In the know

House style

Bright, white and super-sized, with a restored 800-year-old finca across the courtyard.

Grounds

Landscaped gardens and pathways that sweep down to the rocks.

Sleeps

12

Ideal for

Peace-seekers and those throwing stylish house parties or family celebrations.

Rates

From €12,000 a week low-season to €25,000 high season.

Minimum hire

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

Also

Smoking is not permitted. You will need to bring your own ADSL lead to connect to the internet.

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Interior

Bedrooms 

Main house
Bedroom 1: Master bedroom with four-poster bed, dressing area and en suite bathroom. Doors from the bedroom lead onto a large covered terrace with amazing views over the sea and bay.
Bedroom 2: Double bedroom, which shares a large bathroom and terrace with bedroom 3.
Bedroom 3: Twin bedroom, which shares a large bathroom and terrace with bedroom 2. Both bedrooms are secluded, down some stairs and with easy access to the pool.

Finca
Bedroom 4: Ground floor double with en suite shower room.
Bedroom 5: First-floor double bedroom, which has a private terrace, although it shares a bathroom with bedroom 6.
Bedroom 6: Lower-floor twin bedroom, which shares a bathroom with bedroom 5.

Kitchen The modern kitchen is fully equipped, with a double oven, microwave, fridge/freezer with ice maker and dishwasher. Doors lead to a courtyard where there is a covered terrace with dining table and chairs. There is a security video-entry phone in the kitchen for the electric gates. Your kitchen is pre-stocked with basic essentials such as milk and bread, as well as welcome-hamper goodies, 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 With its polished marble floors and enormous fireplace, this room has huge dual-aspect doors opening onto large tiered terraces and gardens. The living room leads to a TV area, in which you can watch a 42-inch, plasma-screen TV from the comfort of large cushions.

Dining room Moroccan-style lamps hang from a wooden-beamed ceiling over the 20-seater outside dining table, while large oil-burning candles glow amongst the nearby orange trees. There is also a breakfast table for eight by the kitchen.

Other 

Outdoor

Poolside The 15m infinity pool has views over the gardens and pine forest, and is accessed via an electronic security gate. There are plenty of wooden loungers, plus a mattressed chill-out area behind the pool.

Gardens High up above the pine forest, the views over the sea are inspiring. Terraces, landscaped gardens and forest pathways slope down from the house to the coves and rocks below. The children’s playground in the forest area is just a short walk from the house.

Parking There is private parking for plenty of cars.

Other A caretaker lives on the grounds and is on-hand to take care of maintenance, should you need him.

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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… From Ibiza airport, follow signs to Eivissa (Ibiza Town) until you see Santa Eulalia signposted. Follow this sign and, once you are on the main road to Santa Eulalia, take the exit for Sant Joan and Cala Portinatx (after approximately 7km). You will come to a small roundabout. Follow the signs for Sant Joan and Cala Portinatx. Follow this road for approximately 20km until you see a sign for Portinatx – where you turn right and then cross over the same road you have come off (you are turning left, but you have take the right turn and then cross over the junction). Follow the winding CM733 to Portinatx for approximately 4km (you will see a small marker sign on the side of the road ‘km25’, and a large sign on the right-hand side saying ‘S’illot Restaurant’. Keep going carefully and you will pass a small house on the right – after another 100m or so, you will spy a brick wall and green fencing on the left. Slow down and look for a large wooden gate: this is the entrance to the house.

Review

While landscaped gardens sweep you down a maze of pathways to the sea, the cobalt-blue views that you garner from standing in the midst of them sweep you off your feet. It’s rare to find a villa in Ibiza with its own staircase to the sea – and you almost stumble upon this hidden luxury by accident.
High above the pine treetops, looking out over the sea, this villa manages that heady combination of tranquil seclusion and soul-spoiling luxury. You really are on top of the world here; every evening you get the sense that the sun will set just for you. Yet, as isolated as you may feel, the villages of Portinatx and San Joan are, handily, both nearby. A flour-soft sandy bay or a top table in a gorgeous restaurant is never too far away.
Both the main three-bedroom house and the ancient finca, which offers another three bedrooms, are a melange of Moorish-inspired doorways, alcoves and huge wooden furniture pieces. And the breeze that floats along the terraces and diffuses throughout the house is the perfect antidote to the searing Ibizan sun. The scale is huge, but still homely; the enormous chair in the living room seems to represent the soul of this place – super-sized and super-comfortable.
A candle-lined, semi-Art Deco-style fireplace dominates the huge living room, from which wooden shuttered doors lead onto a cool terrace. Walk up a private staircase and you’ll reach the master bedroom. On its own floor, this is the ultimate in four-poster privacy. An en suite bathroom and a dressing area with enough wardrobe space for dedicated fashionistas. Close the heavy doors, which lead to a private terrace, and you will block out the bleaching sun and make this room a dark, sultry space that’s difficult to wrench yourself away from in the morning.
Outside, 140,000sq m of gardens, forest, fruit trees and lawns close in on the house, while a door opening onto a secret garden hides a large rectangular pool with sloping sides that are just perfect for basking on, and a mattressed chill-out area that’s ideal for sinking into with a ice-cold gin and tonic.
Walk across the courtyard to the 800-year-old restored finca and the coolness afforded by its metre-thick rough walls draws you in like a magnet. The living room has an inglenook fireplace so cat-swingingly huge that it even has its own door leading through to a bedroom. In true finca style, this cavernous medley of high, timbered ceilings and low doorways creates the illusion of being underground when the shutters are closed; cool respite from the hot Balearic sun.
Private, luxurious and with a discreet history of celebrity guests, Can Tiruit Veil is the kind of villa you make plans to return to – before your holiday is even over. The only dilemma is who to choose to bring next time…

Reviewed by Charlotte Crisp

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