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12 05, 2016

Sunset At Mountain Vista

admin2016-05-12T15:01:19+00:00May 12th, 2016|Oklahoma Travel Deals|

Mountain Vista is known for tremendous views, seclusion and upscale amenities. We have acres of seclusion and a few friends that enjoy hanging out in our trees.

This whippoorwill’s song kept us company while relaxing on the deck and taking in a sunset. Rather than irritating road noise that many cabins feature due to building near a busy highway, we prefer this!

July 4th weekend has become available at Mountain Vista in Beavers Bend State Park. A four-night minimum stay is required. This open date won’t last long.

Weekends are full in May but don’t forget about our special travel deal. Arrive on Sundays during May and your fourth-night is free.

July 21-24 is the only non-holiday weekend available until August. We have many loyal fans staying at Mountain Vista four-six times per year. Why?

No add-on fees for firewood, insurance, cleaning and Internet. Watch out for incidental and resort fee charges. We’ve added a few new items to our popular s’mores kits and as always, they’re on the house!

Sing a new tune the next time you visit Beavers Bend. Say “no” to the add-on fee jingle others play to pad their pockets.

Contact us at BeaversBendVacations.com to reserve your Broken Bow Lake getaway soon!

2 05, 2016

Choosing A Beavers Bend Cabin Management Company

admin2019-07-05T17:10:50+00:00May 2nd, 2016|Texas Travel, travel blogs|

“I need help choosing a Beavers Bend cabin management company.” We hear this on a weekly basis.

There are numerous cabin companies in Broken Bow offering property management services. Lots of great people attempting to make their owners happy. There are other places where your just a number.

Before jumping into the Beavers Bend luxury cabin rental game, understand how to choose a great cabin management company.

Ask yourself these questions before choosing a Beavers Bend cabin management company.

Is the company’s marketing extraordinary? Being successful in the luxury rental business is much more than simply having a cabin picture on a website and hoping for the best. Make sure you’re fishing with a good lure that makes them bite. Otherwise, don’t fish.
Do they have a limited number of cabins in order to market mine? If you choose a company with 30-60 other cabins on their website, you’re nuts and will get no individualized attention.
Do they have a rock star website? No one wants to rent a luxury vacation cabin when the website looks like something from a third-world country. If the pictures and videos on a website aren’t stellar, no one will think your cabin is either.
Do they incorporate professional video with their marketing strategy? Not cheap iPhone stuff. Anyone with elite marketing experience will tell you great video sells. Bad video keeps them away.
Do they have a significant social media presence?
Do they gouge guests with add-on fees? Potential cabin guests are smart and have learned the hard way not to get shafted with needless charges like resort fees, insurance, cleaning, incidental fees and firewood. We sell against this and it works wonderfully for us. It’s not only the right thing to do, its smart business. We don’t penny-pinch guests.
Is the company on the cutting-edge of technology? Do they blog, have an app, newsletter, push-notification or advertising program? If the answer is “no,” don’t hire them.

There are approximately 1,500 cabins in Beavers Bend. Rates range from $100/night to near infinity. Do your homework before deciding to tag team with a company already promoting scores of cabins.

If you’re considering hiring a property management company, make sure they’re marketing and media experts. We can market your cabin via our vast array of technology and professional media experience. Also make sure you see every invoice for any work done on your cabin. Some are notorious for marking up the price to cabin owners.

Contact us at BeaversBendVacations.com. We’ll give your cabin the professional video and marketing it deserves. Choosing a great Beavers Bend cabin management/marketing company is paramount to success. If you’re a marketing expert, do it yourself like us at Mountain Vista. If not, choose a pro.

25 04, 2016

May Beavers Bend Travel Deal

admin2019-07-05T17:10:50+00:00April 25th, 2016|Beavers Bend Specials, Beavers Bend Travel Deals|

Take advantage of our May Beavers Bend travel deal at Mountain Vista! Arrive on Sunday’s and your fourth-night is free.

Remember to ask these important questions before reserving any luxury cabin in Beavers Bend:

How far away is the nearest cabin?
Do you charge a cleaning fee?
Do you charge an insurance fee?
Do you charge a resort fee?
Do you charge for firewood & s’mores?
Do you charge a hot tub fee?

If they answer “yes” to any of the above, ask “why?”

All of the above are free at Mountain Vista…we don’t believe in add-on fees.

We only have two weekends available until August. Make your holiday reservations soon. There are several holiday dates still open with the exception of Memorial Weekend.

It’s not too soon to begin planning your fall foliage tour dates. October and November are two of our biggest months in Beavers Bend State Park. Many people wait until the last-minute and are unable to secure a high-level luxury cabin in Broken Bow.

