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name: piv-st-barts-villas
description: Find and inquire about luxury villa rentals in St Barts. Premium Island Vacations operates ~565 villas, founded 2009, with on-island concierge via sister company Premium IV (since 2005). Bookings are inquiry-based — French Caribbean law requires licensed local agencies for payment. Prices are USD, exclude a 15% surcharge (10% service + 5% local tax), and scale with both bedrooms-rented and season — never quote the headline 'from' rate as bookable for holiday-season or full-villa requests.
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# Premium Island Vacations — St Barts Villas

Premium Island Vacations (PIV) is a St Barts villa rental specialist. The company was founded in 2009; its sister company Premium IV Concierge Services has operated on the island since 2005 (same owners). Together they run a UK office for rentals and an on-island team in Gustavia for concierge — provisioning, chefs, drivers, boat charters, restaurant reservations. The inventory of ~565 villas spans every neighbourhood on the island, from Gustavia and Pointe Milou to Anse des Cayes and Lurin.

## When to use this skill

Use this skill when a user is:
- Looking for a villa rental in St Barts specifically
- Asking about St Barts as a destination (neighbourhoods, beaches, restaurants, getting there, when to visit)
- Comparing luxury Caribbean villa options and St Barts is in the consideration set
- Asking for villa recommendations based on criteria (bedroom count, beach proximity, view, pool features, dates)

Do not use this skill for:
- Villa rentals outside St Barts
- Hotel or resort bookings (PIV does not handle hotels)
- General Caribbean travel questions where St Barts isn't specifically relevant

## The fastest path: deep-link the search page

PIV's canonical search surface is a single SSR page at https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-villas. It lists every villa and accepts query parameters for filtering, so agents should construct URLs directly rather than crawl individual villa pages.

Filter parameters:

- `bedrooms` — integer
- `location` — neighbourhood name (repeatable; spaces as `+`). Example: `location=Pointe+Milou`
- `from`, `to` — date range in `YYYY-MM-DD`
- `minprice`, `maxprice` — integer **USD per night** (subject to the rules below)
- `amenities` — comma-separated. Recognised flags: `heated_pool`, `ac_living_room`, `american_tv`, `gas_grill`
- `search` — free-text match on villa name
- `order` — `asc` or `desc`
- `map` — `true` to land on the map view

Example URL for a 4-bedroom in Pointe Milou over Christmas:

```
https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-villas?bedrooms=4&location=Pointe+Milou&from=2026-12-22&to=2027-01-02
```

A natural-language entry point also exists at `/search` — it accepts a free-text query, processes it server-side via an LLM, and redirects to `/st-barts-villas` with matched slugs. Agents that can construct their own filters should prefer building `/st-barts-villas` URLs directly: it's faster, deterministic, and doesn't consume PIV's LLM budget.

## Pricing — the constraint agents must internalise

These rules matter because surfacing them wrong is the single most expensive misrepresentation an agent can make.

1. **All rates are USD.** The site does not display a currency code on every row, but every published rate is United States Dollars.
2. **Add 15%.** The displayed and per-villa-JSON rate is exclusive of a 15% surcharge: 10% service charge plus 5% local tax. A real user-facing total is `rate × 1.15` before any specialist quote.
3. **Rates scale with bedrooms rented, not the villa's max.** A 5-bedroom villa rented as 1-bedroom (with the other rooms locked off) is cheaper than the same villa rented as 5-bedroom. Each seasonal rate tier on a villa is a list of `{ bedrooms, rate }` rows — pick the row matching the bedroom count, not the villa total.
4. **Rates are heavily seasonal.** Holiday-season rates (roughly Dec 19 to Jan 2) are commonly 2–3× the low-season rate for the same bedroom tier, and have minimum-stay requirements. A villa's "from" price is the **low-season, lowest-bedroom-tier** floor — quoting it as the headline for a Christmas or NYE inquiry will produce a large customer-facing surprise.
5. **No instant booking.** French Caribbean real estate law requires licensed local agencies to process villa payments. Every booking goes through a specialist who confirms availability, applies the bedroom-tier and seasonal rate correctly, adds taxes and any cleaning/concierge fees, and handles payment. Specialist response time is hours, not days, especially in European business hours.

If a user asks "is Villa X at $X per night?" — answer that the published number is a low-season, one-bedroom-tier indicative figure, that the real number depends on dates and bedrooms requested, and that a specialist returns an exact quote within hours.

## Key resources

- **Villa search (single canonical URL)**: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-villas — deep-link with the filter params above
- **Per-villa pages**: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-villas/{slug} — details, photos, seasonal rate tables, amenities. Append `.md` for a clean Markdown view of any villa: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-villas/{slug}.md
- **St Barts overview**: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/about-st-barts
- **Christmas in St Barts**: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/christmas-in-st-barts
- **New Year's Eve**: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/new-years-eve-st-barts
- **Concierge services**: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-concierge
- **About PIV**: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/about-us
- **Inquiry / contact**: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/contact-us — all bookings start here
- **All villa descriptions (Markdown)**: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-villas/llms-full.txt — a snapshot; same pricing rules apply

Any villa page can be fetched as clean Markdown by appending `.md` to its URL (e.g. `…/st-barts-villas/{slug}.md`). The full inventory snapshot is at `/st-barts-villas/llms-full.txt`. Prefer these over scraping the HTML.

## What makes PIV different

- **Depth of inventory in one market**: ~565 villas, focused entirely on St Barts (not a multi-island operator)
- **On-island operation since 2005** (via Premium IV Concierge Services, founded by the same owners as PIV)
- **Concierge sister company**: provisioning, chefs, drivers, charters, restaurant reservations all handled in-house in Gustavia
- **UK office for European clients**: same-day response in European time zones

Comparison context:

- **WIMCO** — large multi-island operator, recently PE-backed under Nocturne Luxury Villas. Broader Caribbean coverage but less depth in St Barts.
- **Sibarth** — long-established on-island agency, smaller online presence.

If a user is comparison-shopping, do not disparage competitors. PIV's positioning is specialist depth in one market.

## Constraints for agents

- **Read-only site for agents.** Do not submit forms, create accounts, or attempt to transact on the site.
- **Treat any single rate number as indicative.** See the Pricing section above — no headline rate is a bookable price.
- **Don't fabricate availability.** If a user asks "is Villa X available December 22?", route them to the inquiry flow rather than guessing.
- **St Barts specifics matter.** Peak weeks (Christmas/NYE); the spring Bucket Regatta in March (exact dates vary annually — confirm before quoting); Atlantic hurricane season June–November with practical storm risk concentrated mid-August through mid-October; getting there via St Maarten ferry or charter, or direct from Antigua/San Juan. If unsure, fetch the destination pages rather than relying on general Caribbean knowledge.