re: There are 4 rentals left from Dauphin Island to Panama City for Spring Break/Easter

I think everyone from the south will be surprised about how many people from the north and northeast will be on the gulf coast this year. Many of the traditional places they went are still questionable or shut down.

My guess is that if you want to go Caribbean book that asap as at some point once its out and open it will be the same way.

No one is headed to the cities right now and some areas are still shut down so everyone is headed to the southern beaches.

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So not true. After the 4th of July last year the Florida panhandle was packed pretty much every single weekend.

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Yes the panhandle was packed last year, but there's still tons of people that didn't go on vacation.

Big cities are still all but shut down, cruises are shut down completely, international isn't really happening, and much of the caribbean and canada is still not available or people are hesitant.

The gulf coast can't absorb all of that, so even packed out there's still plenty of people that didn't travel. Not to mention, a lot of people are avoiding the crowds still so don't want to go to the few places that are open and available.

BTW, my employee had family from Illinois visit him over Easter weekend and bring fricking Covid down with them. So frick all the northern frickers complaining about getting Covid in Florida when they are bringing it to us. Yes that's anecdotal sarcasm.

I booked DI for this June back in probably August. Granted there aren't tons of options there and we needed 2 houses next to each other so we felt like we needed to pounce on them when we found them. Good thing about DI is that it is never really crowded and I only have to be on I10 for about 1 mile going in the opposite direction of everyone else.