Your private Caribbean experience, ocean view, walk to the beach, housekeeper

My girlfriends and I had a wonderful action packed weekend here at the villaWe took advantage of several recommendations the host provided and enjoyed a chauffeured ride to the Friday night street party and danced in the streets. We also hired the private boat to take us snorkeling which was excellent. The villa was spacious and clean. The private chef welcomed us to the villa with a delicious local meal. We spent most of our time relaxing at the outside dining table enjoying the amazing view. We were treated like queens and highly recommend this home.

It was a beautiful stay with friends. On our way out, we were all talking about our next trip back. Joan, Flores, and Alston were available for anything we needed. Alston went above and beyond to drive me back when I forgot something in the city we left. The home was beautiful and the beach a short walk away was way better than expected!

The house is amazing, very spacious with room to spread out both inside and outside (loved the covered decks over the entire front of the house). Views from the deck are beautiful. The staff is very friendly, helpful and responsive to any issues that arise. Some of the amenities (towels & bedding) could use a refresh. The location makes it a little difficult to navigate short trips to the downtown area and grocery stores without a car, which we figured out after a few days.

On the positive the property has amazing views, is super clean and comes with the support of the most amazing housekeeper who did everything possible to make our stay special. However the house and hospitality itself comes up quite short and overall felt very miserly. The house interior is old and in need of a lot of maintenance. Yellowed chipped toilet seats, threadbare old linens, old noisy fridge, old chipped and damaged kitchenware. The whole place needs a refurb. The showers are terrible. After a five minute wait we were able to get hot water in one but at barely adequate pressure. We found out this is because the owner chooses to limit the amount of time the hot water heater runs which is really poor. The pool faces away from the sun and is very cold. TVs are old and small etc. Check in felt more like being back at boarding school with an exhausting and pretty inhospitable list of dos and don’ts including things like ‘if you use up the paper towels and toilet paper you’ll have to buy your own’. So overall we’d say not the worst but certainly far from the best we’ve stayed in. FYI two points to note in case you do stay here to consider binging yourself. Not that they were promised in the listing or anything but we were surprised to find no Nespresso or K-Cups machine-just a French Ppress that’s seen better days. And there’s no technology like iPhone chargers, USB adaptors or Apple TV units.