Posts Tagged ‘Miami Beach’

FLORIDA DESIGN’S MIAMI HOME AND DÉCOR

Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
Miami Design Villa | VILLA CONTENTA: A PALM ISLAND STORY – Sep 2016
 

Miami Design Villa

If the interior elegance that simmers every turn in this sprawling Palm Island estate overlooking Biscayne Bay in Miami Beach, Fla., calls to mind Versailles, noble apartments in the 16th arrondissement or the playgrounds of the striking Madame de Pompadour, then your sensibilities are in line with the dream its designer had hoped to create. Corinne Sananes, head of the design department at Romeo Royal Gallery, is not only the designer of the 9,893-square-foot estate name “Villa Contenta,” she is the muse of Romeo galleries and partner of owner Claude Dalle, founder of the renowned showrooms and ateliers in Paris and Cannes that create an interior world of luxury, panache and enduring elegance. (more…)

Miami: Your autumn pick-me-up

Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

It should come as no surprise that travelers often cite fall as the best time of year to experience Miami. Although much of the country begins to cool down in the month of October, the average high temperature in Miami sits around 85 degrees (approx. 30 Celsius). With tourist season long past, there’s also more freedom to enjoy the true Miami lifestyle (think ample beach space). If you’re still planning your fall Miami getaway, Villazzo still has some of its signature VillaHotels available.

Featured:

1. Book Villa Azza (above): A modern and tropical waterfront escape on Palm Island (starting at $5,700 per night)

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TLC – FOUR HOUSES

Tuesday, January 1st, 2013

The Hot Places to Eat and Drink During Your Miami Vacation

Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Everything From Jeff McInnis’ Soon-to-Open Resto to Haute Living’s Top 5 Coffee Spots in Miami
Jeff McInnis via Haute Living

Visitors flock to Miami for many reasons; sun and sand, art and culture, the vibrant nightlife. If you’re planning a Miami luxury villa rental vacation you have the option of eating in your own state-of-the-art kitchen or venturing out to find your meal in one of Miami’s celebrated restaurants. There are classics–Joe’s Stone Crabs, Nobu, Palme d’Or–and trendier locales, not to mention a variety of different cuisines.

Like in most big cities, in Miami new restaurants from big name chefs are cause for a ton of buzz and anticipation. One such chef is Jeff McInnis, who disappointed many Miami diners when he left his post at Gigi’s earlier this year. Miami’s Top Chef has now been tapped for the new Yardbird Southern Table and Bar, which according to its website, is set to open in Fall 2011 at 16th and Lenox on South Beach. If the restaurant stays on schedule (reports have it opening in September), you’ll be able to give it a try if you head to Miami for your luxury villa rental location in the off-season or in time for Art Basel.

Five Napkin Turkey Burger – Photo by billwisserphoto.com
via The Miami New Times

Michelle Bernstein is another chef with a high profile on the Miami dining scene. Bernstein’s new offering, Crumb on Parchment, may be laidback but it is attracting well-heeled lunchers and foodies alike. The restaurant on 3930 NE Second Avenue has a café-style vibe, serves all day breakfast and scrumptious options like classic baked goods (delicious chocolate chip cookies) and elevated lunch food (tuna sandwiches served with kimci aioli and spicy pickles). While a luxury villa rental is the perfect place to throw a bash, Crumb is also a site to consider for a private party, especially one where food wrapped in parchment and utensils served up in pails only adds to the charm and ambiance.

Having a cup of coffee brewed in the state of the art kitchen of your luxury villa rental is a great way to the start the day or unwind at night, but where to go for your java fix when you’re out and about in Miami during the day? To answer that question HauteLiving.com has published their picks for the Top Five Coffee Shops in Miami: Café Demetrio, Nespresso, David’s Café, Pasion del Cielo and Versailles. Of the five we’re partial to Demetrio’s gorgeous location and gourmet brews.

And, lastly, if you’re looking for some more casual dining you’ll be happy to know that Miami has been overrun as of late with gourmet burger joints. Take Shake Shack, for instance, which just announced its opening another location in Coral Gables. The Miami New Times recently compared the newly opened Five Napkin Burger (located on Lincoln Road) to BGR the Burger Joint, which is on Miracle Mile. The results? According to the critic Lee Klein, BGR has the better “signature beef burger,” while Five Napkin wins when it comes to turkey burgers. And that’s the beauty of Miami–high or low, luxury or laidback, the city really delivers.

