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The Villas on Bluefields Bay, Jamaica

The Villas on Bluefields Bay are a collection of five spectacular luxury villas located on the beautiful South Coast of Jamaica. Lush, tropical, sensual, its hard to describe how beautiful the sea coast is at Bluefields Bay; a tiny fishing village a little over one hour from the Montego Bay Airport. Our newest SunVillas addition....and one we are proud to represent, The Villas on Bluefields Bay, has it all. The five villas are fully staffed, all inclusive and include fantastic, gourmet Jamaican breakfast, lunch and dinner. These properties offer the most unique and exclusive villa experience we have found in Jamaica. Absolutely the best!

Each villa is unique in its design, but all share the common goals of providing guests with unmatched comfort and the kind of pampering you would expect to find in the finest private homes. All five villas have spacious bedrooms with private verandahs/patios, en-suite bathrooms with double vanities and imported marble, and dedicated staffs. Lush tropical landscaping insures the privacy of the each villa while still taking advantage of the views of the beach and sea.

Bluefields Bay Villas - All Inclusive Villa Holiday in Jamaica

Rental Rates Include:

• Your luxurious, waterfront Bluefields Bay villa accommodation
• Fine food, open bar.
• A full staff, strictly for this house, includes cook, waiter, maids
• Weekly Cocktail Party (Monday) and Jerk Chicken Lunch (Wednesday) at the Treehouse
• Driver as needed
• Infants welcomed with daycare provided
• Transfers from Montego Bay International Airport (about 30 miles from Bluefields)
• All-inclusive rates cover full staff, meals, liquor, soft drinks, airport transfers, sports equipment, beach area, night-lit tennis court, more.

Your villa staff will also be happy to make arrangements for you to enjoy any of the following activities (some have additional charge):

They will also gladly prepare picnic baskets for you to take on your outings, or give you advice on your best choices for nightlife.

The Villas

	Cottonwood Cottage - 2 bedrooms
	The Hermitage - 4 bedrooms
	Milestone Cottage - 2 bedrooms
	Mullion Cove - 5 bedrooms
	San Michele - 6 bedrooms

The Villas on Bluefields Bay Weddings

The fine Bluefields Bay staff are highly experienced in arranging special events and weddings at our properties. They will act as on-site wedding/party planners, and coordinate with ministers (or a justice-of-the-peace), local florists, photographers, and musicians. There are many venues that can be utilized for your celebrations: The Hermitage will accommodate a large group, and its dining table can expand to seat up to 17 persons with other tables set on its upper loggia or on the patio surrounding the pool. Dancing is able to follow in its sizable living room with pink marble floor. Drinks, dining, and dancing can also take place for large or small groups at The Treehouse, which is perched just above the Caribbean Sea with expansive views of gorgeous sunsets!

The Bluefields Bay staff were recently able to accommodate a wedding party of 40+ who wished to enjoy their wedding dinner at one long table on the San Michele lawn, followed by a terrific reggae band playing in the San Michele pool pavilion.  Please be aware that it is possible to hire a reggae band, a steel drum band, a mento band or have a DJ for your celebration.  The pool pavilion at San Michele is a terrific site to enjoy dramatic meals for either large or small groups.

South Coast of Jamaica and Bluefields Bay
From Caribbean Travel & Life Magazine's September 2006 Issue

By Peter Zaremba - Photography by Greg Johnston

THE BAND'S ROOTSY SOUND cast a pitch-perfect tone over a torch-lit dinner of grilled lobster tails and "stamp and go" (cod fritters) on the beach at Sandals Whitehouse, the chain's out-of-the-way retreat that opened last year.  Not only is Sandals alone on a beautiful two-mile stretch of beach, it's the sole major resort on the entire south coast.  And yes, it's big and shiny, but the hotel is set within a 500-acre nature reserve, and its sleepy southwest setting is just right for a nostalgia trip.

The Whitehouse area is "the way Jamaica was when I was a kid says Sandals impresario Butch Stewart, who often drove past this hidden gem of a location in his former life as an appliance salesman.  Seven restaurants, 360 all-inclusive rooms (butler service optional) and the country's largest swimming pool later, Whitehouse and its environs manage to retain their unhurried appeal.

