Exceptional Vacation Rentals in Italy
Excellent Europe is dedicated to your enjoyment of
travel in Italy.
We offer only short term rentals that we personally can recommend.
We travel frequently to inspect, and often stay in, the rentals we represent. We select
vacation rentals that offer charm, good locations,
cleanliness, quality furnishings and hospitable owners.
Even with careful advance research and personal
connections, we still choose to not represent more
than 50% of the properties we visit. As beautiful as
the photos can be of a property, the owners often
choose not to tell you the things that we research on
your behalf. For example, we recently declined to
represent a gorgeous, formal villa right outside
Florence when we saw the excavations for the
high-speed train tunnel running right at the edge of
the property. There is no mention of that on the
owner's property description; there never will be. We
really looked forward to visiting a charmingly
decorated apartment in a great location in Rome to
find the decorating obscured by bric-a-brac, the room
layout cramped, dark and airless, and the windows
overlooking a very busy street and the outdoor eating
area of a restaurant. We will not send our guests
there to experience the street noises late into the
night while they open windows wide to try to get in
some air. Another Roman reject is a gorgeous villa
with large, luminous apartments with sheets thrown
over stained sofas, beds tucked in every possible
corner in order to sleep a crowd, sagging mattresses,
tired kitchens and decorating straight from Austin
Powers, things you just don't see in the beautiful
photos on their website.
This is a family business with a mission! We want
you to love visiting Italy as much as we do. My name
is Pat Byrne and I lived in Italy while growing up and
now travel there frequently for business and pleasure.
I work with my sisters who are also in the vacation
rental business at ParisPerfect.com, LondonPerfect.com,
and ItalyPerfect.com. We all have come to this
business from various previous careers as executives,
myself, from high tech marketing, travel and
hospitality. One of my particular interests is helping
families enjoy their travels and to that end I wrote
the Italy Discovery Journal (www.kidseurope.com), a
little book that helps kids (and their families)
discover their own Italy.
I choose properties that are organized for
vacation rentals, not situations when the owners move
out (but usually only partially) for the rentals. My point of view is that
I will represent all the
wonderful aspects of the property and will be totally
honest about things that I think could be concerns
for my clients. And, if you want to ask
whether your personal needs are met by a certain
place, please just ask! Email
or phone.
While you may select your plane reservations and
automobile rental from a self-service internet site,
choosing your rental villa or apartment in Italy
through an online
catalogue is risky. Each vacation apartment or villa
has its own attributes that cannot be quantified or
categorized with some stars and symbols. You can see
great photos that fail to disclose real drawbacks.
Customer testimonials are helpful but can also be
misleading when the reviewers do not have the
experience to compare properties; they may consider a place great
or awful depending on their own state of mind while
there. "Will it work
for my party or family?" is your question and I believe you deserve a personal response to that
question. Email
or phone.
I believe there is something to love in Italy for
everyone. If you love art and history, Italy is
marvelous. But you don't have to be crazy about art
and history, nor do you have to speak Italian. Do you
like fashion, shopping, cars, geology, photography,
relaxation, hiking, biking...? There are riches of
every sort waiting for you in Italy. And the
foundation for your enjoyment of Italy is its rich
culture and wonderful people. It is impossible to
appreciate the culture in a dispassionate manner; you
will, at every turn, meet the hospitable, gentle,
courteous, friendly, and happy Italian people. That is why vacation rentals are so
wonderful; you get to meet people and the culture in
person.
We want you to love your vacation, love Italy, and
love the service of Excellent Europe.
Sincerely,
Pat Byrne
President
Excellent
Europe
Lincoln
Rivers LLC
781.275.1055
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