The house was amazing! Just as the pictures show it. My first impression was the special touches, such as frangipani flowers on the towels in the bathrooms, the hand soap at the kitchen sink etc. The layout was perfect as stayed with my family and my parents - we each had a wing of the house to ourselves, a bathroom each, TV each, separate air conditioning, just perfect! The pool was amazing and the deepest pool I’ve ever seen, but my daughter loved it, as well as all the pool toys in the garage. Speaking of, there was nothing we were lacking interms of adventure equipment, even snorkel gear!!
The only part of our stay that was not enjoyable was our encounter with the onsite tenants. After spending a fantastic day exploring the island, we came home, put my daughter to bed and sat down on the balcony to chat about our day. However this was uncomfortably cut short when we were told by the onsite tennants to go inside the house or they’ll contact the property manager, because they could hear us talking.
Now I can fully appreciate that if we were being very loud/screaming/shouting/playing loud music etc, that would not have been a problem. However, we were simply chatting normally, certainly not loud enough to wake my daughter sleeping close by. That was our first night and for the rest of the stay, we felt uncomfortable going outside. As you need to walk down the driveway of the on-site tennants house to access the pool, and their property overlooks the pool, it was uncomfortable and awkward to say the least.
I’m not sure if I missed it in the property description but it should be made clearer that there are people living onsite and you need to access the pool through their part of the property.
It is a beautiful house and my dealings with Martha and her staff was a pleasure, however unfortunately, given we couldn’t enjoy the property completely, I wouldn’t stay here again.