Anyone stayed at Calallou on Ajax Peak?

[wonderlost]

Got some friends coming down in a couple of weeks and our house was booked so they rented that place. Supposedly open air, but does it have doors or screens at all? Kind of hard to imagine no windows or doors right now.

[RickG]

wonderlost, Callaloo has one bedroom with screens. There are two additinal bedrooms that are more like lanais - if you are doing the bumpetybump the birds will be perched on the dresser watch and flying through the bedroom. The loft is above the open living room areas and does not look too comfortable. You can close the doors to the bedrooms, but there are no screens. The beds have mosquito netting which works well.

I like the place. But... BUT.... we had the great mosquito epidemic of 2007 at the end of our week there. Sort of like what happened this May. I'd say your save now and I would stay there again. Other might be, well, rather more looking for an American suburbia experience. How you feel after a stay at Callaloo has a lot to do with your state of mind and expectations.

Trip Report from 2007

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Part 2 - http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... sc&start=0

Part 3 - http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/f ... sc&start=0

Cheers, RickG

[wonderlost]

Thanks Rick, So, if you close the doors is it just dark and still inside? Do the louvered doors have screens and let in light?
I agree, I think it will have calmed down a bit by then, but they are still pretty hungry some places

[RickG]

wonderlost - one bedroom has screens, the rest are open air - no screens, only mosquito nets on the beds. Their are shutters, but you would secure them from the outside. We never bothered and left the house completely open, the way we found it.

Check out more pics at http://travel.webshots.com/album/558983125tMHwsU

Cheers, RickG