Flights & packages
The villa through us, the flight through you.
We are a villa specialist, not a tour operator: there is no flight desk here, and no packages. The villa is arranged by the people who know it; the flight stays in your hands, and the desk helps on either side of it.
- Your contract
- With the property’s owner: Authentic Villa Holidays Ltd arranges it as agent.
- The flight
- Booked by you, with the airline or a comparison site.
- On landing
- Send the flight number and the transfer is arranged.
How it divides
One trip, two bookings.
The villa · through us
An accommodation booking
- Your contract is with the property’s owner; Authentic Villa Holidays Ltd arranges it on your behalf as agent.
- Paid and cancelled as the booking terms set out.
- The week around the villa (chefs, boats, tables) arranged by the concierge desk.
- Not a package, and sold without flights. Deliberately.
The flight · through you
Yours, and better for it
- Book with the airline direct, or let a comparison site do the searching: the operating site has always pointed guests at Skyscanner.
- Tell us the flight number rather than the landing time, and a delay stops being your problem.
- Car hire, ferries and the crossing to the islands: see getting there.
- Oman≈8 km
Salalah · Muscat
- Greece≈22 km
Corfu · Santorini · Mykonos · Crete
- Montenegro≈24 km
Tivat, or Dubrovnik across the border
- Croatia≈26 km
Split · Dubrovnik · Pula · Zadar
- United Arab Emirates≈36 km
Dubai International
- Spain≈40 km
Palma · Arrecife
- Portugal≈48 km
Faro
- Italy≈56 km
Pisa · Florence · Palermo · Catania · Olbia
- Turkey≈79 km
Dalaman
Median of 709villas’ own airport distances; airports are each guide’s published fly-into line.
The reason
Why there’s no package here.
Put a flight and a villa in the same booking and UK law treats the whole thing as a package, with duties of financial protection that sit with licensed tour operators.
We are a villa agency, and we would rather stay one. So the booking stays accommodation-only: the terms you agreed, with the owner you agreed them with, and nothing resold in between.
It also keeps you free to fly however suits: points, schedules, the airline you actually like.
Booked your flight?
Send the flight number.
The transfer is arranged against it, the villa is ready for the hour you actually arrive, and a delay becomes ours to watch rather than yours. Everything else either side of the flight lives on getting there.