<p>Is it possible to find a place to stay for maybe Thursday through Sunday? Original plan was for a week’s vacation but that plan was dsicarded quite sometime ago. Where do I start?
Money is a concern. Do not want to spend $200 plus a night just to sleep.</p>
<p>Try this place. It is a motel like location but it is walkable to Craigville Beach, which is nice as the parking lot can get full. It also includes breakfast and is across from the Four Seas ice cream place. </p>
<p>[Centerville</a> Corners Inn Pet Friendly Osterville Hyannis Hotel Craigville Beach family friendly pet friendly](<a href=“http://www.centervillecorners.com/index.htm]Centerville”>http://www.centervillecorners.com/index.htm)</p>
<p>Most places in the summer are pretty much above $200. We love going to the Cape and if we can’t stay a week and rent a house we usually stay at Blue Water Red Jacket resorts, which is on the beach.</p>
<p>Hope it works for you.</p>
<p>For an alternative to all hotels/motels, some people go to airbnb or homeaway and work up a contract with a private resident who wants to leave their place for a weekend. These are almost always priced below the market cost of hotels. </p>
<p>Details/Tips: The money is handled by the website for a percentage fee, not between the two parties. Often there’s a security deposit requested. Look for the “availability calendar” on each listing, which is sometimes in need of updating, so email before you get tooo excited about their offering. Nothing will be “hotel-clean” as it’s someone’s real residence, but there are advantages such as equipped kitchens, BBQ grill perhaps. Linens are expected to be freshly laid out for you, and you’re expected to leave the place clean as upon your arrival but with beds stripped (you don’t have to go to a laundromat for them!) Pet policies are all over the map; depends on the owner.</p>
<p>ETA:For a homeowner to enrol in these sites requires more forethought than listing on Craigslist. So I prefer them to CL, where people also list when they leave town. CL has no website agency fees, but also no accountability in the feedback system of website reviews. </p>
<p>When I lived and worked year-round on Cape Cod 30 years ago, I’d have loved to have such an option to get away from weekend crowds by visiting my folks for the weekend. There are photos and feedback/reviews in some ads, so you can get a sense of whether the place looks clean and uncluttered enough for you. We’ve had three good experiences with this approach to NYC where we find hotel prices unseemly!</p>
<p>My guess is that you’ll get more replies with hotel recommendations, but I thought I’d write up this alternative. As I recall from 30 years ago, the motels/hotels inland/away from beaches had availability. If you can get day parking at a town beach, you’ll be fine…just drive to the beach. (Wondering if that’s still possible on modern Cape COd? My experience is dated and I was a resident, so didn’t feel the pain of visiting parkers.)</p>
<p>You might look at Sandwich, Barnstable, North Falmouth or even Plymouth (before the bridge). Lots of people go “deep” into the Cape, but there’s a lot of good spots at its beginning, too, that get overlooked sometimes.</p>
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<p>So true! One of our favorite places on the Cape is Woods Hole.</p>
<p>If you want to spend less than $200 a night for lodging, consider camping. There’s a state park (Nickerson State Park) on Cape Cod as well as a number of private campgrounds. There’s also a youth hostel on Nantucket (Star of the Sea) which is pretty nice for what it is and very reasonable. Good luck!</p>
<p>I was also going to suggest plymouth</p>
<p>We are going to Cape Cod tomorrow for a long weekend, but we have a place to stay. One year we did find a last minute place to stay that was really nice. Rats–I can’t remember how we found it. Maybe it will come to me. Seems like it was a Chamber of Commerce that phoned around and found a vacant place.</p>
<p>Actually, I think that was it–A chamber of commerce office making a few phone calls.</p>
<p>Try Ocean Edge Condos in Brewster.</p>
<p>Ocean’s Edge in Brewster would be way over the OP’s under $200 budget.</p>
<p>Try the Mariner in Yarmouth</p>
<p>I have stayed at the Youth Hostel on Martha’s Vineyard (it’s not really for Youth only), which is located next to a bike path, so that is one cheap possibility. It was…OK…nothing about it felt unsafe, but it was not really private enough for us, which I guess is par for the course for a hostel.</p>
<p>I have also camped multiple times at a private campground in Wellfleet near Duck Pond - I’m sure you can find it by googling. Really nice place, but obviously only suitable for camping-type people. Also, they fill up pretty fast, and you def need reservations for a summer weekend. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>We have stayed at the Eventide in Wellfleet. It clean and modest, but very well rated on Tripadvisor. It is under $200 a night. They have nice grounds, an indoor pool, and are right on the Bike path.</p>
<p>I’m pretty certain you can’t get day parking for the town beaches and ponds in Wellfleet. But you CAN get day parking for the National Seashore ocean beaches at the Marconi Station (South Wellfleet/Eastham) and Race Point (Provincetown), both of which are sensational. And you don’t have to pay at all for parking at Great Island in Wellfleet, where you can walk for miles and miles on beautiful bay beaches and in lovely woods. </p>
<p>If you want a freshwater swim, Duck Pond doesn’t have a parking lot, so no town sticker required. Parking is sort of haphazard, but there aren’t usually a lot of people there, either, since it’s kind of hard to find (get a good map). Or, if you have bikes, park in town and bike to one of the larger ponds, which are wonderful. There’s no sticker requirement for sitting on the beach or swimming in the pond, just for parking.</p>
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<p>Bromfield is right about OceanEdge. We paid more than $200/night for a condo there 20+ years ago!</p>
<p>Any chance you could do your long weekend in September, after Labor Day? Cape cod is beautiful in September, much less crowded, and the lodging prices far less than during the peak of summer.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the suggestions. The fall is a great time to visit so many places but school schedules don’t allow much traveling. Still searching…all the time spent on the internet I probably could have driven there and back.</p>
<p>Was so happy to find this thread! My friend and I are planning a trip to Boston before (my last!) Parents’ Weekend at RISD. I’m trying to see if we can squeeze in some time, at least two days and two nights, at Cape Cod, since neither of us has ever been there. </p>
<p>Can you give advice on what we should do there? Based on some of your recommendations so far, I was thinking of booking a room at the Ocean Edge for Wed, Oct 3 and Thur, Oct 4. </p>
<p>We like to bike and hike, so I was thinking of devoting at least one day (possibly both) to biking from Brewster to whatever destinations we can, hopefully including the National Seashore, JFK’s Hyannis Museum, and I don’t even know what else! </p>
<p>Would you mind sharing advice on what we should do while we’re there? Many thanks in advance!</p>
<p>We just rented a house for a week in South Chatham and it was a great area. The beach was right near us and the house was right on the ocean. If you don’t want to rent a whole house, or spend as much, you can look for a place in a nice area but not directly on the ocean. Bike paths are nearby and lead you to charming downtown Chatham and you can hop in your car to drive up to Provincetown or take a ferry (with your bikes) to Nantucket for a day trip.</p>