This house is what St. John is all about. Natural beauty, not luxury. Beautiful view of the bay by day, starry nights by night. The house is well stocked and the beds are comfortable. There is also a great library and small stack of puzzles and board games. There are also beach chairs for your use.The beach directly accessible from the house is pebbly but has fantastic snorkeling. Salt Pond Beach is the next closest (5-7 min drive) and is beautiful. We also explored a lot of trails and beaches during our stay. For restaurants, the ones in Coral Bay were easily accessible and tasty. We loved the quiet. If you want more of a night life, stay closer to Cruz Bay. Our host met us and drove us to the house, which is good because it would have been hard to find otherwise. The final stretch (mile or so?) is very rough--a Jeep is a must. We were warned of power outages, but if there were any, they happened while we were out.We are a family of 5, so used both levels. The only connection between the two is an outdoor staircase.We'd definitely stay here again. We had a great visit.

We have stayed at the Kiddel house several times and always enjoyed the killer views to St Croix and great location close to Lameshur and of course Kiddel and Grootpan. For traveling in the high season when Christmas winds can be high, it’s nice to seek the calmer southern beaches.

We enjoyed out stay! The Antares team was great! Great snorkeling in the Kiddel Bay. Just consider the steep walk to the bay for elderly. The main sitting areas and kitchen do not have A/C but the rooms do. Beautiful location!!.

We stayed with 6 adults and 2 children (2 years and 8 months). The separate levels worked really well for our group. The bedrooms are all separate from each other which really allowed privacy and quality naptime for our children. It was immaculately clean. The a/c units in every bedroom worked great, and the fans and screen doors in the common areas made that area easy to live in. The views off both back porches can't be beat. We swam a few times in Kiddel bay (where the snorkeling is awesome if the surf is reasonable), and hit up Salt Pond once and Little Lameshur 3 times. Highly recommend getting a jeep for both the cottage and to get out to Lameshur, which was very quiet this week. Antares is a quality management company, with constant hand-holding communication throughout the process, making our stay stress-free and easy. We would love to be able to rent this cottage on our next trip to St. John.