What is available in Pointe Milou
Right now the selection in Pointe Milou comes down to one house, Brahama, seven bedrooms. That is not a placeholder. The area is built out in individual houses set on rock, and few of them reach a rental list at the same moment, so the stock here stays thin. It means you are choosing a specific house rather than comparing several, and at seven bedrooms it means a family or a group travelling together, not a couple looking for a small place. If that is your party size and you accept planning your days around a car, tell me your dates and I will tell you where it stands.
What you accept at this address
Pointe Milou has no beach. None at all, and none within walking distance. If your idea of a holiday is a towel on sand at ten in the morning, this address is the wrong one. The closest sand means getting in the car, and you will do that every day. There is no shop here either, nothing to walk to, so groceries are a drive as well. Houses on this point are built into the slope, so expect steps, which is worth weighing if anyone in the group struggles with them. Booking a large house here works when everyone in the party has accepted those terms before arrival, not when half of them expected to walk to a beach.
Common questions
Pointe Milou or Lorient — which one should I choose?
Lorient is a real village on the north coast, with a school, a shop and a church, and a beach bordered by a reef: calm water at one end, surf at the other when the swell comes in. You can walk out of the house and reach something. Pointe Milou has no beach and nothing within walking distance, but it has the height, the quiet and the views. Choose Lorient if you want to be able to go out on foot. Choose Pointe Milou if you want to be alone with a horizon and do not mind driving. Bear in mind the two areas rarely offer the same house sizes at the same time, so tell me your party size and I will tell you what each one actually has.
Do I really need a car if I stay in Pointe Milou?
Yes. Everything is done by car from here, without exception: beaches, groceries, the port, dinner. The road down the point is narrow and there is nothing at the bottom of it to walk to. And in a house this size, one car will not cover it — a group filling seven bedrooms will want to split up during the day, so plan several vehicles and book them early. If renting cars is not something you want to deal with on this trip, a flatter and more central area will serve you better than this one.
Only one villa is listed here. What if it is taken for my dates?
Then tell me your dates and what matters to you and I will point you to another area rather than sell you the wrong house. If it was the view and the quiet you wanted, Marigot on the north-east coast is residential and calm with a small sheltered cove, and Lurin, on the heights, has the same trade-off as Pointe Milou: no beach reachable on foot, but Gouverneur is a short drive down. If you wanted a beach you can walk to, the answer is a different coast entirely. Note that a party needing seven bedrooms narrows the options fast in any of these areas.
Tell me your dates
Rates depend on the season and the length of stay, so I quote them case by case rather than publishing a figure that would be wrong half the year. Send me your dates and who is travelling, and I come back with what is actually open in Pointe Milou.