Journal · The Estate
One house, fourteen guests.
How a group shares Ocean Palm: the long table and the open pavilions for the hours together, seven bedrooms for the hours apart.
Ocean Palm is let as a whole. Up to fourteen guests have the house, the garden and the pools to themselves, across seven bedrooms — which makes it less a place to stay than a place to be together, for a long weekend or for several weeks.
Where the house gathers.
The long table, the pool deck and the open pavilions are where the house gathers. The living rooms have no fourth wall: slide the panels back and the seating, the table and the garden become one room, so a conversation can move without anyone leaving it.
A chef, and a menu of your own.
Your private chef cooks to the menu you choose — a long lunch by the pool, a candlelit dinner at the long table. The ingredients come from the morning market, and the courses are yours to decide.
Meals are not part of the nightly rate. Lunch and dinner are prepared at an additional charge, with ingredients billed at market cost plus a handling fee and nothing marked up on the food itself.
Seven rooms to retreat to.
When the day disperses, it has somewhere to go. Each of the seven bedrooms opens onto its own terrace or courtyard — glass on two sides, timber underfoot — and daily housekeeping and turndown keep them ready for whoever wanders back first.
Celebrations, kept intimate.
Intimate celebrations are welcome with advance approval; large parties and commercial events are not. Quiet hours run from 11 PM to 7 AM, out of respect for the neighbourhood.
Families are warmly welcomed — cots and high chairs are provided — and day guests can join by prior arrangement.
An open house, with room to retreat.
