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House style

Contempo-comfortable white-stone villa.

Grounds

Halfway up a mountain, surrounded by pine trees.

Sleeps

12 (one room is in an annexe).

Ideal for

Families, friends and couples.

Rates

From €22,500 a week low season and €25,000 high; offers sometimes available if you call the travel team.

Minimum hire

Two weeks minimum hire. Rental starts from 3pm until 10am on the day of departure.

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Interior

Bedrooms 

There are six double bedrooms, each with its own terrace.

Main house
Bedroom 1: Master bedroom with dressing room, en suite shower room and two terraces.
Bedroom 2: Double bedroom with en suite bathroom and two terraces.
Bedroom 3: Double bedroom with en suite shower room and terrace.
Bedroom 4: Double bedroom with en suite shower room and sea-view terrace.
Bedroom 5: Double bedroom with en suite shower room and terrace.

Guesthouse
Bedroom 6: Double bedroom and bathroom with large walk-in, raindrop shower.

Kitchen There’s a fully fitted kitchen with oven, dishwasher and fridge freezer, alongside a dining area. There is also an outdoor kitchen with traditional Ibizan wood-fired oven, fridge and barbecue. Your indoor kitchen is pre-stocked with basic essentials such as milk and bread, 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 There are two living rooms: the largest has three sofas around a fireplace, whilst a snug to the side boasts a 42-inch plasma screen.

Dining room Pick from two feasting areas: gazing out to sea from the kitchen/diner at a table for 12, or from the pool and barbecue area where up to 20 can be seated alongside the outdoor kitchen – and up to 100 party guests can be accommodated.

Other Apart from the master bedroom, bedrooms are blissfully restful, TV-free zones.

Outdoor

Poolside The huge 23m-long pool is surrounded by palm trees, chill-out mattresses and heady sea views. There are two pool showers; one inside, one outside.

Gardens The gardens are the mountain itself, which belongs to the villa owner. Cross ‘walk amongst the pine trees’ off your daily to-do list.

Parking There is private parking for six cars.

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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… On leaving the airport follow the signs for Eivissa (Ibiza). When the road turns into the new dual carriageway, start to follow signs all the way into Santa Eulalia. Go straight over the roundabout and drive through Santa Eulalia. At the next roundabout start following signs towards San Carles. Once you reach the village of San Carles, drive through and bear sharp left when you pass the church. Follow the sign to Cala St Vincent to the left. Follow road and signs for Cala Boix, Figurel and Pou de Lleo. Drive for approx 1.7km and take the right turning where signpost is for Can Talaias & Salvado and Pou de Lleo. Follow this road, until you pass a small convenience store, which is the nearest shop to your villa on the left. From here, follow the road for approx 0.5km and then you will see a triangle road sign (indicating bends in the road). Immediately after this you will see the wooden gate set back off the road on the right.

Review

As you drive steeply up, up into the clouds, until you feel you can climb no higher, a dramatically slow-opening electric gate is the first clue that you’re about to stumble upon something rather special. Palm trees, cacti and suntrap sofas reel you in, while a soul-soothing sense of relaxation hits you immediately between the eyes. But this is relaxation on a grand scale: a giant-sized master bed here, an over-stretched plasma there… An enormous pool is teamed with two kitchens and extensive terraces, while a blanket of farmland spreads out gently below slopes down to where the waves crash and glitter at the shore.

Perched on its own mountain, Las Nubes lies to the civilised and tranquil northeast of the island, 3km from the arty village of San Carles. With pine forests on the doorstep ripe for roaming in and uninterrupted views across the land to the sea, this is pure escapism on the island that never sleeps. The mountain is all yours to play with.

There’s always a cool breeze playing around the edges of Las Nubes; a perfect antidote to the day’s scorching mercury fluctuations. At more than 100 metres above sea level, you can see Palma, on a clear day, from the terrace that wraps itself around the house. Sometimes you can even catch a sprinkling of lights in the distance at night. Serene, tranquil, almost trance-like in its peacefulness, this house seems to induce both calm and energy. The feel isn’t brash, but rather sumptuous, effortless luxury.

Las Nubes manages to achieve that idyllic combination of modern meets fireplace-cosy; cool grey stone floors run underneath large French-style cupboards, while huge loungers and lampshades add irresistible splashes of colour. Bedrooms are chic and unfussy: shady retreats from the sun with pristine white bedspreads stretching over large double beds and terrace doors that open onto salty sea views. The result? A sense that a lot of love has gone into this house.

Birds of Paradise flowers spring from between cool white stone steps by the pool, while pomegranates, clementines, avocados, pears, apricots and apples all grow in the grounds. You even have your own vineyard, which produces wine that the locals are going crazy for. Totally self-sufficient and with enough water to see you through, oh, seven months or so (‘should things go nuclear’, according to the owner) there’s something empowering about this king of the castle house. Even the stone used all over the house and garden is from the mountain.

Whether you want to curl up with a morning book, loll on outside sofas for a lunchtime barbecue, or lie on the roof and breathe in the heady fumes of the Ibizan sunset, you’re spoilt for chill-out choice when it comes to getting comfortable at Las Nubes. Relax on plump grey sofas in the living room and light the enormous candles around the fireplace, or recline on the poolside mattresses at twilight – it’s your choice. This is the kind of house you luxuriate in for two weeks, only to wish you’d booked it for a month.

Reviewed by Charlotte Crisp

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