Booking direct with Hummingbird Luxury means booking with the family that represents each villa in the collection. Our best available rates, the most flexible terms, and a direct conversation with the people who know each villa in person.
Book Direct
Why book direct
with us.
with us.
The best available rates. The most flexible terms. The same family on the phone.
I - Best Available Rates
The price you see is the price.
Our own site holds our best rates, kept honest by how we price.
Every villa is priced at what it costs to run and what it’s worth to stay in. When you come to us directly, that price comes to you without an added platform commission or wholesaler margin layered on top. Straightforward. The rate you see is the rate you pay.
II - Flexible Terms
Terms that suit your trip.
When we work with you directly, we can shape the details around the trip you’re building.
Need to shift your dates by a week? Want a longer stay split across two villas? Interested in adding or removing a night as the plan takes shape? A direct conversation lets us find a way.
A flexible sixty-day cancellation policy. Minimum stays that read as guidance. Deposit schedules that can be phased. Every part of the arrangement shaped by what makes the trip work for you.
III - A Real Person, Throughout
The same host from first email to last morning.
One person, one story that carries through the whole stay.
When you book with us directly, the same host walks alongside you from booking through after departure. They know every villa in the collection in person, have met every owner, and can arrange every part of the stay before you land.
Your concierge meets you at the villa. The butler knows your coffee by day two. The housekeeper is the same one your friend met last year. Your host is available whenever you need. Continuity that turns a rental into a stay.
There are many wonderful ways to discover our collection. When it’s time to plan the actual trip, coming to us direct means every part of it can be shaped around you.
We answer the phone ourselves.
IV - Local Knowledge
Recommendations, freely given.
We recommend the vendors we know, and for no other reason than that.
We’ve been on this island for decades. Every charter captain, chef, spa therapist, guide, and driver we send you to is someone we know personally. Someone we trust to care for you the way we would.
Our recommendations aren’t paid, sponsored, or influenced by commission. They’re based on what fits the trip you’re planning, who’s the right person for the day, and no other reason.
You tell us your travel style. We match you with the right people. That’s the whole point.
V - What's Included
A stay, not a listing.
Booking direct makes a villa stay feel effortless.
Every direct booking includes the villa, the pool, and a team of people whose job is to make sure you don’t have to think about any of them.
A dedicated host, on-island, from your first email to your last morning. A local concierge who knows the vendors we work with by name, and knows exactly when each one needs to be locked in. Pre-arrival groceries stocked to your preferences before the door opens. Airport transfers in a private car. Weekly or daily housekeeping depending on the villa.
Chefs, boat charters, spa treatments, childcare, and the rest of the add-ons are billed on top only if you want them — and the earlier you tell us, the better the pick. We know which chef gets booked out first in high season, which boat suits which day, and how far ahead the sitters need to be held. Timing is what we do; you just tell us what you’d like.
The villa itself is the one thing worth booking early. Festive weeks tighten first, then high season. Send us your dates and we’ll tell you honestly what’s still open — and what will move fast.
Everything else is already yours.
VI - How Direct Booking Works
Four steps, one inbox.
No forms, no callback queues, no back-and-forth over a message board.
Enquire. Send us your dates, your group, and what you’d like the trip to feel like. A short note is enough.
Match. We reply — usually the same day — with the villa or two villas that fit best, real availability, and direct rates for your dates.
Hold. We hold your dates for seventy-two hours while you decide, no commitment. That gives you room to check flights and confirm with the group.
Confirm. A signed booking, a deposit, and a welcome pack. From there we start pulling the trip together — transfers, groceries, the chef if you’re having one, the concierge introductions.
The whole thing takes less than a week, in a day if you’d like, and most of it happens in the same email thread.
VII - For Returning Guests
The best rates go to the people who come back.
We look after returning guests the way we look after the villas — quietly, and by hand.
Priority dates in the diary before the calendar opens publicly. A small welcome gesture when you arrive — often a bottle of something you mentioned on the last trip. Room preferences remembered. A rate held from the year before if the calendar allows.
None of this is a loyalty programme with points and tiers. It’s a small operation run by the same team, year to year, and remembering who you are is part of how we run it.
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Or send a note and we’ll respond personally with availability and direct rates.
Every villa in the collection is bookable direct through our site. If the calendar looks promising, click through. If you’d rather talk it through first, send us a note. Both open, any time.
Or send us a note.

