{"id":1460,"date":"2009-02-06T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2009-02-06T16:49:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T23:49:55","slug":"more-washington-coast-travel-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/more-washington-coast-travel-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"More Washington Coast Travel Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/\/IMG\/Peninsula\/index.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/\/IMG\/Peninsula\/images\/Penisula07.jpg\" alt=\"Fishing Shack, Quinalt Lake\" width=\"214\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>I was chatting on the phone with my pal K. this morning &#8211; he&#8217;s looking to wow his sweetheart for Valentine&#8217;s Day. My suggestion? There&#8217;s no need to buy &#8220;stuff&#8221; &#8211; instead, take your beloved somewhere romantic!<\/p>\n<p>We are big fans of the Washington Coast here at Nerd&#8217;s Eye View, the rugged landscape, the fog, the salt air&#8230; and we&#8217;ve spent a decent chunk of time exploring that part of my home state. After I hit send on an email to K. with a list of suggestions, it occurred to me that they belong here, too.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitkalaloch.com\/lodging-food\/cabins.cfm\">Klaloch Lodge<\/a> has cabins on the beach, some with views. They&#8217;re not deluxe by any means, but they&#8217;re cozy and the setting can&#8217;t be beat. There is a restaurant on site, honestly, I don&#8217;t remember it at all.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitlakequinault.com\/ \">Quinalt Lodge<\/a> is in Olympic National Park &#8211; it&#8217;s right on the lake and it&#8217;s wonderful. If you feel like spending a little more, ask for a view, though there is nothing to stop you from whiling away your afternoons in the lobby and admiring the view from there. ( Tip -\u00c2\u00a0 do <em>not <\/em>let them put you  over the kitchen.) Whenever we do the Nerd&#8217;s Eye View coast tour, we stop here, though I&#8217;ve only had the pleasure of staying at the Lodge once. I&#8217;ve had dinner in the restaurant; it&#8217;s nice. Not swoonworthy, but really just fine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seabrookwa.com\/ \">Seabrook<\/a> is a little odd &#8211; it feels like a planned community far away from anything, but it is very, very comfortable. The houses are so well appointed and many of them have private hot tubs. I was ambivalent on arrival because of what one friend called the Pleasantville atmosphere, but by the time we were packing to head home, I was sold. Seabrook is perfect for a larger group or family gathering. The <a href=\"http:\/\/frontstreetcafe.wordpress.com\/\">restaurant<\/a> here is first rate, though heads up, I was at a private party and can&#8217;t evaluate it for regular guests.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceancrestresort.com\/ \">Ocean Crest Resort<\/a> has unimpressive accomodations- we stayed in the &#8220;suite&#8221; on the highway because we wanted two bedrooms and kitchen facilities &#8211; it was a little, um, let&#8217;s say tired, when we were there. But the restaurant was fantastic, generous plates of delicious food and, if you call ahead and ask, you can get a table with a view of the sun setting over the Pacific.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bring groceries, no matter where you end up. There&#8217;s a market in  Ocean Shores, but it&#8217;s best you stock up before you get too far out of town &#8211; make a stop in Aberdeen if you&#8217;ve neglected to get your groceries at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting on the phone with my pal K. this morning &#8211; he&#8217;s looking to wow his sweetheart for Valentine&#8217;s Day. My suggestion? There&#8217;s no need to buy &#8220;stuff&#8221; &#8211; instead, take your beloved somewhere romantic! We are big fans of the Washington Coast here at Nerd&#8217;s Eye View, the rugged landscape, the fog, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"More Washington Coast Travel Tips\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/more-washington-coast-travel-tips\/#more-1460\" aria-label=\"Read more about More Washington Coast Travel Tips\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,14],"tags":[409,351,428,429,32,349],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific-northwest-elsewhere","category-elsewhere","tag-hotel","tag-olympic-peninsula","tag-pacific","tag-restaurant","tag-travel","tag-washington","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}