Cottages at Camp Creek Special May 26 and June 2

[Paula]

For some reason, most of our season is booked in both of our cottages at the Cottages at Camp Creek, but we still have the weeks of May 26 and June 2 available in one of them. Sooooo, we lowered the weekly rental rate from $1350 to $1100. If you know anyone who needs a very nice three-bedroom, two bath, family-friendly cottage built in 2003/04 (in a family-friendly community) steps from the pool and across the street from an uncrowded beach, just check the link below and contact our agency at 888-541-0801. The cottage is 1/2 mile west of Alys Beach (Fonville Press is great), and about 1 mile from Villages of South Walton (Seacrest Cafe, dancing fountains), and Rosemary Beach. We're about 4 miles east of Seagrove and 6 miles from Seaside. We equip the cottages with beach chairs, cooler, pool floaters, beach toys, games, puzzles, books and lots of other things so all the guests need to bring are their clothes, beach towels, and sunscreen. Here's the link. If you contact the agency, please let them know I offered you either of these weeks for $1100 (the cleaning fee is included in the rate and there's an 11% tax which is required of all rentals and $25 booking fee). Please pm me if you have any questions.

Key Lime Cottage: http://www.vrbo.com/33828

(we also have a few weeks in July but we're not discounting those yet because we hope they'll get booked -- it's still a bit early)

 

[TooFarTampa]

Great site, great cottages Paula.

I also have no doubt you take very good care of your guests.

 

[Paula]

Thanks, TooFarTampa. My mom always told us "if you're going to do a job, you should do it right" so if I'm going to have vacation rentals, I'll try to take care of guests right! We really do appreciate our guests and try to show them our appreciation. They really are great family-friendly cottages in a great location (as I've said before on SoWal.com, there are so many nice vacational rentals and communities along 30A - something for everyone). Anyway, thanks again for your kind words.

 

[goofer]

I can possitively attest to Paula's hospitality. I am staying at Ahh The Good Life. The cottage is comforable, homey, well equipped, and a great location. I highly recommend Paula as your hostess away from home !!!

 

[DD]

Lovely place, Paula! I'm sure you'll be booked soon!!

 

[Paula]

Gosh, thanks Goofer44. And you've been a very fine guest. I'm really glad you're happy at the cottage. We are so happy when we're there, too. And you'll be very happy when you're in your own place soon...

And DD, thanks for your kind words. It was grayt to see you at the soiree.

 

[DD]

Gosh, thanks Goofer44. And you've been a very fine guest. I'm really glad you're happy at the cottage. We are so happy when we're there, too. And you'll be very happy when you're in your own place soon...

And DD, thanks for your kind words. It was grayt to see you at the soiree.

Back atcha Paula!

 

[pobstfarm]

My family and I are staying at the Cottages at Camp Creek next week, and I was hoping someone could give me some information about them. I stumbled on this thread and figured it was a good place to ask my questions.

We have two small children (ages 6 and 3), so we were wondering about the walk to the beach. Is it far? Also, our rental does not have beach chairs with it. Are there beach chairs for rent? (And are they costly?) We'll buy our own before we leave if necessary, but I wanted to check.

In general, if someone could give me some information on what the community is like, and what there is to do, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!

 

[TNJed]

My family and I are staying at the Cottages at Camp Creek next week, and I was hoping someone could give me some information about them. I stumbled on this thread and figured it was a good place to ask my questions.

We have two small children (ages 6 and 3), so we were wondering about the walk to the beach. Is it far? Also, our rental does not have beach chairs with it. Are there beach chairs for rent? (And are they costly?) We'll buy our own before we leave if necessary, but I wanted to check.

In general, if someone could give me some information on what the community is like, and what there is to do, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!

In addition to the PM info I sent you, I just returned from Seacrest and your beach access appears to be about 100 yards to the east of the Cottages' entrance. You'll cross 30A to it's south side and turn left (east), walk about 75-100 yards on the pedestrian path and you'll see on your right a gravel path which is a 50-yard straight shot to the beach. There will be stairs at the end of it. There isn't a public access sign posted but I imagine this is your closest non-private access point.

Perhaps Paula, being an owner there, could chime in and confirm this. Perhaps there is deeded access elsewhere I'm not aware of.

The Beach Chair Company
850-200-3595

 

[Paula]

Potstfarm: TNJed is correct. The beach access is about a 5 minute walk away, about 200 yards total I believe from the front entrance of the Cottages at Camp Creek. It's not a large community, so I would think at most it would be about 300 years (CCK could chime in here, too). Parents with a 3 and 6 year old will be just fine. There are stairs going down to the beach because we're up on dunes. Being up on dunes makes us feel better during hurricane season and we don't think of the stairs one way or the other, even when we're travelling with grandparents or young children. If someone couldn't navigate stairs, that would be a different story of course.

There are two ways to deal with the beach chair issue. One is to buy some beach chairs at Publix for about $12.00 each and bring them back and forth to the beach. We leave chairs and beach things for our guests at our cottages and that's what they use and that's what we use when we're there. I recommend getting the lightest chairs you can find and ideally chairs that recline (that's what we leave at the cottage). Sometimes someone will take a chair or two if you leave them at the beach, though, for a few hours and you don't want to leave them overnight.

We'll be there in August and this time I'm tempted to get beach chair service for us because I may want to just spoil myself. And of course by trying out a beach chair service I'll be able to tell guests about the difference. I have no doubt the beach chair service chairs and umbrellas are cushier and it is nice to have someone set them up for you.

So, it's really a matter of how much money you want to spend on vacation and how cushy you want your chairs to be... I've been longing for cushy lately but we've gone 5 years very happy with our folding beach chairs that we bring back and forth to the cottage. But I'm getting tempted and may succumb to cushy beach chair temptation this next trip.

You'll love the Cottages at Camp Creek -- very family friendly, great porches, nicely built cottages (convenient), well kept, big pool. The beach near us doesn't get very crowded (and I've been there in July as well as off season), so that's nice. You must bring the family to the Villages of South Walton (1 mile east) Dancing Fountain that lights up at night and dances to music. Last year, it would dance to music at around 8:30 at night -- kids love to run through it and play. Very funn. You can get ice cream at Seacrest Cafe or just bring your own snack and eat it at one of the tables. Rosemary Beach is nice to walk around, too (about 1.4 miles east). Deer Lake State Park is truly awesome -- stunning. With young children, there's a very long walk on the boardwalk to get to the ocean (and only an out house for a bathroom), but it's probably like nothing you've ever seen -- lots of natural rambling dunes, no homes, and you get a sense of what the area used to look like before the development. We also like going to Grayton Beach State Park because it's so family friendly -- has bathrooms, easy parking, grills, showers, ramp to the beach. Very convenient and costs under $10 and probably closer to $5.00 as an entrance fee. Great place to go if you want to spend all day there.

Feel free to pm me if you want any more information about the Cottages at Camp Creek or our favorite things to do with the kids (and what we don't like to do). Frankly, when we're there we pretty much spend all of our time at the pool, beach, and porch and the dancing fountains. We get very lazy.

Have a fantastic time.