Luxury Villa Website Introduces New Search Tools for State of the Art Vacation Search Experience

NEWPORT, RI, October 2008 -- Wimco Villas announces that its already award-winning website may well be setting new standards for how to make it easy for time-challenged folks to plan their villa vacation.

It has just lavished a year of development time on making sure that from start to finish the trip through www.wimco.com is both pleasurable and efficient.

Stiles Bennet, Wimco Villa's director of marketing, says that the website's newly enhanced villa search tools now allow visitors to input their travel dates, number of bedrooms and desired price range to search for villas in their destination of choice that both meet their criteria and that are currently available. Guests can also use the advanced search tool to search by special features like swimming pools, WiFi access, air conditioning, satellite TV, child-friendly and much more. The other industry first is our "villa compare" tool, allowing you to select several different villas and compare their features side by side before making a reservation or calling an agent for details.

For those who take the few minutes to "Take a (flash) Tour" and see firsthand how the new enhancements work, the rewards are several-fold:

• an appreciation for how Wimco Villas makes it so easy for clients to find the right match from an international portfolio of 1,400 private villas in sun-splashed places;
• a chance to fill out a survey that then gets entered into a drawing for a week of free villa rental on trendy St. Barts;
• and via this same survey a Wimco gift of $100 worth of complimentary villa provisioning when making a villa reservation for travel in 2008 and 2009.

To experience a tour of the newly enhanced site, please click on the link below:
https://www.wimco.com/specials/promotions/tour

About Wimco Villas

Wimco Villas is an award-winning luxury villa company, providing access to some of the world's most beautiful and exceptional villas in Italy, the South of France, Mykonos. In the Caribbean Wimco Villas represents over 260 villas on St Barts and offers an expansive selection of private villas throughout the region including St Martin, Barbados, Anguilla, Jamaica, The US and British Virgin Islands, Mustique, Nevis and the Cayman Islands. In November, Wimco launches a selection of private villas in Maui.

Voted 'Best Presented Villas' by the readers of Condé Nast Traveller, Wimco strives to make the best match between our clients and villas. Wimco's reservations agents take annual familiarization trips to our destinations to tour the villas, re-educating themselves on the amenities of each villa and ensuring they meet Wimco standards. As well as providing accommodation and destination information, Wimco Villas can tailor make the villa holidays to suit each client's needs, whether it be arranging for private chefs, yoga instructors, yacht charters or simply a restaurant reservation.