WHILE THE REST OF THE STATE is slowing down as temperatures rise, Key West and the Keys are just getting started.
“Florida is the vacation destination for the United States, but theKeys are the vacation destination for Floridians,” says Sean Bacon, revenue manager for Tranquility Bay Hotel in Marathon, and Cheeca Lodge in Islamorada. Bacon says that contrary to most other warm weather destinations, summertime is not considered a “low season” in the Florida Keys.
In fact, hotel occupancy percentages hardly fluctuate between the traditional “high season” months of January through April, and the sum- mertime months of June through early September.