Villa Contenta, seen here, is just one of the gorgeous luxury villa rental options that Villazzo offers for the Miami area. Visit Villazzo.com for information on the different villas available, their unique features, stunning locations and modern amenities.

Villazzo Vibe – July 2011

Thursday, July 14th, 2011


Villazzo VIBE

Villazzo News
Villazzo’s July Newsletter

From Christian Jagodzinski, President and Founder of Villazzo

Christian Jagodzinski
Summer is in full swing here in Saint-Tropez, and as we get closer to late July, all indications are that the resort will be super-packed this season unlike any other time in recent memory! Stars, socialites, dignitaries, and the most discerning luxury travellers of the world are descending on Saint-Tropez for July and August . . .

. . . will you be here with us as well?

On your behalf, I have worked tirelessly along with my operations and sales team throughout the winter to hand pick the finest luxury villas in Saint-Tropez and Miami. As you know, Villazzo doesn’t just rent you a villa – in our famous “VillaHotels”, we set up a private five-star hotel just for you before your arrival (and convert it back to owner use after your departure).

The vast majority of our top VillaHotels and “V” Villas in Saint-Tropez were booked solid back in the spring. There are, however, a select few properties with very limited availability during Saint-Tropez’s peak season!

In order to make a Villazzo Summer vacation a reality for you, we are offering an exclusive 10% off promotion on the remaining summer dates for one of our top Saint-Tropez VillaHotels! In addition, we have a recently added “V” Villa offering, as well as some availability at one of our top properties. Be sure to read below for all of the details.

These last-minute offerings are perfect reasons to finally book your summer Saint-Tropez vacation with Villazzo at one of our exclusive VillaHotels and “V” Villas, and get a great deal in the process!

And don’t forget: while Saint-Tropez is buzzing, it’s the low season in Miami Beach. If you love Miami in the summer, we have some absolutely incredible deals that you simply cannot pass up!

Be sure to read about our highlighted VillaHotels and “V” Villas in both Saint-Tropez and Miami below, and contact us if you have any questions about the properties and available Summer dates for your vacation plans.

Thank you as always for choosing Villazzo – we look forward to giving you the luxury vacation of a lifetime!

My warmest regards,

Christian Jagodzinski
President and Founder
Villazzo LLC


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Saint-Tropez

A Few Spots at Select Saint-Tropez VillaHotels Still Available For Summer!

We have an amazing deal on our “V” Villa Sogno di Luce that you simply cannot pass up! Villazzo is offering over 10% discount on Sogno di Luce if you book a vacation between August 1st and 12th – the peak of Saint-Tropez’s summer season. This reduces the weekly booking rate from 46,200 € to 39,999 €! This magnificent 6 bedroom, 6 bathroom villa is perched atop a high hill with a commanding seaside view, and puts you close to all of the action.
Now is the time to take advantage of this great deal on one of our finest “V” Villas in Saint-Tropez!

Sogno di Luce

Another available option in Saint-Tropez this summer is newly-added “V” Villa Kim. Located in the coveted Domain de Sinopolis near “V” Villa Sogno di Luce , “V” Villa Kim gives luxury vacationers a spectacular, hilltop view of the sea! Its 4 bedrooms and en-suite bathrooms are surrounded by beautifully decorated living and dining areas, as well as a garden-rich exterior, complete with teak terraces, swimming pool, and outdoor Jacuzzi.
For this property Villazzo offers a special last minute rate of 13,100 € for a week, hurry up to get this amazing deal!

Kim

“V” Villa Solea is also still available for the start of peak season in Saint-Tropez – we have availability from July 15th through the 31st. Solea features a unique floor plan that really brings the sun and warmth of Saint-Tropez in summer into the villa experience. And with 5 bedrooms and bathrooms, it has ample room as well.

Solea

Finally, we have some exciting, late-breaking news on Villazzo in Saint-Tropez: we are just about to add a phenomenal new property — similar in style to “V” Villa Kim — that will have full availability for the remainder of Saint-Tropez’s peak season! This brand new, 4 bedroom beauty is close to Tahiti Beach, and very nice. Contact us if you’d like to hear more about it!

Don’t get left out of the 2011 summer season in Saint-Tropez! Contact us now to book your vacation!


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Miami

Villazzo Miami VillaHotels Are A Great Deal in the Summer – Take a look!

