If we tell you how terrific this house/location/ease of renting has been, will you have grabbed it for the very week when we dream of returning? We wobble between wanting to keep Atlantic Sunrise Villa a well-kept secret and feeling obligated to share info with this community-at-large, on whose candid reviews we often rely!
OK. Obligation wins.
But will you respect the property? Please?
First: location. The house is scarcely a mile from GH Airport (but no, you won't hear noise of buzzing puddlejumpers). The house is tucked off the main road, down a cut through the brush. It's also a 15-minute drive to Governor's Harbour itself, and relatively equidistant to beaches, sights north/south.
I didn't quite believe other reviewers about the beach until I saw it myself--and I'm still searching for my jaw, which I dropped somewhere out the back porch. The backyard is lined with coconut trees and greenery; scarcely a 30-second walk beyond lies a magnificent beach on which, during Easter week, we NEVER saw another human. (Color correction: "pink" is a little overstated...in certain lights, "blush" maybe?)
There is only one neighbor...who was quiet, kind and welcoming (hi, Mike!).
The pounding waves lulled us to sleep every night; indeed that extraordinary sunrise was there for the watching in the mornings. (Beware dawn/dusk noseeums and skeeters, folks. Keep those screen doors SHUT!)
The house surpassed our expectations and, as others have noted, the photos don't quite do it justice. All the rooms are large, airy, understated and comfortably appointed. The room flow is easy, the bathrooms VAST. The washing machine works!! It was absolutely clean and yes, the projector works if you want to hook up your computer and watch movies on the wall. (No TV.)
Note the room count: master bedroom with a king bed (and that sunrise display!!!) ; second bedroom with a queen bed. Another person could sleep on the sofabed in the living room area, which is just outside the bedrooms and not private. Comfortable, but definitely not a third bedroom.
Renting the property--working with the agents and later, the caretaker--was easy and helpful. Agents responded quickly and were ever-generous with tips and advice, answering all questions. Recommendations packets were spot-on. While we never met the caretaker in person, she was available by phone. Ample clean towels, sheets, spices.
GO!!! (And if you respect the island, ask a local about Receivers' Beach. Four minutes away!)