[armand]

I'd like to suggest a different type of Cape Cod vacation that is becoming very popular. It's renting a cottage at the ocean in the Cape Cod National Seashore Park. Most of these cottages are older in a "retro" kind of way (knotty pine walls, no cable TV, no broadband Internet service).
The drawing point of staying at these cottages is getting a break from your daily life of TV, Internet and Xbox and spending the week having an old fashioned vacation. This is the type of vacation where the beach is the major attraction. The beach, which is only a few steps from your cottage, takes center stage but there are also other activities such as Whale-Watching, shopping, dining on seafood and going to a drive-in movie.
Although such a spartan vacation may at first make you recoil and say you'd prefer a full-service resort, many families who do take such a vacation, end up returning year after year because they are creating family times that will be fondly remembered by their children for the rest of their lives. Evenings playing family games or making a jigsaw puzzle or taking a family stroll along the ocean beach by moonlight create memories that no one will every erase.
Doing a Google search for "cape cod oceanside cottages" will bring you a list of such rentals. If you want to be in the National Seashore, however, you will have to find properties in the Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro or Provincetown areas. My favorite is the Wellfleet Area because you are not too far from other parts of the Cape and this allows you access to a larger variety of activities.