Picked a Date!!

We are finally moving along with our Perry beach house vacation! Yes!! The tentative date of the vacation for now is: Wednesday June 1, 2011 to Tuesday June 7, 2011. These dates seem to work best given that Memorial weekend is May 27-30th and then the summer prices go up after the second week in June. If any one has a problem with these dates and has other suggestions please let me know. I think its far enough in advance to kind of plan around these dates for things such as work, extracurricular activities and such.

Now on to the real issue here: picking a house

The Newport villas I mentioned on the previous post are more expensive then they advertised. I heard back today from the owner and for all 3 villas it will be $4,800, plus California tax and a cleaning fee. Bringing us to a grand total of $800 plus per family. Unfortunately we, meaning Vern and I cannot afford that. I'm thinking that like $500 can be the absolute max we can afford or we won't have any money for anything else such as gas, food, extras etc... I don't know how everybody else feels about the price of $800? I thought about maybe only getting two of the Villas and that would put us at $3600/600 per family. And two family's will not have bedrooms but a living room. Now, Degen is okay with a living room, but the rest of us all have children and I don't think Lynne and Vernon should have to sleep in a living room. $600 seems pretty expensive for not all of us to have a bedroom. I've searched and searched for properties in the Newport/Balboa area and there are very few with more than 4 bedrooms and if they do have 4 bedrooms they are usually around $5,000 or more a week.

I think a better option for us, is to find a more affordable house somewhere else if there is one. I inquired about several houses yesterday in different areas with at least five bedrooms. I found one in Encinitas that looks nice and the price is right. It is not right on the beach, but like one street away from it. You can look at the house on google earth. I am not familiar with Encinitas but it is in the San Diego area. This area has tons for us to do and you can still drive to other areas of California for sight seeing such as Newport for the day or Disneyland or Hollywood. Also Vernon has had his heart set on seeing the aircraft carrier (can't think of the name at the moment) and we will right by it.

The great part about this vacation is that we will be there seven days- plenty of time to do what ever we want. This house has five bedrooms, pool, hot tub, three bathrooms, full kitchen, 2 washers and 2 dryers, beach toys, beach umbrellas and chairs. Click below to go to the listing-

https://www.vacationrentals.com/vacation-rentals/57561.html?cid=E_owner-inquiry_DB_O_2034_prop%20pg_text_LPROP

One of the bedrooms

Living room

Family room?

The price- $1700, plus 330 cleaning fee= $2030/338.00 per family. This sounds much more reasonable to me. After June 15, the price goes up to $2900 per week. I will forward you the emails I received so you all can view all the properties and amenities.

If any of you want to look for a house please do. Just remember to check the rate and the dates because I've found that it will be listed for one price and then have a higher price for summer and then even higher one for after the middle of June. Summertime is the peak season for California vacation rentals.

I will be forwarding the emails tonight so please check your email!! In the email if you scroll down to where it says inquiry property ######, under that there will be a link with a web address to click on and it will show you the listing. You can also use this website if you want to search for a house.

Please let me know what you think about the house in Encinitas as soon as possible so we can book this baby (if its what we want). If not, I'm sure we will find a different one. So look at all the emails and let me know what you think.