Even though the Summer months are considered the “low season” for Miami, Villazzo’s luxurious VillaHotels and “V” Villas remain the hottest properties around. We are currently offering incredible rates and promotions on several of our properties:

Miami Beach’s Palm Island can be described as nothing less than “luxury on luxury” – an ultra-exclusive community of the finest properties in all of Miami. VillaHotel Contenta is truly one of the finest luxury villas of Palm Island, with 11,000 sq ft, 6 bedrooms with spa-inspired en suite bathrooms, spectacular views across Biscayne Bay towards South Beach, and a magnificent pool, terrace area, and plenty of privacy and luxury amenities that, along with Villazzo’s 5 star hotel-inspired VillaHotel services, make VillaHotel Contenta the luxury villa of choice in Palm Island.

VillaHotel Contenta features an amazing low season rate of 50% off peak season, at just $8500 a night for a weekly booking. Some dates are still available for summer – please enquire.

Contenta

With architectural details that conjure the splendor of Alhambra Palace, VillaHotel Jasmine offers Miami Beach vacationers a Moorish-style luxury villa experience on an exclusive waterfront property. The 8,500 sq ft, 6 bedroom, 6 en-suite bathroom mansion features a modern, open floor plan with chic Indian and Moroccan-style furnishings throughout. Outside, an ultra-private terrace, garden, swimming pool, and Jacuzzi make VillaHotel Jasmine the perfect choice to luxury travellers.

We have an exclusive summer promotion for VillaHotel Jasmine: in addition to Jasmine’s low season rate of $7300 a night, we’ll add an additional 20% for any weekly summer booking. Take a look!

Jasmine

We also have a host of other stunning Miami properties available throughout the remainder of the summer, such as VillaHotels Valentina and Catia. You can take a look at all of our Miami properties here.

If you’re ready to make plans for your summer vacation experience, don’t delay! These incredible deals are going fast, and summer will be over before you know it! Contact us to check on availability for all of these fine Villazzo properties.


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Miami Beach In October: Fashion, Wine, and the Prelude to Luxury Villa Rental Season

Saturday, September 4th, 2010
Fashion, wine, and the prelude to Luxury Villa Rental season make for a great Fall South Beach getaway.

As the summer season draws to a close, that doesn’t mean all ideas of vacation need flee until winter. In many locations, as seen in St. Tropez, autumn is the perfect time to visit. Usually you will find less of a crowd and, in the case of Miami Beach, some great events to help pass the time when you’re not whiling away the hours poolside at your luxury villa rental. In October alone, the city of Miami is hosting two great events that shouldn’t be missed if you’re vacationing there at the time. In fact, they’re pretty great reasons to plan a jaunt to Miami in October, even if you had no prior plans to visit. (more…)

Luxury Villa Spotlight: V Villa Julia in Miami Beach

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Luxury villas are a dime a dozen in Miami Beach, and few really stand out among the crowd. But Villazzo’s V Villa Julia’s design, décor,

Luxury Villa V Villa Julia

A view of Villazzo's V Villa Julia - a luxury villa in Miami Beach

and features bring the very best that Miami Beach has to offer to your own vacation experience.

Few luxury villas in Miami Beach capture the sun, sea, and warmth quite like V Villa Julia. Decorated in bright, inviting textures and featuring an open design both inside and out, this luxury villa lets in the light and natural beauty of this 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom bayside property seep into your luxury vacation. Large windows highlight the living and dining areas as well as the kitchen and bedrooms, giving you an enchanting view of the bay, pool, and terrace night and day. Luxurious bedrooms with sitting areas and en suite bathrooms making going to sleep and waking up a pleasure.

Outside, V Villa Julia luxury villa features a multi-level terrace – perfect for outside dining and entertaining – as well as a vanishing edge pool with cascading waterfall, barbeque area, and a bayside dock. And because it’s just 5 minutes from the beach, V Villa Julia has everything you need from a luxury villa to experience the very best of Miami Beach.

Luxury Villa V Villa Julia

The living and dining areas of luxury villa V Villa Julia

In recent years, the contemporary design movement has overtaken Miami Beach, and though this exclusive neighborhood of luxury villas boast modern, sprawling, mansion-sized homes, many of them appear as pastiche recreations of authentic contemporary Miami properties. Julia, however, features a layout that is seldom seen in recent luxury villas in Miami Beach: it connects the interior with the exterior by way of its capacious windows and tasteful decor.

