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Style: Modern villa with some traditional Caribbean style, double pitched roofs, verandas with gingerbread trim and white wooden balustrades, interior elegant tropical, bright and light, with marble and bamboo furniture. Indoor-outdoor living with sea views aplenty
The Beach: Anse du Cap, volcanic sand beach within 10 minutes walking or 5 minutes drive
The Rooms: 4 air-conditioned bedrooms - 3 with en suite bathrooms, 1 with shower room
Key features: Spacious multi-level villa for St Lucia holidays with two master bedrooms and a further double. Entry level cloakroom, large open plan living and dining area with cable TV, stereo opening to full length veranda with views to Pigeon Point, fully equipped kitchen, laundry room and maid’s area. Pool terrace with sun loungers and barbecue area down to lower level wet room with bar/fridge. Fourth bedroom with separate shower room. A/C in all bedrooms, ceiling fans throughout.
Children: Welcome
Staff: Lucy the Housekeeper, 8am to 3pm Mon-Sat. Gardeners appear from DeCaires Landscaping and general maintenance and pool servicing comes from McDoom Enterprises. Mobile security service MIB from 7pm to 6am. |
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Beach & Swimming
The nearest beach, Anse du Cap, is five minutes by car or ten minutes on foot. It has dark volcanic sand and good swimming though there are currents at times. Close by, the pretty Smugglers Cove offers excellent snorkelling. A ten minute drive will get you to Causeway Beach, where two stretches of white sand run down to Pigeon Island National Park. The north section of the beach has a picnic area and is popular with St Lucians on weekends, especially bank holidays. Reduit Beach is the island’s most popular beach. Located on the other side of Rodney Bay, it has a lovely mile-long stretch of powder soft sand. It is fairly active with a number of hotels and a good variety of watersports including waterskiing, parasailing, jetski, sunfish and hobie cat sailing. It takes about ten minutes to reach by car.
Le Soleil has a rectangular swimming pool with entry steps into the shallow end and a surrounding white tiled terrace in the garden. The terrace leads down to a wet bar and separate living area and up to the veranda of the main house. |
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Sports & Recreation
The 18-hole, 6829 yard, par 71 course at the St Lucia Golf & Country Club at Cap Estate is less than five minutes drive away and has a pro shop, and restaurant in the new Jack Nicklaus Golf Course Clubhouse. The nearest tennis courts open to the public (must be booked in advance) are at the St Lucia Racquet Club at Club St Lucia, also in Cap Estate, which has seven floodlit Laykold cushioned tennis courts, a squash court and gym. There are also two squash courts at the St Lucia Yacht Club at Reduit in Rodney Bay. The Sportivo fitness centre at Rodney Heights is St Lucia’s largest gym and offers yoga, Tai Chi and karate classes. |
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Locality
Le Soleil Couchant is located within the hills of Cap Estate, a large residential development at the northern tip of St Lucia. There are many luxury houses dotted on the hillsides of Cap Estate, some holiday homes and some residential. The estate has an 18-hole golf course with another in development and a couple of resorts, and it contains two of the best restaurants in St Lucia - the Great House and Tao at LeSport. Views from the estate extend to Pigeon Island National Park, a forty four acre National Trust reserve which was joined to the mainland by a man-made causeway in 1972, where there are two white sandy beaches. The island features ruins of many 18th century British and French military buildings including Fort Rodney, and it has an Interpretation Centre, a restaurant featuring local cuisine, a historical themed pub and restaurant, and a lookout point at the top of the fort. The island is also the main venue of the annual St Lucia Jazz Festival, held each May which attracts a host of international stars. A ferry runs between the island and Rodney Bay on an hourly schedule.
