1) Beautiful property! Spacious, functional, well stocked house. Graceful dream beach curves on and on for miles with nary a soul. Perfect mixture of sand, wavy days, calm days and snorkeling the beautiful reefs.
2) Clarice, the local housekeeper is worth her weight in gold. She is responsive, joyful, resourceful and is driven by one purpose: to make her guests' stay as memorable and happy as humanly possible. We would return just to see Clarice again!
3) Lisa, the property manager is incredibly responsive with an extreme sense of urgency. You stay in ANY house on an island exposed to withering sand, wind and waves long enough and something will break or go wrong. When that happens, you want to be renting from Lisa because she will bend over backwards to make things right as quickly as possible and she won't rest until the matter is handled.
4) We always stay on the Atlantic because a) wind cools things down; b) wind keeps the bugs away; c) nice mixture of calm, breakers, and waves. In our experience, the Caribbean side is nice for a few hours but it gets hot, buggy and monotonous.
5) House was perfectly situated in middle of island to allow day trips down South (Cape Eleuthera, Lighthouse Beach, Ocean Hole, Boiling Hole Caves, Plum Creek, etc.) and day trips up North (Gaulding Cay, Rainbow Beach, Queens Baths, Surfer's Beach. Coco di Mama, etc.). It took about 1 hour to get all the way up North and about 1 hour to go all the way to the South. If you stay too far South or North you won't be able to get to the other end in a day. That's why we prefer staying right in the middle.
6) House was perfectly situated to benefit from seclusion - most days there was NO ONE on the huge beach right outside the house - and to be just minutes away from Governor's Harbor - that is our favorite town, clean, picturesque, on a stunning bay, and with great groceries, restaurants etc. Also very near Fish Bone restaurant which we'd never been to and was a surprise how much we loved it!
7) Groceries on Eleuthera have ALWAYS been a huge pain and expense UNTIL we stayed at Senza Nome and went to the organic Island Farm literally 2-3 minutes from the turnoff for the house. People drive 1 hour to come to Island Farm and we could stop by there every day for fresh produce, greens, meats, eggs, freshly baked breads, fruits, drinks, alcohol and prepared foods all very reasonably priced. What a find and convenience!
Will come again and again!
