About Ambassador's House - Holiday Villa with Pool to rent in Tobago


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Set high in the green hills of Tobago, Ambassador's House is the place to relax in comfort, unwind, and enjoy the laid-back pace of Caribbean life. It is a secluded family house in a wonderful location with panoramic views over both the Caribbean and the Atlantic. The Japanese influence apparent in its design helps to provide a calm peaceful atmosphere.
	The garden is cultivated round the house and pool, and left as forest lower down the hill making a small wildlife sanctuary. As well as an abundance of different birds and butterflies, in the forest there are iguanas, salamanders, lizards and squirrels, and one of our guests even saw a capuchin monkey. At night the frogs and cicadas call to each other creating a wonderfully exotic ambience.
The present house was built in the 1960's on the old Concordia cocoa estate, by a former US ambassador to Japan who retired to Tobago after many years in the Far East. The old plantation house must have been built here in the late 18th or early 19th century from the evidence of bits and pieces of china and pottery we have dug up in the garden which have been dated in the UK as 1800 -1850. Ambassador's House is on one level with a wide veranda running all around it, and being set on the top of a hill, not only does it catch the cooling breezes, but the views from here are spectacular, definitely some of the best on the island. The garden is full of mature trees: flame trees, palms, lime and grapefruit, also exotic fruit such as papaya, bananas and pineapples.
We have 5 bedrooms, 4 ensuite, and 1 sharing a bathroom ( all with ceiling fans). Total number of bathrooms 4. Click for layout diagram There are spacious living and dining rooms ( also with ceiling fans) and a well-equipped kitchen, with dishwasher, washing machine, 2 fridges and freezer. Telephone and fax are provided. Voltage is 112. The pool (unfenced) is 32' by 16', the deepest part being approximately 5'6"

Ambassador's House is a comfortable family house in extensive grounds, not a custom-built luxury villa in a holiday complex, and we offer people a unique opportunity to experience life in Tobago as visitors rather than tourists. Many of our guests have been back for return visits; once the relaxed way of life in Tobago, and at Ambassador's House in particular gets into your system it is hard to get it out !

	The housekeeper will welcome you on arrival, she will keep the house clean and tidy during your stay and help in any way she can. If guests require extra night-time security we can provide a nightwatchman. Trips to the rain forest, golf course or diving school, and sailing, fishing and snorkelling can all be organised.

	Although secluded, Ambassador's House is not isolated, distances are all short on Tobago, 20 minutes to the airport, 10 to Scarborough, 10 to the nearest beach, 5 to the nearest store. Car hire can be arranged here in England, and guests are met at the airport and escorted to the house. There the fridges will be stocked with whatever food and drinks you want, and the dinner you have ordered will await you.
Birds seen in the garden at Ambassador's House Blue-Crowned Mot-Mot (King of the Forest) Shiny Cowbird, White-tipped Dove, Ruddy Ground Dove, Earred Dove, Chachalaca (Cockrico), Broad-winged Hawk (chicken hawk), Common Black or Great Black Hawk, Greater Ani, Orange-winged parrot, Green-rumped Parrotlet, Roufous-tailed Jacamar, Red-crowned Woodpecker, Coco Treecreeper, Barred Antshrike, Rufous-breasted Wren, Scrub Greenlet, Banaquit, Yellow Warbler (Trinidad Canary), Yellow-bellied Elaenia, Blueblack Grassquit, Blackfaced Grassquit, Blue-Gray Tanager, Palm Tanager, White-lined Tanager, Carib Grackle, Bare-eyed Thrush, Tropical Mockingbird, Gray Kingbird, Great Kiscadee, Caribbean Martin, Short-tailed Swift, Black-throated Mango Humming-bird, Ruby-Topaz Humming-bird, Rufous-breasted Hermit Humming-bird, Copper-rumped Humming-bird, Magnificent Frigate bird, Lessons Seedeater

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