Your Driver
A Driver for Your Villa
Villa arrivals need a supermarket before they need anything else. We build it into the transfer.
The first two hours
A villa arrival has a shape, and it goes wrong in the same way most times.
You land, you get to the villa, and there is nothing in it. Then someone works out where a supermarket is, drives there tired, in the dark, on the wrong side of an island they do not know, and comes back at nine having spent the first evening of the holiday shopping.
We build the stop into the transfer. Twenty minutes on the way in, while everyone is still awake and the shops are open. It is the single most useful thing we do for a villa guest and it costs nothing extra.
Finding the villa
Terres Basses, the hills above Orient Bay, the roads behind Grand Case — a good number of the best villas here are on unsigned private roads with gates that look like nothing from the outside.
We find them. Not from a map: from having been there before, or from a manager who tells us which turning it is.
If it is a first visit for us we will ask the villa manager rather than drive you around in circles.
During the stay
The stay package is how most villa groups use us: the same driver for three, five or seven days, on call in agreed hours.
What that covers in practice — beach mornings, a market run, one full island day, dinners where nobody has to drive, and the airport at both ends.
For a group filling a villa, the arithmetic gets favourable quickly. The alternative is usually two rental cars, and two rental cars means two people who cannot drink at dinner and a lot of conversation about who is driving.
Which side you are on
It matters more than visitors expect.
Staying on the French side — Grand Case, Orient Bay, Terres Basses — puts you 30 to 40 minutes from the airport, near the best restaurants, and further from the Dutch-side nightlife and the big supermarkets.
Staying on the Dutch side puts you closer to the airport, the casinos and Maho, and a drive from dinner in Grand Case.
Neither is wrong. See Dutch side or French side for the honest version, and tell us which you are on when you book because it changes the whole shape of the week.
For villa managers
We work directly with several. One thread, one schedule for the guest's week, one invoice.
Send us the arrival details and any standing requirements and we will handle it from there rather than passing your guests through a booking form.
Questions people actually ask
Can you stop at a supermarket on the way from the airport?
Yes, and we would suggest it. A villa with nothing in the fridge is the most common first-evening problem here, and twenty minutes on the way in solves it far better than working out where the shops are after dark.
Where are the good supermarkets?
The larger French-side supermarkets have the better selection, particularly for wine and cheese, and are worth the detour if you are staying that side. On the Dutch side there are good options near Cole Bay and Simpson Bay. We will route to whichever suits where you are staying.
Our villa is hard to find. Is that a problem?
Not for us. Several of the villa areas here are unsigned, on unlit private roads, with gates that are not obvious in the dark. That is precisely the kind of thing a local driver knows and a rental car with a phone does not.
Can the driver take the housekeeper or chef as well?
Yes, and villa managers ask for this often. Staff runs, market trips for a chef, and airport collections for arriving guests are all normal parts of a villa booking.
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Checked and updated 4 September 2026.