Tosca Villa - Review Page 3
Accommodation (Continued)
Bedroom 3
The third bedroom is on the ground floor and separated from the main living room by a central utility area and stairway to the upper floor.
Measuring 4.8x3.9 metres and offering 24.5sq.m. of total space, this bedroom is furnished with two double beds, three bedside tables with two reading lamps, an attractive large 6-drawer cane dressing table, two chairs and a full-length mirror. There is over a metre of wardrobe space, with mosquito nets for both beds stored in one ready for use, if required.
This bedroom has French doors leading out onto the main balcony and enjoys lovely views over the Caribbean Sea. As with the second bedroom, this room abuts the dividing wall to the adjacent half of the villa, so does not have windows along the side aspect. Nevertheless, the room was light and bright and the louvered wooden windows on the front aspect would probably allow enough of a breeze through if you wished to dispense with the air-conditioning.
The bathroom is the largest of the three, at 5.8sq.m. It is equipped to the same high standard, with shaver socket, wall-mounted hairdryer, walk-in fully-tiled shower and tons of storage space.
Given the double beds in the third bedroom and pull-out couch in bedroom two, the villa is effectively furnished to sleep up to nine people.
Living Room
The 29sq.m. combined living-kitchen area is naturally the largest room in the apartment. With window areas on three walls, the room is light, bright, breezy and very comfortable. It looks and feels like a home rather than a rental apartment.
The dining area features a large glass dining table with six cane chairs, but is quite large enough to take eight if necessary. The dining area is separated from the kitchen by a 1.5m breakfast bar/serving hatch with two tall chairs.
The living room area has two settees and an easy chair arranged around a large central coffee table. The table is furnished with copies of just about every book on Tobago available (birds, fish, trees, flowers, fishing, the Rough Guide plus local T&T tourist guide books) and a file containing a vast array of notes and information about the villa and the island (including many printouts from myTobago), which will be an invaluable guide to every guest. It is a pleasure to see owners taking such time and trouble to provide their guests with adequate information to optimise their holiday on Tobago.
Additional furnishings include a cable-television with DVD player and a good-quality audio system with radio tuner, CD and tape player. A small stock of CD’s are also provided.
The 5.4sq.m. kitchen is equipped with everything you are likely to require, including a huge 4-ring electric oven, a dishwasher and fridge-freezer. There is also a microwave, electric kettle, blender, toaster, juice squeezer, cafétiere and even a set of kitchen scales. I gave up even trying to list the range of pots and pans, general utensils, crockery, cutlery and other kitchen and dining items. I have seldom seen a better-equipped villa.
It has always surprised us that many villa owners don’t provide items such as sugar and salt, which are only available in family-size packs. Not so here. We were delighted to find that Malcolm and Annie encourage guests to leave all fresh food stocks for incoming guests and Catherine, the housekeeper, checks to make sure that only fresh items are retained. The kitchen is stocked like a normal ‘home’ kitchen. Malcolm and Annie invite guests to use anything in the cupboards and simply ask that anything used is replaced. I sincerely hope that their trust is not abused and that they therefore continue this lovely system.
The living room is not air-conditioned, but the large overhead ceiling fan and through breezes keep the room adequately cool throughout the day.
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