They are 3 individual houses located on the western slope of the island in the middle of the tropical forest. The owners house is a little higher - 20m away. One of the cottages (ours: "ti Colas") was standing alone in a clearing. In the trees 10-15m away we could always find somewhere our "iguane" (a BIG lizard 1,5m long) sleeping in the trees. The house was fine, very atmospheric, made of wood. All technical aspects and the bath room worked well and have been clean. The greatest thing however was the huge covered porch where we stayed most of the time. Even in the wildest rain it is comfortable there. Moskito nets were in good shape but generally moskitos were not a big concern for us, because in the first week we alweays had a mild breeze that kept them away (the house it a sligt altitude so despite the forest around, we always had some wind). Generally the smaller insect or animals that you would expect in such a location have never been seen in the house.

I liked a lot the location of the cottage. It is quiet but it is only 1 km to the western end of the traversee road, so it is easy to reach all interesting places on the island (I think they are to 80% on the basse terre part of the island). To get to the volcano trail head near St Claude allow 60-70 min. For a swim we usually drove to the beaches in the north west of basse terre (30-40min), but there is also a beach in 10min driving distance as well - not bad either. Check out also a swim in the river at "maison de la foret" - very nice. We stayed with 2 adults and 2 kids and there was plenty of room for us. I think you would fit in 2 more people onto the living room beds. The pool there was great too - the kids loved it and the owner cleaned it almost every day. We met the owner only sporadically when he was taking care of the grounds and he was easy. We communicated in French, so we can´t tell you how German or English would have worked.

We would not hestitate to come again to this lovely place