Booking holiday apartments directly - Europe

Woodyrocks

I am planning our annual December getaway and instead of going through Maestro Vacations, I would like to book an apartment myself and hopefully save quite a bit in the process.

I need a beach, I need sun and I need to be able to get there in around 4hrs or less.

Any tips or leads would be much appreciated :beer:

spiro

The first thing you need to do is decide what country and ideally area you want to go to based on weather etc. Then look at the flights available and the cost, this may cause you to change your mind re the destination. Once you have found somewere to go that is not too expensive to fly to just start using google and put in resort name and the word 'apartment'.

ailuro2

Make sure they can take a Visa card, or sterling cheque - as I said in another post we hit problems renting privately because of problems with overseas banks handling foreign currency cheques badly, even after we paid for the cheque!:mad:

jenny-wren

Have you tried www.holiday-rentals.co.uk

I was using this site to look for an apartment recently. They seem to offer places all over the world. From the site you can often find a link to the owners own websites rather than booking through holiday-rentals.

Hope you find something!

TriciaE

Clicking through to the owners website just gives you more details on the property, pics etc, it doesn't matter whether you send the enquiry through Holiday Rentals/the owners website etc, the enquiry goes directly to the owner anyway.

princesstippytoes

Woodyrocks wrote: »

I need a beach, I need sun and I need to be able to get there in around 4hrs or less.

The Canaries would be an obvious choice and ticks all the boxes you are asking for.

PTT

Woodyrocks

That's what I am thinking too! We went to Tenerife last year and I was trying to do something different but I think maybe stick to what we know. I have been looking at that holiday rentals and the ones that are affordable all say no kids :mad: So just have to keep looking and hoping something comes up. Haven't even check flight prices yet but I know they will be more expensive than normal because of the kids breaking up from school.

BillScarab

I've used https://www.ownersdirect.co.uk to book a place in France with no problems. Their website covers Sapin and I'm fairly sure the Canaries are included.

will-he-payitoff

Used daltons loads of times

Woodyrocks

will-he-payitoff wrote: »

Used daltons loads of times

I am guessing googling daltons holiday should bring something up right

Francophile

Try www.holidaylets.net or www.villarenters.com