Rent a House for Family Memories & Great Meals

Thinking back on my childhood, I loved that we spent a week in one nice spot. Renting a vacation home can create family memories, enable you to spend quality relaxing time together as a family. Cooking together for me enables a family to provide a merging of home life with vacation excitement, just what the kids need.

Many folks don’t think about cooking on vacation, but it is key to making your children feel at home in a strange new environment. Our family created four memory filled vacations by renting places with a home-like environment and spending time exploring the surrounding area. Cooking one or two meals together gave the adults a chance to explore the new and unusual foods, but gave our children the security of knowing that if they wanted their normal food, it was available to them. Also at our place, you get privacy and your own out-door space to enjoy the fresh air, water and woods all around. A picnic in your door yard, as they say in Maine.

Eric Clapton's Chelsea Residence

It also stretched our dollar further, enabling us to stay longer. We stepped into urban shoes in London, renting a flat in a nice building in a beautiful area a few blocks from Eric Clapton’s house. We were entertained just by walking around the streets by the history and pace of a large city. We spent days in museums and loved the theatre excitment. Being able to get around with mass transit was a nice difference to our rural lifestyle.

Going to a wedding, we spent a week on a small lake in rural Michigan – and created a stable place for my aging father who never likes to travel. Having his own room where he could walk out and mingle with all the kids and their kids’ kids. We were able to have a barbecue and eating became a celebration in itself. The small kids spent endless time exploring the shore and water. We got a house large enough for 4 groups to stay together.

Granada from Alhambra

We spent a week exploring southern Spain, staying in a condominium.  I have to say, because it was the cool season, we really only used the place at the start and end of our day, spending the rest of the time driving through the surrounding area.  We explored some incredible historical cities, ruins and Alhambra. Driving in Spain was an adventure. We were able to visit the Picasso museum in Malaga, something not easy to forget. Cooking with local food was an adventure too. It enabled us to sample local cheeses and thrive despite the local custom of eating dinner after 10pm, our usual bedtime….those Spaniards!

We spent anther wedding week in southern California, LA land. Staying in a house where again three families were under one roof. We were able to host the rehearsal dinner party there, around our own pool. I have to say that getting around on the highways was a bit challenging for this rural resident.

So keep looking at renting a house for vacation this time. The best part is accommodating a group size of your choosing, whether it is a family of 4 or a family gathering of 16. Vacation memories await you.  If you need a two bedroom suite on the ocean, please consider our SeaCat’s Rest.

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