Sunset Royale Breeze

Siesta Sunset Royale beach house

It was a long pursuit with many hurdles to overcome, but on Monday July 12th Nann and I became the proud owners of this incredible beach house. Built in 1999 and operated by one-owner with a following of regular visitors until August 1, 2009 when the business was closed and the  furniture and appliances were sold off, future reservations canceled and bank foreclosure proceedings began.  The property had been listed for sale, but the change in … Continue Reading

Living or vacationing on Siesta Key right at Siesta Key Public Beach allows incredibly easy and stress free beach access. Our local paper, the Sarasota Herald Tribune, published a number of local opinions recently that were triggered by the announcement of the Sarasota County Parks & Recreation of changes and addition to  beach access #7 off of Beach road that is access to our incredible powdered white sugar sand covering our shore line of Crescent Beach and … Continue Reading

One of the things I had always meant to do when we moved to Florida, but never seemed to find time or the determination to follow through with was to spend some time fishing. As a kid in Michigan my dad used to take us kids fishing and we always caught something, from blue gills and rock bass in small inland lakes, large mouth bass and perch in larger lakes or lake trout, whitefish and walleye in the Great Lakes. When I was about 14 years old a friend took me up to Lake Nipissing in Ontario where I caught … Continue Reading

I have not kept up with my publishing on the Breeze and it is not because of a lack material. Like all things in life worth doing, some discipline is necessary to keep feeling the love. This past September we had two open dates for our Siesta Key vacation rental in 2009 and decided we needed to create a special that would fill our rental calendar until the end of April 2010. In December we had a total of 12 days available and thought if we offered a free day with a one-week stay we could possible entice former rental … Continue Reading

Sunset Royale from the Gulf of Mexico

Living on Siesta Key is truly like living a dream. I remember as a little kid the anticipation and excitement of going on vacation. The memories of those vacations bring nothing but the thoughts of good times and fun without a care in the world. When Nann and I first moved to Siesta Key I could not get out of mind that I was not on vacation, … Continue Reading

Siesta Key Competition

Don’t know about you, but I have always enjoyed a game of volleyball. I’m talking about participating and trying to win. Pure amateur participation and I’m talking company picnics, family get together or just an occasion at the park or beach. I am now 66 years old, overweight and under exercised. Have not always been 66, but for the most part, have always been overweight. Living at Siesta Key Public … Continue Reading

In June of 2008 Nann and I started to market and rent our Beachfront Penthouse Condo at Sunset Royale on Siesta Key through our own efforts. We had rented our condo through the Sunset Royale office and found it necessary to take over the marketing and rental of our special condo on our own and to no longer leave this up to others. We realized in making this decision we were now putting ourselves on the front line of obtaining inquiries, monitoring our advertising and … Continue Reading

There is no debate that the new wave in beach vacations is to rent a condo, home or beach cabin and to avoid the motel, hotel or rental room. The new sourcing of vacation rentals over the Internet without using a rental agent leaves the neophyte vacationer in a bit of a landmine area when it comes to rental terms that the travel agent of the past would have quickly cut to the quick and plucked from the jungle of options the perfect accommodation for your rental destination … Continue Reading

Tropical Wood Carvings

Every year after spring break Siesta Fiesta takes over the village of Siesta Key for a weekend of fun, art, crafts and sidewalk foods. This year Siesta Fiesta was “stridin” with the new look of Siesta Key all around the vendors booths. This is the 31st annual Siesta Fiesta and is the same date as the original Siesta Fiesta. The weather is perfect for this fun weekend and locals, visitors and downtown shop owners are all smiling…. Continue Reading

Airfare Watchdog

What took so long? Why did we not know about this earlier? This is really great stuff. Here we are in the middle of air travel mumbo jumbo and up pops an incredible source of flying information that is so, so good. I need to go back to the genesis of this information. Jan, long time Ford Motor “go to office person” and high school friend of my wife Nann, sends an email with some tips on purchasing airline flights and a casual … Continue Reading