{"id":8704,"date":"2021-04-17T09:13:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T13:55:37","slug":"chairs-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=8704","title":{"rendered":"Chairs by the Ocean &#8211; York Beach, Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8705\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_8705\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 1000px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/seats-short-sands-beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8705\" src=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/seats-short-sands-beach.jpg\" alt=\"Chairs by the ocean at Short Sands Beach, York Beach, Maine.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/seats-short-sands-beach.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/seats-short-sands-beach-567x425.jpg 567w, https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/seats-short-sands-beach-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_8705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chairs by the ocean at Short Sands Beach.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On this York Beach, Maine post, we feature a most relaxing scene of chairs overlooking the ocean at Short Sands Beach.<\/p>\n<p>This almost Norman-Rockwell-Meets-The-Coast-like scene creates a relaxing vacation-like moment that gives the visitor the beach, the ocean, the rocky coast and a feeling of peace, quiet and reflection. It&#8217;s nice that experiencing this moment resides, ironically, in the heart of downtown York Beach where the bustle of tourist season &#8212; with all its shops, restaurants and attractions &#8212; can yield a busy look. Just a few steps away from the downtown and Short Sands Beach (when it&#8217;s crowded), however, can take one away to another place. A quiet one.<\/p>\n<p>Call it the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story on York Beach, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingnewengland.com\/yorkbeach.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hotel Recommendations at York Beach<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booking.com\/hotel\/us\/the-grand-view-inn-amp-cottages.en.html?aid=875879&amp;no_rooms=1&amp;group_adults=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand View Inn &amp; Cottages at Long Sands Beach<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booking.com\/hotel\/us\/union-bluff.en.html?aid=875879&amp;no_rooms=1&amp;group_adults=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union Bluff Hotel at Short Sands Beach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Southern Maine stuff<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/dimillos-portland-maine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waterfront dining and fresh seafood in Portland<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/a seven-foot tall, nine-foot wide, 1,700-pound chocolate moose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Lenny the Chocolate Moose &#8211; a seven-foot tall, nine-foot wide, 1,700-pound chocolate moose &#8212; at this classic candy house<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=4035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watching them make the salt water taffy, then buying the salt water taffy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this York Beach, Maine post, we feature a most relaxing scene of chairs overlooking the ocean at Short Sands Beach. This almost Norman-Rockwell-Meets-The-Coast-like scene creates a relaxing vacation-like moment that gives the visitor the beach, the ocean, the rocky coast and a feeling of peace, quiet and reflection. It&#8217;s nice that experiencing this moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[224,251,2474],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}