I enjoy a quiet smile to myself when I think of Jamaica villas, their owners, their staff and the guests. I hear Jamaica villa owners talking about the massive investment they have made in their properties, acquiring the latest electronic equipment, hiring a renowned interior-decorator, and so on. And after the villa has been fully equipped, another small fortune is spent on a professional photographer to capture wonderful photographs for that expensive advertising campaign.

The villa staff may get a sentence or two buried somewhere in the descriptive text in the advertising copy.

But I can tell you from talking with many guests, that what they enjoy the most during their Jamaica villa vacation was not the pool, the hot tub, the panoramic sea views, or the latest plasma screen televisions, but the villa staff.

Guests will rave about their cook, describing in detail every meal they enjoyed. They take photos of the dishes and post them on Facebook. They will brag about how clean their villa and pool were kept, how friendly everyone was, and how attentive the staff were to their needs, especially their childrens. Not a single mention is made of that multimillion dollar villa!

There are some Jamaica villas that are not so great; perhaps they could use a bit of renovation or sprucing up, but yet the same visitors return there every year. They dont try out other obviously nicer villas, even at the same price. Why? Its the villa staff - no other reason!

A villa with such loyal guests is the kind of villa to book on your next Jamaica vacation. After all, if the Jamaica villas are as described in the advertising, and you should book with a reputable agent like Mysilversands to make sure of this, the villa and its amenities are taken for granted. Its the day-to-day interaction with the staff and every meal or other service provided that matters.

Dont get me wrong, its not that the Jamaica villa and its amenities are not important. One certainly hears about it when there is some maintenance issue like the air-conditioning in a villa not working properly. But when all is well with the villa, it is just taken for granted. Guests expect that everything will be working fine and the villa will be as described on the web site. What they dont expect or cant comprehend before they experience it is the fabulous service of good Jamaica villa staff. Its not something that they are used to.

When guests return home, they surely tell their friends that the villa was great, but the stories with which they bore them are the stories of the people they met and spent time with. And in a Jamaica villa, the locals with whom they spend the most time are the villa staff.

So when you are going to book a Jamaica villa, read the guest reviews and pay particular attention to what is said about the staff. Look for those villas that have a loyal set of repeat guests and you cannot go wrong.