Tiki House Heated Pool, Tiki Lounge, Steps to Beach, Games

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  Lift the garage door and the tiki lounge opens straight onto the pool deck: painted mural, bar stools, sofas on green turf and a big smart TV. This is where your group will end up every single evening of the week.
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  The private pool sits just off the kitchen and living room, catching the morning sun. Heat is available on request at sixty dollars a day, so even a cool week can still be a swimming one for the children.
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  A king bed under a slowly turning ceiling fan, with a smart TV on the wall. Sign into your own Netflix or Hulu, pull the curtains against the morning, and sleep as late as the holiday will possibly allow.
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  The beach access walkover is across Coastal Highway, roughly a three-minute walk from the front door. Towels over shoulders, flip-flops in hand, and the Atlantic opening up at the end of the boardwalk.
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  Home for the week. Steps up to the front door through the hedging, with the driveway alongside for two or three cars pulled in bumper to bumper. Everything you need is inside a short walk of this doorstep.
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  A quiet residential street of low beach houses and mature palms, a few blocks back from the water. There are neighbours on every side here, which is why the ten till eight quiet hours genuinely do matter.
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  The dining table sits between the kitchen and the living room, so nobody is ever shut away on their own. Ceiling fan overhead, the pool just outside, and room enough round the table for all ten of you.
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  The living room has a proper fireplace and a cable TV above it, with a sectional deep enough for the whole family. This is the room everybody drifts back to once the sun has finally gone down over the pool.
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  An outdoor shower plumbed to the wall behind a decorative surfboard, with a rack for the boards themselves. Rinse the salt and sand off out here and the floors inside stay very much happier all week long.
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  The pool runs the length of the side garden, fenced and private, with the house on one side and planting on the other. Morning laps, afternoon floating, and somebody always in it right up until dinner.
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  Pool, deck and the garage that became the tiki lounge, all in a single glance. Lift that door and the two spaces become one, which is exactly what you want on a long warm evening with a crowd of friends.
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  Leather sectional, a soft rug, and the dining area just beyond. Ten people fit into this house without ever feeling like ten people, which is a harder trick to pull off than most listings will admit to.
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  Glass dining table, bar seating along the counter, and a mirror bouncing the light around. Breakfast for ten happens here, usually in shifts, usually with somebody still in yesterday's swimming shorts.
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  The open plan runs from kitchen through dining to living room. Whoever is cooking stays part of the conversation, and whoever is supposedly helping can keep half an eye on the pool through the windows.
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  The kitchen is set up to genuinely feed ten: full-size range and oven, dishwasher, French-door refrigerator and a wine rack above. Cook properly here, or just reheat what came back from the fish counter.
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  Range, oven, microwave and a door straight out to the pool deck. Starter dishwasher pods, paper towels and trash bags are left for you, so the first evening does not have to start with a shopping trip.
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  The coffee and pantry counter, with the microwave, toaster and open shelving. There is a drip coffee maker and a Keurig, so the early risers and the late risers can each be served without any negotiation.
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  A bedroom that opens onto the garden through its own French doors, with a bookshelf beside the bed. Quiet, green and a little apart from the busier end of the house, for whoever wants the calmest room.
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  Simple, restful and full of morning light, with a bench at the foot of the bed for the suitcase that never quite gets unpacked. Ceiling fans in every bedroom keep things comfortable right through the night.
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  Ceiling fan, a chest of drawers and a smart TV, for the evenings when somebody wants an early night while the rest of the party is still going strong out in the tiki lounge beside the pool downstairs.
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  The first-floor primary bathroom, with a corner jetted tub and a generous vanity. After a day between the pool and the Atlantic, twenty minutes in that tub is the most persuasive argument for an early night.
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  A separate walk-in shower sits alongside the tub in the primary suite. Shampoo, conditioner, shower gel and towels are all provided for you here, so the packing list stays refreshingly short for once.
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  The half bath tucked under the stairs on the first floor, right beside the entry. A small thing, but with ten people in one house it turns out to be among the most quietly appreciated rooms in the place.
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  Another king bedroom upstairs, ceiling fan turning, everything calm and uncluttered. Three of the four bedrooms have a king bed, so nobody has to draw straws over who gets the good room this time around.
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  King bed, chest of drawers, ceiling fan and a smart TV. Room enough to actually unpack and settle in, which is what turns a week away into something that feels properly like living somewhere else entirely.
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  Warm light, a big comfortable bed and a television for slow mornings. The upstairs bedrooms sit well away from the pool and the lounge, so the early sleepers are not at the mercy of the late ones below.
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  The second-floor primary bathroom, with a tub and the towels stacked and waiting. Two of the four bedrooms have their own en-suite, which makes a house of ten run considerably more smoothly first thing.
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  A double vanity with two vessel basins and mirrors, so nobody is left queueing to clean their teeth. Small practicalities like this are what make a big group holiday feel relaxed rather than logistical.
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  A king bed with warm accents and windows on two sides. Whichever bedroom you end up in there is a ceiling fan turning overhead and plenty of room to put your things down properly for the week ahead of you.
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  The bunk room: a full-size bed with two twins built in above and alongside, in a clever bunk-style arrangement. The children will fight over it, and then they will remember it for years and years afterwards.
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  The upstairs hallway linking the bedrooms, the guest bathroom and the laundry room. Four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms across two floors, arranged so ten people never feel on top of one another.
