Hosting celebrations and corporate retreats with Spain’s local villa experts

A milestone birthday in Ibiza or a company offsite in Mallorca is really two jobs wearing one coat. You need somewhere beautiful for everyone to stay, and you need the whole thing to actually run once they arrive. The villa is the part people focus on, and honestly it is the easy part. The hard part is everything around it, the transfers and the meals and the twenty-odd people who all need collecting from the airport at different times of day. An anonymous booking site hands you a set of keys and wishes you luck with the rest. Closing that gap, between a lovely house and an event that runs like clockwork, is where we spend our time. Why a house you cannot see is a gamble Booking a large villa through a platform you have never dealt with is a leap of faith, and a big group raises the stakes. A house that photographs beautifully might sleep twenty on paper and feel cramped once everyone is actually in it. That “five-minute walk to the beach” turns out to be five minutes downhill and twenty-five back up. And the night the air conditioning quits, or the sixth bathroom you were promised proves to be a downstairs loo, there is usually nobody local to ring. At Privadia, we have worked acr...