{"id":4575,"date":"2017-03-07T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:10:11","slug":"gulf-waters-rv-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/gulf-waters-rv-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Waters RV Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Our<\/a>

Our view at dusk<\/p><\/div>\n

It is official: we are spoiled. We will never again stay long-term in an RV park as nice as the Gulf Waters RV Resort<\/a>. This place is a piece of heaven. We are about 6 weeks away from completing our 5-month stay and we love the place more every day.<\/p>\n

Ah, Gulf Waters! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…<\/p>\n

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  1. The sites are wide and wonderful, with great landscaping.<\/li>\n
  2. The communal facilities (community center, swimming pool, recreational facilities and laundry\/bath building) are all first-rate.<\/li>\n
  3. The activities\u00a0– sports (golf, tennis, corn-hole and pickle ball<\/a>) and games (e.g., Bunco<\/a>\u00a0and Hand-and-Foot) can keep one constantly amused.<\/li>\n
  4. The wildlife (e.g., waterfowl and eagles)<\/a> are constantly entertaining.<\/li>\n
  5. The food (e.g., the Thanksgiving buffet<\/a>, the New Years’s Eve dinner<\/a>, the Valentines Day dinner, the daily lunches, Tom’s incredible breakfasts and Donna’s homemade soups) is consistently delicious and the Tiki Bar with its $2 drafts is always a pleasant social scene.<\/li>\n
  6. The people – the staff, the owners and the other renters – are all friendly and welcoming.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The place is not perfect. There are a few things that could be improved:<\/p>\n

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    1. The water is very hard and a bit brackish.\u00a0 It is tolerable, but if it was any worse we would have to use bottled water for our coffee.<\/li>\n
    2. There is no dog park.\u00a0 There is, however, a pretty nice one just about a mile away.<\/li>\n
    3. It is expensive.\u00a0 It is cheaper, as everything is, in the off-season and owners pay much less – after the initial investment – than the renters.\u00a0 But as renters we paid about $60 per night.\u00a0 That is a budget-busting sum which is even more painful when RV parks just a few miles inland are charging half that, or less. At $60 per night we should get maid service and a chocolate on our pillows.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      But we knew it would be expensive before we booked the stay.\u00a0 We regarded it as a 5-month luxury and we are not disappointed.\u00a0 You generally get what you pay for and that is certainly the case at Gulf Waters.<\/p>\n

      \"The<\/a>

      The view from our patio<\/p><\/div>

      \"Our<\/a>

      Our RV from the back<\/p><\/div>

      \"Our<\/a>

      Our patio<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

      \"Our<\/a>

      Our patio resting spot<\/p><\/div>

      \"The<\/a>

      The pool<\/p><\/div>

      \"The<\/a>

      The bath\/laundry building<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

      \"Neighbors<\/a>

      Neighbors to the east<\/p><\/div>\n

      \"Entrance\"<\/a>

      Entrance<\/p><\/div>

      \"Neighbors<\/a>

      Neighbors to the west<\/p><\/div>

      \"Our<\/a>

      Our site from the pond<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

      \"Laundry\"<\/a>

      Laundry<\/p><\/div>\n

      \"Office\"<\/a>

      Office<\/p><\/div>

      \"Site<\/a>

      Site landscaping<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

      \"Community<\/a>

      Community center patio<\/p><\/div>

      \"Community<\/a>

      Community center<\/p><\/div>

      \"Piano\/library\"<\/a>

      Piano\/library<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

      \"Dog<\/a>

      Dog walking area<\/p><\/div>

      \"Tennis<\/a>

      Tennis court<\/p><\/div>

      \"Tiki<\/a>

      Tiki bar<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      It is official: we are spoiled. We will never again stay long-term in an RV park as nice as the Gulf Waters RV Resort. This place is a piece of heaven. We are about 6 weeks away from completing our 5-month stay and we love the place more every day. Ah, Gulf Waters! How do … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-places","category-rvparks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1bN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}