Week 1 of Summer – Cape Fun

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We started the summer off with a bang! A trip to the Red Jacket Resort in Yarmouth, fireworks on the beach. Back home for a bit and swim lessons. Then to the cape again for the 4th and more fireworks on the bay!

Parting is such sweet sorrow Red Jacket Resorts

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Parting is such sweet sorrow Red Jacket Resorts…

Yarmouth Summer Celebration and a Red Jacket Giveaway

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The Yarmouth Summer Celebration is about to start up in just a week or so!

This is the fifth year of the Yarmouth Summer Celebration Kick-Off, and they’ll have all of your favorite events from years past plus some new ones for even more fun. They will start it off with a bang with a spectacular Fireworks display and a busy weekend commemorating the new playground opening in Yarmouthport on Saturday, and a jam-packed day of beach activities on our first #SundayFunday!

Here’s the event schedule online. I’ll give you a snippet below. It looks like tons of fun with a lot of stuff to do for kids and families!

Sounds like a ton of fun right?? Well, Red Jacket Resorts would like a very special family to have a front row seat at their place for the Yarmouth Summer Celebration Kick off events :-)  My family and I went to the Beach Resort in the Spring and just loved it. We can’t wait to experience it in all it’s glory – during a Cape Cod Summer!

We’ve had a long hard winter around these parts, haven’t we? Thinking about the beach, sand castles, the pool, nature walks, bbq, ice cream, s’mores, family, new friends, and most of all tired, dirty, happy kids. My favorite part about summer is just how happy they are to be running about on the beach with no cares except when there next sugar fox will be. Ahhhhhhhhh summer.

You can enter below. The winner will get to choose 2 nights accommodations at a Red Jacket Resorts on Cape Cod during the Yarmouth Summer Celebration, June 26th-July2nd, 2015. Accommodations available at Red Jacket Beach Resort, Blue Water Resort or Riviera Beach Resort.  Sweet!!

Get going…

This post (and my sharing on social media) was inspired by my participation in a program by Red Jacket Resorts. I have been given a complimentary stay. 

Red Jacket Beach Resort Video Review

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We had so much fun last week when we stayed at the Red Jacket Beach Resort last.

Here’s the kids and I telling you all about it. Don’t mind my hair – it was hella humid, mkay?!

I’ll be adding our tour video soon here as well!

Red Jacket Beach Resort on Cape Cod

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Our family recently took a trip down the Cape for April school vacation. We stayed at the Red Jacket Beach Resort in South Yarmouth. We’ve been to the Red Jacket Mountainview Resort and loved it, so we were really looking forward to checking out what the Beach Resort had to offer.

The check in process was simple and friendly. The front desk even called as soon as we got in to make sure we found our room ok. I’m not sure that’s a regular thing as much as I think we looked a bit tired and confused about where to go (3 kids in the car for a couple of hours will do that to you ;-)

We stayed in one of the newly renovated townhouses. Amazing. The kids couldn’t stop saying “Oh Look!” and “Look at this!”. The oceanfront townhouse (37 steps to the beach – I counted) has 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, a completely outfitted kitchen, and a washer dryer.

The resort has 150 guest rooms with queen or king beds, cottages, townhomes and other deluxe accommodations with comforts such as complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access, private balconies or patios, in-house vended laundry and available Jacuzzi rooms. A good portion of the rooms were renovated over the winter and look lovely!

We ate dinner at the restaurant at the resort the first night. It was pretty quiet and the food was average pub fare. I asked about it at the front desk the next day. They told me because it’s not high season they have a very limited menu. In the summertime they have themed buffets, out door patio dining, and it’s much more lively. But oftentimes families are looking for that quintessential cape cod restaurant experience and they go offsite after their day at the gorgeous Red Jacket private beach.

On our first full day the kids headed out to the Kids Klub after breakfast. Over April vacation they had all kinds of activities as a preview for summer fun at the Red Jacket. They check you in around 9:30 and it lasts until 1 pm. There are arts and crafts, games and a trip to the pool (in the spring).

My oldest really enjoyed the magic of Markus and Angelique Steelgrave. My middle loved going to paint night wither her Dad. And the littlest was all about the pool. They also had X Box One tournaments, culinary demonstrations, martini samplings, s’more nights at the beach campfire, movies on the big screen, an in-house caricaturist, and much more.  There are tennis and basketball courts to keep them busy and moving as well. In the summertime there are also hermit crab races, beach parties, pirate week, nature walks, live music, and poolside movies!

There is a gorgeous full service spa on the property as well. I spoke to a woman at the lounge who had just come from a massage and she couldn’t say enough good things about it!

The Red Jacket Beach Resort is a fun family getaway. We can’t wait to get back there this summer. We’re thinking we might head down for the Yarmouth Summer Celebration to catch the fireworks and all the other awesome stuff they have planned.

Ah summer… is it here yet??

Ready to book a trip? You can do that right here!

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Disclosure: This post (and my sharing on social media) was inspired by my participation in a program with Red Jacket Resorts. I was given a complimentary stay at Red Jacket Resort. All opinions are my own.

Red Jacket Beach Resort Cape Cod April Vacation Giveaway!

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April School Vacation at Red Jacket Beach Resort! 
4/20/15 – 4/25/15

Last fall the family and I trucked it on up to the White Mountains. We stayed at the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort. We had so much at the Resort and Kahuna Laguna. We also visited nearby Storyland. A really great weekend.

This weekend we’re headed south, to the Cape and The Red Jacket Resort in South Yarmouth. We are looking forward to April Adventures Family Week at “The Beach”.

There we will be a myriad of activities for all ages.  The popular Kids’ Klub will be in session all week and Markus and Angelique Steelgrave will be there to add more than a touch of magic to vacation days.  Plus kite making, “Paint & Wine” nights, X Box One tournaments, culinary demonstrations, martini samplings, s’more nights at the beach campfire, movies on the big screen, an in-house caricaturist, and much more.  And, while the kids are being entertained, the Otis Cole Aveda Exclusive Spa is available to pamper ME with special value treatments.

You can see a sample of the activities on the booking page!

A typical day would could look like this:

Saturday, April 18

7:30 – 11:00 am Breakfast in Dining Room at leisure.

12:00 – 2:00 pm Luncheon in Asa Eldridge Pub on own.

1:30 – 3:00 pm Kite Fun … decorate and build your own kite.  Complimentary materials.

5:00 – 7:00 pm Balloon Magic & Tattoos at the Oceanfront Pavilion

5:30 – 8:30 pm Dinner on own.

7:00 – 9:00 pm “Paint & Wine” at the Oceanfront Pavilion for all ages. “Coketails” for those under 21.

8:00 pm Dive-In Movie on the Big Screen

These activities will continue into the high season – SUMMER. Oh my goodness can we all just talk about how excited we are for summer right now? I am so excited about summer that I am about to head down the Cape and just pretend it’s summer at the Red Jacket Resort. Yep. Doin’ it.

So who wants to head down the Cape with me this April vacation a pretend like it’s summer?!?

Red Jacket Resorts has given me two night to giveaway to YOU!

Enter here and we’ll do this quick. Ends Thursday morning so you can plan your week!

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Disclosure: This post (and my sharing on social media) was inspired by my participation in a program with Red Jacket Resorts. I was given a complimentary stay at Red Jacket Resort. All opinions are my own.