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  The second-floor guest bathroom sits off the main hallway, with a shower and tub combination. Bright, simple, and shared between the two bedrooms that do not happen to have a bathroom of their very own.
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  A proper laundry room on the second floor, with washer, dryer, starter pods, dryer sheets and an iron. With a pool, a beach and ten people, this room quietly does more work than any other in the house.
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  The tiki bar, with the stools pulled up and that painted mural running along behind. Somebody appoints themselves barman on the very first night, and the role tends to stick for the rest of the holiday.
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  Green turf, outdoor sofas and the mural, all inside what used to be the garage. Rain or shine, this is the room the whole group gravitates back towards once the swimming is finally over for the day here.
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  Sofas arranged for conversation, cushions in every colour, and a smart TV on the wall for the big match. The lounge stays cool and shaded even when the deck outside is properly baking in the afternoon.
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  The neon sign on the hedge wall says good vibes, which is about right. Small, silly and genuinely lovely, and it is the backdrop for roughly half the photographs your group will end up taking this week.
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  A beverage fridge tucked into the corner of the lounge, so the cold drinks are never a trek back to the kitchen. Little touches like this are what make a converted garage feel like a proper bar instead.
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  With the garage door up, the lounge and the pool deck become one enormous room. Somebody in the water, somebody at the bar, somebody refusing to move from the sofa. That is the shape of a good day here.
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  Beach chairs stacked and ready by the door, part of the gear we leave for you along with towels and an umbrella. Grab four on your way out and the three-minute walk to the sand is all you have to manage.
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  Bar stools pulled up at the counter, boards and games propped against the wall, and that mural doing all the heavy lifting. It is genuinely hard to be in a bad mood in a room painted quite this cheerfully.
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  The full length of the tiki lounge, bar at one end and sofas at the other. Cornhole, darts and lawn games are all here, which covers both the competitive members of the party and the ones who just watch.
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  The dartboard on the lounge wall, with the ring toss just below it. Between this, the cornhole and the games in the corner, nobody in your group will be short of something to argue about after dinner.
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  The pool and the house together, fenced and entirely your own. No sharing with a resort, no queueing for a lounger, and no walking anywhere at all to reach it. Just open the door and get straight into it.
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  The propane grill lives out on the deck, ready for whatever came back from the fish counter. Fire it up, pour something cold, and let dinner outdoors run on until the light has gone entirely from the sky.
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  The street outside, quiet and green and thoroughly residential. A few blocks brings you to the boat ramp, and three minutes on foot puts you on the sand. It is a very easy place indeed to spend a week.
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  Cornhole boards leaning against the lounge wall, ready to be carried out onto the grass. Every group has one person who takes this far too seriously, and by day three you will know exactly who yours is.
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  The house from the front, two storeys of pale blue weatherboard set behind the hedging. Four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms and a private pool, only three minutes on foot from the Atlantic itself.
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  Driveway, hedging and the path up to the front door. The driveway holds two or three cars nose to tail; please do not park on the grass or on the street, as cars left there are liable to be towed away.
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  The house and its mailbox from the pavement, with the driveway running down the side. Everything about this street is quiet, green and low-rise, which is exactly what you want a beach holiday to look like.
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  The boat ramp on the Intracoastal, only a few blocks from the house. Bring the boat or the jet-ski, or simply wander down at dusk and watch everybody else bringing theirs back in for the evening light.
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  The ramp and dock reaching out into the Tolomato River, which everybody around here calls the Intracoastal. Fishing, dolphins at dusk, and some of the finest sunsets you will see anywhere on this coast.
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  Looking down the ramp towards the water, with the boardwalk and pilings beyond. Camachee Cove is seven minutes over the Vilano Bridge for boat hire and deep-sea fishing charters if you fancy a day out.
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  The white picket gate onto the beach path, kept closed to protect the dunes behind it. Please latch it after you; the sea oats hold this whole coastline together and they need all the help they can get.
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  Through the gate the path opens up between the palms and the sea grape towards the sand. Three minutes from the front door, and it is the walk that will end up defining the rhythm of your entire week.
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  The sandy path down to the beach, with the county safety sign at the head of it. Check the flags before you swim, and then go and enjoy some of the emptiest sand you will find in all of northern Florida.
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  Coastal Highway with the beach access opposite. Cross carefully, and then the Atlantic is right there. Ten minutes south takes you to historic downtown St. Augustine whenever you fancy a change of scene.

The tiki lounge is what people remember. Lift the garage door and it opens straight onto the pool deck: a painted mural, a bar with stools, outdoor sofas on turf, a large smart TV, a beverage fridge, a dartboard and cornhole boards leaning against the wall.

The pool is private and can be heated on request. Morning sun lands on the pool patio just off the kitchen and living room, and there's a shaded patio for eating outside when the afternoon gets serious.

Inside, the house runs 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms across two floors. The living room has a fireplace and a cable TV; every other TV in the house is a smart TV, so you can sign in to your own accounts. The kitchen is set up to feed ten — full-size range and oven, dishwasher, French-door refrigerator, microwave, toaster, drip coffee maker and a Keurig.

Outside there's a propane grill, an outdoor shower for rinsing off the salt, and beach gear to borrow: towels, four chairs and an umbrella. The beach access walkover is across Coastal Highway, about a three-minute walk. The boat ramp on the Intracoastal is blocks away, so bring the boat or the jet-ski.

Pool heat is a paid add-on — $60 a day or $350 a week, on request. It works when the outdoor temperature is above 60 degrees; below that we can't guarantee the heater will hold a swimmable temperature.

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Saint Augustine, Florida

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