Villaway was launched in 2007 with one goal - to provide the best holiday property search facilities on the internet.

Frustrated by the limitations of the current offering, we’ve developed an intuitive, multi-level search system that allows you to specify all the features you need from your ideal accommodation. There's no more trawling through pages of ‘near matches’ - with Villaway you can find your exact match, anywhere in the world.

With the best holiday rental home searching anywhere on the internet, Villaway makes it simple to find exactly what you want.

You don’t need to be a geography expert to find your ideal property. You can search by countries, regions or sub regions or draw your own search area. If having the features you want - a barbecue, a private pool and access to a beach perhaps - is more important to you than the country they are in, then you can choose from properties throughout the world. If you are looking for accommodation to suit a special occasion, or a particular holiday theme then our themed accommodation categories will let you choose from romantic, family, historic, cultural or luxury holidays.

With our advanced search, you can choose from a wide range of themes, property features, local settings and your preferred activities within the vicinity and rank them in order of your own priorities. At every step along the way you’ll see how each choice affects the number of properties available. If you change your mind about what you’re looking for, there’s no need to start again. You can change any of your options without losing any of the rest of your search.

For those of you who tend to have a similar type of holiday every year - a week’s skiing every winter, for example - you can save your search and run it again next year. Booking a holiday with friends is straightforward too. Our Friends group facility automatically emails your property shortlist to your friends - so you’ll all get a chance to choose where you want to go.

We hope you enjoy using Villaway. And… have a great holiday!

Jan Taylor & Kevin Bayes: Directors

Both of us have a wealth of technical and business experience in a number of disciplines. Jan is an engineering consultant who has worked in the oil industry and has led the software development department of a multinational company. Kevin has worked as a Company Director of an oilfield service company, establishing and developing business lines within the Asia Pacific region.

We’re committed travellers who have lived extensively overseas. Our drive to create Villaway was born out of frustration with the current market offering. We were sick of trying to find the perfect holiday property without being able to select the features we really wanted.

For Villaway, we’ve designed a fully flexible search engine that gives holidaymakers the ability to choose their ideal holiday rental from a huge range of property features, activities and holiday themes in locations throughout the world.

Our aim was to create the best holiday rental property search facility in the market. We’re confident that we’ve succeeded!