Between Blues occupies the fourth floor of the one building at Bay Tree Club that stands directly on the sand. The name suits it, the rooms held between the pale wash of the bedrooms and the deeper blue that opens past the lanai screen.
Begin with the distinction that matters. Bay Tree Club spreads across both sides of Midnight Pass Road, and most of what comes up for rent here sits on the bay. This residence does not. You come down in the elevator and step onto Turtle Beach, no road to cross and no shuttle to wait for.
The lanai is where the day settles. Screened against the afternoon and deep enough for two loungers and a low ottoman, it looks over the community lawn and past the palms to the Gulf. Morning coffee happens here, as does the last hour of light and, with the slider left open, the sound of the water after dark. Be clear-eyed about the view: it is an honest one rather than a postcard, the neighboring rooftops framing the Gulf rather than clearing it. What comes in return is shade, a screen against the breeze, and somewhere to sit that isn't the beach itself.
Inside, the rooms stay cool and unhurried, tile underfoot where you gather and carpet where you sleep. The living room turns on a reclining leather sofa and a wide wall-mounted television, the water visible through the sliders. A wraparound leather banquette waits at the dining table, seating rather more people than the two bedrooms sleep.
The kitchen is built for a stay that lasts rather than a night that ends: granite counters, a French-door refrigerator, a full range, a dishwasher, and enough proper cookware that you'll cook instead of order. Two stools pull up to the breakfast bar. In the nook beside the refrigerator, a built-in granite desk with a keyboard tray handles the hour of email a good vacation still asks for, a laptop's worth of workspace and honestly no more.
The primary bedroom takes the corner, windows on two walls with one of them holding the Gulf, and a walk-in closet that absorbs a month of clothes without complaint. Its bathroom is quietly considered, a glass walk-in shower fitted with a corner seat, a handheld wand, and a grab bar, the kind of detail you don't notice until it is the reason a longer stay stays comfortable. The second bedroom sits on the quiet side of the home in the same pale calm, with a queen, a chest of drawers, and a fan of its own.
Then the detail that turns a week into a season. Your own stacked washer and dryer wait behind a door in the hall, where the building's other laundry is a shared room down the corridor. On a month by the water, that is the line between a nice stay and an easy one.
Every home at Bay Tree Club comes with a locked cabana on the Gulf side, and yours arrives stocked with four beach chairs, an umbrella, and a cooler. Collect what you need on the walk down. Two heated pools sit on the grounds, open dawn to dusk, and one assigned space is yours in the lot.
Turtle Beach itself is the island's other shore, shell-strewn and coarser and darker than the famous quartz to the north, and quieter for exactly those reasons. People who know Siesta Key come here on purpose, for the shelling and the space and the southern art of having nothing to do.
Check yourself in by lockbox whenever your arrival allows; we send the code and directions ahead. You should know that the association keeps cameras on the common areas — the entrances, elevators, parking, cabana courtyard, and docks — though none inside the residence and none of them ours.
Bay Tree Club is a residential condominium, and the association requires an approved rental application and a signed rental agreement for every stay. We send both documents as soon as you book. They need to come back to us at least 10 days before your arrival so the association can process the approval before you check in — this step is required, not a formality, and the stay cannot go ahead without it. On arrival, all overnight guests stop by the community office to register and collect the parking pass for your assigned space.
Part of the SK Collection by Siesta Stays.
