dmharris
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Susan, I just found this thread. You did a great job documenting your experience and photographing the resort. Thanks for the effort! I want to go there in the dead of winter
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Crystal Shores at Marco Island 11/09
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You're welcome! It's so helpful to me when others put pics here so I try to remember to do the same thing. Our week at Crystal Shores was a pretty lazy week so there was plenty of down time to wander around with the camera. I'm hoping to do the same thing at Barony in a few weeks, looking forward to seeing and showing some of the improvements they've done and are still working on.
We met a couple while out to dinner one night during our week at Crystal Shores who told us that the dead of winter is the perfect time to visit - usually still warm enough to enjoy the beach but without the crowds. Marco Island in January or February sure sounds a whole lot better to me than Massachusetts, especially after the colder-than-usual winter we "enjoyed" last year!
Yes it can be warm in Dec-Jan but it can also be very cold. It's chancy. We have a fireplace that burns wood. The only sell the wood at that time of the year in small bundles at Publix. We usually have about three weeks of cold weather with no rain. We average about three days per year when the temperature hits 32 degrees. Those days are usually in Dec or Jan.
The weeks with the fewest visitors here are usually the first two weeks of the year. The best weather here IMO is November and February-March. I guess it all depends upon your definition of the "dead of winter". We have BBQed on the beach on Christmas Day some years and stayed indoors due to the cold in other years. (Our homes really don't have what you would call a furnace) It's just plain luck if you hit beach weather at that time of year.
The weeks with the fewest visitors here are usually the first two weeks of the year. The best weather here IMO is November and February-March. I guess it all depends upon your definition of the "dead of winter". We have BBQed on the beach on Christmas Day some years and stayed indoors due to the cold in other years. (Our homes really don't have what you would call a furnace) It's just plain luck if you hit beach weather at that time of year.