Around every corner, you’ll find a minimalist yet inviting set of furniture, housewares, and design elements, most of which are done in white or beige. This bright, blank color palette, however, perfectly complements the rich, colorful palette of the outside landscape, which pours into virtually every square foot of this luxury villa by way of its windows. As you can see from the photo to the right, palm trees, blue skies, and the bay serve as the color throughout V Villa Julia.

Article by Michael Nace

Can You Really Trust Luxury Villa Rental Companies?

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Luxury villa rentals in St. Tropez, Marbella, Miami Beach, and beyond offer the privacy and exclusivity that you cannot get from even the most expensive 5-star hotel. But is the risk of picking a “luxury lemon” worth giving up on a reliable luxury hotel experience?

Wherever there is sand, sun, and sea in the world, you’re bound to find a crop of luxury villa rentals to choose from. Whether it’s St. Tropez, Marbella, Miami Beach, or Ibiza, you can always find a huge selection of amazing rental properties that span traditional to contemporary architecture and that will put you in the middle of the action and nightlife as well as the middle of nowhere. For those who have a already made a few trips to these exclusive vacation havens and have tried out a few different hotels, the prospect of having their own private luxury villa seems like the next logical step in experiencing the ultimate luxury vacation.

However, with luxury villa rentals, there is always an unknown quantity — or, more specifically, an “unknown quality.”

Luxury villa rental companies are notorious for showing only the best aspects of the luxury villas they list. Sure, they might show a bunch of photos of a villa’s pristine pool, charming terrace, and well-appointed master bathroom. But they fail to show how the plasma TV doesn’t work, or how the villa’s wall that faces the seaside is crumbling, or how the bathroom hasn’t been renovated for 25 years.

I recently read an article about “how to choose a luxury villa rental in Tuscany.” The writer told a hilarious yet tragic story about how once he had chosen a majestic Tuscan villa to stay in, thinking that it would be a single-family luxury vacation rental. When he arrived, he was dismayed to find out that the villa, “had been carved up into apartments with thin dividing walls.” He paints a miserable Tuscan vacation in that villa, saying, “One doesn’t go to Italy to be woken by renditions of Take Me Home, Country Road – at 6am, in German.”

Oh, the horror!

This writer’s article, as well as many others who write about the luxury villa rental market, go on to list all of the due diligence required to ensure that what you see is what you get when choosing a luxury villa rental. In order to ensure a high quality villa rental, writers suggest so much comprehensive research and scrutiny over a property that you would be completely exhausted by the end of the search! Some writers suggest finding a contact in the city that you want to stay in and paying them a small sum of money to independently check out the villa rental you are considering. Another writer suggests that you “pack a small tool kit and a cache of batteries in various sizes (for TV remote controllers, torches and the like; never presume a villa’s inventory will be complete).”

Who is going to pack a tool kit for a vacation in a luxury villa rental?

The only way you can truly assure yourself an amazing villa vacation experience that lives up to your expectations is to work with a luxury villa rental company that visits and hand-selects the villas that it offers. If you use this criteria to select luxury villa rental companies to work with, you’ll find that there are very few of them in the world today who can vouch for the properties that they list on their websites.

For example, Wimco Villas, which is one of the largest luxury villa rental companies in the industry, offers this vague explanation in the “About Us” section of their website: “Each [Wimco] staff member is required to visit several of our vacation destinations each year and familiarize themselves with the villas and hotels there so they can serve you better.” How many is “several,” exactly? Which villas listed on their site have been visited and inspected, and which ones have not?

Other luxury villa rental sites, such as Jetsetter, use a small logo on their property pages to show prospective clients which of their properties have been checked and visited by a staff member and which have not. This is a much more transparent way of finding luxury villa rentals that you can trust to live up to what is posted on a website. Of course, it also limits the number of “safe” luxury villa options to choose from.

However, smaller, ultra-exclusive villa rental companies, such as Villazzo, guarantee their entire list of luxury villa rentals. Companies like these hand-select the properties they offer, and usually maintain an office in all of the vacation destinations where they offer luxury villa rentals. This is by far the best way to find the luxury villa of your dreams, since you can be assured that the villa has had a thorough walk-through and is determined to be a property that lives up to the high standards of the company that lists them on their website.

So, the next time you go in search of a luxury villa rental online, remember to look for a company that offers the best guarantee of quality, and the largest selection of luxury villas that have been hand-selected and approved. Stick to this approach and you can be assured that you won’t have to bring a toolbox with you on your next vacation!