Will we all
actually fit?
It is the first thing every organiser asks and the last thing most listings answer properly. So here is the whole bed count, the part that is sofa beds, the bathroom number that will decide it for some groups — and the plan we send you before you commit to anything.
Nine bedrooms. Up to twenty-eight people.
Both of those numbers are true, and the gap between them is where most listings get vague. Ours works like this: nine bedrooms of proper beds, and above that, sofa beds in the living spaces take the house to twenty-eight.
We say the sofa-bed part out loud because you should be asking every villa you look at. "Sleeps 24" can quietly mean fourteen in beds and ten on sofas, and the person who finds that out is your colleague, on the first night, in front of everyone. Ask for the bed breakdown everywhere. Here it is ours without being asked.
Four bathrooms. Across nine bedrooms, that is the constraint that decides it for some groups — and it is why we tell leadership teams who each expect an ensuite to book hotel rooms instead. For most groups it is a non-issue. For some it is the whole answer.
The bed plan comes before the deposit
This is the part we do differently, and honestly the part we are proudest of. Before you commit to anything, we ask you how your group actually sleeps — and then send back a room-by-room plan with names on it.
The questions are the boring, decisive ones. How many beds, not how many people. Any couples? Anyone who needs a ground-floor room? Do you want the sofa beds made up, or would you rather keep the living rooms as living rooms? Should the cinema room stay a cinema, or become a bedroom for the week?
Groups answer very differently. One told us "thirteen beds, we're all colleagues, no couples." Another was eight couples. Another wanted every separate room they could get. All three fit. They just fit differently — and none of them found that out on arrival.
The wing nobody expects
The lower level is four rooms with its own entrance, kitchen and bathroom. In practice it becomes whatever your group needs it to be: the family with a baby who want to be slightly apart, the couple who go to bed at ten, the person taking calls at odd hours, or the four who want to stay up.
And one honest note about the cinema room, since we make it up as a bedroom on request: it is dimly lit. It is a cinema room. Some people love it and ask for it specifically. Nobody should be put there as a surprise.
You will not find all of it on your own
Groups regularly message us in the first hour saying they can only find five bedrooms, or eight. The house does not lay itself out obviously — which is why the plan you get is a floor plan, not a paragraph, and why it arrives before anyone is standing in the hall counting doors.
Tell us your dates and how your group sleeps.
You will get the room-by-room plan back before there is any money involved. If it does not work for your group, we would rather you knew now.