Your beach - Francis Bay Beach

Your neighborhood - Francis Bay

Four bedrooms, viewed from the pool

The Great Room is a beautiful example of a classic plantation style great room, with mahogany floors, windows and antiques, and a vaulted ceiling with valence lighting. Six sets of 8 foot tall, fully screened mahogany doors open to the wrap around covered deck and the views. Close the doors to the armoire and your living room looks like you’ve returned to a beautiful 19 century plantation house. Open the armoire doors and turn on the satellite TV/DVD, or the AM/FM/CD or plug in your I Pod and enjoy the surround sound system (10 Bose speakers), and you’ll quickly return to the 21^st century.

The interior dining area has a mahogany table that seats 10. There is also a teak table and chair set that seats 10 on the pool deck, a few steps from the gas grill.

The living room - looking out at Francis Bay

The large and lovely, granite and mahogany Kitchen is definitely 21^st century. It is very well equipped and includes a s/s refrigerator/freezer, s/s dishwasher, a 5-burner cook top stove in the center island, 2 s/s ovens, a stand alone icemaker, a walk in pantry, microwave, toaster, blender, coffee maker, and abundant cookware and dinnerware.

The covered deck off the great room

The view from an upper level bedroom

The five air conditioned bedrooms are the same size (350 sq/ft) and very similar in décor. Four of the bedrooms have king sleigh beds, while the 5th bedroom has a set of twins. All have fine Italian bed linens for that luxurious feeling. The bedroom doors are mahogany sliding pocket doors with interior wooden shutters. Each bedroom has an attached tiled bath with double sinks and a stone shower.

Life is a beach - at Maho Bay (the other beach in your neighborhood)

Caribbean Villas' View. From a distance, this very handsome stone and antique brick plantation style home looks like it might have been built in the 19th century, when this land was used to grow the sugar cane that became the rum that (along with a few pirates) made these islands infamous. However, this classic estate home was completed in 2005 and underneath its stone exterior is a thoroughly modern, elegant and very tasteful interior.
This is undeniably a spacious, luxurious and beautifully furnished home, but the feature that really sets this house apart is its location. Unlike other luxury villas, the Francis Bay Estate house does not have villas on adjacent lots or anywhere in your view, with the exception of one house on St. John and 15 miles away on St. Thomas. At night, and even at times during the day, you might get the feeling that you’re alone on an island in 1950, or even 1850. This is privacy in one of its purest forms on St. John, for the National Park landscape that surrounds you remains pristine and undisturbed.
It looks and feels like you’re in the middle of nowhere, but this (sort of) beach house is an easy walk to Francis Bay beach, and also close to the beach at Maho Bay. For families with beach loving kids, couples or wedding parties, this is a unique choice in island homes.
A bold, beautiful and thoroughly elegant home, and one of the most private, naturalist settings in the Virgin Islands qualifies the Francis Bay Estate house as one of St John’s Ultra Luxury Villas.*
If you desire a more modest home at a more modest price, one of Francis Bay’s unseen neighbors is the 4-bedroom Villa Serenity.

* Ultra Luxury Villas of St. John refers to rental homes that rent for $13,000 or more per week. The market value of these homes varies in price from $5,000,000 to $14,000,000.

All who enter here...abandon all stress and anxiety

Your view from the great room porch

The view from your deck (Francis Bay is much closer than it appears in this wide angle photo.)