October 29th, 2018
I received the following update from Carmen Francis, manager of the Sunset House Villa in Long Bay, Tortola. He reported, “The house has been fully repaired since Irma & Maria last year, and we have been open for business since May when we welcomed our first guests. We were blessed that most of our clients who had booked in advance for the summer kept their reservations. What made it more special is that we had a beautiful wedding at the house in August when one of our guests got married here. This has meant so much to us that we have come full circle, and can say look how far we have come in less than a year.”
Carmen went on to say that the villa now has a upgraded master bedroom as well as new furniture in the other bedrooms. In addition, their new standby generator is up and running which is an added bonus in case of a power outage. The Sunset House Villa is now accepting reservations for the 2018/2019 season. To book your next BVI vacation please contact Carmen at [email protected] or visit their website.
Sunset House Villa: +1 284-341-9135 | [email protected]
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter