How to Book a Private Villa or Condo on Catalina Island

As a revered Southern California getaway destination for couples, friends, and families, Catalina Island offers a vacation combination of natural beauty, fun activities, fine dining and accommodation options replete with amenities.  

Located just 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, a quick boat ride—only 90 minutes via the Catalina Express out of Dana Point—will put you on this island paradise. Once there, Catalina Island offers 76 square miles of pristine beaches as well as forest and mountainous terrain where travelers can enjoy everything from sunning seaside, submarine sightseeing and fishing, to seal and porpoise watching, to zip-lining, shopping, exciting Jeep excursions, and much more. Whether you’re an adrenaline junkie or just need some long-overdue R&R, this island is an optimal destination.

Catalina Island offers a vacation combination of natural beauty, fun activities, fine dining and accommodation options replete with amenities.

While Catalina hosts plenty of accommodations to choose from, not everyone wants a standard hotel room—particularly those who are looking for more space and residential comforts. The Catalina Island Vacation Rentals Company (CIVR) helps match visitors with the exact type of accommodation they’re looking for. The company’s robust portfolio of nearly 200 unique rental properties around the island includes tastefully decorated cottages, homes, and spectacular oceanfront villa rentals in the Hamilton Cove community just outside of Avalon.

 Along with unsurpassed full-frontage ocean views, surrounded by the island’s foliage and mountains beyond, the Hamilton Cove villas provide all the comforts of home, plus the luxury of exclusivity on the island. These rentals are actual condominium residences that private owners rent out through CIVR when not in use. This offers vacationers a great alternative to a hotel room, especially when you have a family or larger group and would benefit from key amenities like a full kitchen, full-size bathrooms and bedrooms, separate living room (with pull out sofa), multiple bedrooms for greater privacy, wood-burning fireplace, free Wi-Fi and, in many units, additional personal leisure-time touches like satellite TV, board games and books. 

Most of the properties also include laundry facilities to keep that suitcase fresh as well as housekeeping services that can be arranged by request in addition to the initial complimentary start-up service applied before your arrival. Notably, CIVR also includes a golf cart with every villa rental.
 
"Vacation rentals are a great option for travelers [and are] becoming more and more popular as they provide a great experience for vacationing together," noted Denny Honsey, General Manager of CIVR.  

Because Hamilton Cove is a private community only accessible to those staying at the location, there are additional amenities that are only accessible to guests. These include croquet, tennis, pool, tub, and a private beach. Making a home away from home has certainly never been easier with these luxury villa rentals on Catalina Island.