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Sue & Gil Law

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The Beachhouse - exactly as promised!
Great access to the wonderful little Bay that is Heavenly Bay...
Great access to the wonderful Boathouse Restaurant and host Sharon - about 5 seconds away to be exact!

Great access to help from Porridge & Jeanelle!

From the start, we were greeted with the "Porridge" sign - by his son Shaq, and driven up to the Beachhouse. Shaq was such a cutie! Even though it was pouring rain that day, we could see how beautiful the island is...

We arrived at the Beachhouse, and - because of the weather - did not promptly hit the beach, as we normally would - but chose instead to put our clothes away & get organized, after being up for more than 24 hours....

We were in Breadfruit Grove, and mostly, there was enough room for our stuff (we used our luggage to put some of our clothes) - a suggestion would be to add 1 more dresser - possibly over to the right of the mirror? but no biggie, we managed! It looked just like on the website, and the pics Alison had sent us before deciding. What a great little place!

Porridge arrived a little later to greet us personally & to make sure we had everything we needed. This was just the start of the personalized service we received from them - little things like bringing us a t-towel when the maid forgot - toilet paper - fixing my glasses! When invited over for a BBQ of fish, they actually dropped it off, all seasoned for us, with a note saying something had come up, & they couldn't join us. Well that wouldn't do! Needless to say, we changed the date to the next night, so that they could - and had a great time with them & a few other vacationers!

You have the best of the best in the Beachhouse Managers!

On an island tour, Jeanelle was extremely patient - stopping every single time I wanted to take a picture!!!
When we needed to be dropped off in Scarborough to meet a friend - Porridge did it no problem!
I can't say enough about the two of them....

Also our Maid Carli was very quick & efficient in doing laundry when we asked, and very cheerful & polite.

Anyway, the Beachhouse itself is very quaint, just enough for 2 people. We loved sitting on the balcony, feeding the birds in the mornings - bring SUGAR! - and because of the inclimate weather for about 7-8 of the 14 days, found us doing that a lot! :) Oh yes, no worries about no A/C - as stated, the fan was exactly enough air for us! In fact had to turn it off a couple nights. We already miss the sound of the waves crashing.... got to really love that sound!

We've stayed in other self-catering places, and were very surprised to find that the Beachhouse supplies toilet paper, dishwashing liquid, mosquito spray, soaps, and things like that. These are things in one of our other repeat-condos that we in fact have to buy. Much appreciated!

Loved the proximity to the beach & restaurant - and if I was in better shape, would've enjoyed the steep walk up to the village. However, Porridge showed us the "short cut" which we could in fact, use if it wasn't terribly wet.

We went up to look at Coconut Heights (the large 1 BR up top) - GORGEOUS! - and thought we might choose there another time - but that was mainly because we were rained out quite a bit & could've used a bit more room on a "cabin fever" day. Nobody's fault, just the rainy season!

All in all, would recommend this place highly - nice ambiance, GREAT help via Alison beforehand - and the "everything you need we will try to get you" friendly and VERY fun! attitude supplied by Porridge & Jeanelle & family! If Porridge or Jeanelle couldn't do something themselves, they found someone who could!

Loved it, will be back as soon as we can get there! Meanwhile, it's been nice keeping in touch with the people in Castara via email/Facebook.... gotta love technology!
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