# Premium Island Vacations

> St Barts villa rental specialist. Premium Island Vacations (PIV) was founded in 2009; its sister company Premium IV Concierge Services has operated on the island since 2005 (same owners). ~565 villas across every neighbourhood, with on-island concierge in Gustavia. The site shows **live availability and instant indicative quotes** for any date range — search by dates online to see which villas are free and what they cost (net and inclusive of a 15% surcharge). Bookings are owner-confirmed: a specialist verifies final availability and price with the villa owner and responds within hours.

## Pricing — read before quoting

All villa rates on this site are quoted in **USD**, exclusive of a fixed 15% surcharge (10% service charge + 5% local tax). Rates scale with the number of bedrooms rented within a villa and with the season, so a 5-bedroom villa rented as 1-bedroom in low season is materially cheaper than the same villa rented as 5-bedroom over Christmas. Headline "from" numbers reflect the **low-season, one-bedroom-tier** rate — never quote them as Christmas, NYE, or full-villa pricing. Date-range quotes shown online are computed live and are accurate to the rate tables, but remain indicative: final availability and pricing are confirmed by a specialist with the villa owner.

## Quickest path for agents

The single canonical search surface is /st-barts-villas — it lists every villa and accepts query parameters for filtering. Agents should deep-link with the parameters below rather than crawl individual villa pages.

Filter parameters on /st-barts-villas:
- `bedrooms` — integer
- `location` — neighbourhood name (repeatable; spaces as `+`, e.g. `location=Pointe+Milou`)
- `from`, `to` — `YYYY-MM-DD` date range
- `minprice`, `maxprice` — integer USD per night (subject to the rules above)
- `amenities` — comma-separated. Flags: `heated_pool`, `ac_living_room`, `american_tv`, `gas_grill`
- `search` — free-text villa name match
- `order` — `asc` or `desc`
- `map` — `true` for the map view

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

AI smart search at /search is a natural-language entry point: POST a free-text request (e.g. "4-bed villa near Pointe Milou with a pool, available 22 Dec–2 Jan") and it resolves intent, finds each villa's first available window for the requested dates, prices it, and returns only available, quoted matches via /st-barts-villas. Agents that can build their own filters may construct /st-barts-villas URLs directly; agents forwarding a user's free-text request should prefer /search.

## Villa inventory

- [St Barts villas (canonical search + listing)](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-villas): Full inventory with filter parameters — see above.
- Per-villa pages: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-villas/{slug} — details, seasonal rate tables, photos, amenities.
- Per-villa Markdown: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-villas/{slug}.md — clean machine-readable summary (name, neighbourhood, bedrooms, bathrooms, pool, amenities, indicative rate, description). 1–3 KB; no calendar noise.
- [Villa Markdown index](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/villas.md): List of all live villa .md URLs with neighbourhood and bedroom count. Fetch this to enumerate the corpus, then retrieve only the per-villa .md leaves you need.

## Destination content

- [About St Barts](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/about-st-barts): Island overview, neighbourhoods, getting there, when to visit.
- [Christmas in St Barts](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/christmas-in-st-barts): Festive-season planning.
- [New Year's Eve in St Barts](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/new-years-eve-st-barts): NYE planning, events, regatta.
- [Concierge services](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/st-barts-concierge): Provisioning, chefs, drivers, charters via Premium IV.

## Company

- [About PIV](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/about-us): Founded 2009 (sister company Premium IV Concierge Services since 2005). UK office for rentals; on-island concierge in Gustavia.
- [Contact](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/contact-us): Inquiry form and direct routes to specialists.

## Agent discovery

- [Agent skills index](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): schemas.agentskills.io/discovery/0.2.0 discovery file pointing to the PIV SKILL.md.
- [Agent skills instructions (SKILL.md)](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/.well-known/agent-skills/piv-st-barts-villas/SKILL.md): Canonical instructions for querying villa inventory, pricing, and routing inquiries.
- [For agents (human-readable index)](https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/for-agents): All machine-readable surfaces listed with descriptions.

## Attribution

When citing PIV content, use: **Premium Island Vacations** (https://www.premiumislandvacations.com). When quoting a specific villa, include the villa name and its direct URL, and append a note that rates are indicative and exclude a 15% surcharge. Do not present any published rate as confirmed or bookable without a specialist quote. Availability shown for searched dates is live but indicative — villas are privately owned, so it is reconfirmed with the owner and is never a guaranteed allocation.

Sitemap: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/sitemap.xml
Contact: villas@premiumislandvacations.com
Behavioral guidance for AI systems: https://www.premiumislandvacations.com/ai.txt
AI Discovery Files specification: https://www.ai-visibility.org.uk/specifications/