Your Next Caribbean Vacation Could Only Cost One Photo Wimco Villas Launches St Barts Vacation Photo Contest

NEWPORT, RI - June 2012 - Don’t delete those vacation photos on your iphone – one of them could earn you a week in a private villa on the French Caribbean island of St Barts!

WIMCO Villas, the leading villa rental and concierge services company serving St Barts is launching a vacation photo contest with dozens of sexy prizes for those of you who love to snap photos. The grand prize winner will enjoy a week in one of WIMCO’s private villas on St Barts, with VIP concierge service.

Dozens of prizes will also be awarded for nine different vacation themed categories, including Friends & Family, Beaches, Food & Drink, Fashion & Love. Enter now via the WIMCO Villas page on Facebook.

The WIMCO Villas vacation photo contest features dozens of exciting prizes including:

• Best Photo prize - One week in a WIMCO Villa on St Barts!
  Complete with VIP Concierge Services, and a private pool side rum tasting session from Rhum St Barth
• FASHION category - $1,000 shopping spree from luxury online retailer TAIGAN
• EUROPE category - beach chic package valued at $750 from Glamourpussnyc
• CARIBBEAN category - Round trip tickets from San Juan to St Barts on Tradewind
• FRIENDS & FAMILY category - Round trip tickets from San Juan to St Barts on Tradewind
• GENERAL INTEREST category - Round trip tickets from St Martin to St Barts on Win-Air
• BEACH category - Lunch for two at Hotel Taiwana on Flamands Beach on St Barts
• FOOD & DRINK category - Lunch for two at Hotel Taiwana on Flamands Beach on St Barts
• LOVE category - Pool-side massage and spa treatment from Ligne St Barth
• Runner up Prizes - Dinner for two at Andy's Hideaway in St Barts (10 awarded)
• Runner up Prizes - Bottle of Premium Rhum from Rhum St Barth (10 awarded)

Photo enthusiasts can enter up to 10 photos via the WIMCO Villas page on Facebook. WIMCO is using an app from Votigo that facilitates sharing photos with friends, and encourages them to view and vote for one or more entries.

About Wimco Villas

Recently featured on The Today Show, WIMCO Villas is an award-winning luxury villa rental company, providing access to some of the world's most beautiful and exceptional private villas, along with concierge travel services before, during and after the vacation. WIMCO has received numerous accolades including Condé Nast Traveler magazine’s “Best Presented Villas,” best luxury villa company by Travel & Leisure magazine, FORTUNE magazine’s “Top Villas Companies in the World,”, and FORBES “Best of the Web.”

WIMCO Villas’ agents have intimate knowledge of the villas in their portfolio, and can tailor make a villa vacation to suit each client's needs, whether it be arranging for private chefs, yoga instructors, yacht charters or simply a restaurant reservation. WIMCO represents villas on St Barts and 12 other Caribbean islands, as well as Italy, France, Greece, Hawaii and Nantucket, and publishes the Vendome Guide series of villa vacation guides. For additional information please call 888-751-7366. Inquiries can be sent via email to info@wimco.com.