Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on my one trip there, I will say, that I found Cape Cod to be:

Way too expensive. (10K for a small house in Chatham)
Beautiful.
Water too cold to swim in.
Snooty. My snootiest Aunt goes every year. Preppy heaven.
Too far from DC for me to visit regularly.

What do you think about Cape Cod?

Not diverse enough
Water too cold
I agree that it is too expensive for what you get. There are much better options in Florida and in California. I can rent places in Florida and California with better amenities. Some of those rental homes in Cape Cod are really crappy for what you get. You pay Four Seasons price tag, but you get the Motel 8. My home is better than many of the rental homes there. When I go on vacation I want something better amenities than my home not less.
Restaurants and food quality are not that appealing. If you like bland, then I guess it is okay. There is nothing that stands out compared to what I cook at home.

Also, it is quite boring! Basically, everything that there is to do there my family does here at home. Do not get me wrong it is a beautiful and quaint place. However, it lacks way too many things for my family to return. My children love the beaches in California, Florida, Mexico, the Caribbean, and in Europe. Cape Cod just does not cut it for us. It definitely is no La Jolla.

I know I am going to get harassed here for stating this. Cape Cod is so overrated and I do not understand the appeal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tens of millions of people can drive there in half a day.

That's 90% of the appeal.

I grew up in Boston with a second home on the Cape. Every Friday night of summer (and lots of other times) we'd hop in the car after dinner and be there 90-120 minutes later. I have family that ended up there full time and to me the salty air and dunes are home. So, I love it. But, yeah, maybe not as a destination from DC if you weren't going to visit family.

With that said, whomever said there is nothing to do seriously lacks imagination. I mean, it's not water park and zip lining kind of stuff but SO MUCH TO DO.

Anonymous wrote:The real question concerning Cape Cod is whether you can get a real hoagie? In another thread, a vacation was ruined because they couldn't find a decent hoagie on the Outer Banks. Also, they were mad that the house they selected required a walk across the road to the beach.

Anonymous wrote:Tens of millions of people can drive there in half a day.

That's 90% of the appeal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nantucket smokes the Cape. Great history, food, beaches and mostly less crowded. Sankaty is a great golf club too! That said, shark watching in Cape Cod would be fun. I have done Cape Town shark dives and would love to do it closer to home.

There are very few similarities between South Africa and Cape Cod - one being, there are absolutely not enough sharks to "shark watch" or anything like that on Cape Cod, only an occasional shark. But there is a poster here who likes to try to rail on the Cape to antagonize another poster who is from the Cape, so that gets old after a while.

There are great whale watches and seal watches on the Cape, and also great golf (lots of private and public clubs) for anyone who is NOT TROLLING and is genuinely interested.

I did not say they are alike. So odd.

That said, a dead whale attracted a bunch of great whites off the Cape a few weeks ago. Not sure if you can dive near a whale carcass but there was great shark watching. Would like to do it here and don’t think it would be hard with a bit of chum and some time.

Sankaty is the best golf course this side of the Country Club. Have played most of the Cape’s best. Sorry didn’t come to troll but few trolled cause you deserve it.

Anonymous wrote:I love the cold water. Who wants warm water on a hot day?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nantucket smokes the Cape. Great history, food, beaches and mostly less crowded. Sankaty is a great golf club too! That said, shark watching in Cape Cod would be fun. I have done Cape Town shark dives and would love to do it closer to home.

There are very few similarities between South Africa and Cape Cod - one being, there are absolutely not enough sharks to "shark watch" or anything like that on Cape Cod, only an occasional shark. But there is a poster here who likes to try to rail on the Cape to antagonize another poster who is from the Cape, so that gets old after a while.

There are great whale watches and seal watches on the Cape, and also great golf (lots of private and public clubs) for anyone who is NOT TROLLING and is genuinely interested.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree, sooo crowded and too expensive for what you get.

We rented a house for ~12k. For that amount of money, you can get a house on the sand in the OBX. And the OBX beaches are waaaay less crowded (well Duck and Corolla anyway).

We also found the water too cold to swim for long in July.

^ Me again. I should have specified this is Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, I've never stayed on the mainland Cape. But I hear Chatham and Edgartown are similar to MV and Nantucket.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on my one trip there, I will say, that I found Cape Cod to be:

Way too expensive. (10K for a small house in Chatham)
Beautiful.
Water too cold to swim in.
Snooty. My snootiest Aunt goes every year. Preppy heaven.
Too far from DC for me to visit regularly.

What do you think about Cape Cod?

Not diverse enough
Water too cold
I agree that it is too expensive for what you get. There are much better options in Florida and in California. I can rent places in Florida and California with better amenities. Some of those rental homes in Cape Cod are really crappy for what you get. You pay Four Seasons price tag, but you get the Motel 8. My home is better than many of the rental homes there. When I go on vacation I want something better amenities than my home not less.
Restaurants and food quality are not that appealing. If you like bland, then I guess it is okay. There is nothing that stands out compared to what I cook at home.

Also, it is quite boring! Basically, everything that there is to do there my family does here at home. Do not get me wrong it is a beautiful and quaint place. However, it lacks way too many things for my family to return. My children love the beaches in California, Florida, Mexico, the Caribbean, and in Europe. Cape Cod just does not cut it for us. It definitely is no La Jolla.

I know I am going to get harassed here for stating this. Cape Cod is so overrated and I do not understand the appeal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The real question concerning Cape Cod is whether you can get a real hoagie? In another thread, a vacation was ruined because they couldn't find a decent hoagie on the Outer Banks. Also, they were mad that the house they selected required a walk across the road to the beach.

Mercifully the Cape is not in Pennsylvania. You can get great lobster rolls though!

Anonymous wrote:Nantucket smokes the Cape. Great history, food, beaches and mostly less crowded. Sankaty is a great golf club too! That said, shark watching in Cape Cod would be fun. I have done Cape Town shark dives and would love to do it closer to home.

Anonymous wrote:The real question concerning Cape Cod is whether you can get a real hoagie? In another thread, a vacation was ruined because they couldn't find a decent hoagie on the Outer Banks. Also, they were mad that the house they selected required a walk across the road to the beach.