our January 2012 edition.
Visitors to villaparade.co.uk can also benefit from a number of offers, including our ‘Early Booking savings’, our ‘Last Minute Offers’ and our ‘ Party of Four Special Offers’ – there are also daily deals and offers posted on our Facebook account ‘Like’ page, which we launched towards the end of 2011. These deals can also be found on our homepage.
With so much choice and information at your fingertips we think 2012 will be a great year for our customers. Let’s face it, after 2011 we could all do with a holiday!
“A big thank you to Alastair Campbell, his wife and their two children, aged 14 and 12 for sharing their holiday experience.”
Outside the snow was actually up to my armpits, inside, my wife and I were surfing the net looking for some much needed holiday inspiration for our next summer holiday.
We had decided we didn’t want to stay in a hotel because we wanted space to chill, have plenty of room for our luggage – so we weren’t tripping over them all the time! We also wanted food our way – when we wanted it and without the forced entertainment!
We also wanted a private pool with a terrace and above all a haven of tranquillity. This meant one thing, a villa holiday. Due to the turmoil in the travel markets we had decided not to do a self-made package, but instead find a villa holiday company that was ABTA and ATOL registered so we could, in effect, outsource the hassle and the worry.
It was while we were looking on the Internet that we found Villa Parade. To be honest we had no fixed idea of where we wanted to go; our criteria was somewhere that was one flight from Scotland, walkable to the beach and shops, yet private enough to give us the quiet we were looking for.
Having worked our way through countless websites from major operators downwards, we came across Villa Parade, which proved to be the site we kept coming back too! The information found on their site provided us the details we were looking for. The fact that they gave accurate map references meant we could also check the villas out on Google Earth, just to make sure there was no motorway or railway line at the bottom of the garden! This gave us increasing levels of confidence in the accuracy of the information and the company.
We had settled initially on Majorca when for some reason we thought of Menorca, and once we found the Villa Galdana in Cala Galdana it was game over. The video reference convinced us and the pictures just reinforced the ‘wow’ factor. Once we found the villa on Google Earth we knew it had the proximity to the beach combined with the privacy we were looking for. It does have 4 bedrooms, which is one more than we needed but at least we would have plenty of space to store the cases!
The booking process was very simple – just a few clicks, select a flight based on the times we wanted, car hire – didn’t forget the car excess waver and minor damage waiver – we do have kids after all and that was it – job done. The email can back confirming everything and an invoice with full details followed shortly afterwards. The only problem was this was December 2010 and we had to wait till July 2011. I did want to check something about the car hire so emailed the admin contact and got a reply on the Sunday, even thought their office was shut, answering my questions – a good start in my book.
As they say time passes, we paid the balance and our tickets arrived. Our bags were packed and off we went. We landed at Mahon airport, on time, only to be confronted with a massive scrum at the car hire – nightmare! Then I noticed there was no queue at the Avis desk – big smiles as we were with Avis. We were in our car and on our way with no delays – dream start to our holiday. We drove to the resort – following the instructions we were sent and found our villa – this was about 13:00, a couple of hours before we should have been allowed in. We asked the cleaners if it would be okay if we just dumped our cases and put some food in the fridge – “no problem” they said. We came back to the villa at about 16:00 to find it immaculately clean – just jumped straight in the pool (after changing first of course).
The villa pictures didn’t do is justice, it had a real ‘wow’ factor – the descriptions and video were accurate representations. The gardener appeared some days, the pool cleaner on others and the towels were changed twice while we were there. Our stay at the villa was brilliant, it was a nice walk downhill to the village on a quiet shady path – takes longer to get back as it is uphill.
We settled into a routine of wandering down first thing for some bread and croissants, lazy breakfasts followed by swims in the pool and a trip to nearby towns for shopping (better range and much cheaper than the village). We would then eat lunch by the pool, walk down to the beach in the late afternoon for a swim, followed by a drink at one of the beachside bars. We would then wander back up for a BBQ, or we would wonder back down for dinner in one of the local restaurants, intersperse this with a trip to Mahon, a walk to find a cave or another beach and that sums up our very relaxing and fantastic holiday.
The four of us had a great time and we were all sad to leave. Would I recommend Villa Parade to anyone else? Well I just booked us into the same villa next year – trouble is its now September 2011 and we have to wait till July 2012! At least this time we can look at our own pictures and revel in our memories – Asta la vista Villa Galdana – we’ll be back!
During the summer Menorca has up to 11 hours of sunlight everyday
Son Bou is the longest beach in Menorca, stretching for around three kilometres
Menorca is only a two-hour flight from most UK-based airports
Picture of Villa SAtalaia Uno – Binibeca
Description:
A fantastic modern villa with beautiful views of the sea at Binibeca. Villa S’Atalaia Uno is in a great location above the very pretty resort of Binibeca – in walking distance from the beach and the bay, as well as restaurants, cafés, bars and shops.
Whether you’re looking for historic treasures in Majorca, wanting to take advantage of the Portuguese climate across the Algarve, or, honeymooning on the exotic sun soaked island of Menorca – whatever your reason, why not consider a Villa Parade holiday.
We have over 450 villas and beachfront apartments to pick from – each one able to accommodate any need, from a short romantic break, to an extended family or group holiday.
Our extensive selection of villas and apartments feature the charms and delights you would associate with the Mediterranean – we even go further and have a selection of family-friendly villas, which have ‘distraction’ solutions for young children, and big kids; from Wii and Xbox entertainment systems, to garden toys and bikes. For that extra peace-of-mind some of our family villas have either gated pools or separate kids pools, and a lot of our villas offer complete privacy for added comfort.
To help you find the villa holiday that’s right for you we have added additional options to www.villaparade.co.uk – making the whole process of considering and booking your villa holiday even easier and completely hassle-free.
New sections of our website include:
‘Live Chat’, which allows you to chat online with one of our enquiries team, while looking at different pages of our website. You can ask as many questions as you like, which may explain why this option has already started to prove extremely popular with our customers.
‘Quick Quotes’, is another facility which is proving popular. It provides a quick and easy quote to help you make up your mind.
‘My Villa Short List’: enables you to compile a preference list of Villa Parade properties, which you can then email to yourself or someone else to consider later. We will even let you know if the property or properties you are looking at become unavailable – but don’t worry, if this happens we will always suggest an alternative.
As well as these new online facilities,villaparade.co.uk also offers: a free telephone call back option; brochure request and you can also subscribe to our newsletters to keep up to date will all things Villa Parade.
And don’t forget as a villa holiday company, we can help provide a number of extras to help you enjoy your holiday – from car hire to travel insurance.
