Carl Testimonial
 March 28, 2007

Thank you, both. We had a wonderful stay at Pineapple Villa. What a beautiful house with so many "environments" within it! I don't think we have any complaints. The staff were great, and we have worked with may villa staff over 20 years. Gwendolyn, Angela, and Pinky had a nearly perfect balance of professional distance with personal interaction. We all enjoyed watching some of the cricket, and they were patient with my ignorance of what has seemed like a mysterious game. They reminded me of die hard Red Sox fans in their enthusiasm for the West Indies team. We had more rain that we have had in memory, but that was only one day with some showers on other days. The house accommodated our large group very well. The upstairs living room became a wonderful yoga area early every morning. Food involved the usual Silver Sands dishes, but prepared extremely well for the most part. We like to do our own shopping at Chens and did so. Laundry was done every day (some villas seem to only do it a couple of times in a week) though we didn't have too much of it. The big screen TV in the main living room didn't work, but we brought the small LCD TV down from upstairs once or twice. DSL/wireless Internet access was a boon for nearly everyone at one time or another, and we appreciated the Internet-based phone connection. Since the owner is from NH like us, nearly all calls were really local.

We would hope to return there next year and are considering a longer stay to incorporate our various children's college breaks. (It was fun to have all of them there since they were 2 or 3 years old the first time we went to Silver Sands).

- Carl