Frenchman’s Lookout Tortola, a villa with nearly a 360-degree vista of British and U.S. Virgin Islands and the Caribbean, is reaching out to families for the holidays. The house offers complete privacy, five bedrooms with bath, swimming pool, game room, lots of help and available babysitters. Groups receive resort services and activities, which include a freshly prepared breakfast each day; a 35-foot power boat with professional captain for snorkeling, diving or fishing; and spa treatments, from yoga to manicures, given right on the property by the owners of Serenity Spa, the Indian-trained Appu Ganesan and Monali Bhatewara. There are nearby beaches like Smuggler’s Cove and Cane Garden Bay, good restaurants and shopping in Road Town as well as a fully furnished office with internet access and separate gym.

Frenchmans Lookout, caressed by constant trade winds, sits on one of the highest points on Tortola’s west end. It is a two-story Carolina house with a grand wrap around porch on each floor. It was purchased in 2001 by Richard Friedman, an American hotelier with aesthetic sensibilities and concern for detail. Several years of remodeling and refurbishing has turned it into an ultra-comfortable Caribbean House. Each of the five bedrooms, four upstairs and one on the ground floor, open out onto a wrap around verandah. In fact, every room on both levels opens onto the porch via double mahogany French doors, even the bathrooms. On the main floor are a comfortable living room with music and entertainment center and a newly renovated and well-equipped kitchen. Across the spacious foyer is the dining room with mirrored closet doors reflecting the surrounding vibrant blue sea. Off the great room is the garden framing the L-shaped swimming pool and barbeque gazebo high above the harbor and small village of Soper’s Hole. There is also a game room for the kids off the garden.

Rates for the house, with roundtrip transfers to and from airport, breakfast each morning, full staff, daily housekeeping, one full day on the 35-foot luxury yacht with captain, are $16,500 for seven nights for seven to 10 people, $12,500 for one to six people, or $235 per person per day. A 4 percent staff gratuity, 7 percent government tax and gas for the boat is not included. For more information, call 866-940-0020, email info@frenchmanslookout.com  or visit www.frenchmanslookout.com.