January Tourism Lull

For decades I have told friends that the best two winter weeks in the area are the two weeks after New Year’s Day. The weather is predictably wonderful. Beaches are uncrowded. Restaurants are not busy. I haven’t looked for years, but I remember in the past some hotels offered a 50% to 100% discount for the second week of a two-week stay at that time.

It seems that people who don’t vacation during the two holiday weeks decide they can put up with two more weeks of northern winter, but then they have to get away.