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The Adagio Villa Experience Not your usual vacation choice? A vacation at Adagio Villa is a unique way for friends, families and couples to get away from it all; including the hustle and bustle of all inclusive vacations at resorts, cruise ships or hotels. What are the advantages to staying in a villa over a hotel? The only true privacy you get in a hotel is in your bedroom. In a villa everything belongs to you - the pool, the bar, the lounge chairs, the terrace, your choice in music and the view - it is your home every minute of the day.
You will only see the people you wish to see. Even the daily maid staff will become “invisible” if that is what you want; appearing only at those times you ask them to serve you. In a villa you decide everything from what you want to eat, to the time you eat. If you want a beer and hamburger in a wet bathing suit - so be it. And yet, despite having all these major advantages, an Adagio Villa vacation compares very favorably in price with a hotel, a charter boat or an all inclusive resort.
An Adagio Villa vacation is a chance to unwind and live life secluded from the pressures of meal schedules, cable or satellite television, hotel staff waiting to be tipped, and commune with nature all from a secure and unrestricted relaxing setting. At Adagio we have purposefully not connected to satellite and cable television service. Grandparents have an opportunity to enjoy their children and grandchildren, newlyweds can enjoy an extremely private and secluded accommodation, long time married couples can reconnect and really talk to their spouses, harried executives can take the time to teach their kids about sea shells and hermit crabs, and friends can enjoy each other’s company without the distraction of the outside world. But just as importantly, the villa is so spacious and the layout so inviting that private time needs can be met by just going to one of the balconies off the bedrooms or reading a book while standing in the pool.
The benefits to renting a villa begin at the airport in St. Thomas or San Juan. There you will sit in the departure area and survey your fellow passengers, inevitably a kind of Princeton’s Field Guide to Caribbean flotsam and jetsam: the knots of senior citizens on their way to meet cruise ships; the college age frat boys in “Señor Frog T-shirts”; the would-be Jimmy Buffets’s with leathery faces and thinning ponytails; the moms already applying sunscreen to their screaming kids and the dads already plotting their escape to a fishing boat or scuba dive. You will look around at them and whisper to yourself, “After this flight is over, I will never see any of you people ever again. Not at the pool. Not at the reception desk. Not at breakfast. Never, and certainly not while I am lounging around in my swimsuit getting a sun-tan."
While your departure lounge cabin mates are checking in at the local upscale resort, you’ll be wandering through room after impeccably decorated room at Adagio villa trying to figure out which one has the best view of the ocean from your private balcony. But beyond cost (and even beyond the undeniable tingle that saying the words “my villa” provokes), there’s a vast aesthetic difference. A villa is somehow of a place—integrally part of the landscape—an authentic alternative to the “Luxury” served up by even a well-meaning hotel chain. To stay in a private residence puts you in a community, not only of your neighbors and the locals you’ll meet at the food market, but of a sort of “villa-ocracy” whose members have known how to travel throughout the ages: from Italian counts relaxing in the hills of Tuscany to David Letterman or Larry Page taking a break at Necker Island. As you may have imagined, the inaugural, stock-up trip to the liquor store is one of the great rituals of villa life. So are a host of other, usually boring, domestic chores. But even here you can order ahead and have it all ready for your arrival – including a stocked refrigerator. And there is no need to cook every meal yourself – relax at your villa and have a chef come in to prepare, serve and clean up after an enjoyable and inexpensive group dining experience. Or, just wander into town and check out one of the great restaurants on Virgin Gorda. Eventually, of course, you will deign to go down to the beach and spend a few hours snorkeling across impossibly blue water or just lolling in the sand. And then, pleasantly sunburned and weary, you will return to your villa—up the road about 50 yards, past the gate and pop into the pool to cool down and, inevitably, someone will sigh happily and say, “Ah, home.”
But we realize that not everyone is immune from the pressures of life - need some entertainment for the little one’s during the day? We have child friendly movies and both DVD and VHS players in several of the bedrooms – nice thing about movies are that they end and after the break the children can rejoin the family activities. Do you have someone still feeling the urge to find out what’s happening in the world – guests at Adagio can bring their laptops and hook up to free WiFi to catch up on the stock market or breaking news all without distracting other guests by catching CNN as it drones on about the latest events. So relax, the world will carry on without you for a short while - enjoy the beach, the sand, the sea and by all means just sit there and watch the sailboats go by. After all its your villa.
Come join in the Adagio experience - you'll be back many times.
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