One house for the whole family

Sleeping ten and where everyone lands

The house has three bedrooms and two baths, and it sleeps ten. Four of those ten sleep on the two sleeper sofas, so the math is three bedrooms plus two comfortable pull-outs — which is why families usually give the bedrooms to grandparents and the couples, and let the kids or teens take the sofas. It works well when you sort it out before you arrive rather than at 11 p.m. on the first night.

Because everything you need day to day is here — full kitchen, laundry, fast Wi-Fi, free parking — a multi-day stay doesn’t turn into a supply run every morning. You can do a beach-towel wash, keep a fridge stocked for ten, and let people come and go on their own schedules.

The backyard as the family’s own space

The reunion really happens out back. There’s roughly 3,000 square feet of private backyard — a fenced pool with a shallow sun shelf where small kids can play within arm’s reach, a covered patio lounge for the people who’d rather stay in the shade, outdoor dining for the group, a griddle, and a fire pit for after dark. String lights and the hand-painted sea-turtle mural give it a bit of character once the sun goes down.

The point of a yard like this is that the family doesn’t have to split up to do different things. One person can be reading on the patio while the cousins are in the pool and someone else is working the griddle, and everybody is still together. It’s private and off the street, so you’re not sharing it with anyone.

Feeding ten people

The kitchen is a full one, which matters more than people expect when you’re cooking for a crowd. A few families cook every meal; most do a mix. The griddle out back is built for the pancake shift and for cookouts — burgers, eggs, whatever feeds a hungry group fast. Here’s how families usually handle food over a long weekend:

• Stock the kitchen on arrival for breakfasts and easy lunches at the house.
• Run the griddle for a big group cookout — the backyard cornerstone meal.
• Bring in catering or a private chef for the one nice dinner, so nobody’s stuck at the stove.
• Head to Las Olas for a night out when the group wants a change of scene.

If you want a private chef or catering for a night, ask us — we can point you in the right direction so you’re not sorting it out cold.

Multigenerational days: grandparents to grandkids

The stretch this house handles best is the age range — a two-year-old and an eighty-year-old on the same trip. The shallow sun shelf keeps the youngest ones close and safe in the water. The covered lounge gives grandparents a shaded spot that’s part of the action without being in the sun all day. And the fire pit is where the older kids and adults end up once the little ones are down.

For outings, the mix works too: the beach and Hugh Taylor Birch State Park are easy on every generation, and the water taxi is a slow, sit-down way to see the yachts that grandparents and kids both like. You can plan one thing a day and spend the rest of the time at the house.