Drake's View is a beautiful villa with four bedrooms with A/C, 4.5 bath, with a tile patio, heated swimming pool, and hot tub. Four additional tile decks and a large tiled front porch provide ample outdoor lounging areas. One bedroom is in a separate cottage.
One to four couples or a large family will have ample room for privacy, different activities,and relaxation.The villa has the same vista named by the Caribbean Travel magazine as “the best view in the Caribbean - a spectacular view of the British Virgin Islands and the East Shore of St. John.No matter where you look in the house or cottage, you see Coral Bay, the valley of Estate Carolina, Drake's Passage, and the British Virgin Islands. Rainbows, mangrove cuckoos, kestrels and red tailed hawks are common sights.
Drake's View is centrally located, on Bordeaux Mtn., the highest point on St. John. It is surrounded by lush local vegetation. It is a six minute drive to the Northshore Beaches; three minutes to the Reef Bay Trail; seven minutes to Coral Bay; and fifteen minutes Cruz Bay. It is one-quarter mile from Chateau Bordeaux, one of the Island's great restaurants. From the front door, you can hike the Bordeaux Mountain Trail to Lameshur Beach in one hour.
Drake's View has the ambiance of a home rather than a rental. The large great room is furnished with Indonesian, American antiques, and contemporary, comfortable, plantation style furniture, local art and a large reef painting and mobile by the artist Robert Tharsing.
The well equipped kitchen is very spacious and includes one of two dining areas. Three bedrooms have queen sized beds and one has twins convertible to a king. Each bedroom has air conditioning, a private bath and Swedish Tempurpedic mattresses. The house has numerous decks and accommodates 8 people with ample room for private space.