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| Machabee, Mahè, Seychelles |
| • 2 Bedrooms |
• No pets allowed |
| • 1 Bathroom |
• Smoking is allowed |
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• In-Suite Laundry
• Parking
• Local Phone Calls
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Seychelles Rental
Villa Rochelle is a recently built home, conceived and designed with all
modern comforts, but also with some elements characteristic of the
Seychelle tradition.
The roof lined with the corrugated sheeting of Creole architecture,
unmistakable feature of all the houses in the Seychelles, high ceilings
with their exposed timber beams and long-bladed fans in each room, the
spacious veranda with the traditional bamboo curtains, the little gazebo
by the seaside, with its corrugated roof and carved Takamaka table.
The simple and comfortable furniture is wholly handmade by local
craftsmen, a true tradition that has grown up thanks to the precious
local timbers with their exotic-sounding names: Takamaka, Calice du
Pape, Casuarina, Teak.
The house is surrounded by a garden that gently slopes down to the sea.
Its protagonists are coconut palms straining towards the light and the
sea, framed by frangipani trees with their sweet-smelling flowers,
hibiscus, and other tropical plants and shrubs.
With a sound track provided by the birds: the blackbird of the
Seychelles, known in Creole as “pie chanteuse”, the scop owl, the
gannets, the partridges, all of whom will keep you company with their
cheerful presence.
Villa Rochelle is a spacious home, as snug and cosy as you could wish,
but it is the sea, with its reefs of granite fashioned by the wind that
sets its tone and atmosphere, the sea that renders its panorama unique,
mutable and ever-changing throughout the day. A sea that will rock you
to sleep at night with its sudden rumbles, while its slow backwash will
accompany you in the morning as you take your first coffee on the
veranda, and also as dusk descends in the evening, when you can enjoy a
shower in the midst of the garden’s tropical vegetation and bid the sun
farewell as it disappears beneath the horizon.
Except when the sea gets too rough, you can always have a swim along the
coast that stretches in front of the house, or go snorkelling and admire
a multitude of fish of every imaginable colour and size.
A home that makes you live by the sea, but well protected by its walls.
It is not an isolated house, for it is flanked by other houses with
gardens, and yet is silent, reserved and wholly enveloped in its
privacy. At any time and in all tranquillity, you can have a barbecue in
the garden, take the sun on the rocks or the deckchairs in front of the
house, admire the star-studded sky at night and have your dinner by
candlelight.
As in all the Seychelle homes, The veranda is the most important part of
the home, the place where social life runs its course, the transition
space that harmonizes the within and the without. Where you fell
protected and at the same time immersed in the light, the wind, the
warmth, and the breezes and the odours of the sea. At the centre of the
veranda there is the great dining table and, just a few steps away, the
cane lounge suite, where you can relax and enjoy the fresh air sweeping
in from the beach.
The ample drawing room is well equipped for many different activities:
music, television, video recorder, a large table for games and writing
(and also eating if you wish), a suite with divan and armchairs.
The kitchen, equipped to meet all the culinary needs of the guests, is
organized with a block consisting of a cook top with five gas-fired
burners and an electric oven, kitchen utensils for preparing even the
most elaborate of meals, a mixer/liquidizer, a toaster, a kettle for
making tea and … a set of variously sized coffee percolators for
espresso coffee.
There are two bedrooms, one with two single beds and the other with a
double bed, 2 m long by 1.80 m wide. The double bedroom looks out on the
garden and the sea. The double curtains and the windows, which open
either way, enable you to regulate the light and the air that come into
the room just as you prefer.
The bathroom is equiped with a large brick-built shower cubicle, a
bidet, hot and cold water, a hair drier.
The house can offer hospitality for up to four person. In case of need,
a folding bed could be added for a child or youngster.
The car can be parked in the space set aside for this purpose in the
courtyard of the house.
Linen (sheets, towels, etc.) is provided and changed once a week.
Cleaning is included and, if you so wish, our caretaker, Mrs. Jeda, will
do your daily shopping and cook some really excellent Creole dishes for
you. This service, with the sole exception of the shopping bill, is
included in the rent of the house. |
1-2 persons 150,00 Euro per night 1.000,00 Euro weekly
3 persons 180,00 Euro per night 1.200,00 Euro weekly
4 persons 200,00 Euro per night 1.350,00 Euro weekly
Prices are increased by 20% during August, Easter, Christmas and New
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