Five real bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, a wine refrigerator in the kitchen, a hot tub nobody else is allowed to use, and sand under your feet two minutes from the back door. This is the trip Sanctuary gets asked for most — and two of our reviews name a girls' weekend specifically.
Every girls' trip has the same unspoken problem: somebody always gets the worst bed. The friend who booked last, the one who's easygoing about it, the one who ends up on an air mattress in a room with no door. Sanctuary is the house where that conversation never has to happen.
A rental that sleeps twelve usually means three bedrooms and a lot of creative math — bunk beds, a sleeper sofa, and someone whispering in the dark trying not to wake the two other people in the room. Sanctuary sleeps twelve across five separate bedrooms, and four of them have a bathroom attached. Getting ready for dinner does not become a scheduling exercise.
Then there's the location. Cape San Blas sits on Florida's Forgotten Coast, where roughly 90% of the surrounding land is protected. No high-rises, no beach clubs, no strip of bars. If your idea of a girls' weekend is a crowded pool deck with a DJ, this is the wrong house. If it's a long lunch, a bottle of wine on the deck, and a beach where you can see maybe four other people, it's the right one.
Absolutely the perfect house for a girls' getaway weekend. The heated floors in the master bathroom, along with the custom closet and panoramic views of the bay from the workspace off the master — these are all noteworthy upgrades that define this unique home.
Verified guest review · one of 21 five-star reviews
Send this list to the group chat and let them sort it out themselves. Every one of these is a real room with a door.
The kitchen is genuinely built for cooking: pro-grade appliances, a wine refrigerator, and a table that seats twelve. The hot tub is private and yours for the whole stay — no wristbands, no closing time, no strangers. The fire pit has Adirondack chairs for the full group, and you can build a fire on the beach itself, which guests mention more than almost anything else.
Also included, so nobody has to pack it: all linens and towels, four beach chairs, two kayaks with life jackets and paddles, lawn games including cornhole, high-speed WiFi and Smart TVs in every room, a washer and dryer, private parking for the whole group, and a welcome basket. There's a private elevator too — a detail that sounds unnecessary until you're carrying groceries, wine, and beach bags up from the car.
Food, drinks, and the group. St. Joe Shrimp Company is 100 yards away and sells shrimp off the boat for the grill, so plan at least one dinner around that. The Trading Post is a four-minute walk for the things you forgot.
A flat $75 per stay, not per night, and the beaches here are dog-friendly — one of the few stretches of the Gulf Coast where that's true.
Not a schedule. Just what tends to happen when nobody has anywhere to be.
Every group plans the beach, the meals, and the hot tub. Nobody plans the two hours after dinner when everyone ends up around the fire and the conversation goes somewhere it hasn't gone in years.
That's the part guests write about when they get home. It's also the reason the same groups book again the following spring.
It prints to a single page, so you can forward it, post it, or hand it to whoever still needs convincing. Spring and fall weekends are the best value on the calendar — and the first ones to go.
Questions first? Send us your dates and we'll reply within a few hours — or email info@sanctuary-capesanblas.com. We're happy to do a live video walkthrough before you book.
Five real bedrooms and 4½ bathrooms, a wine refrigerator, a private hot tub, a fire pit with chairs for the whole group, and sand under your feet two minutes from the back door. The most-requested trip at this house — and two of its 21 five-star reviews name a girls' weekend by name.
Private hot tub · fire pit with Adirondack seating · gourmet kitchen with wine refrigerator and a twelve-person table · private elevator · two kayaks with paddles and life jackets · four beach chairs · cornhole · WiFi and Smart TVs in every room · washer and dryer · private parking · all linens and towels · welcome basket. Bring food, drinks, and the group.