Jervis Bay Accommodation

Philip pruning the trees.You have privacy but you also have the view.

Guest reviews 2010

Best week for along time. Came here to relax and have done that. White Sands walk, Botanic Gardens, Murrays Beach, Whale Watching. Staring into the fire and the views wonderful. The house is fantastic, love the design and decor. Thanks to you both.

Beautiful house with everything we need to just chill out. The views are beautiful. The fire warms the place up brilliantly and is hypnotising to watch just curled up with each other. We had a fantastic break here. Will recommend for sure.

Had a great time, house is fantastic.

Loved the house and the fantastic views. Breakfast on the deck was a relaxing way to start the day off and the white sands walk was a great way to see a few beaches. Helpful owners provided everything we needed plus more! Thanks.

Our 4th Visit to this beautiful house. ( We call it our holiday house) Always spotless and well stocked with lots of fire wood. Hope to see you again next year.

Fabulous house, wonderful views, memorable weekend.

Thank you for the wonderful stay. The house is brilliant!

Lovely House! The weekend was very relaxing which was exactly what I was after. Everything was clean and comfortable. The views are just beautiful. Thanks again! I hope to return.

2nd visit!! What can we say we love it here. We will be back again. It is only an hour away from our home but a great place to come and relax for the w/e away from the kids..We love the cleanliness of the house, it is so well looked after and all the thought and special touches you both put into it makes for a very enjoyable experience.

Beautiful views, Great location, Lovely helpful owners, Lovely and calming, Fantastic place for our honeymoon, Hope to be back some day.

It's a wonderful clean, bright, spacious house! We enjoyed BBQing on the deck with the lovely vegetation and ocean views. We also enjoyed the visit from the possum and the colourful birds. We walked many local beaches and enjoyed the peace and serenity. Thanks for the opportunity to visit this special place.

I love the extra touches of the magazines and dvds. Great for relaxing on the deck and at night on the couch. A lovely house, beautiful location. it is a great way to spend a long w/e.

2nd Visit to Blue Point House. Lovely as ever, such a clean and well thought out house with special touches around the place.

Love It !! Thanks for providing such a wonderful place to relax and enjoy the good things in life.

We bought my parents here for the w/e as they are visiting from the UK and they loved it! We thoroughly enjoyed watching the colourful lorikeets on the balcony as well as the stunning ocean views. Great house with all the mod cons. I would highly recommend it to my friends. All in all Jervis Bay is stunning.. white sand, great wildlife, great place!!

Here to celebrate 25 years of marriage. Thanks for making it so special with the rose petals and candles around the spa. Just listening to the birds in the morning, what a treat.. Not sure if the weather is going to come good or not but we don't care as relaxing is just as good. First day we discovered Murray's Beach and walked around the beaches. Love Nature.. When it was raining we watched your dvds. Stll love it!!!

Our return visit and we'll definitely make it a hatrick!! Thanks Jane and Philip for providing such a beautiful place to stay. We had an extra special Valentine's w/e.

What can we say?? Beautiful house, beautiful views and a beautiful place. We can't think of a better way to have spent out honeymoon. We will definitely be back sometime soon! Many thanks for having made our time so relaxing.

Thanks guys very much. Will always recommend this beautiful house.

Thanks for a great stay- we had a lovely relaxed time, given the fact there is loads of room and all the mod cons and touches.

Jane you have a wonderful setup here. Everything I could possibly need you have supplied, with a beautiful setting and great weather. Thankyou so much.

Great to be back and we loved the week. Back in the water, bush and salt air. Highligts including feeding and fraternising with the possums and parrots on the back deck, snorkelling, sailing, kayaking,and lazy BBQs in the evening. See you soon.

Been 6 times and back after a 4 year break. Gorgeous as always. Good to be back.

We had a wonderful stay. 2nd time at Blue Point House. See you next year.

When can we move in??? We love it here. This place is so beautifully designed and has everything we could need. A perfect base from which to explore this spectacular area. We can't wait to come back.

A Beautiful place to unwind and relax in the creators wonderland. The views are exceptional, the colours of the birds are wonderful. We thoroughly enjoyed our 2nd stay here and will be recommending it to our friends.

Thanks so much! Beautiful house and surrounds. Hope to be back again some day. You've done a fantastic job!

We have gained so much from the experience and regret that we did not book it for longer. 5 stars.

Wow! Factor Just brilliant!! Really appreciate how the place is kitted out and think you have done an excellent job of decorating and style choices for the home. Was really easy to live here. Will be back.

What a special little oasis this place is. So much thought has gone into every detail of the house and it makes staying here an absolute pleasure. It goes without saying that the views are spectacular!. Thanks so much.

