Four women want to spend the week of March 14-22nd on a warm beach. We also don't want to spend any time with thousands of drunk co-eds and frat boys. Have any advice on where to go for a non-touristy, gay friendly spring break?
Some friends of mine and I have never made the spring pilgrimage south, so we decided this is the year. We’re all grad students, and we all have off from March 14-22nd, and we’d like to travel within these dates. We’re not looking for anything fancy, but we do have a few catches. I’m looking for some advice on specific towns that you think might work within our criteria, or, even better, specific places we could rent. Or, if you know of good places to search for places to rent, I’d love to hear about that, too. The catches are as follows:
1. There are four women going, and three of us are queer (and rather obviously so). We want to feel safe where we are, and we don’t want to get gay-bashed.
2. One of us is vegan, so we’d really like to have a kitchen included in our accommodations so we can cook our own meals.
3. We don’t want to go anywhere touristy. Not that we’re against going snorkeling or to awesome ruins or other amazing things that people tend to want to check out, but we would rather stay in Wisconsin than hang out with hordes of obnoxious, drunk jackasses. Basically, we’re not at all interested in going somewhere that tons of people are going to for spring break (i.e. Cancun, South Padre, etc.). We want to go somewhere that is still a happy place for locals, and not that frequented by tourists (especially ones who are just looking to get drunk, sunburned and laid).
4. We’d really like to go somewhere very warm, sunny, and on a beach that is not crowded. We’d love to feel like we’re in our own tropical paradise. We realize it’s probably out of the question for us to have a beach to ourselves, but then again, if that’s possible, that’s our ideal. But, again, we realize this probably won’t happen.
5. We’re on a budget, so we’re hoping to stay somewhere that is more exemplary of local prices than tourist ones.
6. Ideally, we’d love to be somewhat close to a cool town that would offer us some sort of fun cultural experience, or at least a place we can walk around at night and have a few beers.
We’d be happy to stay in the states, but I have a feeling that it’ll be warmer and more fun if we go south. So we’re looking at Mexico, mainly, but if we could find an inexpensive and exciting option somewhere else, we’d certainly consider it. We’ll be flying out of either Milwaukee or Chicago, so plane fair is going to be a bit of a concern, as well.
I really appreciate any suggestions you could make. To break it down one last time, we’re horrified that we’re going to arrive at our destination and it’s going to be filled with frat boys and an entire sorority. Please tell me where I can go where this won’t happen! Thanks so much, everyone. Also, for the record, I’ve already read all of the threads
here and also this
post. Thanks again!
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If you want to fly into a major airport like Tampa or Sarasota International, or Fort Myers, look into any of the Florida barrier islands in those areas. For a real island experience, check into Cayo Costa or Little Gaspirilla Island. They're only accessible by boat.
posted by _Mona_ at 5:50 PM on January 18