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Orient Village villa
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07/22/2019 09:42 AM
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Looking to possibly stay in the Orient Village area in June 2020. Must haves are 1) Only need 1 bedroom 2) MUST have private (not shared) pool 3) Prefer au naturel use of pool if possible 4) MUST have a bedroom on the 1st floor 5) Budget is $200/$250 per night
For that budget, may not be able to get it, but would prefer some kind of a water view. Thanks for any help.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/22/2019 10:30 AM
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Carol, We just returned from a week in the village and was very satisfied with Magali at Islandescapesxm.com. She manages many properties, lives in the village, speaks English and could probably find you something. Here's a link to her website: http://islandescapesxm.com
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/22/2019 11:08 AM
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The problem is that many of the private pools in Orient Village, there are townhouses next door with second stories, that they can see you on your patio from their windows, which I prefer not to be the case.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/22/2019 12:50 PM
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I'm afraid what I want doesn't exist, at least for the price I want to pay, in the Village. If you remove wanting a view, it is feasible. I found one place that looked pretty good, but there was no bedroom on the first floor. I found another place that had no view, that might have worked, but it had no US TV, all channels in French. I realize that was not on my list, but that kind of didn't occur to me, that someplace would have no TV in English. In the old days, I wouldn't have given a second thought to that, but now I would miss it.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/22/2019 03:02 PM
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bran--I've been kind of living on those pages and got kinda stuck, not finding what I want.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/22/2019 03:30 PM
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Not that necessarily, but want to try to be able to do two trips again next year--one at Beachside, one somewhere on the French side. When we first started going to SXM, we stayed on the French side all the time and had gotten away from it for the past several years. This most recent trip just emphasized how much we love the French side. We just don't get there very often when we stay at Beachside.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/22/2019 09:12 PM
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I'm really pretty clueless with regard to that type of thing. We have Direct TV at home. If we get this Amazon Firestick, we can connect to our Direct TV at home, so long as we have a really good internet connection?
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/22/2019 10:32 PM
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Louise--we've stayed there yes, but I just don't think it has the overall privacy that we want.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/23/2019 09:26 AM
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My understanding is that you can't watch Direct TV internationally, but I can check into it.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/23/2019 11:00 AM
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I understand this topic expanded some, but I'll indulge in that minor hi-jack for a moment. I take my Firestick and Roku with me when I travel. I find the Roku to be the one I use the most. In Orient, though, neither works well. I have an Amazon Fire tablet that I use for downloading a bunch of movies from my local library and Netflix which works great for the plane and while you're in internet restricted areas like Orient. That tablet works great for me - downloaded books, videos, and music and its all easy to use - no hassles; works the same way every time regardless of where I am. Most flat screen TV's now allow Bluetooth connections to the tablet, so that's even better.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/23/2019 11:33 AM
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Well, that might work, to connect to the TV. I have no interest in huddling over a laptop to watch a show.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/23/2019 09:38 PM
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Carol you can go au natural in the pool at paradis O. Bruno has US TV, definitely in your budget and a view of ocean in the distance although limited. I am not sure if you have stayed there?. We stayed 4 times so I can highly recommend it. With just 4 bungalows it can be private if they all aren't rented out. Louse-Do they have a website? Would love to know more about this place.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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Don't like Christmas Story? "Shoot your eye out!" classic. Didn't say I didn't like it. Not sure why you implied that. Only posted our go to traditional movies.
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Re: Orient Village villa
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07/24/2019 09:04 AM
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Bruno DID have a website for O Paradis, but it was hacked. He was in the process of setting up another one, but I'm not sure it's done. I think you can actually find it on like Expedia or whatever, if you do a google search.
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