Ok so researching Nantucket for some surfing/family time away in July but DAMN its so expensive!! Rent a Jeep with beach permit.... 1500 for the week+1h 45 minute drive to the cape, 1 hr speed ferry at a cost of 75 plus a hotel for the week, plus food etc... Anyone know the best option for doing this trip to Nantucket? If I bring my own car it will cost me 580 roundtrip plus 200 for a week parking beach permit plus the lodging... So I guess my question is, any advice on the best way to do it that wont break the bank? Any lodging you can recommend too? Bring a car, dont bring a car? Flying is OUT LOL. Oh and if I do the ferry with the car it will be 1h45 min drive to the cape, PLUS 2HRS 15 on the slow ferry... Any advice appreciated and please dont tell me my best option is not to go or to go to costa rica or something like that... that is for another time... lol
U2B would tell you the best way would be to go kill yourself. LOL Get some stuffed quahogs while you are up there, most bars have them. I have fam in Falmouth, but I have only been up once and that was to a local chili cook off out on the island.
I use to have a place in Mashpee. Would have been easy that way. Crash at my place, take the ferry over with boards, transit to the beach, surf all day, transit back, ferry back, crash at my place for a day or two, come home... easy!!
Jetblue is having a sale right now on airfares. You need to travel wed/thur to wed/thur to get the best deal. They fly to Nantucket. Depending where you are coming from (JFK is direct) you will need to have a layover in Boston.
There is nothing cheap about Nantucket. I've flown, I've driven and taken the ferry, and I've taken my car on the ferry. By far, the best option is the one that's out for you... fly. Since that's out, I recommend driving and taking the slow ferry without your car. Cabs are everywhere, reliable, and fares are reasonable, relatively speaking. They'll even send a big van if you have boards. The problem will be a place to stay. If you stay near the surf, you're far from Town, and vice versa. That means cab fare everywhere. Lot's of rooms available in B&Bs, but expensive. You can find reasonable eats, but then you're missing out on some of the best food in NE.
I once had a neighbor from nantucket.... No srsly. That place ain't for the commoners. Just a question. Why drop all that cash to go there?
"Just a question. Why drop all that cash to go there?" That's what I'm wondering. Gotta be the wifey...which could be a legitimate excuse
Who are you guys kidding?? That place is for ghetto dwellers. And the surf sucks, btw. Now, as U2B would say, go kill yourselves. Assholes!!! Especially you skankee yankee!! hahahahaha!
No, I am laughing at you because you will never be able to afford a place like Nantucket!! hahaha!!! I can, but I would not go there; it is for ghetto dwellers like you.....
It might be cheaper in the off season, i.e., September, etc. I hear that it can be outstanding during TS swell...
In all the years I've been there, I got a solid hurricane swell once... huge lefts swinging in on the south side of the island. You would see sets coming literally a mile down the beach, lighting up the sandbars from east to west, until it got to you. An amazing thing...