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House style

Dreamy creamy finca.

Grounds

Surrounded by natural stone walls, with views down the hills towards San Antonio and the sea.

Sleeps

10 (plus another 2 children on request).

Ideal for

Families, couples, and people looking for stylish peace and quiet.

Rates

Low season: €7,000 a week. High season: €10,650 a week.

Minimum hire

One week minimum rental (Saturday to Saturday) from 3pm until 10am on the day of departure.

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Interior

Bedrooms 

There are four simple, cosy bedrooms; all are doubles, except for one room with bunks adjacent to the master bedroom.

Ground floor
Bedroom 1: Master bedroom with en suite bathroom (with in-room bath) and large plasma-screen TV.
Bedroom 2: Children’s bedroom with two sets of bunk beds and a separate shower room.

First floor
Bedroom 3: Double bedroom with private terrace, and access to the garden and pool.
Bedroom 4: Double bedroom that shares a shower room with bedroom 3.

Kitchen The fully equipped kitchen opens onto a shady terrace, and there is another (outdoor) kitchen by the pool. Your kitchen is pre-stocked with basic essentials such as milk and bread, as well as with the contents of your welcome hamper, but you can pre-arrange for your concierge to have more shopping ready for your arrival. For more self-catering supplies, see our ‘Services’ section.

Living room Spacious dining/living room, with sitting area and working fireplace.

Dining room There is seating for 10 around a huge wooden table in the outdoor dining area by the pool, while an adjacent chill-out area is ideal for a post-prandial snooze. There is also a dining table for eight inside the house.

Other The guesthouse includes a double bedroom with air-conditioning, CD stereo system, en suite shower room, living/dining room, and kitchen with microwave, dishwasher, washing machine and coffee maker. It also has satellite TV.

Outdoor

Poolside The 12m rectangular pool and large sun terrace comes with 10 loungers and umbrellas, as well as superb views over the pine trees.

Gardens The finca is surrounded by quiet, peaceful gardens enclosed by low stone walls, which means that you can enjoy a secluded middle-of-nowhere feel.

Parking There is private parking for plenty of cars.

Other A paved courtyard with a line of orange trees behind it leads through to the gardens, from where you can take in views of San Antonio and the sea beyond.

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Planes Iberia, British Airways and EasyJet all fly into Ibiza airport, which is about five miles southwest of Ibiza Town. Direct flights take a little over two hours from the UK. (There are no direct flights from the UK during November to March.) If you’re not hiring a car, taxis from the rank outside the airport are metred and reasonable (around €10 for the trip to Ibiza Town).

Local taxi service Taxi San Joan (+34 971 333033), WBW private driving service (+34 696 253759). For car hire, click on our Travel Offers page. Smithcard holders get a 10 per cent discount with Hertz.

Directions by road Forget map-reading nightmares – a representative will meet you and your party at the airport and help you find your villa. But here are directions for your records… Directly on leaving the airport head towards Ibiza Town. Leave the new road and follow signs to San Antonio. After a few kilometres, take a right turn to San Rafael. Enter the village – and, in the centre, turn right and follow the signs to Santa Agnes. After about 300 metres, turn right onto a small Tarmac road (there is a sign that says ‘Can Tieta’ on an electricity pole). Follow this road for about a kilometre until you see a big, orange, Arabic-style house on your right with a natural stone wall. Turn left here onto a dirt road (there are two green fluorescent stripes on the pole). Keep going on this dirt road until you see a big electricity pole on your left, then turn right and follow the dirt road that curves through the country. Going up a little hill, you will see a grey electric gate with a natural stone wall in a curve on your left. This is the entrance gate for Can Talaya.

Review

An interiors mag-aholic’s dream, this lemon-yellow and cream finca blends countryside seclusion with effortless elegance. Muted beiges, creams and golds twist and turn around the house. The style is graceful, the furniture big and the atmosphere serenely tranquil. If this house were a massage, it would be a long, deep aromatherapy rub: relaxing all your senses and inducing an immediate sense of peace, it’s an absolute treat.
Ideal for families and friends alike, Can Talaya’s open-plan downstairs living and dining area is perfect for entertaining, relaxing, dining and reclining. Sumptuously comfortable yet flawlessly pristine, it’s a double-height space crammed with beautiful finds. Explosions of ornate, carved wooden furniture and beautiful objets d’art merge with rough, thick finca walls and polished cream stone floors.
This cream theme threads throughout the entire house – under the medieval-style chandelier and up the winding gallery stairs, past the oval windows and up into the rustic farmhouse-style gallery bedrooms…  All it needs is a cream-coloured cat to slink around the house and complete the look. With cream window shutters, a cream stone fireplace and curved cream church-like doors, every inch of this house has been lovingly designed. Yet rather than creating a can’t-touch-anything environment or a too-cream-for-kids colour scheme, Can Talaya, with its flickering candles, wicker chairs and basket of logs by the square fireplace, feels homely, dramatic, snug and old.
The owner is French, and you can’t help but notice a certain Gallic style creeping in. The two bedrooms in the gallery level have pretty farmhouse bedspreads, while light floods through oval-shaped windows and flashes against copper objects on high shelves. The effect is one of stylish, cosy simplicity.
The master bedroom, with its adjacent twin room, is ideal for families. The bed is gigantic – though not as enormous as the bath in the middle of the opposite room – while billowing white curtains lead to a terrace and pool beyond. Next door, exposed beams and thick finca walls make the twin bunk room the ideal kids’ den.
Steps down to a large pool lead you to sun loungers, umbrellas and eye-squintingly turquoise views across the pine trees. Nearby, a dining area with outdoor kitchen, shaded terrace, and a chill-out space of white sofas and candles tempt you to bask, eat and relax here all day long. It’s here, down some steps by the pool, that you’ll discover the hidden guesthouse, which can accommodate a further two guests. Secluded, glamorously grown-up and perfectly private, this is destined to be a Mr & Mrs Smith favourite, which will be booked and rebooked, then rebooked again…

Reviewed by Charlotte Crisp

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