Welcome, bienvenue, bienvenido, benvenuto, välkommen, willkommen, welkom, velkommen, powitanie to Villas du Monde.
Eight years ago Villas du Monde expanded its horizons and began to actively seek clients from a wider range of countries, outside its traditional base, France. At first we wondered how people from varied countries such as Russia, Holland, Norway and Germany would react to our services and range of holiday homes. It has been a great success as our last 5 bookings for this summer show:
Elizabeth (Norway) Spend: 6068€ Destination: Greece
Simon* (northern England) Spend: 12,090€ Destination: Dordogne
Melanie (midlands England) Spend: 1934€ Destination: Cote d'Azur
Roed (Norway) Spend: 3250€ Destination: Costa Blanca
Jolanda (Holland) Spend: 1920€ Destination: Costa Blanca
Simon* has returned to the same house with us five times!
We have been pleasantly surprised, as have our international clients who have been full of complements regarding the quality and range of our holiday homes and standards of service. We want everyone who has contacted us over the years and been on holiday with us to know that they will always be welcome and that they can expect to have a first rate holiday with Villas du Monde.
Many countries have a weak point and unfortunately France has a reputation, in part deserved, for not being as welcoming as it should be when it comes to interacting with tourists.
But I have to say, having been part of the Villas du Monde team for eight years (the company previously owned Villas Worldwide which I managed and has now been fully integrated) I have been pleasantly surprised at what a professional, friendly, modern and reliable company they are. I previously worked with small specialist holiday companies in the UK, then the big global operators at a high level. None of them offered their clients the same value for money, reliability and quality that Villas du Monde does, nor the independence and freedom that its staff enjoy.
The Villas du Monde team is spread around. I work from home in Grasse in the south of France, Eric the company owner in the Loire valley, Paris and Spain, David in Bordeaux and a good part of our team, Margo, Marie and Ithier are based in our superb office just 100 metres from the seafront in Javea, Spain.
There are a number of linguists and a great deal of experience. Villas du Monde is a family business which Eric, who is French, has owned and actively run for 20 years and his son Ithier has now been involved for two. Margo has been with the company over ten years and is one of the most professional people I have had the pleasure of working with, she speaks her native French as well as reasonable English, fluent Italian along with other languages. Marie is native Spanish and speaks English, I am English and fluent in French and dabble in Italian and German. David is, well, French, but masters the language of computers brilliantly.
So there you are, I just wanted to introduce you to the team and welcome you on holiday with us. If you haven't tried us yet, you should.
I am your principal English language speaking contact and I look after our two English language websites on which we offer different, efficient ways of searching for holiday villas, chalets and luxury apartments and ways of acquiring additional information on the destinations.
Best wishes
Peter Horrocks