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A Day in the Life at Jamaica WebVillas

The day starts while guests are still asleep. The cook quietly places pots of steaming Jamaican coffee on the verandah or outside your bedroom door. Full breakfast is served when all guests are ready. A typical breakfast may include fresh-squeezed orange juice and fresh fruits, banana fritters or plantain, eggs, bacon, pancakes or cereal ~ or Jamaican ackee and salt fish. For lunches and dinners, she will prepare her own mix of Jamaican specialties ~ including delicious homemade soups, salads and desserts; grilled lobster, coconut shrimp, jerk chicken, ginger pork, fresh fish, curried goat and even lasagna … or traditional American fare per your request. Warning: Jamaican cooks are excellent and portions are generous!

We welcome children! Every cook will prepare individual meals for children of all ages and serve them at times parents suggest. Often, this means parents can enjoy rare all-adult candlelight dinners.

Your chambermaid and laundress will care for every detail of your bedroom and bath, will return your neatly-folded laundry each afternoon, and turn down your bed each evening. Your gardener will maintain the pool and grounds each day. Most villas are staffed by a butler as well who serves, tends bar and generally facilitates. Available on request are drivers, nannies and masseuses. (Our masseuses will come to your villa to provide treatments right there so you don’t even have to leave home for this luxury.)

Recommended staff gratuity at the end of your stay is 10% of the villa rental in High Season, 15% in Low Season, divided among your staff members in accordance with the Gratuity Guideline you'll find in your Welcome Book at the villa. If you wish, you may prepay for your groceries and gratuities, or pay locally in cash. You may also set up a credit account in a local supermarket when you’re there. However, cash will be required for gratuities and for small vendors of fruit, vegetables and fresh fish. Items to Budget

Your cook will handle grocery shopping and meals. She will prestock your first few meals, then finish the week's shopping after meeting with you. A typical grocery budget is $45-$55 per adult per day and $20 per day for preteens. (This may vary up or down depending on the menus you request. Shellfish and imported beef may increase the budget.) This budget includes modest prestock of a small starter bar (Red Stripe, rum, and moderately-priced wines). Additional alcohol requests will increase your budget. If you wish to go to the various markets with your cook, you are welcome. Otherwise, simply review with her your tastes and distastes and she'll handle it all while you stay at the villa and relax. It is preferred to have you present the cook with the week's grocery monies at the beginning of your stay. At week’s end, she will present receipts and reconcile your account either with a refund or request for additional money.
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with Linda Battaglia
Distinctive Villas for the Discerning Traveler to Jamaica
Woburn, MA
(781) 932-0620 USA
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