Aurea Bay is a small collection of seaside villas above a sheltered cove — breakfast on the terrace, a path down to the water, and nothing scheduled unless you ask for it.
EnquireThree ways to stay, written the way we would describe them over the phone.
Built out over the shallows on timber piles, with a plunge pool on the deck and steps straight down to the lagoon. Mornings begin with fish moving under the floor glass; evenings end with the reef going dark.
Set back under the palms for families who want shade and room to spread out. A walled garden, a longer pool for actual laps, and a kitchen table that seats everyone without squeezing.
The largest house at Aurea Bay, at the end of the path where the bay turns. An infinity edge that lines up with the horizon, a shaded sala for long lunches, and staff quarters kept separate, so the house stays private.
No programme is printed. These are simply the things guests ask for most.
The lagoon is calmest before the breeze arrives. Towels and coffee are left on the deck, and breakfast follows whenever you come back up the steps.
Our boatman takes small groups out to the reef edge for snorkelling over coral gardens, returning in time for lunch in the shade of the sala.
A table set on the beach at low tide, the day’s catch grilled simply, and no other tables nearby. Tell us at breakfast and it is ready by dusk.
Example photographs only — Aurea Bay is a fictional place.
Aurea Bay is fictional, and so is its bay. In the story we tell here, the villas sit above a crescent of pale sand on the sheltered side of a headland, where the water stays calm enough for children in the morning and the fishing boats come home across the flat light in the evening.
There is one road in, a small village at the far end of the beach, and a market twice a week where the kitchen buys its fruit and fish. Nothing about the place hurries, and the villas were placed — in this story — so that each one looks at water, not at another villa.
No real place is claimed here: the photographs on this page are example images from Pexels, credited below.
Tell us when you are thinking of coming and which villa you prefer. In this example, the form is for display only — it sends nowhere and stores nothing.