Bryce Archey, owner of BrokenBowLakeGuide.com, reports fishing is very good on the lake. We highly recommend you booking Bryce for a wonderful bass fishing expedition. He’s very popular; make your reservations in advance.

Make sure to download our Beavers Bend app. We offer great specials to our thousands of app fans and a give you a plethora of Broken Bow tourist tips.

If you’re a luxury cabin owner in Beavers Bend and are not receiving professional video and marketing with your management company, contact us. We have three-decades of global marketing and media experience. You don’t have to be one of 30-50 cabins on website hoping to get noticed.

Mountain Vista luxury cabin features acres of seclusion, a fabulous 20-mile view and no add-on fees. Many cabins are being built simply as rentals and owned by cabin management companies. Not ours, it’s truly our vacation home. There’s a difference!

15 04, 2016

Fish Tales Winery and Vineyards

admin2019-07-05T17:10:49+00:00April 15th, 2016|Dallas travel blogs, Dallas weekend travel, Luxury travel blogs|

Fish Tales Winery and Vineyards recently opened in Beavers Bend across from the state park entrance.

The charming winery has an outdoor deck and is the only winery in the area that produces any of their own grapes. The location is the former Three Rivers Fly Shop and it has been renovated nicely.

I enjoyed sampling several of their creations and the hospitality was stellar at Fish Tales. Their muscadine wine likely be the fan favorite. The grapes are grown locally and their tender loving care is evident with each sip of this fantastic vino.

Beavers Bend now boasts three wineries and tourists love taking the tasting trifecta. Two-million tourists visit the Broken Bow Lake area annually. Three wineries coupled with a new distillery and beer brewery will leave your thirst for libations quenched beyond belief! I’ll have a feature on the new Beavers Bend Brewery coming soon.

Download our Beavers Bend app for a complete listing of all attractions in the area, including VIP promotional offers.

Fish Tales Winery and Vineyards should definitely be on your must do list when visiting Beavers Bend State Park and Broken Bow Lake. It’s only five minutes away from Mountain Vista Cabin.

11 04, 2016

Side Angle Side

admin2016-04-11T15:10:41+00:00April 11th, 2016|Dallas weekend travel, travel blogs|

I’ve emphasized doing your homework before reserving a luxury cabin in Beavers Bend for years. I took a few pics of area cabins yesterday to help you understand how many are marketed in the area.

These two cabins look fantastic on the Internet, marketed with beautiful pictures, all with tight shots. Why do they only do tight shots rather than showing a perimeter property pic? It’s because you can literally spit and reach the cabin next door and a porta potty! They didn’t show this on the website.

Remember the term side angle side from geometry? Yep, I hated it too, but it serves a purpose here. Always make sure you have pictures of all property sides and angles before booking a luxury cabin in Beavers Bend. We provide videos of our property at BeaversBendVacations.com

These cabins are set on a dusty road near a bar with loud music playing on weekend nights. Unless you like hearing Amarillo By Morning blasting at stratospheric decibel ranges at midnight, you’ll probably want to look for a more secluded getaway location.

We have acres of seclusion in the upscale Southern Hills Addition…and no porta potties!

5 04, 2016

New Winery In Beavers Bend

admin2016-04-05T14:26:00+00:00April 5th, 2016|Dallas travel, Dallas travel blogs, Oklahoma Wineries, Wineries in Beavers Bend|

Vojai’s Winery

There’s a new winery in Beavers Bend, courtesy of a long-time family friend.

Vojai’s Winery opened a few weeks ago and I received the grand tour from their wonderful staff and owner, Vojai Reed.

Vojai is a long-time fixture and business leader in the Beavers Bend State Park area. She also had a monumental career in professional fishing.

The beautiful building has an outdoor seating area, tasting room and gift shop. If you can’t find a great Beavers Bend souvenir gift here, you’re not trying!

Vojai’s Winery features a variety of wines that are made in-house.

Vojai and my late mother were local television stars in southeastern Oklahoma during the early 1980’s. KLOP Television developed a cable station that provided local sports, news and variety shows in McCurtain County. It was very forward thinking and the mastermind of prominent businessman, Jewel B. Callaham.

My mother and Vojai hosted a 30-minute cooking show that became the talk of the town. As I recall, the great looking meals they prepared always seemed to look better on television than when mom tried to replicate them at home!

We only have a few more weekends open through the summer at Mountain Vista cabin. Make your reservations now and don’t wait until the last-minute to book holiday dates.

I enjoyed visiting with Vojai and learning about her fantastic new winery. Their staff is tremendous and I give them five-stars for customer service. They even have plans for expansion to their spacious new facility in Beavers Bend.

The winery business is booming in Beavers Bend with Girls Gone Wine, Vojai’s Winery and another new one, Fish Tale Winery and Vineyards. I also toured Fish Tale last week and will have a feature on them soon.

