Based on their Help Exchange profile, their website, and communications we had with one of the hosts back in April 2010, by all accounts The Village should have been a working eco-village; a utopian community for sustainable living and tourism, complete with green housing shares, edible streetscapes, and a working café. What we found upon arrival was simply a motel. Granted, this motel was situated on a beautiful plot of land overlooking the water with a few gardens around, but a motel nonetheless.
Occasionally we would be met with nicer gifts than BO and body hair: bottles of wine, stuffed animals, two-dollar coins, to name a few. Good or bad though, no matter what, there was usually at least one good story to tell after a day of housekeeping.