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Byline: Richard Alleman
Debuting in the American market this summer, the ultra-exclusive British villa-rental firm Carpe Diem Luxury Travel Ltd. and its companion company, Five Star Greece, provide access to a collection of properties so discreet that most have no brochures, in order to protect the privacy of their owners. Run by Marina Gratsos and Ileana von Hirsch, two well-connected London-based sisters of a Greek ship-owning family, Carpe Diem and Five Star Greece offer not only stellar houses and estates but also the best in personal service. After thorough consultations with prospective clients to determine their wishes, they carefully put together a short list of appropriate rental possibilities. Clients may then preview these on private web links accessible only via secret passwords, which change frequently.
Among their loveliest properties are a dramatic six-bedroom cliff-hanger created from nine traditional cave dwellings on the Greek island of Santorini; a chic, supersecluded four-bedroom villa on the trendy Spanish island of Ibiza, with expansive ...