Focused on agriculture and considered remote, the southwestern coast has always been mostly left to itself.  That's partly because much of the shoreline is unappealing, with rough water and dark sand - though white-sand Whitehouse Beach is not the only enticing stretch.  When Jamaicans themselves long for a bit less of the tourist-centered north-coast liveliness, they pop over the island's mountainous spine from Montego Bay and seek out the laid-back rhythm of this less-trammeled precinct, where the country's fabled "no problem" attitude toward neighbor and visitor alike remains an everyday reality.

EIGHT MILES WEST OF Whitehouse, Bluefields Bay is possibly the south coast's most beautiful, with turquoise and cobalt waters backed by lush green mountains.  The name derives from a 17th-century Dutch buccaneer, Abraham Blauvelt (known as Blewfields to the English), who hid out here.  Now the site of a small fishing village, this quiet spot has played a pivotal role in world history.  In 1670, Captain Morgan marshaled his fleet here before setting out to devastate Panama, and it was at Bluefields Greathouse that Lt. Governor Campbell and Captain Bligh hatched the idea for HMS Bounty's voyage to Tahiti.  One of the original breadfruit trees brought back by the indomitable Bligh still stands nearby.

"I remember Negril when it was like this," recalled Mr. Wallace, owner of Casa Mariner, a locally popular seaside cottage inn-cum-restaurant that's typical of the south coast.  Small-scale and blending into the landscape, the hotel expresses a pioneer spirit that meshes with the region's sense of individualism verging on eccentricity.  Take German expat Frank Lohmann, who stumbled upon Shafston Greathouse "with water coming through the roof and goats living in it" but saw its potential.  Having resurrected Shafston as an inn, Lohmann now spends his days rigging cables to send visitors zipping over the forest canopy in an aerial bobsled.

I met up with Vaughan Turland, co-owner of Reliable Adventures, at the Bluefields Peoples' Community Association, where fishermen beach their boats under the seagrape trees and discuss the day's catch.  These same fishermen guide Reliable's tours of the bay, encountering dolphins and even the occasional manatee.  This community-based approach to tourism is designed to expand job opportunities and preserve traditions by providing authentic experiences for visitors - an idea that's being put into practice across the south coast.

On a two-hour hike up into the woodlands with Turland, we encountered six of Jamaica's 27 endemic species of birds without trying, including the beautiful little emerald and crimson Jamaican Tody.  As we ascended, increasingly spectacular vistas of countryside and sea opened before us.  Eventually, we reached the tiny hill community of Belvedere, where walking and donkeys are still the principal modes of transportation.  Nestled among pimento trees, the cottages here are often equipped with old concrete platforms known as barbecues for drying the seeds we call allspice.  We stopped for a cool drink at Bob's Café, as typical a Jamaican country place as can be found.

Back at sea level, just steps from the water and almost hidden in jungle-like gardens, the five fully staffed Bluefields Villas epitomize the kind of style that years ago made Jamaica the birthplace of the luxurious Caribbean getaway.  Open to expansive sunset views, they incorporate traditional Jamaican materials like guango wood and local marble, and are filled with fine West Indian antiques such as mahogany four-poster beds.  The guests at Villa San Michele looked as if they had thoroughly enjoyed the simple pleasure of spending their entire holiday in their bathing suits.  With Negril 45 minutes and a world away, one supremely relaxed guest quipped that Bluefields enjoyed "all the nightlife you can make."

By day, the ambitious can stroll from the pool to the beach, or wet a line with one of the local fishermen.  "Just ask for Herman," the villa guests recommended - good advice judging from the five-foot kingfish they'd caught with him and were devouring for lunch.  While I checked out another house, Cottonwood Cottage, a staffer asked, "Can you believe there's a house in Jamaica without doors?"  On purpose?  No.  But neither had I been in Bluefields before.  Perhaps the security and good will are a product of that concerted effort to "make sure the community benefits from development," said Debbie Moncure, owner of the five villas.  Her husband serves with the community association, and the couple funds early education at the local school.  The Moncures have gone so far as to institute a 2-percent voluntary community fee on all their rentals, which, Debbie noted, every guest save one has been happy to pay.

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