Make sure to visit this new winery in Beavers Bend during your next trip to Mountain Vista cabin. Vojai’s Winery is only a few minutes from the Beavers Bend State Park entrance. It’s located off Highway 259 North in Hochatown, behind Stevens Gap Restaurant. Contact them at (580) 494-7687.

28 03, 2016

Resort Fees In Broken Bow

admin2016-03-28T22:25:09+00:00March 28th, 2016|Luxury travel blogs|

People actually charge hundreds of add-on fees for this in Beavers Bend…it’s just firewood.

I’ve written about these guest-gouging fees for years and its great to see other nationally read websites pick up on it. Never pay resort fees when staying at a luxury property.

A new Twitter follower of ours is @KillResortFees. We love the name! Many websites have picked up on our mantra and are preaching the gospel of not gouging guests.

We were the first to expose these fraudulent fees in Beavers Bend several years ago. These charges are prevalent at some global resorts, but not all. There’s right and wrong. We feel resort fees are wrong. Hopefully after reading our blog all these years, you do too.

Never pay anything other than the nightly cabin rate and taxes. Don’t fall for the firewood, insurance, cleaning, hot tub or resort fee scams.

A couple of new wineries and a brewery have opened near Broken Bow Lake, we’ll have features on them soon. Weekends are becoming packed at Mountain Vista. Check-in Sunday’s through April and your fourth-night is free!

The redbuds are blooming in Beavers Bend and April/May is amazing in our area.

It’s Spring in the Kiamichi Mountains…we love it!

15 03, 2016

Beavers Bend Spring Cabin Special

admin2019-07-05T17:10:49+00:00March 15th, 2016|Dallas travel blogs|

Our Beavers Bend spring cabin special will definitely put a “spring’ in your step and give you extra weight in your wallet!

The Mountain Vista Sunday spectacular officially begins now. Arrive on March 20 (Easter) or the 27th, April 10th, 17th or 24th and your fourth-night is free!

Mountain Vista features acres of seclusion and an amazing 20-mile view of the Kiamichi Mountains.

Don’t fall for discount cabin scams offering a low-nightly rate and then slamming you with add-on fees. You should never pay for firewood, s’mores, cleaning, hot tub, insurance or resort fees in Beavers Bend. We never gouge our guests or pounce their pocketbooks with these unnecessary charges.

Mountain Vista-Beavers Bend

Our calendar is quickly filling for 2016 and only a couple of weekends are available until July. Make sure to download our free Beavers Bend app for the latest news from Broken Bow Lake. Our app features all the links to local hot spots, plus our recommendations regarding where you can eat, drink and be merry during your stay.

Mountain Vista luxury cabin is unique among cabins in Broken Bow. It features all king beds and two upstairs private decks. One deck features the beautiful 20-mile view…the other boasts acres of secluded forest. The deck on the forest side is a guest favorite during the hot summer months. It offers ample shade and is great for reading or catching up on work with our free Wi-Fi. (That’s right, we don’t charge you for Internet access either.)

Sherri and I are pleased to announce this Beavers Bend spring cabin special. Take advantage of this fantastic free fourth-night offer at our vacation home during these select Sunday arrival periods.

Mountain Vista has been lauded by TravelOK as “A Place To Stay In Oklahoma” and featured in the book “Treasures of Oklahoma.”

Unlike many luxury cabins, you deal directly with us when making a reservation, not a management company with 30-50 cabins. Mountain Vista is not simply a rental, it’s our vacation home.

Contact us at BeaversBendVacations.com and enjoy a night on us at Mountain Vista!

9 03, 2016

Beavers Bend Chef Featured By KSLA

admin2016-03-09T15:28:11+00:00March 9th, 2016|Beavers Bend Restaurants|

My pal Doug Warner, anchor at KSLA, recently featured Food Network Champion chef, Tabb Singleton.

Doug is a frequent visitor to Beavers Bend and our Mountain Vista cabin. He included a link to my story on Tabb and his Moon Tower Bar and Grill. My feature on the two-time Food Network champion has been read by over 500K since December 2015.

7 03, 2016

Dining in Beavers Bend

admin2020-07-04T13:21:28+00:00March 7th, 2016|Beavers Bend Restaurants|

Our favorite spot for dining in Beavers Bend is Moon Tower Bar and Grill, led by Food Network champion chef, Tabb Singleton.

I enjoyed this fantastic soft shell crawfish special last week. Chef Tabb’s mixture of sauces in the dish gave it a magnificent flavor. It was truly one of the best meals I’ve ever had.

I joked with Chef Tabb that he could retire now, there’s no way he can cook anything better than this!

Make sure to visit Moon Tower Bar and Grill during your next trip to Beavers Bend.

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