Big buncha visitors seek lodging advice!

[PeterPL]

Dear Lake folks,

Congratulations on your active Lake W on-line community. It's impressive. I really learned a lot of new things about Winnipesaukee just in the short time I've been browsing.

Hope someone has advice to help me. We are setting up a week-long family reunion next year, July or August 2006, for 35-40 adults and kids. We do this every 4 years, different place each time, so right now the e-mails are running hot with ideas. I know Winnipesaukee will appeal greatly to lots of them including me. We do have some west-coast-o-philes but hey! we're a democracy and New Hampshire can easily carry the day. My immediate family lived in the Monadnock region many years and loved it, so I'll be extolling the state's virtues.

Our problem as a large group is accomodation that we can enjoy and yet afford. For instance the Inn at Mills Falls / Church Landing looks great, but at $200/night(+) per room it's beyond us. Ideal would be houses, condos or up-scale cottages all reasonably close together, weekly rental, close to the shore, swimming nearby, and some restaurants not too far away. (Cooking's fine but not every day! It's vacation after all!). Rustic cabins are charming but only in our memory; we're looking for a bit more comfort than that. One or two really big houses to hold 40 would be great to find!

I see many postings in your site's "Lake Links: Rentals" section, but thought I'd ask here first. You know, I'd love to avoid making 40 time-wasting inquiries, and even more valuable is your local insight. Do you know of resorts or cottage colonies that would really fit our needs, or any of them that really won't?


Thanks very much.