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The two story Carolina house was purchased in 2001 by American hotelier Richard Friedman. Several years of remodeling and refurbishing has turned it into an ultra-comfortable Caribbean House. Each of the five bedrooms, four upstairs and one on the ground floor, open out onto a wrap around verandah.

In fact, every room on both levels opens onto the porch via double mahogany French doors, even the bathrooms. On the main floor are a comfortable living room with music and entertainment center and a newly renovated and well equipped kitchen. Across the spacious foyer is the dining room with mirrored closet doors reflecting the surrounding vibrant blue sea.

Here dinners are served by a private chef and staff or by those guests who love to cook and want to be alone. Off the great room is the a garden framing the L shaped swimming pool and barbeque gazebo high above the harbor and small village of Soper's Hole.

Even better, especially if you've had a few too many like some, ahem, guests have been known to do, native Tortola houseman and driver Clarence will be happy to tell you where to go and drive you there.

There is a special introductory price, from October 15 to December 23, 2006, of $12,500; the rate is $35,000 during the Christmas/New Year's holidays, $25,000 in high season (January 3 - April 21, 2007, and $15,000 in low season (April 22 to December 15, 2007.)

The price includes 7 nights, arrival and return transfer, welcome cocktail and dinner made by the house's professional chef, breakfast each morning, two full days with lunch on a captained yacht, with lunch, and ten spa treatments. 4% gratuities and 7% tax are not included.

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