Check for places on the East End along Route 6A. You can find some great weekly rentals on Airbnb and VRBO for around $2,000 a week, especially if you are willing to stray from the center of town. Still, there is no shortage of homeowners who depend on summer vacationers to pay off their property taxes. Rooms range from $200 to $400 a night until September 4.Ī note on weekly rentals: As real-estate prices here skyrocket, locals and longtime visitors are lamenting the lack of affordable rentals. Both are large, kid-friendly, and have big views of the harbor. Harbor Hotel and Provincetown Inn sit on either end of town. The basement dance club, Purgatory, hosts the Underwear Party (Thursdays and Saturdays) and Fagbash (Wednesdays), one of the most original queer dance nights on the East Coast.
The energetic Doug Repetti transforms the lower level and lobby into a piano sing-along on Thursdays and Fridays, while the edgier, extraordinary singer Billy Hough takes over Saturday through Monday.
The Porch Bar is the town’s gathering place for artists, writers, and drag performers needing a drink after their gigs. During the day, it’s peaceful, but at night it becomes a social nexus. The Gifford House is one of the last affordable old-school gay guesthouses ($118 for a standard room during high season). The décor makes this an antiques obsessive’s Shangri-La. The 18 rooms are elaborately themed there’s the Gold Room (from $300), the octagonal-shaped Moroccan Tower (from $605), etc. Overlooking the harbor, breakwater, and tidal basin, Land’s End Inn has been taking in guests since 1926. The days are still warm, the ocean is invigorating, and you feel the beautiful (and heartbreaking) first whispers of autumn.Įach room at the Land’s End Inn is themed. If you can, book your stay for after September 4, when the town quiets and rates go down. Then get yourself to Stop & Shop for groceries before the throngs of people pull into town.Įxpect high prices all over town in the summer, especially Memorial Day weekend.
Try to get there early on Saturday, and immediately rent a bike. Most weekly rentals here run on a Saturday-to-Saturday schedule, which means many weekly visitors arrive all at once. Day rates average $20, weekly around $90 to $100. (But it will stop anywhere on the route just flag it down.) There are also plenty of cabs and pedicabs, but the best way to get around is by bike: Try Gale Force, Ptown Bikes, and Arnold’s. On a nice day, you fly across the water, and it becomes a psychic journey that transitions you from real life to vacation mode.Ĭape Cod public transportation’s seasonal shuttle buses run every 30 minutes, seven days a week, to and from a number of Ptown areas, like Herring Cove Beach and North Truro. Of all the choices, the ferry is the most inspirational way to get to Ptown. It’s best to buy tickets in advance because they sell out, especially during Provincetown theme weeks like Bear Week and Family Week. They each take an hour and a half food and booze available onboard. Bay State Cruise Companyleaves from Boston’s World Trade Center waterfront, and Boston Harbor Cruises leaves from the Long Wharf docks by the Boston Aquarium. And the high-speed ferries from Boston ($59 one way) depart three times a day. For an even cheaper (and longer) trip, take Cape Cod public transportation’s H2O bus from Hyannis to Harwich, then switch to the Flex Bus ($2 one way), which ends up at the Stop & Shop in Provincetown.
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The Plymouth Brockton Bus from Boston’s bus terminal is a cheaper option at $32 (the trip is three hours total, though, plus a layover at Hyannis Transportation Center for the bus up the Cape). A flight with Cape Air, available year-round from Boston, takes 30 minutes and costs $80 to $230. Try to park your car at your rental home and forget about it all week. There is one road up Cape Cod, Route 6, so if you take it Friday afternoon, expect Hamptons-style traffic. The Beachist is in Ptown this weekend, and we’re sharing our best tips for choosing the beach that’s best for you (and then navigating the tides there), hitting up the town bookstores, catching the best drag performers, and eating great razor clams and linguine.ĭriving can take six-plus hours from New York.
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