CHATHAM ESTATE SLEEPS 20 A/C9 BRS. OVERLOOKING NANTUCKET SOUND AND FORREST BEACH

This year we will celebrate our 20th year of gathering at Our Great Gatsby (which really does feel like *Our* Great Gatsby) to celebrate the New Year with an extended group of old friends. We first rented the home in December 1993, when we were graduate school students, friends, and friends of friends. Over the past two decades we've returned year after year - through marriages, kids, and now teenagers soon to be off to college themselves. We return because we love the setting, we love the combination of open and intimate space the house offers, and most of all we love to cook a large meal every night and seat everyone around the enormous dining room table. The super sized kitchen accommodates large cooking crews, 24/7 bread baking, and epic games of Boggle. And the spacious and comfortable living room provides ample space for charades, dancing, or several people to nap or read on the cozy couches simultaneously. During the day, it's a short and scenic walk to the nearby beach. At night, each family has their favorite sleeping room, but the kids particularly like to have sleepovers in the "bunk room" upstairs, and to play hide and seek in the nooks and crannies of this unique space. Our Great Gatsby has become a tradition and a home away from home for our extended chosen family. We encourage any large gathering to create their own memories there.

Months spent viewing properties on websites was well rewarded with our choice of Gt. Gatsby for its location, accommodation and atmosphere. Our three weeks spent there with family and friends was that "once in a lifetime" experience, expensive but worth it – especially for those of us who travelled from Ireland. It's an eccentric mixture of shabby chic and "Big (beach) House" rough and tumble, which suited us perfectly. It is large enough to allow space to do your own thing indoor and out, get away from kids or congregate for card-playing/jigsaw puzzling. We dined in style in the evening, with anything from eight to sixteen around the table. Breakfast was more the rolling style of easy-going arrangement with mis-matched crockery and wonky toasters only adding to the laid-back, vacation vibe. Relaxing on the veranda in the evening, with a drink in hand, on return from a bracing swim and outdoor shower, is an abiding and valued memory.
The house location is great for exploring Chatham and the Atlantic coast beaches, the ferries for Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard further afield, and of course all that grocery shopping nearby. I would advise doing those trips early in your vacation as by the time Great Gatsby works its magic on you, all you will want to do is grab your towel and wander around to the Forest Beach and spend your time there, with other locals, swimming or sunbathing as time and tide allow!

Months spent viewing properties on websites was well rewarded with our choice of Gt. Gatsby for its location, accommodation and atmosphere. Our three weeks spent there with family and friends was that "once in a lifetime" experience, expensive but worth it – especially for those of us who travelled from Ireland. It's an eccentric mixture of shabby chic and "Big (beach) House" rough and tumble, which suited us perfectly. It is large enough to allow space to do your own thing indoor and out, get away from kids or congregate for card-playing/jigsaw puzzling. We dined in style in the evening, with anything from eight to sixteen around the table. Breakfast was more the rolling style of easy-going arrangement with mis-matched crockery and wonky toasters only adding to the laid-back, vacation vibe. Relaxing on the veranda in the evening, with a drink in hand, on return from a bracing swim and outdoor shower, is an abiding and valued memory.
The house location is great for exploring Chatham and the Atlantic coast beaches, the ferries for Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard further afield, and of course all that grocery shopping nearby. I would advise doing those trips early in your vacation as by the time Great Gatsby works its magic on you, all you will want to do is grab your towel and wander around to the Forest Beach and spend your time there, with other locals, swimming or sunbathing as time and tide allow!