Philippine Travel Blog

Finding a holiday villa can be difficult when you don’t know where to start looking. Of course, most people don’t want to spend their time looking through the yellow pages of strange cities they’ve never been to, maybe even in languages they’ve never learned to read or speak. Instead, the easy solution would seem to be turning to the internet.

However, all is not as simple as it first looks since when you search for ‘villas in Portugal‘ you end up coming up with nearly 13 million results using google! You’re better off with the foreign language phonebooks.

But don’t worry, here are some tips on finding holiday villas that will make your search far easier and more rewarding than taking a shot in the dark or throwing a virtual dart at the virtual dartboard of millions of worldwide listings and companies offering holiday villas in Italy.

First of all, research your location and narrow it down to the tiniest size possible. For example, don’t type “French Holiday Villas” but instead type in a more specific “Biarritz, France” +“Holiday villas” . The quotation marks indicate that the search engine should search for the whole phrase not the separated keywords which keeps you from finding something like ‘We left the villas burning after our patrol through Northern France, I dreamed of seeing Biarritz on my next holiday leave’ which, while sounding interesting, doesn’t really apply to you. We’ve narrowed our search down to four thousand entries. (more…)