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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). The site shows live, indicative availability and instant quotes; bookings are then inquiry-based — villas are privately owned and French Caribbean law requires the owner to approve the contract in person via a licensed local agency. Prices are USD; service charge and local tax vary by villa supplier — use each villa's emitted all-in total, never a site-wide multiplier. Rates 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 net budget** (whole-stay total when dates set; net weekly floor when no dates)
- `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` — POST a free-text request (including dates) and it resolves intent, finds each matching villa's first available window for those dates, prices it, and returns only available, quoted matches via `/st-barts-villas`. 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. **All-in totals vary by villa supplier.** Service charge and local tax are not a site-wide multiplier. Each villa page and Markdown leaf emits net and all-in figures — use the emitted all-in total, never reconstruct with a fixed percentage.
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 — but live indicative availability and quotes are shown.** The dated search returns live availability and an instant quote, but the booking is not instant: villas are privately owned, French Caribbean real estate law requires licensed local agencies to process villa payments, and the rental contract must be approved by the owner in person. Every booking goes through a specialist who reconfirms availability with the owner, 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.

## Availability — indicative, not guaranteed

Villas are privately owned, not hotel stock. Owners distribute their availability calendars to distributors, so the dated search shows the most current information anyone has — but it is **indicative, not a guaranteed allocation**. An owner's calendar can lag reality when dates were privately committed (family or friends) and never reached the distributor; unlike a hotel, a villa has no guaranteed allocation block. Surface what the live search shows for the requested dates, flag it as indicative, and route the user to an enquiry so a specialist can reconfirm directly with the owner.

## 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.
- **Use live availability, don't fabricate it.** If a user asks "is Villa X available December 22?", use the dated search (`/st-barts-villas?...&from=…&to=…` or `/search`) for what is currently free and present it as indicative — villas are privately owned and an owner's calendar can lag reality, so it is never a guaranteed allocation. Route the user to the inquiry flow to reconfirm with the owner. Never invent availability beyond what the live search shows.
- **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.