Sandcastle Blog

Oh, how time flies, and when you look at the partner you chose to spend the minutes of your life, you are lucky enough to know that you wouldn’t change anything important! Sure, you might wish you had a larger bank account, that your jobs weren’t as stressful, and that you could have slowed down the days when your kiddos were little, but knowing that your spouse is standing by...

We all have a list of things we have always wanted to do, our own personal bucket lists that may be in print and are actually checked off as we accomplish each item on the list or ones that only exist in our heads. Sitting outside a café in Paris sipping wine and watching the crowds go by, eating fish and chips during a once-in-a-lifetime vacation to London, or, closer...

In every life, some rain must fall and while rain is good for the crops, trees, and landscape it can put a damper on your vacation activities! In the early days of travel, rainy days often meant being stuck in a dim and crowded hotel room, while children whined, and parents tried not to think about the vacations they used to take before they had kids. During your Port Aransas...

What you do on New Year’s Eve is perhaps the most important activity of your year. Superstition has it that you will spend the next 12 months of your life repeating how you spent the last night of last year and although a party with your friends or a night in with your husband sounds inviting, most travelers want to spend their free time traveling. We want to explore the...

When a Christmas holiday away complete with sand and sun sounds like fun for you and your traveling crew, there is no better place to find yourself than Port Aransas, Texas. This charming locale is loved for its natural beauty and access to the fun that takes on a festive spin when the holidays roll around. The following activities and attractions are seasonal delights that are sure to have you...

There are two types of people in this world: the ones who only cook when they absolutely must, and those who cook because it is there one true passion. There can be something soothing about following a recipe, adding the ingredients one by one to a dish that soon will become something family and friends fawn over, and for the really creative types, it can be exciting to create something...

Sometimes the biggest pleasures in life can come from the simplest of situations; the sound of an uncontrollable laugh in a baby, the look in your pet’s eye when he or she is sitting in your lap, and the taste of a cold beer on a sweltering day at the beach. None of these things are particularly remarkable, they happen multiple times a day all over the world but when...

As we enter yet another season of our lives, the brr months (September, October, November, and December!) you may be feeling a mite chilly as you realize that the coldest days are just around the corner. Some parts of the world are already dipping their toes in the first drifts of newly fallen snow and the dread that accompanies an entire winter filled with the cold white snow is overfilling...

While the majority of the world prefers the winter holidays, we at Sandcastle Condominiums are a little quirkier, preferring all the fun that accompanies the first holiday of fall, Halloween. We buy our Halloween candy early (then eat it all before the big night and have to buy more 2 days before trick-or-treaters begin to arrive!) we start planning NEXT year’s costumes before we have washed off the last of...

Life is busy and we do not often have the time to get away for a full-fledged vacation, but when it comes to Port Aransas, even a 3-day getaway will satisfy your travel-hungry soul! Offering beach days and fishing trips and gourmet restaurants and casual seaside joints where the Po Boys are incredible and the beer is always cold, the only thing better than spending three days in the fishing...