My husband teaches, so we can't always take advantage of optimum times or rates. We have been coming down the day after Xmas these past two years and it has been so cold - at night especially. We do enjoy being able to walk and ride our bikes whenever during the day and like dining out so not be able to sit on the beach hasn't been that big of a deal. But this past NYE, I was on the beach in my long wool coat and ear muffs! (I took earmuffs with me to Maui for the early morning bike ride down the volcano in November. That is cold. We hope to return with UL in 2012.) Ellen