MIke R
Senior Insider
We ended up this year checking out possible locations for the Tub for Two as Lena has been asking to maybe consider a place easy to get to as opposed to the Caribbean which isn't so easy to get to so she can visit more often....fair enough....so the Keys immediately came to mind ......we spent a fun day in the North End of Boston walking around and having an early dinner before our evening flight out ...we continue to love having a pre vacation decompression day before our actual vacation ...
Jet Blue....I am loving this airline more and more ...this was our third time using them ...first time was to SXM, second to STT and both were flawless....we arrived at the airport, tickets in hand and carry on only, as always ....the security lines were spilling out past the maze and onto the open floor.....we had the More Speed option and our line had a half dozen people in front of us, so what would have been a tediously long process was over and done in minutes and we were on our way to the gate ....we were scheduled to go through BWI and change planes to Fort Lauderdale but when I checked in at the gate, the agent told us there was a non stop leaving a little before our flight which had available seats and if we had no checked bags, for 50 bucks a person extra he could get us on it ......well we were all over that so off we go a few gates down to our non stop which was getting us in much earlier than originally scheduled....what a deal!!!.....and what great customer service !!!
Grabbed the car from Enterprise ( love this car rental company ) and off to the Royal Sonesta which was a very nice and reasonably priced ocean front hotel in Ft Lauderdale
view from our room .....
Next morning we were off for the 2 hour ride to our duplex ...we rented a duplex with an ex forum member Martin who some of you old timers might remember ....it was in Key Colony which is a part of Marathon....on a deep water canal, with a private dock, underwater lights for night viewing of fish etc....we had a lot of day and night visitors including Dolphins, manatees, a huge 200 pound Jewfish, a spotted Ray, a barracuda and a few Snook along with a few hundred mangrove snappers .....the apartment itself was very nice, clean, spacious and modern....two bedrooms.. ..two full baths a well appointed kitchen and a comfortable living room with Sat TV ( never turned it on ), wifi ( used only for music ) and a nice sound system ....the only caveat is I would never rent this duplex not knowing who my neighbors would be, which is why having Martin and Lisa next door was perfect ...being in the tourist business 365/24/7 we are burnt out on people in general and the last thing we want to do on vacation is make new friends ...we already have enough thank you ....we just want to be left alone to enjoy each other's company while unattached to the phone and computer, which doesn't happen enough in real life ..we were going to rent a boat and put it at the dock, but it was a little rough offshore all week from the non stop breeze, which we loved on land, but wouldn't have loved offshore ...so we passed on the boat ...another time perhaps
Weather......simple....mostly cloudless breezy 85 degree days and clear sky 75 degree nights ...not a drop of rain
Beaches .....empty....low season www clearly happening there
gotta start a new post .....put of space for photos ....
Jet Blue....I am loving this airline more and more ...this was our third time using them ...first time was to SXM, second to STT and both were flawless....we arrived at the airport, tickets in hand and carry on only, as always ....the security lines were spilling out past the maze and onto the open floor.....we had the More Speed option and our line had a half dozen people in front of us, so what would have been a tediously long process was over and done in minutes and we were on our way to the gate ....we were scheduled to go through BWI and change planes to Fort Lauderdale but when I checked in at the gate, the agent told us there was a non stop leaving a little before our flight which had available seats and if we had no checked bags, for 50 bucks a person extra he could get us on it ......well we were all over that so off we go a few gates down to our non stop which was getting us in much earlier than originally scheduled....what a deal!!!.....and what great customer service !!!
Grabbed the car from Enterprise ( love this car rental company ) and off to the Royal Sonesta which was a very nice and reasonably priced ocean front hotel in Ft Lauderdale
view from our room .....
Next morning we were off for the 2 hour ride to our duplex ...we rented a duplex with an ex forum member Martin who some of you old timers might remember ....it was in Key Colony which is a part of Marathon....on a deep water canal, with a private dock, underwater lights for night viewing of fish etc....we had a lot of day and night visitors including Dolphins, manatees, a huge 200 pound Jewfish, a spotted Ray, a barracuda and a few Snook along with a few hundred mangrove snappers .....the apartment itself was very nice, clean, spacious and modern....two bedrooms.. ..two full baths a well appointed kitchen and a comfortable living room with Sat TV ( never turned it on ), wifi ( used only for music ) and a nice sound system ....the only caveat is I would never rent this duplex not knowing who my neighbors would be, which is why having Martin and Lisa next door was perfect ...being in the tourist business 365/24/7 we are burnt out on people in general and the last thing we want to do on vacation is make new friends ...we already have enough thank you ....we just want to be left alone to enjoy each other's company while unattached to the phone and computer, which doesn't happen enough in real life ..we were going to rent a boat and put it at the dock, but it was a little rough offshore all week from the non stop breeze, which we loved on land, but wouldn't have loved offshore ...so we passed on the boat ...another time perhaps
Weather......simple....mostly cloudless breezy 85 degree days and clear sky 75 degree nights ...not a drop of rain
Beaches .....empty....low season www clearly happening there
gotta start a new post .....put of space for photos ....