Where to start - group holiday

chancesare_2

I have the task of finding a holiday for early July next year and could really do with some help pointing me in the right direction.

Ideally it would be a large villa in Malaga. It needs to sleep 18 (and they are 18-19yr olds :eek:).

4-5 nights.
Any London airports.

Cheers.

gettingtheresometime

First piece of advice - don't.


There have been numerous threads where one or more of the party has fallen out with the others and trouble ensues

chancesare_2

This is an end of study trip, the group have lived together for the last 5 years. The trip will happen.

I need help in finding good travel agents or ways to get quotes as most online forms only allow 4 rooms or 9 travellers.

jackieblack

Have you tried Googling 'large villas in Malaga'?


https://www.ruralidays.co.uk/holiday-homes/MAL0215#


https://www.ruralidays.co.uk/holiday-homes/MAL0349


https://www.ruralidays.co.uk/holiday-homes/MAL0184


https://www.ruralidays.co.uk/holiday-homes/MAL0067


Found these within a few clicks, just as example..... there appear to be more on this website and I'm sure this can't be the only website

michele-p

Before you book anything, check the terms very carefully. We are a group of 20 really good fronds off on our annual ski trip next year.

Balance is due next week, one of our party in undergoing chemo, no fault of her own, but she's cancelled and not paying her balance. We loose the group discount,pick up a massive single room fee, and the upshot the rest of us are having to cover more than the cost if her original holiday.

Lesson learned, be Very careful!

chancesare_2

jackieblack wrote: »

Have you tried Googling 'large villas in Malaga'?


https://www.ruralidays.co.uk/holiday-homes/MAL0215#


https://www.ruralidays.co.uk/holiday-homes/MAL0349


https://www.ruralidays.co.uk/holiday-homes/MAL0184


https://www.ruralidays.co.uk/holiday-homes/MAL0067


Found these within a few clicks, just as example..... there appear to be more on this website and I'm sure this can't be the only website

Thank you, I had found that. Unfortunately their search criteria 'near the beach' isn't quite near enough. Most are 15km or so away from the beach/town.

I'm wondering if we may be better served asking a local travel agent and perhaps considering 9 hotel rooms.

Any more ideas would be most welcome.

mgdavid

One would like to think that at age 18/19 at least one of them has been educated sufficiently to sort it out for themselves? Good practice for future life and all that...

[Deleted User]

If only there was a person, call them an agent I guess, that could organise travel for groups of people...

Try a travel agent! http://www.thomson.co.uk/editorial/groups/group-holidays.html

And to think at the age of 21, me and uni my mates were able to organise a 4,500 mile USA roadtrip for ourselves using just dial-up internet!

In a group of people that big, SOMEONE is going to drop out. Get the money up front, everyone buy travel insurance immediately.

missbiggles1

A villa large enough to sleep 18 people is likely to be a luxury property and nobody with any sense is going to let a property like that to a group of 18/19 year olds. In addition, you're unlikely to be able to rent somewhere for less than a week in July.

I'd rethink your plans.

ETA

Just read your second post - 9 hotel rooms or 3/4 apartments are going to be a much better bet, particularly if you want to be near to a beach.

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missbiggles1 wrote: »

A villa large enough to sleep 18 people is likely to be a luxury property and nobody with any sense is going to let aproperty like that to a group of 18/19 year olds. In addition, you're unlikely to be able to rent somewhere for less than a week in July.

I'd rethink your plans.[/QUOTEjIt only took me 5 minutes to find a villa that would take 20 people...

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/12332416?checkin=17-06-2017&checkout=24-06-2017&guests=16&s=szz2jrIh

another..

https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/12373614?checkin=17-06-2017&checkout=24-06-2017&guests=16&s=Rl_P6tz-

Hope everyone isn't expecting their own room and not to share beds!

chancesare_2

mgdavid wrote: »

One would like to think that at age 18/19 at least one of them has been educated sufficiently to sort it out for themselves? Good practice for future life and all that...

They are more than able, 16 of them are not long back from Bolivia having spent the summer there building greenhouses for local families. The funded, organised and arranged everything as a group themselves. This trip - end of their final year of boarding school - is something that is a tradition in their 'house' and something that one or two of the parents organise. It has been thus for many years and I have no problem in helping carry that on.

ringo_24601 wrote: »

If only there was a person, call them an agent I guess, that could organise travel for groups of people...

Try a travel agent! http://www.thomson.co.uk/editorial/groups/group-holidays.html

And to think at the age of 21, me and uni my mates were able to organise a 4,500 mile USA roadtrip for ourselves using just dial-up internet!

In a group of people that big, SOMEONE is going to drop out. Get the money up front, everyone buy travel insurance immediately.

Thank you for the help with the explanation of Travel Agent. Not that I need to explain but I live a good 100 mile round trip from the nearest and it's not something I wanted to sort out by telephone. The online systems of most of the big travel agents don't allow for research on a group that size.

Very commendable that at 21 you managed to get yourselves to the USA. I'm not sure that's relevant though as you have no idea of the group I am trying to help organise. As I said above, they are not long back from a charity expedition to Bolivia, at 16 and 17, that's was quite an achievement.