Name: South Coast Ocean View Apartments
Address: Brooks Estate, Saint Mary, Saint Mary, Saint Mary, 99999, Antigua and Barbuda
Rating: 9.8

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South Coast Ocean View Apartments

The first floor apartment was perfect for us, clean, spacious, well fitted out, and stunning views from the balcony while we enjoyed our breakfast and post beach G & T. The setting is lovely, up a hill, quiet, lovely views, great for us. We had always planned to hire a car which is needed, good restaurants 10 to 15 mins drive away ( not far in miles!). The owner was very attentive and keen that everything was OK. We loved it and would definitely stay again!

Really not what I expected.   This is a hidden gem.   The owners made you feel at home the whole stay.

Lovely apartment with wonderful views.Very helpful owners,made us feel at home.

The apartment was great, well furnished with a fantastic view on the terrace overlooking the Ocean - and especially the sunsets. Ruedi and Wilma, the owners, were excellent, very attentive and knowledgeable. The surrounding area has some of the island's best public beaches and is easily accessible for everywhere.

We'd stayed at South Coast Ocean View Apartments (in a ground floor apartment) for six nights in December and had a wonderful time. The terrace offers fine views of the green hills, the sea and the distant islands is wonderful, a very nice place for breakfast. Proprietor Ruedi is extremely friendly and helpful and can provide you with a cell phone with local card - very useful! Also, he has a contact who can take you to nearby (you can see it from the terrace!) Cades Reef for snorkelling. The apartment is spacious, clean and comfortable and has the necessary mod cons e.g. TV, toaster, coffee maker, blender (banana smoothies every morning!). We were also provided with a nice and clean infant bed for our son.
It's not on the beach of course, but there are very nice beaches nearby and we preferred the views and the quiet (and it is very quiet). English Harbour, Fig Tree Drive (pleasant hiking and birdwatching at Wallings Reservoir!) and Jolly Harbour (big modern supermarket) are nearby (provided you have a car). We were very happy with our choice for this part of the island. All in all highly recommended!

We spent five relaxing days in one of these beautiful apartments in February 2011. Our apartment was the last one up to the hill upstairs: spotless, comfortable, a well equipped kitchen, a large bedroom and bathroom, a beautiful terrace (we really enjoyed the wonderful view from it, where we had our breakfast every morning). I also remember that there were less mosquitos there than where we spent our last week on the island! Wonderful! Ten minutes by car from Jolly Harbor Supermarket and restaurants and the beach. There’s a bus stop nearby but a car would be suitable. (We rented it).
Just two complains: we didn’t find any bottle of drinkable water, when we arrived, even if it was late evening; the owner gave us a list of “things to do and not to do in Antigua” which scared us a bit…once read it, throw it away and live the wonderful Antigua! ;-)

We spent a week at Scova in February and thoroughly recommend it as a perfect base for exploring the island. The apartments are set in quite a rural, not too touristy, part of the island (which is what we were looking for) but this did mean that we needed a car to get around, as most of the beaches and restaurants we visited were a ten minute drive away. The apartment itself was beautifully furnished, very well equipped and  spotlessly clean.  We choose a ground floor apartment as this gave direct access to the gardens which were abundant with birds. Ruedi was very welcoming and keen to ensure we had everything we needed - even giving us delicious mangoes from his garden! The top quality bed linen and towels were changed midweek, and Wilma also, unexpectedly, cleaned the apartment which was a lovely touch.  Our understanding of the service charge that MangoWinetaster (previous review) mentioned was that it would be applied only if the apartment was left in a mess, which seems reasonable to us. We'd have no hesitation in recommending the warm welcome and comfortable accommodation at Scova.

We had a wonderful stay at Scova, it was our first time to the caribbean.

Rudi collected us from the airport and didnt grumble that our flight was delayed, he suggested we stop at the grocery store on the way to the apartment to get some food etc.

The apartments are spotlessly clean, have everyhting you need and great views of the sea.

Rudi has pretty much thought of everything, his hospitaltity experience shines through, he lends you a local mobile so you can make calls at a lower cost and he can also call you very useful.

Nothing was too much trouble for him the morning we left we had a flat tyre, he came to our assistance as we couldnt find the car jack, he helped change the tyre only to find the spare flat too, we were starting to get panicked as we had a plane to catch.......he called the rental company  and they sent a replacement otherwise he would have taken us to the airport.

The only little grip we have is that they charge a service charge on top of the rentle not sure what this is for and then when you leave you have to throughly clean the apartment otherwise they charge for cleaning. Being in the hotel industry myself I would expect to have to clean after someone leaves and not charge them for it........I would suggest they increase the basic price a little to account for this, it may just sit a little better from the customers point of view.

The toads like to keep us awake with their night time song but this is mother nature doing her thing.

overall highly recommended and we would definitley return if we go to Antigua again.

We spent 10 days in Antigua from the 9th - 19th February and I'm so glad we stayed at Ocean View apartments as they are simply stunning with a view to die for. They are set in the hillside above Cades Bay and looked beautiful from the road. On driving through the automatic gates we were amazed by the perfectly landscaped gardens filled with gorgeous flowers and palm trees attracting humming birds, butterflies and bees which we saw every day. The drive up to the apartment is lovely and we were met by Rudi (the owner) who us extremely proud of his apartments and rightly so. They are 5 star throughout, from the soft furnishing, the decor, the crisp white bed linen, the softer than soft towels, the well equipped kitchen and large balcony with amazing views. If you have any problems Rudi sorts them straight away and it seems nothing is too much trouble. We had two linen changes during our stay and came back to an apartment that was spotlessly clean and as Wilma (Rudi's wife) said 'it is what I would want for myself'
There are beautiful beaches just a short drive from the apartments...Valley Church being our personal favourite and some excellent restaurants a short drive away too. We found the local people to be very friendly and we stopped to by a black pineapple from a road side store which was delicious! Nelson's Dockyard is a great place to visit as is Shirley Heights with it's magnificent view over English Harbour. There really is something for everyone. We had a fabulous days sailing on a traditional wooden yacht with snorkelling where we saw green turtles and rays and wonderful fish amongst the coral. Antigua is a beautiful island with perfect weather, stunning beaches and together with Ocean View apartments.......sheer perfection! Go on.....book your stay.....I know I'd go back in the blink of an eye!

The view was very nice and the service as well. But the wifi didn't work so good, and most of the the TV channels was grainy. We had a rental car, so we could go to our favourite beaches a way from there (coco and valley church). But these apartments are a bit off the supermarket and the nice beaches.

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