[View of Villa la Pointe, a luxury villa in St. Barths, Caribbean]

Vacations are a particularly special experience. They offer an opportunity to get away from the stress of daily life, pamper yourself with some fun, and even enjoy some new culinary delights. However, one of the best ways to enjoy a vacation is not to travel alone or with your family, but to travel in a group. Here are three reasons to travel together and ways to save when you set out in force.

1. Rental Price: There isn’t a lot you can do at a small villa, but many luxury vacation rentals are larger buildings with four, five, or even more bedrooms; a small number even have ten or more rooms to sleep in. When you travel with a group, however, you can each pay for a portion of the villa’s cost, resulting in greater luxury at a drastically lower cost to each individual family. When looking for the right villa, remember that one bedroom will usually fit two people, and try to plan accordingly. This can mean great savings for families, and incredible savings for individuals traveling as part of a club or other organization where most or all people can pay for their share.
2. Food: Eating out can get expensive if you have a lot of people, and living in a hotel would pretty much require that to happen. Feed ten people for a week out of their luggage? No, thank you, we’d rather not. However, almost all villas come complete with a fully functional kitchen, and you can alternate the preparation of food each day by asking one or two people to cook for everyone using local ingredients; the internet is a great source for recipes. By cooking yourself, you can feed many people at a lower cost and help everyone have a tasty, yet affordable, trip.
3. Local Travel: Imagine it. Twelve people coming together from four different hotels, each in a different area. Do you really want to pay for a taxi every time you want to see someone else (or rather, several taxis to hold everyone), or deal with the difficulties of coordinating things properly when people are separated? Villas provide an optimal answer to the issue of gathering everyone up when you want to do something together; you’re all with each other to start with, so there’s no need to obtain transportation to go somewhere else. St. Barths villas, like many villa rentals, offer the feature that can’t be priced… the ability to be with other people without having to head all over the place every time you want to do something. Everyone knows where to meet up, and everyone can easily be gathered for an outing. When you stay at a villa, you reduce the need to coordinate by an astounding degree, and this makes group travel far more fun as you can focus more energy on doing what you want, and less on figuring out how to make it work.

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