About Cosmic Villas
Large private villas. Everyone together.
Cosmic Villas exists for one kind of holiday: the big one. The milestone birthday, the three-generation summer, the friends who finally got everyone's diaries to agree. We find the large private villas that make those weeks work.
The idea
One house. One table. The whole party.
Anyone who has tried to book a holiday for fifteen or more knows the problem. Most villa websites are built for couples and small families, and the “large” villas peter out at ten or twelve. The group ends up split across neighbouring cottages, or scattered along a hotel corridor, and the whole point of going away together quietly evaporates.
So we keep our attention on the houses that actually solve it: villas of four bedrooms and upwards, rising to estates that sleep twenty or thirty, with the long tables, big kitchens and private pools that let a group live well under one roof. That focus is the whole business.
Today the collection spans 7 European destinations - Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia and Britain & Ireland - and it grows only as fast as we find houses worth adding.
What we look for
Chosen on four principles
Big enough for everyone
Every villa in the collection has at least four bedrooms, and many sleep fifteen, twenty or more. No splitting the party across two cottages, no overflow rooms in a hotel down the road - one house, one table, everyone together.
A private pool, always
A big group holiday lives around the pool, so a private one is non-negotiable. If a villa shares its water with strangers, it doesn't make the collection.
Curated, not catalogued
We would rather show you a focused collection that genuinely works for large groups than a directory of thousands. Every villa here has been chosen because it earns its place.
A human on the other end
Enquiries come to people, not queues. Send your dates and party size and a member of the team replies personally - usually within one working day.
Our flagship villa
Villa Lux Luz is the idea, built
On the edge of Praia da Luz in the Algarve, our flagship villa has ten en-suite bedrooms, a large private pool and an outdoor kitchen that seats more than twenty. It is where the Cosmic Villas idea is easiest to see: one house where three generations, a golf party or a whole retreat can genuinely live together for a week.
How we work
Enquiry-led, with people behind it
We don't take payments through this website, and an enquiry is never a confirmed booking. Instead, you send us your dates and party size, we confirm availability with the villa, and the booking itself is concluded with the villa's supplier or owner under their terms. It is a slower promise than an instant-book button, but for a holiday this size it is the honest one.
If your first choice isn't free, we won't leave you with a dead end - we come back with alternatives that genuinely fit your group. And if you'd rather just talk it through, call or email us and a human will pick it up.
Cosmic Villas is operated by Cosmic Villas Ltd, registered in England & Wales, company no. 5279227.
Planning a week together?
Browse the collection, shortlist your favourites, and send us your dates - we'll take it from there.