We had a most enjoyable few days staying at Blue Point House. We found the house to be beautifully presented with spectacular views and relaxed atmosphere. The beaches and the bush walks were great. We would like to do this again- maybe in Autumn.

The view over the bush to the Bay gives the house its independence. Blenheim beach beautiful.

Very tidy and clean. Nice view. Good memories here.

From the house

The Post

Home away from Home with Views, by Sue Coulton

Holiday makers have long been drawn to the Jervis Bay area because of the beauty of the surrounds.

Truly enjoying it becomes even easier with the luxurious accommodation offered at A Blue Point House, in the town of Vincentia.

The house, which features spectacular views of the Bay area was built by Jane and Philip Bessell-Browne with the help of a local builder.

It opened in Easter 2000, and has quickly gained a reputation as one of the best value accommodation venues available on Jervis Bay.

It is little wonder.

The house features two bedrooms upstairs with a full bathroom and a large spa bath.

Downstairs, there is a living-dining room,a fully equipped, modern kitchen, a television room, laundry, another bathroom and a large balcony with a barbecue to make the most of the views.

Painted in yellow and blues to enhance the ocean aspects, the house has proved popular during the summer months and the whale watching seasons.

Mrs Bessell-Browne said the couple had been fully involved in the construction of the house and believed it offered good value for money.

"We particularly aim at couples who are after a romantic getaway, honeymooners, anniveraries, Valentine's Day or just people who want to get a way." she said.

We feel the atmosphere is relaxing and we've certainly tried to reflect this in the home."

Close to the beaches, shops, and golf course the Bessell-Brownes believe the Border and the North East residents can fully experience the delight of A Blue Point House by making it a longer stopover, with special rates in place to accommodate those who are looking for a getaway of several days.

Rates and availability can be viewed at the website, www.bluepointhouse.com.au

Towards the mountains

Vincentia Accommodation

Sydney Morning Herald Review

The building boom of the past 12 months has not been kind to Vincentia, a seaside retreat three hours south of Sydney where the hills overlooking Jervis Bay have been defoliated to make way for dozens of overblown brick-veneer holiday houses featuring triple garages, Corinthian colonnades and hectares of lawn. Take a tour around here and you'll pine for the days of the humble fibro shack surrounded by gum trees.

Luckily, Philip and Jane Bessell-Browne decided to buck the local suburban horreur aesthetic when they built Blue Point House on a hill at the southern end of town. They designed the two-storey house in post-Murcutt style - corrugated roof and walls, airy interiors, blue-and-yellow colour scheme to mimic sky and sand - and kept the trees it overlooks pretty much intact.

Rural seclusion is not the attraction here - the house sits cheek-by-jowl with its neighbours and its interior is designer-modern, with polished wooden floors, corrugated aluminium feature walls, a glass-topped dining table and fittings that smell freshly unpacked. But as a family weekender, it is extremely comfortable, spacious and functional.

The living room has a glass frontage that offers expansive views to Point Perpendicular and Bowen Island, the big balcony has a gas barbecue, and the main bedroom is big enough to play kick-to-kick football in. Bonus points were awarded for the tied bundles of kindling and the Father's Day Heinekens.

Locally, there's a limitless range of things to do around Vincentia - snorkelling in Jervis Bay, whale-spotting cruises, botanic gardens, bushwalks in nearby Booderee National Park, and a one-hour stroll along the Sandy Beach Trail to Hyams Beach, to name just a few. Frankly, we didn't do any of it. Instead, we took a 10-minute stroll to Greenfields Beach, a little, crescent-shaped cove which looked irresistible on the first warm day of spring - aqua water sparkling like frost and tall eucalypts throwing shade patterns over white sand. The rock formations at either end of the beach here offer enough shell collecting/crab spotting/rockpool fossicking to keep an average eight-year-old in Magic Beach mode for hours. Adults can wallow in the hallucinatory feeling that they're in the Cayman Islands.

Later, we went back to the house, broke open the complimentary Wolf Blass white and settled back to watch the stars come out. Those suburban-style mansions up the street seemed a long way away.

Richard Guilliatt, Good Weekend,

Details

Phone: (02) 4422-1523

Prices: See Tariff Page

DISTANCE About three hours' drive from Sydney.
ACCOMMODATION Two bedrooms - one double, one twin.
FEATURES Wood burning heater, spa, barbecue, stereo, VCR, fully equipped kitchen, TV room, balcony with ocean views.
NEARBY Booderee National Park, snorkelling, scuba diving, kayaking, golf course, dolphin cruises, bushwalk, beach five-minutes' walk away.
BOOKINGS Two weeks ahead.
CHILDREN Sorry No Children.
WHEELCHAIR ACCESS No

SMOKING No

BLue Point House

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