The best Oregon coast towns for families are Seaside, Cannon Beach, Newport and Lincoln City, and the first thing to know about all four is that nobody swims. The Pacific is cold all year, so the beach is for sand, kites and tide pools, and 13 of the 16 hotels in our records have an … Read more
The best Outer Banks town for a family depends on whether you are booking a house or a hotel, and after that on the age of the children. Duck is the town for a house and a week without the car, because none of its four beach accesses has public parking and the village is … Read more
Three of the 24 US beach towns we price average 70°F or better in late January, and all three are in Florida. Key West is the warmest at 75.8°F, and Sanibel Island is the one to write down, because it clears the line at 75.0°F while its median three-star room that same week is $338 … Read more
The best beach towns in North Carolina for families are Corolla, Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills, Duck, Kitty Hawk, Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach, five of them on the northern Outer Banks. Duck has no public parking at any of its four beach accesses, which sounds like a fault and is the point of the … Read more
We may earn a commission when you book through links on this page. We don’t add any fee, and the commission helps support LayzTravel. Nineteen US beach towns we cover average 75°F or better in November, five in Hawaii, thirteen in Florida and South Padre Island in Texas. Warm afternoons are the easy part. Warm … Read more
We may earn a commission when you book through links on this page. We don’t add any fee, and the commission helps support LayzTravel. The warmest beach towns in Florida in winter are Key Largo, Hollywood, Key West and Fort Lauderdale, where January afternoons average 75.6°F to 76.2°F and the sea stays above 70°F all … Read more
The three least expensive East Coast beach towns we price are Amelia Island, Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head Island, all on the South Atlantic and all under $200 a night for a family-suitable three-star room. Amelia Island is the lowest at $143, which is $150 a night below Ogunquit in the same week, at the … Read more
We may earn a commission when you book through links on this page. We don’t add any fee, and the commission helps support LayzTravel. Eleven US beach towns we cover average 70°F or better in December, five of them in Hawaii and five in Florida. Kihei on Maui is the warmest at 83°F. On the … Read more
The best family beach vacations in the US right now are Galveston, Amelia Island, Clearwater Beach and Myrtle Beach, which combine a week of lodging at or under $1,141 with lifeguards on at least half of their main beaches. Galveston prices a seven night stay at $952 and has lifeguards on 3 of its 4 … Read more
The US beach towns with calm water for toddlers are the ones where something stands between the sand and the open ocean, a reef, a seawall, a bay, a sound or a harbor. Ala Moana in Honolulu sits behind a fringing reef and is lifeguarded every day, Children’s Beach on Nantucket is inside the harbor … Read more
