Valencia A Historic Villa

Seven to sixteen guests. The house has seven bedrooms and five full bathrooms, and is always rented whole to one group. The usual group is twelve. In two of the rooms the single beds join into a double, so a mixed group of couples and solo travellers fits without negotiating who sleeps where.

Always the whole house. No reception desk, no other guests, nobody else’s schedule. For the length of the stay, the house, the pool and the six and a half hectares of orange and mandarin trees around it belong to the group. That privacy is the main reason people choose this house over a hotel.

Five minutes from Valencia airport and fifteen from the city centre. It’s real countryside — seven hectares around it — with the city a quarter of an hour away: dinner at the house on Friday, and the City of Arts and Sciences on Saturday morning.

For a group flying in, those five minutes mean no hire cars and no working out who drives.

Yes. We arrange transfers with our own drivers and eight-seater vans. Transfers are charged by the transport provider and the price is given before you book. There’s also a metro stop nearby, with trains every few minutes and about fifteen minutes to the centre.

The pool is private and outdoors, and is kept clean and open twelve months a year. It isn’t heated. In winter it’s used mostly by guests from northern Europe: if you’re coming from Norway, Finland, the Netherlands or the UK, a sunny ten-degree day in Valencia is a good spring day back home.

And if you’d rather have hot water, there’s the outdoor wood-fired hot tub for eight, which works all year. There are also two wood fireplaces with firewood included, central heating and air conditioning in every room, a cinema room, an eighteenth-century billiard table and a garden pavilion that closes up completely when it rains.

In February Valencia gets around a hundred and seventy hours of sunshine. London gets sixty-five.

Yes, and it’s one of the three ways of using the house. If the celebration is only for the people staying, it’s part of the stay and there’s nothing more to pay.

If more people come than are sleeping at the house, that’s fine, arranged in advance, and there’s a supplement covering wear on the house, insurance and cleaning. The terms are set out with no small print on the celebrations page.

The table is laid with linen, candelabra, candles, flowers cut from the garden that morning and Limoges china, and the pavilion has heating and a wood stove so rain doesn’t change the plan.

Yes: working days, retreats and team offsites. There’s mesh fibre covering the house and the garden, three network points, a backup with twenty hours of battery and two working corners with a desk and good light. We invoice, and the property is on the tourism register under number CV-ARU000608-V.

Villa Paula holds the official five-star classification awarded by the tourism authority of the Comunitat Valenciana, and is on the Tourism Register under number CV-ARU000608-V. It’s an uncommon distinction: very few rural properties in the region reach that category.

On Airbnb it holds a 5.0 rating from 120 reviews, with Superhost status.

One dog up to twenty-five kilos, agreed before booking.

From €1,299 a night, VAT included, with a two-night minimum. That includes the whole house with its garden and pool, cotton sheets, pure cotton towels for the bathrooms and the pool, and Anne Semonin shampoo, conditioner, shower gel and body lotion in the bathrooms, firewood for the fireplaces, parking with an EV charging point and the fibre connection.

There’s also a welcome pantry: coffee, tea, sugar, oil, salt, pepper and bread. It’s handed over on arrival, not restocked daily. It usually lasts the whole stay, except the coffee, which always goes first.

Meals, transfers and experiences are arranged separately.