Key West Trip

By | January 15, 2025
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We recently took a 7-night trip to Key West, Florida. We arrived the Friday before Christmas and flew back the Friday after.

Highlights included: drinking, eating, bar crawling, more drinking, skydiving, boating (twice, on boats we drove ourselves), going to church on Christmas Eve, visiting Fred the Tree on the old Seven-Mile Bridge, miniature golfing, and more drinking. We stayed in a bed-and-breakfast just off Duval Street, literally overlooking the Hemingway House. The day before we left, we made a trip to the Hemingway House and paid the admission, solely so we could walk around the grounds and molest as many of the sixty-odd cats living there as we could manage.


This was our room. It was small, no question. We’re pretty used to high-end hotels, and this was different — the (king-size) bed took up most of the room. But it was comfortable, with A/C we could control ourselves, and a small balcony that looked right over the pool of the Hemingway House. We could look at those cats (or the tourists who visited their abode) day or night. One night, I looked over and saw a bride-and-groom couple fleeing into the bathrooms for a quick break from their guests, presumably waiting for them at their reception on the opposite lawn.

The B&B had a separate entrance for every room, all named after European cities. We were in the Pamplona room. The central courtyard had a small pool, or essentially a long hot-tub, and they served breakfast on the pool deck. There was also an advertised “free happy hour” which turned out to be pretty minimal, beer and wine but no spirits.

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But anyway, we enjoyed the visit and we’d stay there again, all other things being equal. Being a minute off Duval Street was very convenient, and surprisingly, there really wasn’t much noise to keep us up at night. We just have to get used to staying in a smaller accommodation, and maybe bringing less stuff. We do not know how to travel light. :)

And for kindness’ sake, we should promote our hosts: https://www.andrewsinn.com/

 

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