Morning villa or sunset villa? How to read a sun plan
North at the top, the sun around the edge: what the drawings on our villa pages tell you (sample).
Four villas with pools on a hill above the bay
Almond Hill Villas (sample) are four stone houses in an old almond orchard, each with its own pool and terrace, ten minutes on foot from a pine cove. We let them by the week from Saturday to Saturday, and for short breaks from October to May.
Arrive from 16:00 on Saturday, leave by 10:00. Linen, towels, pool care and a welcome basket are in every price.
The estate from above, north at the top. The yellow line is the sun on a mid-July day: up at 5:51 over the hill, south over the bay at midday, down at 20:39 behind the headland (sample). Each villa page shows when the sun is on its pool.
Four villas, four suns
Each house faces its own way, so each has its own day: Fico gets the morning on its terrace, Ulivo the midday under its pergola, Limonaia the evening and the sunset.
Villa Limonaia
Sleeps 8. West terrace, sunset from the table
4 bedrooms: 2 doubles, 2 twins
3 bathrooms
Pool 10 × 4 m
Sun on the pool 10:00–20:30
From $2,450
a week
Villa Ulivo
Sleeps 6. South terrace under a vine pergola
3 bedrooms: 2 doubles, 1 twin
2 bathrooms
Pool 8 × 4 m
Sun on the pool 8:30–18:30
From $1,900
a week
Villa Fico
Sleeps 4. East terrace, breakfast in the sun
2 bedrooms: 1 double, 1 twin
2 bathrooms
Pool 7 × 3 m, shallow step
Sun on the pool 6:30–16:00
From $1,350
a week
The Casetta
Sleeps 2. South-west garden, step-free
1 bedroom, king bed
Wet room, level shower
Plunge pool 3 × 2 m
Sun on the pool 11:00–20:00
From $780
a week
Villa Limonaia, the pool at noon
Villa Ulivo, under the pergola
The Casetta, the garden door
Sun times for mid-July (sample). Example prices per villa per week.
In every villa
- Bed linen and towels, changed midweek on two-week stays
- Pool and garden care on Tuesdays and Fridays
- A welcome basket: bread, eggs, fruit, coffee and the estate's own olive oil
- Air conditioning in every bedroom, Wi-Fi in the house and by the pool
- Beach towels, two parasols and loungers for everyone
- The final clean
Facilities (sample).
What costs extra
Cot and high chair
Free
Extra clean
$60
Pool heating
April, May and October
$180 a week
Welcome food shop
Send us a list a week before you arrive
At cost
Late departure
To 14:00, when nobody arrives that day
$50
Example prices.
Weeks and rates
One price per villa per week, Saturday to Saturday, with everything on the list above included. Out of season, from October to May, you can also stay three to six nights.
Villa, per week
Low
April, May, October
Mid
June, September
High
July, August
Villa Limonaia
Sleeps 8
$2,450
$3,200
$4,100
Villa Ulivo
Sleeps 6
$1,900
$2,500
$3,250
Villa Fico
Sleeps 4
$1,350
$1,800
$2,350
The Casetta
Sleeps 2
$780
$990
$1,290
Example prices. A refundable security deposit of $300 is returned within 7 days of your stay.
How booking works here
No booking engine and no card form: one of us reads your enquiry and answers it.
1
Ask about a week
Send a stay enquiry or call us. Tell us the villa, the Saturday you would like to arrive and how many of you are coming.
2
We reply within a day
Marta or Leo writes back with the free weeks in that villa, or the one that fits you best, and the price for the whole stay.
3
Confirm and pay the deposit
Reply to confirm and pay 30% by bank transfer within 7 days to hold the week. The rest is due 6 weeks before you arrive (sample terms).
Saturday is changeover day
Between ten and four the houses are cleaned, the beds made and the pools checked. When you arrive, Marta meets you at the gate with the keys and shows you the house, the pool and where the shop is.
Departures
By 10:00
Arrivals
Text us your time; we meet you at the gate
From 16:00
After 20:00
The code comes by text on the day
Key box
Your welcome basket
Bread, eggs, fruit, coffee and olive oil
On the kitchen table
Times (sample).
Ten minutes to the cove
The estate sits on Hill Road above the coast road, between the village and the harbour (sample). The lane is steep, so a car helps, but the cove and the village are both a walk.
Pine cove beach
Sand and shallow water, shade under the pines
10 minutes on foot
Village shop and bakery
Open every day from 7:30
15 minutes on foot
Harbour and fish restaurants
5 minutes by car
Airport
We can book a driver
50 minutes by car
Distances (sample). (555) 014-3380, [email protected]
From the notes guests leave in the kitchen
“We took Fico for the morning sun and had breakfast on the terrace every day. By four the pool was in the shade of the house, which suited our two-year-old.”
Sample guest, Villa Fico
“Six of us in Limonaia in September. We swam until the sun went down behind the headland and ate on the terrace with the last of the light.”
Sample guest, Villa Limonaia
Journal
Lemon season on the hill
From February the old lemon trees are heavy with fruit, and every welcome basket gets a bag (sample).
Three coves within a short walk
Sand, rocks or nobody else at all: the coves below the hill and how to reach them (sample).
Ask about a week on the hill
Tell us the villa, the Saturday and how many of you. We reply within a day with the free weeks and the price; nothing is booked until you confirm (sample).