Every year we plan our vacation in December. Usually someplace warm and relaxing with an ocean nearby. I find myself not looking forward to these excursions for many reasons. The thought of spending a lot of money to stay at another beat up hotel room, sleep in another uncomfortable bed at a major resort is not all that exciting to me. When we do go on vacation my wife usually ends up planning enough outside excursions to keep us from thinking about the mediocre room which would make most folks look forward to returning home to their own beds. We are both 50 years old and nothing has surprised us in decades. If we left a hotel or resort review in the past it was usually as a warning to others. This December I got an amazing present that we haven't felt on a vacation in years.
The Pineapple Cottage. It felt more like our home only nicer. Picture your dear friends the interior decorators have invited you to house sit, they leave you a long list of recommended places for you to eat, things to do and even people to clean the place. The hardest part of our trip was going home.
This place is a breath of fresh air. The beds, sheets, pillows and covers feel brand new, the theme of the cottage from the furniture, to the brass lighting fixtures inside and out, mosaic tiling, granite kitchen counter tops and even the painted mural that adorns the pool area where all a very nice reminders that this was the vacation from home that we were looking for.
We hardly used the beautiful kitchen during our stay except for the coffee maker and the refrigerator. We did use a handy list of restaurants suggested by the cottage management. They really spent their time recommending places and people from cleaning ladies, fishing boats charters, golf courses and beaches that would make our stay a better experience. Straying off go this list proved to be second best.
I would highly recommend the Pineapple Cottage to anyone who is tired of vacation disappointments, except of course in the month of December, because thats our time to enjoy it.