Guest: Nancy | 11/14
Truly an awesome week with unique, pleasant experiences from arrival to departure. The views and sunsets from the balconies are stunning! This amazing house offers everything you need, it is totally spacious and comfortable from top to bottom. Lots of fun activities, shopping and excellent food close by as well as quiet, relaxing time too. Great weather and very friendly locals. Just an overall wonderful vacation and we would highly recommend it to our friends and family!
Great Escape
Guest: Leigh. (Salisbury, NC) | 11/14
Excellent place for an out of the country experience. If you like to get away from it all in a wonderful house that has everything to offer. This is the one. You have spectacular views from two decks with great lounge furniture on both. A well stocked kitchen. Fabulous shower on second level (shown in pictures). You are only approx 150 yards from the reef so you can snorkel, dive, fish, take a tour of the island, have a night on the town experiencing the island food and drinks, or just relax... plenty of places to do that as well. We had a chef come in one night to cook for us... the food was delicious. There is also a local little restaurant about a two block walk from the house that had wonderful local style food.
Pirate's View Awesome Home and Location
Guest: Terri H. (Richmond, VA) | 08/14/14
Best vacation ever! We were three couples and two individuals staying in this luxurious 5 bedroom, 5 bath home right on the beach. We never felt overcrowded, even with all eight of us in the common area (although 6 in the plunge pool got a little cozy). The house had all the modern conveniences of home (including satellite TV and Wifi service) with a full kitchen with dishwasher and a laundry room (so you can pack lighter and just run a load of wash mid-week). The best part is the location, right on the beach with a private dock 20 feet from the back door. The reef and the breaking waves are about 200 yards offshore, and you can use the provided snorkeling equipment and kayaks to go out and see the beautiful corals and tropical fish. The back deck and the plunge pool make a nice place to end the day watching the sun set over the Caribbean Sea. In the morning they make a nice place to sit and listen as the island comes to life with kids going to school and fishermen boating along the reef, and all were quick with a hello and a wave. Pirates View is within a quick taxi ride of West End and Anthony’s Key for the shoping, bars and restaurants (You can walk to Anthony’s Key, but the cab ride is easier and safer considering there are no sidewalks along the road). West Bay is a slightly longer cab ride (around 10 minutes), but has more of the “resort beach” atmosphere with shops offering paddle boarding, parasailing and wind surfing along the pristine white sand.
Home away from home
Guest: Laura S. | 08/04/14
This house came fully equipped like your very own home. We were met at the airport by our driver for the week, stocked up on groceries, and was given a tour of the house. While the house has some quirks to it, it is comfortable and well-appointed with plenty of room for our party of 8. Situated right on the beach with kayaks and snorkeling equipment for checking out the reef within easy reach. We had a chef cook local cuisine two nights. Our driver scheduled our week of tours and scuba diving. He was always prompt, knowledgeable, and accommodating. Our stay was filled with delicious food, friendly people, and interesting experiences.
A Jewel on Sandy Bay
Guest: Susan R. | 05/14/14
I stayed here with a group of family members who were in Roatan for a wedding. The wedding was held at one of the big resorts on West Bay, but we chose to stay in Sandy Bay to be away from the crowds, and to have kitchen facilities to prepare our own food. The house is very comfortable and well equipped, and is designed with high end floors and countertops. The beds are comfortable, the air conditioners work well, and there is a good supply of clean water and ice. We made good use of the kayaks and snorkeling gear. We had 2 rental vehicles, one a 4WD pickup truck, and could not fit them both in the parking area inside the gate. It is possible to take a 4WD vehicle around back on the beach and park there, which we did. I would not recommend staying here without a car.
We prepared our own food and ate out only a couple of times. The wedding party that stayed at the West Bay resort almost all got sick with foodborne illness. Those of us who stayed at the house did not. We shopped at Plaza Mar, which is near the Eldon's grocery in Coxen Hole but has lower prices. We bought seafood at the Hybur Seafood market in French Harbour. The seafood is frozen, but reasonably priced and good quality.
We very much enjoyed a day excursion to Pigeon Key with Mango Creek Resort, and diving with West End Divers. Sandy Bay is convenient located between Coxen Hole, for shopping, and West End/West Bay for other attractions.
Overall, if you stay at Pirates View. You won't be disappointed.
What a fabulous place and time!
Guest: M. (Wyoming, MI) | 04/11/14
We looked forward to our trip for a year and we were not disappointed. The house has everything you could possibly need! Claire, Kevin and Desiree . . . There are not words enough to describe them. They were there whenever we needed them. We had a couple of glitches along the way but they were handled wonderfully! We couldn't have been treated any better. The snorkeling is great whether you are a first timer or have snorkeled before! Our trip was fabulous and tons of great memories were made!
Nice Place
Guest: MontanaTraveler (Helena, MT)| 04/07/14
Claire, Kevin & Desiree were waiting for us at the aiport. Our driver stopped by the grocery store for us to get groceries. Got to the house around 2:30. At 3:30 the power went out and was out until 7:30 the next morning (16 hours). So the first night was very hot. After inquiring about renting some fishing poles to fish off the dock we were informed that you're not allowed to fish off the dock because there is some protected marine park or something. Kind of disappointing. Might want to remove the fishing from the description. The house was nicely appointed and comfortable. We stayed in the lower level and the other 2 couples stayed in the upper two levels of the house. No complaints about the lower level at all. I don't think there were any upstairs either besides the CD player described did not work. All in all the house was nice - a little far from town - so we had to take taxi's pretty much everywhere we went. Got pretty spendy. Also the plunge pool looks way bigger in the picture than it actually is. All in all a good place to stay.
Comfortable Accomodations
Steve and Linda (Minnesota) | 02/20/14
We enjoyed a very comfortable and pleasant stay at Pirates View Feb 8-15. The surrounding community is exceptionally peaceful and quiet, as the home sits in a low-key residential neighborhood. The house has all the amenities to make your stay relaxing. The beds were comfortable and the a/c worked well. Our entire group felt safe and never encountered any issues. The dock is spacious and relaxing with world-class snorkeling an approximate 200 meter swim away. We used the provided kayaks to reach the reef to snorkel and found it fairly easy to get in and out of the kayaks with the assistance of a snorkel buddy.
The property managers provided the home with two cell phones and always returned any phones calls promptly - heck, they even greeted us at the airport upon our arrival and spent time with us answering any question we had.