Love Island 2024 kicked off this week on ITV, marking the unofficial beginning of summer and introducing us to a brand new line-up of Islanders hoping to find love in the villa. With a cast that includes Love Island's “oldest ever contestant” (Joey Essex, only 33 if you're wondering) and new faces such as Samantha Kenny and Jess White, this season is set to be a busy one of grafting and cracking on.
But one thing that our minds has inevitably been wandering to with the drop of each new episode is where is the Love Island villa? Given the sunshine and bikinis it's definitely not here in the UK, so let's delve into exactly where Love Island is filmed and whether you can visit it for yourself.
Where is the Love Island villa?
While this year's earlier winter instalment of the show took place in South Africa, the summer edition of Love Island is always filmed in the Spanish island Mallorca.
More specifically, the Love Island villa is located near Sant Llorenç des Cardassar in Mallorca, a small town on the Balearic island’s east coast. Tucked away in remote area off dirt roads, the villa sits amid lush greenery and mountains, well away from tourist hotspots.
Featuring its own infinity pool and outdoor kitchen, the property Sa Vinyassa is worth an estimated £2.7 million.
Where is Casa Amor?
Casa Amor is situated down the road from the villa at Alchemy Villa – just close enough to be in earshot of the main villa and add to the brewing drama!
Updates to the Love Island villa in 2024
Love Island's executive producer Mike Spencer says that the refreshed villa was created to be as "Instagram-worthy" as possible.
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Bold colours mark out separate spaces like the fire pit and outdoor loungers, with Spencer explaining "We're back at the same villa but it’s had a massive glow up. We have tried to create these new zones, so that everyone has a place, and everything has a place. There’s a Miami area here, which is really cool and quirky."
Can you stay in the Love Island villa?
Fantasising about your own Love Island summer? We get it.
The good news is that you can actually book to stay in the Love Island villa, though it'll cost you £5,000 per week.
The villa outside of Love Island season is also near unrecognisable given that it gets a makeover each year to transform it into the iconic villa we see on TV.
We genuinely don't think we would have recognised it from its Fincallorca listing, with it having a much more pared back, rustic aesthetic that makes the most of its stunning natural surroundings.
Likewise, there's no fire pit to pull someone for a chat by or a terrace (this is constructed by the ITV team each season), while even the villa's actual wooden steps are built over with a more understated white set.
But can you book it?
Unfortunately, the villa doesn't currently seem to be available to book, no doubt due to a busy period of Love Island filming, but you can find the listing in all its glory at Fincallorca.
Where have previous Love Island seasons been filmed?
Superfans will have spotted that the current Sa Vinyassa villa isn't the original Love Island villa, with it first appearing on screens in 2022, while Diseminado Poligono 5 villa housed the show's contestants from 2017 - 2021.
Back in 2015 and 2016, a stunning stone house featuring a beach-style pool in Satanyi was used, with the property being listed for sale at an eye-watering £3.1 million in 2021.
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