Oliver's Travels - London

Kirsty Baxter-Smith

We absolutely loved this villa - such a special place and perfect if you want peace and quiet. The most incredible views! The house is very comfortable and well equipped and the pool area is spacious with a beautiful garden. As Oliver's Travels mentions, the road up to the villa is steep so make sure that you hire a car with a decent size engine so that you're comfortable driving up the hill! We had a small SUV and it was fine. We had a fabulous time and would love to come back.

Mark Anton

We had a great experience with Oliver’s Travels. The communication was right and when we had an emergency situation come up, they were willing to work with the property owners and help us come to a resolution. I really enjoyed working with Constance. She responded to my inquiries and provided me with all of the info I needed in order to have a fabulous stay in Assos, Greece.

Suzanne Harrison

No major issues dealing with Oliver’s. The villa itself was amazing, clean, people lovely and seamless from start to finish.

Highly recommend hiring a car and also booking the breakfast as they bring it to your villa and it’s absolutely amazing for 15 euros

Only negative / constructive feedback would be trying to contact Oliver’s via any means other than phone is lacking. Nobody responds to emails or forms completed online and I ended up having to chase arrival information as less than 24 hours I didn’t have that to hand. However it was resolved in the end and the holiday was lovely. I would book again through Oliver’s

Sara H

We have never booked travel with Oliver’s Travel before and we are glad we did. Manoir D'Auge was exactly as pictured and described on the website, if not better. It’s everything I’d imagine a French country home would be like. Picturesque, warm, cozy, and comfortable. I have rented many homes and apartments in my travels, and this home by far is the best! All furnishings and cookware and dishes were top quality products, as if it was for every day living. Not just cheaply done for rentals. Everything was immaculately clean. Catherine, our hostess, was very warm and welcoming and helpful. She even provided us with some local treats - eggs, butter, ciders and milk.

Plenty of space for 9 of us, 6 adults, 3 young children. All the beds were very cozy and comfortable. Most rentals I’ve been at, their beds weren’t great and you could feel the coils in the beds. Not these. They were so cozy, it was hard to get up and leave the bed.

Honestly, the best vacation rental home I have ever been to. I wish we had more time there.

The next home I build, I’m going to model it after this home.

megan bodi

The villa was very charming and had gorgeous views! We really loved that there were 3 farm dogs on the property who were SUPER friendly! The host was very kind and attentive, he even gave us his own tomato sauce and basil from his garden to make dinner with! The house is spacious and it was a relaxing and quiet escape.

The only drawbacks were that the directions to get there weren’t accurate and it would’ve been nice to know it was on about a 1/2 mile long, uneven & rocky road. Luckily we had a small SUV. Also, the beds and pillows weren’t great. I mentioned this to the host and he said he understood and took it into consideration. The bathroom is big, but the shower is very tiny and it didn’t come with any toiletries (bring your own body wash, shampoo and conditioner!).

Overall, we really enjoyed staying there. Just a couple of suggestions to make it more comfortable for future guests.

Richard Tiley

Oliver’s Travels are a treat to deal with, a choice of first class villas available on the website, when we selected ours the booking process was very straight forward.
The concierge service is a great help, a couple of questions dealt with asap, even helped with securing an early bag drop due to flight times.
We will be using Oliver’s Travels again, the holiday was great, the villa was a high standard and a great place to be.
Thank you all.

Kay Wood

A nice property, facilities basic but all there, would have been lovely and peaceful if it had not been for all the dogs around who barked all night long and most of the day. We had issues with the showers and the hot water supply when we arrived but our local contact (Donatello) sorted them out the next working day. He was great and on call all the time to answer any queries. I think the property suffers from a little damp as there was a smell inside and the ceilings in the Trullo were stained with what appeared to be water ingress. If the weather hadn’t been so wet I don’t think you would have minded so much, but as outside was damp as well, it wasn’t so pleasant and quite cold, even the beds felt cold. The description of the property doesn’t say that you have to go physically out (up and down steps) into a separate building to get to the kitchen/dining area (it just says accessed through a separate door, which means nothing). So the living, bedrooms and bathrooms are in one unit and although physically attached to the other Trullo, you have to go outside to get to the kitchen. Maybe not such an issue if glorious sunshine, but when raining not very pleasant and we had not appreciate this at all from reading about the property, and as there are no door mats we were walking water into the property all the time and having to go outside and across the corner of the patio between living spaces, which got quite annoying when you just wanted to pop to the loo and got soaked. A mention of how low all the doorways are as well would be nice and the fact that there are internal steps up and down to bedrooms. If you had mobility issues it would not be good. I think a small update of the property information is in order. A visitors book would also be a nice touch so other visitors could recommend or not supermarkets, petrol stations, restaurants, places to visit etc. Still a nice property though, but I think we would go to one that was fully internally accessible next time ?

Gillian Bunker

This is a truly stunning villa with plenty of individual outside spaces for chilling out in the daytime and at night, pure luxury and so much space and peace and quiet. The interior was beautifully designed and extremely comfortable. Everything had been thought of for a comfortable stay. Our contact Roberto was outstanding, nothing was a trouble and he was very pleasant at all times. He gave us a list of places to visit and nice restaurants close by. This would have been a five star rating had it not been for the lack of air conditioning in the rooms within the Trulli buildings. That said the weather was extremely hot during our stay and perhaps normally the design of the building would have kept the interior cool enough but we found it very difficult to sleep at night with the heat. Perhaps just an electric fan in each of the main building bedrooms would make all the difference. Overall we loved this villa.