Getaway Beach Inns - Encinitas California

Posted by Heather Hunnefeld

May 28, 2009

by Heather Hunnefeld

Encinitas is the quintessential Southern California beach town. Business people and surfers alike are lined up at Juanita’s Taco Shop for lunch. The wide sidewalks along the historic Old Highway U.S. 101 in “downtown” is lined with outdoor restaurants. Tourists and kids are seen walking around downtown barefoot, in swim suits while other are waxing down their surfboards for a session at Moonlight Beach.

Ann Dunham owns a delightful Bed and Breakfast in Encinitas called the Inn at Moonlight Beach. Only a three minute walk from Ann’s Inn, Moonlight Beach is the perfect beach for a picnic, to swim, soak up sun, find a game of beach volleyball, go surfing, try boogie-boarding or body surfing, or just read a book.

The lovely suites at Ann’s Inn At Moonlight Beach are decorated like the rooms you’d find in a French Country Inn. Each suite has a private bath and refrigerator. What makes Ann’s Inn really special is that she bakes her guests delicious home-made, warm-from-the-oven cakes and pastries along with their breakfasts every morning.

Many guests at the inn start their day with a walk along the Pacific Ocean. From the inn you can walk for miles in either direction at sunrise and then return to the inn for a delicious home-made breakfast. Swami’s Beach was made famous by The Beach Boys in 1963 and is only a short walk along the sandy beach from the Inn.

Guests who leave their windows cracked open at night can hear the sounds of the surf at night and then awaken in the morning to the melodic sound of the of the meditative waterfall. Now it’s their choice: they can drift back to sleep or get up and take an early morning walk on the beach or through little town as Encinitas awakens.

After their early morning activities, guests return to the Inn and relax with a cup of fresh, hot Starbucks coffee and the morning newspaper in Ann’s breakfast sunroom, or enjoy their breakfast outside in the sunshine next to her soothing waterfall.

After sunset, guests can take a romantic moonlit walk on the beach or simply relax on the Inn’s front porch and sip a glass of wine, enjoying the evening twilight over the ocean and the little “lost-in-time” town of Encinitas. When they’re ready for bed, guests can snuggle down into their fine cotton bed linens, down-filled pillows and comforters and let the calming songs of the outside waterfall lull them to sleep.

For other lodging accommodations, vacationers will find that Del Mar California Hotels and Carlsbad Bed and Breakfasts are plentiful in the Pacific Ocean beach towns of northern San Diego.

Swami’s Beach, immortalized by the Beach Boy’s in 1963 (let’s go surfing now, everybody’s learning how, come on a safari with me!) is just 6 blocks south of Moonlight Beach on historic Highway 101 and still draws the finest surfers in the world on a daily basis.

About the Author:

Heather Hunnefeld enjoys investigating new destinations. She is on the road for a San Diego area consulting company 35 days a year and often refers friends to boutique Encinitas Bed and Breakfasts and Encinitas Hotels near the Pacific Ocean.

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