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blima1 ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 6:35 am

We are visiting my in- laws who live in NY and they offered us to watch our kids for 2 days and 1 night this week!!
We are obviously very excited, we never went away ourselves and this would be the perfect time, but I don't know where go!
My husband is very careful with shmiras enayim so while we can stay in any hotel, we might be bored during the day if we don't have anything to do.
Ideal would be a small nice Airbnb with a private pool- does that even exist? We can travel a little bit like up to 2-3 hours but I don't even know where to start looking...
if there is no pool then maybe somewhere close to kosher food would be great so that can be our activity lol
I am totally fine packing food though...
Any ideas?

amother

Khaki ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 6:37 am

Poconos. There is a minyan.
Many homes to rent.
Do you have a budget.
House with pools will be more money and most have at least 2 day minimum.
A hot tub may be more affordable.
Like in blakeslee 5 min from minyan you can get homes with pools for 2 nights for $1000

I’d recommend hiking but you will pass ppl dressed different ways.
Maybe Lackawanna coal mine bec it’s colder in the mine.

↑ blima1 ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 6:43 am

amother Khaki wrote:

Poconos. There is a minyan.
Many homes to rent.
Do you have a budget.
House with pools will be more money and most have at least 2 day minimum.
A hot tub may be more affordable.

Thank you!
You find this on airbnb?
Not interested in going crazy but willing to spend b/c this is probably never going to happen again lol at least not for a longgg time....
Right, I thought about the 2 day minimum okay I'll see what we find.... they might be okay if we stay for the second night as long as we come back very early or maybe we'll leave very late....

amother

Phlox ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 6:46 am

Also minyanim in Lancaster Pennsylvania with frum people all over and many places to visit. If you drive around 20 minutes outside of Lancaster there are homes with private pools but obviously I don’t know about availability. Check on Airbnb

amother

Starflower

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 6:50 am

Where are you from?

Maybe rent a house with a pool in lakewood. I can't say everyone is 100% tznius, it isn't a shtetl, but the majority of people around are frum.

amother

↑ Khaki

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 6:51 am

blima1 wrote:

The city of blakeslee is 5 min from the minyan and has pools. About $1000 for 2 nights

Look on Airbnb

↑ blima1 ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 6:52 am

amother Phlox wrote:

Okay, thank you so much!

↑ blima1 ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 6:55 am

amother Khaki wrote:

The city of blakeslee is 5 min from the minyan and has pools. About $1000 for 2 nights

Look on Airbnb

Okay, thank you so much! I'm going to look into that
These are great places to start
some of these places are not really so nice only expensive because there is a pool... I think I should look into pools to rent maybe for a few hours ...

↑ blima1 ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 6:56 am

amother Starflower wrote:

Where are you from?

Maybe rent a house with a pool in lakewood. I can't say everyone is 100% tznius, it isn't a shtetl, but the majority of people around are frum.

We are from Israel
Yes, lakewood is tznius enough for us, I just mean we can't stay in the city or anything like that... Smile

amother

↑ Phlox ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 7:12 am

Look for a house with a pool in Tom’s River or Jackson which is just a few minutes away from Lakewood. Don’t tell anyone where you’re staying. Loads of places to go out to eat- even just pizza if you want and minyanim all over. Beautiful parks with lakes, bowling, cholov Yisroel ice cream….
Let them think you are driving miles away so they don’t bother you 😊
Oh, I just realized that your in laws are from New York…. Great! They won’t find you in Lakewood!

↑ blima1 ↓

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 8:08 am

amother Phlox wrote:

Haha, I like that idea
We would have to pray that none of our family in lakewood would meet us though cuz they woudl be veryyy insulted
We are here from Israel after all.... Wink

↑ blima1

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 8:11 am

I've kind of moved over to going to regular hotel this way I can book for one night and still stay somewhere nice for a more affordable price... but we really really want to rent a private pool! When we look it up most pools aren't really tznius or private like the hosts would be able to see us... anyone have any ideas? We really like a hotel by Connecticut so near there would be a plus

amother

↑ Phlox

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 8:18 am

If swimming is very important to you, we’ve gone to hotels with pools and very often the pools are deserted at 7:30 in the morning.
Also, you can rent a pool by the hour on swimply and in Lakewood/toms river those are very private.

amother

DarkOrange

Mon, Aug 19 2024, 8:25 am

Rent a pool on swimply. You can message the owner to see if it's private. A lot of times even if it's near their house they will keep the shades down so you have privacy.