40 Years of Some of The Best Villas From Palmer & Parker

40 YEARS OF SOME OF THE BEST VILLAS FROM PALMER & PARKER December 2011 marks 40 years since UK specialist tour operator Palmer & Parker Holidays printed its first brochure offering holidays in some of the finest villas in some of the best locations in... More

40 YEARS OF SOME OF THE BEST VILLAS FROM PALMER & PARKER December 2011 marks 40 years since UK specialist tour operator Palmer & Parker Holidays printed its first brochure offering holidays in some of the finest villas in some of the best locations in Europe and the Caribbean. In those four decades the formula has changed little: the villas are a select few, all with private pools, chosen from the many visited each year, and the service is very personal and responsive to specific requirements of customers. “We give very good advice, and people do appreciate that,” says Edward Palmer, one of the original partners in 1971. “Staff visit the villas regularly and our published descriptions are short on hyperbole and long on information: we hardly ever use vague words like ‘luxury’ and gushing descriptions are not what we are about. We like to make sure that people are getting exactly what they want and will go far out of our way to achieve that. And we always answer the phone within 15 Less