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): 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: 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: Island overview, neighbourhoods, getting there, when to visit.
• Christmas in St Barts: Festive-season planning.
• New Year's Eve in St Barts: NYE planning, events, regatta.
• Concierge services: Provisioning, chefs, drivers, charters via Premium IV.

Company

• About PIV: Founded 2009 (sister company Premium IV Concierge Services since 2005). UK office for rentals; on-island concierge in Gustavia.
• Contact: Inquiry form and direct routes to specialists.

Agent discovery

• Agent skills index: schemas.agentskills.io/discovery/0.2.0 discovery file pointing to the PIV SKILL.md.
• Agent skills instructions (SKILL.md): Canonical instructions for querying villa inventory, pricing, and routing inquiries.
• For agents (human-readable index): 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/