Market Leader Wimco, Leading Luxury Villa Vacation Rental Specialist, Announces Special Seasonal Values in Italy

NEWPORT, RI, June 2006 – A villa vacation, offering privacy plus flexibility, can be an affordable option while traveling in Italy this summer and fall. For new bookings for travel from July 1 through December 15 2006, Wimco Villas is offering special seasonal rates for two dozen private villas in Tuscany and Umbria ranging in size from three to ten bedrooms.

"These villas are either recently renovated, recently added to the Wimco luxury villa portfolio, or both, says Stiles Bennet, Director of Marketing for Wimco. “You can enjoy an Italian villa vacation experience, and save enough money to buy an extra airline ticket or two and bring along extended family or friends".

Bennet notes that increasingly vacationers are opting for the more personalized, private, high quality experience offered by luxury villa rentals as an alternative to staying in a hotel or resort. With villas in St Barts, St Martin, Barbados, the Virgin Islands, Italy, France, Greece and a dozen other desirable destinations, Wimco is well positioned to serve this growing demand.

Here is a sampling of the special values available through Wimco Villas in Italy this summer: five bedroom Villa Felo in Todi is just $3,544 (15% off) from July 1 to Aug. 25; five bedroom Villa Montoro overlooking Chianti country is just $7,160 (20% off) the first two weeks of July; Villa Clara, an 18th century, 10-bedroom manor near Lucca, is only $7,920 weekly (20% off) in the month of September; the five-bedroom farmhouse Villa Alisso on an estate near Versilia is only $3,495 a week (25% off) beginning Oct. 1.

Wimco Villas can arrange housekeeping, private chef and other local services in addition to handling air and rental car reservations.

About WIMCO VILLAS

Wimco is the leading marketer of luxury villa rentals in the Caribbean and Europe. For over 23 years, the Company has been sending clients to its exclusive portfolio of select private luxury villas and distinctive hotels in St Barts, St Martin, Barbados, Italy, France, and many other desirable vacation destinations.

Fortune Magazine recently rated Wimco amongst the top 5 villa specialists in the world as the result of its strict selection standards for high quality properties, the largest exclusive portfolio of properties in the Caribbean and Europe and its award winning client service. Forbes Magazine recently named Wimco’s online villa rental service “Best of the Web”.

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