Rodney Bay is St Lucia’s busiest tourist area. There are hotels, good restaurants and bars, a shopping mall, banks, mini marts and a nearby supermarket called Super J (on the main road) and a very lively nightlife. There is also a busy marina, which attracts over 200 boats for the annual ARC (trans-Atlantic Rally for Cruisers), for which the first arrivals come in early December. The nearby village of Gros Islet hosts the now famous Friday Night Jump Up, an all night street party. The Rodney Bay and Pigeon Island area is a ten minute journey by car. Castries the capital and George FL Charles Airport (formerly known as Vigie), which receives inter-island flights only, are about 25 minutes drive away. |
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Useful Hints
Ask your travel organiser or the management company (if booking direct) for initial food and drink supplies to be laid in for your arrival (a starter food pack costs approximately US$40 per person), so that the cook/housekeeper can prepare a simple welcome meal for you. Thereafter, your housekeeper will be happy to assist you with your shopping should you wish to delegate this chore, however do expect to provide transportation and appropriate gratuity for this service. Rental rates for villas in St Lucia do not include ‘tips’, about which you will find advice in the guest information book at the villa.
Personal laundry is not included in the rental rates and charges are approximately as follows: machine wash small load EC$10, hand wash small load EC$25 and ironing small load EC$25. |
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Rates
| Le Soleil Couchant | 15 Apr-14 Dec 2009 | 15 Dec-14 Apr 2009-10 | 15 Apr-14 Dec 2010 | | 1-4 guests | 420 | 525 | 420 | | 5-8 guests | 605 | 835 | 605 | Prices are per night in US$ and include 8% Government Tax. All rates are subject to change without notice. Rates do not include the Christmas/New Year period for which a 10% supplement applies and rates are for full occupancy only (no tiered rates). A 10% supplement also applies for stays over the annual Jazz Festival which takes place every May when a minimum rental of 5 nights also applies. A 10% reduction applies for bookings of 21 nights or longer. Minimum stays: a 3 night stay during 15 Apr to 14 Dec except during the annual Jazz Festival when the minimum stay is 5 nights, for stays 15 Dec to 14 Apr the minimum is 5 nights except Christmas/New Year when it is 14 nights. |
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Special Offers
Summer Special - Free Night
Stay for 7 nights at Le Soleil Couchant and only pay for 6 nights. PLUS enjoy a complimentary arrival transfer. Offer valid for new bookings for stays from 15 May-14 Dec 2009. |
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How To Book
If you wish to book your St Lucia holidays for this villa direct, reservations should be made through the local managing agents, Tropical Villas. You may contact Tropical Villas for further information or reservations by using the DIRECT ENQUIRIES facility or the WEB LINK at the top of this page. To confirm a reservation you will need to send a non refundable deposit of 25% of the total rental fee (50% for Xmas/Jazz/Special Events). Payment of the remaining 75% is required 45 days (non refundable) prior to your arrival. If you are booking within 45 days of your arrival, full payment must be made to secure the booking. For more information about Tropical Villas and their services please see our Review of Tropical Villas, written by James Henderson. You will also find links to reviews of many more St Lucia villas managed by the company and featured by Definitive Caribbean. |
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Airport Meet & Greet
If you are booking direct, ask the villa management company Tropical Villas to send a taxi to meet you at the airport. These are arranged with their taxi driver Desir (pronounced Daisy), who normally waits in the area just outside the customs hall at Hewanorra airport. He will hold a Tropical Villas sign, but if you miss him go to the Tourist Board desk and they will page him for you. Your airport transfers are paid for locally and take approximately 1hr 30 minutes from Hewanorra and 20 minutes from George Charles.
If you are booking through a travel organiser, it is likely that their representative will be at the airport to meet you. This service and your return airport transfers should be included in the cost of your holiday. Please check at the time of booking. |
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Getting Around
A hired car is strongly recommended for all St Lucia villa rentals, unless you would prefer staff to call taxis for you as required. A vehicle will be useful if you want to dine out at night or do lots of sightseeing and particularly when it comes to shopping for groceries. Book car hire via your travel organiser or direct with Drive-A-Matic (Tropical Villas will book this for you) or Cool Breeze Car & Jeep Rentals for your St Lucia car rental and ask for your vehicle to be delivered to the property approximately 3 hours after your scheduled time of arrival on St Lucia or the following morning. Vehicles can be returned at the airport or be collected from the property at a pre-arranged time on your departure day. |
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