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Style: Classic elegant Caribbean brought to a contemporary era - pitched grey shingle roofs, columns and white walls with clean interior lines and furniture, backed with dark slate and natural wood (inside floors are polished). Very leisurely, open layout giving onto a large open deck with a view. Cool, calm, uncluttered quite urban tropical living for discerning, design conscious travellers
The Beach: Lorient is the closest beach (3 minutes) at the bottom of the hill
The Rooms: 3 bedrooms en suite (all showers). Two bedrooms upstairs and largest bedroom on the lower level. All with a teak king size bed, air-conditioning, (upstairs also with ceiling fan) TV, DVD, VCR and CD player
Key features: A striking St Barts home rental with a cool, contemporary air and excellent views. Pavilion-like living and dining areas, fully equipped chrome and slate kitchen includes espresso machine, microwave, dishwasher, coffee maker and toaster. Large Weber barbecue grill. Satellite TV, DVD, VCR, CD player, high speed internet access and fax machine. Exercise room. Swimming pool with submerged platform and sitting ledge, large pool deck, lower level sun terrace and lawn area. A stylish hilltop retreat for grown-ups.
Children: Welcome over 14 years of age
Staff: Daily maid service except Sundays and public holidays |
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Description
A full review of Villa Coco will be published in due course. |
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Beach & Swimming
The closest beach to Villa Coco is Lorient, which is at the bottom of the hill and takes just a couple of minutes to reach. St Jean, the busiest beach on the island, is visible in the distance. Here you will find beach bars, watersports andoften a lively crowd.
Villa Coco has a large, striking, curved swimming pool with an infinity edge. It sits below the spacious wooden sunbathing deck that leads off the open-air living and dining rooms. The shallow end has a unique flight of spiral steps (in the shape of a snail’s shell in cross-section) and a slightly submerged circular platform on which you can loll and lounge. There is also a sitting ledge along its inner length. A broad flight of wooden steps leads off the pool deck to a lower sun terrace, the third bedroom and a gym. |
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Sports & Recreation
There is a fitness room on Villa Coco’s lower level (next to the third bedroom). Equipment includes a treadmill, exercise bike and an elliptical cross trainer. |
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Locality
Villa Coco is set on the hillside above Lorient on the north coast of the island. The area has a certain ‘local’ feel because there is a community there with a supermarket, petrol station, post office, a church and small school all centred around a very nicely kept graveyard. There is also a very nice beach, though there are no facilities directly on it. |
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Useful Hints
Your housekeeper will visit on the morning after your arrival and arrange with you what time you would like your villa to be cleaned each day. They will change bed linen at least twice a week and towels normally every other day. A personal laundry service is not provided. There is a laundromat and a dry cleaning service in St Jean. If you want, it is possible to arrange an evening turn-down service as well (at extra cost).
Sibarth, Wimco’s sister company on St Barths, will provide a general concierge service when you are on island (t 29 88 90). In addition they are happy to provision your villa in advance of your arrival. A standard arrival pack with sufficient supplies for your first evening and breakfast will include a roast chicken, ham, cheese, pastries, juices and fruit, plus beverages. You can also provide Sibarth/Wimco with your own specific provisioning requirements or they can arrange the services of a chef. |
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Rates
| Rates in US Dollars | 15 Apr- 14 Dec 2007 | 15 Dec- 04 Jan 2007-08 | 05 Jan- 14 Apr 2008 | 15 Apr- 14 Dec 2008 | | Villa Coco 2 bedrooms 3 bedrooms | 6,000 *8,000 | 27,600 27,600 | 11,600 11,600 | 6,300 *8,400 | Rates are quoted in US$ per week and are subject to a 10% Service Charge. Minimum rental period of 7 nights except during 15 Dec-05 Jan when it is 14 nights. * the full rental rate for three bedrooms applies to stays over Thanksgiving. All rates are subject to change without notice. |
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How To Book
If you wish to book direct, reservations should be made through Wimco, Sibarth’s sister company based in the United States. You will need to send a deposit of 30% of the total rental fee to confirm a reservation. Payment of the remaining amount is required 60 days prior your arrival. If you are booking within 60 days of your arrival, full payment must be made within 5 days to secure the booking. You may contact Sibarth/Wimco by using the WEB LINK or DIRECT EMAIL ENQUIRIES facility at the top of this page, or if you wish to telephone them, please click on TELEPHONE CONTACT to reveal the number. For a review of Sibarth/Wimco and details of their services please see here. |
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Airport Meet & Greet
When you arrive at the airport you should (turn right and) go to the Sibarth counter, which is among the car hire stands. Almost all guests hire a car and pick it up at the airport. Assuming you have rented one in advance, your name will be on one of the car rental boards, and so after you have collected it you will follow a member of the Sibarth staff to your villa. He or she will then settle you in, explaining how everything works and giving advice about the island – anything from where to buy groceries and which beaches to visit, to which restaurants to dine at. |
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Getting Around
A hire car is essential for a private villa holiday in St Barths. Although everything is quite close at hand, taxis are hard to come by on the island and anyway a car will be useful for visiting the beaches by day and of course when you dine out at night. Book a car via your travel organiser or direct with Europcar and Gumbs Car Rental. Both companies have outlets at the airport and the standard procedure is to pick the car up on arrival. A Sibarth representative will then guide you to your villa. It is easiest (and standard practice) to leave the car at the airport on departure. Please be aware that at the height of the season, particularly over Christmas and New Year, the cars become very booked up, so it is necessary to book it at least a month in advance. |
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