If you are thinking about swapping the Thanksgiving kitchen chaos or the December cold for a beach house, Anna Maria Island handles the holidays unusually well: highs in the seventies, heated pools, and homes with kitchens and dining tables built for eight. The catch...
Anna Maria Island is seven miles long and split into three separate towns, and where you sleep changes your whole week. The short version: the City of Anna Maria at the north end is the quietest and most walkable, Holmes Beach in the middle is the busiest and most...
If your group is too big for one beach house but you still want everyone under the same palm trees, the answer on Anna Maria Island is to book two of our homes that sit next door to each other. Magnolia Rentals AMI owns two neighboring pairs in the City of Anna Maria...
If your trip includes grandparents, a family member with limited mobility, or anyone who would rather not haul luggage up a flight of stairs, the single most useful feature in a beach house is an elevator. On Anna Maria Island, our La Grande Maison is built exactly...
On Anna Maria Island, "waterfront" means two very different vacations. A bayfront rental on Bimini Bay gives you calm water, boat docks, and postcard sunsets over the water. A Gulf-side rental puts you a short walk from the wide, white-sand swimming beaches the island...
Yes — you can stay in an Anna Maria Island vacation rental with your own private boat dock, and tie your boat up steps from the back door. Two of our homes sit directly on Bimini Bay on deep sailboat water with a straight shot out to Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico:...
When you book an Anna Maria Island beach house directly with the owner instead of through Airbnb or VRBO, you skip the guest-service fees those platforms add at checkout — often 12 to 15 percent of your total. On a week-long stay, that's real money back in your trip...
For most trips, you do not need a car on Anna Maria Island — and many of our guests are happiest when they skip the rental car entirely. The island is seven miles long, walkable in its beach neighborhoods, served by a genuinely free trolley, and easy to cover by bike....
If you want to swim on your own schedule without hauling beach chairs down the road, an Anna Maria Island vacation rental with a private pool is the difference between a good trip and a great one. Every home in our collection at Magnolia Rentals AMI has its own...
Some of the best fishing in Florida happens within a few miles of our island, and I've watched countless guests land their first snook, redfish, or grouper just steps from the back door of one of our properties. After welcoming serious anglers and weekend...
There's a particular kind of magic that happens when a wedding takes place on a barrier island. The Gulf turns gold at sunset, the sea breeze carries the music down the beach, and your closest people are all under one roof in the days leading up to the big moment....