The holiday photos you take today will be the memories you look back on with quiet joy when your family doesn’t quite look the same as it did during your South Padre Island vacation and stay in our Franke Rentals holiday hideaways. Children grow up and move into their own home, grandchildren join the family, and although all that is wonderful, you may find yourself missing the days when it was just your nuclear family, parents, kids, and the family dog and when your journey brings you to our Island home, your photos can be fantastic. All you need to do is follow this guide on where you can take the best family Christmas photos on South Padre Island, making memories with each photo taken!
The Holiday Sandcastle Village, W Ling Street
This cool gallery of sand sculptures may be the coolest thing to see during your stay on South Padre Island and at the holidays it is even cooler. Open every day of the year and featuring an ever changing selection of sand sculptures created by the most talented sculptors in the world, you won’t be able to help but want to smile your cheesiest grins as you and your family pose in front of the creations. At Christmas through New Year’s they also offer a holiday light show, giving families a fun way to celebrate and make even more memories that you will never want to forget. And because holiday pictures can be taken during any holiday, why not consider a return visit on Valentine’s Day to see what has changed?
South Padre Island Welcome Sign
If you aren’t the type to label your photos you may have noticed that it is near impossible to remember the location of where the family photos were taken after a few years, but when you pose in front of the colorful South Padre Island Welcome Sign, that will never be a problem. What could be a normal garden wall made from terra cotta colored garden blocks becomes the backdrop of the moment, offering beach umbrellas in shades of blue, pink, and yellow shading the letters that read out South Padre Island, Texas, and the green foliage, including palm trees swaying in the sea breezes will add more color to the picture, just as our homes add comfortable adventures to your exciting island escape.
South Padre Island Convention Center Beach Chairs
Matching the colors of the umbrellas on the welcome sign, three Adirondack beach chairs will take the annual holiday family photo to the next level of whimsical, as these chairs aren’t your standard beach chairs. Supersized so that most families can squeeze onto one, they serve as a magical backdrop to your family photos, and if your family is a larger one, never fear, there will be plenty of room to climb on all three; pets are welcome, too, so if you are staying in one of our pet friendly sanctuaries, you can take a true family photo on these giant chairs.
Anywhere Along the Sea Turtle Art Trail
The charm and friendliness of sea turtles may make you wish you could have one as a pet, but they are an endangered species and but that’s ok; on South Padre Island, the Sea Turtle Art Trail allows you to get close to the whimsical creatures, without endangering the real ones even further. Also making a colorful and unique backdrop to your holiday family photos, our visitor’s center, located at 321 Padre Boulevard, provides a map of the trail, so you can easily find your way to your favorite family photo spot.
South Padre Island Convention Center Orcas Off the Gulf of Mexico
Photo opportunities abound on SPI and the giant mural of Orcas swimming in the Gulf of Mexico on the South Padre Island Convention Center will add magic to your family photo. The blue of sea and sky and the black and white of the giant orcas will shine even brighter when taken at sunset when the sky lights up with a fiery beauty and we can promise, your already good-looking family will never look more beautiful than they do when posing in front of the frolicking whales.
Traditional Beauty
Of course, your favorite photos may be the more traditional ones you take at home in your Franke Rentals holiday hideaway. Don matching pajamas and pose along the railing of your condo balcony that overlooks the sea, take many candid shots of your children tearing open the gifts you stacked under a tree in the living room, capturing the sheer joy in their happy faces and knowing when you catch “the money shot” the one photo that will grace NEXT year’s family Christmas card. Reserve your favorite escape today and explore all the places your family photos will look best!