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Which of these two small tourist towns do you prefer?
Also, compare them in terms of:
Tourist attractions
Dining options
Nightlife
Beaches
Charm/vibe
Weather
Arts scene
Affordability
Walkability
Ease of getting there from a major airport
Tourist Attractions: Key West
Nightlife: Key West
Beaches: Ptown all the way
Charm/Vibe: Ptown
Weather: Tie. One is too hot. One is ideal 1/2 the year
Arts Scene: Ptown
Affordability: Key West
Walkability: Ptown
Ease of airport: Ptown
Part of the charm of Key West for me is the spectacular drive down through the various keys and seeing the aqua blue water going over all the cool bridges. Key lime pie, conch shells, and six toed Hemingway cats with roosters running around in the streets just cement it for me. So laid back and relaxed.
Driving to P-Town through the Cape is nice, and the town has its charms. Fried clams along the way are always a big plus. But the sum total I would definitely go Key West. Either town is a vacation.
Dining options: Hard to say post-COVID, but historically P-town rocked over Key West
Nightlife: depends on your scene....
Beaches: for just the water itself, Key West, but easily P-town for the beach sand (Key West beaches are on coral/stone and not very pleasant though they are pretty - you still need to wear footwear in the water)
Charm/vibe: Tied - both are less so than they were a generation ago (cruise ships ruined Key West, and influx of money from NYers in the late AIDS Plague years of the mid-1990s upset P-town's delicate demographic balance)
Weather: Key West
Arts scene: P-town
Affordability: Depends on what you need...
Walkability: P-town. Both are fine, but P-town actually has a special culture of walking that Key West doesn't quite have.
Ease of getting there from a major airport: during the warm half of the year easily P-town because of ferry access from across Boston harbor from Logan (neither KW nor Ptown's airports themselves count as major, but KW's is better)
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Lodging: historically, Key West rocked over P-town (the inverse of dining).
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