Location vacances front de mer - Lieu calme et privé - Entièrement climatisé

What a blessing these last few days have been at this beautiful and comfortable home which sits right on the waters edge! We saw turtles, baracudas, crabs, and beautiful fish! We were right down the road (by the bridge) from a deeper sandy beach where we jumped off the bridge with locals.

Here are some tips:

Spanish Wells is across the bridge and you can access everything on both islands within minutes. Food Fair has most everything (save an organic selection) but closes early on Wed and is closed completely on Sunday.

If you are looking for a traditional Bahamian vibe, this might not be the spot for you since its inhabitants are mostly Eurpopean. I missed Eleuthera for the more authentic culture. However, you could not meet a friendlier, more helpful collection of residents than on Spanish Wells! And, Spanish Wells has its own culture; just different. Eleuthera is just a boat ride away. We went out with Captain James. He was awesome!

The home has everything you need save a blender if you want to make frozen drinks. Honestly, pack a Nutribullet if you want those. We didn’t but having had many guests in our panhandle home, we felt like mentioning that.

We also brought with us frozen/USDA packaged organic meats and cheeses and paper plates which saved us lots of time and money.

We came in October which is hot and humid. We hardly ran the ACs during the day but also found that having them on at night cooled the place down and we didn’t open the windows during the day but only ran the fans. It was plenty cool! (Opening the windows made it hotter due to time of year).

I actually had a freak accident on the first day and fell on the rocks by the stairs. Be cautious with young ones and elderly. I do not see this posing a risk, though, and as I said, it was a freak thing! (No booze involved!). Darrin Sands and his wife rushed over and took me to a clinic after hours. That is the level of service you can expect here!

Do NOT forget bug spray! This is true for any tropical/subtropical area. And bring a first aid kit for incidental needs.

I cannot recommend this home enough. If you love hanging out in more shallow and gorgeous water, this is your spot! I would recommend floats with anchors for lounging.

Darrin, thank you and the owners of this home for sharing it with us. The price was amazing; you’d never be this close to the beach in the Panhandle for this price! And you can’t get beach variances there either. We LOVED our stay!

Drift Away provides the perfect getaway! Everything about this cute little cottage is spot-on! The perfect, quiet location allowed us to feel totally relaxed. We rented a golf cart, which gave us access to the entire island. It was the best of both worlds--we felt secluded but were close to restaurants and the store.

Another location perk - being on the water gave us the opportunity to simply walk out the back door to kayak, swim and snorkel whenever we wanted, which was fantastic! By just snorkeling along the shoreline, we saw an array of fish and sea life, including sea turtles!

The layout of the home is perfect and was ideal for our family of four--the kids enjoyed having their own space upstairs to retire to at night, and the master suite was lovely with amazing views of the water.

Drift Away has everything you need for an extended stay--including full kitchen, washer/dryer, and Wi-Fi. It has a TV, but we didn't even turn it on once during our stay--there was way too much other stuff to do! The house also has air conditioning units in all of the rooms; however, we spent all of the daytime outside, and only used the AC at night in the bedrooms when we went to sleep.

I can't think of anything we'd change about our stay! It was perfect!!

Darrin Sands was so helpful before and during out trip! He promptly answered all of my questions leading up to our trip and made himself available to us once we arrived on the island. He helped line up our transportation to/from the airport and our golf cart-- and upon request, provided a list of recommended charters/adventures.

We were talking about our next trip to Spanish Wells and Drift Away, half way through this trip! We can't wait to go back--we absolutely loved it!!

We really enjoyed our stay at Drift Away. We couldn’t think of anything that we needed. The multiple decks were well thought out. It was like you had your own private beach. Sarah and Darren were very helpful and knowledgeable of the local area. We will definitely stay at Drift Away again.

This waterside home is better than advertised. The house is perfect. It is well constructed, excellently maintained and tastefully decorated.

It's a relaxing location with the only sounds coming from nature. Speaking of nature I caught some large fish right off the dock.

My final comment is for the property manager, Darrin and his team are first class professionals who went out of there way to accommodate us and were extremely pleasant from beginning to end....We will be back!

This house is fantastic. We loved Spanish Wells and Eleuthera - can't wait to come back!!