Christmas in the Keys

kginder wrote:
My family and I are packing up our Christmas tree and taking our Class C to the Keys for the week of Christmas. We love the Keys but we’ve only been there in the summer. A few questions for all you experienced winter folks:

Any skeetters that time of year?

Is it worth towing a car down (1100 miles) or do you think it would be better to rent a car for the week? I know the cost of EVERYTHING in the Keys is exponential. Snow/ice on the travel down is always a possibility.

I’m sure it’ll be crowded which is fine. We’re there to, ah, celebrate the holiday season (PARTY!)

Any tips, hints, secret finds for that time of year y’all would like to share?

We're not every Sunday church goers but we do attend from time to time and we do enjoy a Christmas eve candle light service : Methodist, Reformed, Baptist etc. Any suggestions? We're staying on Sugarloaf.

Sure do thank you much for your input! Can’t wait to see Santa in shorts and a sleeveless T.

We've been to the keys a couple of times for the Christmas break, we absolutely loved it, wish we were going this year. The first time was at Long Key SP and the second was at Bluewater, they are obviously quite different but both were fantastic places to stay.

We pulled our toad both times and we're a little farther than you, the piece of mind while traveling plus the convenience at the destination was worth it for us. We didn't have any bug problems at all on either trip.

The one thing I will recommend you not miss is a trip to Fort Jefferson and Dry Tortugas NP. We took the Yankee Freedom and had a fantastic day.