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Top Five Houseboating Vacations 2009

Houseboating Vacations to Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lake Mohave, Lake Amistad & Lake or the Ozarks.

Summer is here and the time is right for houseboating on the lakes! Spend some quality time with your family aboard a luxury houseboat. Travelwizard.com is featuring houseboating vacations to Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Lake Mohave, Lake Amistad, Lake or the Ozarks, Trinity lake, Lake Don Perdo, Lake Oroville and Lake Berryessa. Call 1-800-330-8820 to book your family on a houseboating vacation this summer or fall.

 

Lake Mead Houseboat Vacations - Arizona  

Located just 45 minutes from Las Vegas, and within an easy half day's drive from Los Angeles, San Diego, Salt Lake City and Phoenix, a Lake Mead Houseboat offers you everything that you need for a spectacular vacation.

With 550 miles of pristine shoreline, soaring red rock cliffs, countless bays and beaches, and a convenient location within an hour of the entertainment capital of the world, few places can beat the recreation opportunities that await you on Lake Mead.

 

Few places on earth match the raw, natural beauty of Lake Mead. Whether your idea of the perfect vacation is getting up at dawn to greet the sunrise with a cup of coffee or a waterski run on glass-like water. Or maybe it's just relaxing on the top deck of a houseboat with friends and enjoying the glow of the sunset. Renting a Travelwizard.com houseboat from Callville Bay Resort & Marina can put you in the middle of it all.

 

When it comes to great bass fishing, Lake Mead is the place to be. Offering some of the nation's best sport fishing with multiple professional and amateur tournaments scheduled all season long. Rental Rates: $371 to $528 Per Day*

 

Lake Powell Houseboat Vacations - Arizona  

Welcome to the newest marina on beautiful Lake Powell. Located just 12 miles from Page, Arizona, Antelope Point Marina offers both convenience and brand-new upscale services catering to long-time Powell boaters and newcomers alike.

 

Antelope Point Marina is anchored in the Lake's main channel at mile marker 5, just a few minutes boat ride from the Glen Canyon Dam and nearby Wahweap Marina. Antelope is the closest land-based marina to world-famous Rainbow Bridge National Monument - commemorating 100 years in 2009, and adjacent to popular Antelope and Navajo canyons.

 

Like the other marinas on Lake Powell, Antelope Point is administered by the National Park Service. The Point however is located within the Federal Reservation of the Navajo Nation. You can see the native influence in the unique design and engineering of the marina facility - one of the largest of its type in the world. Rental Rates: $971 to $1,142 Per Day*  

 

Lake Mohave Houseboat Vacations - Nevada

Welcome to comfortable Cottonwood Cove Resort and Marina - a hidden gem on secluded Lake Mohave in Nevada. We're conveniently located just a short drive from Laughlin, NV and Bullhead City, AZ on the Colorado River. And we're included in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, administered by the National Park Service.

 

This beautiful desert lake is approximately 67 miles long and just 4 miles across at its widest point. Backed up by the Davis Dam, Lake Mohave is bordered by the spectacular sheer walls of Black, Pyramid, Painted and Eldorado Canyons of the Colorado River. Rental Rates: $371 to $528 Per Day*

 

Lake Amistad Houseboat Vacations  - Texas

Two and a half hours drive from San Antonio, straddling the Mexican and American border, lies a true gem in the desert, Lake Amistad. With over 850 miles of shoreline and 68,000 acres of sparkling water, it's one of the largest and most popular lakes in Texas. For houseboaters, Amistad may very well be one of the friendliest. In fact, the name Amistad means friendship in Spanish.

 

Boaters and fishermen at Amistad enjoy one of the longest and warmest lake seasons in the country with a boating season that starts earlier in the spring, and goes later in the fall than most other lakes in the US. It's just plain warm and wonderful most of the year. Sure, the desert region gets nippy at night in winter, and the area gets its share of rain with about 18 inches annually. But summers are long and warm with plenty of heat to dry you off after a swim.Lake Amistad boasts some of the best lake snorkeling and scuba in the state, the best bass fishing in the world, and one of the largest collections of archaeological sites anywhere.

 

If you're a serious bass fisherman, you already know that Lake Amistad offers some of the best bass fishing in the world. Considered under-fished now for many years, as well as the recent increase in catch-and-release, Amistad is currently enjoying excellent stocks of America's most popular game fish, Large Mouth Bass, but also the hard-fighting Striped Bass, Crappie, and the popular Sunfish are plentiful. Rental Rates: $371 to $528 Per Day*  

 

Lake of the Ozarks Houseboat Vacations - Missouri

Welcome to Lake of the Ozarks - Missouri's hidden jewel. Since the 1931 completion of Bagnell Dam in a remote area of the Ozark hills, visitors and vacationers have enjoyed the fun and excitement of the Lake of the Ozarks for more than seven decades.

 

The Lake of the Ozarks has over 1,100 miles of shoreline in four different Missouri counties. The massive body of water is the largest manmade lake in the Midwestern United States and has made Lake of the Ozarks of the most popular vacation spots for residents from all parts of the country and the world.

 

Lake of the Ozarks is located just 2.5 hours from Kansas City or St. Louis, in the heart of Missouri.Whether you're a first-time visitor to Lake of the Ozarks, or one of our returning friends - from everyone here at Travelwizard.com, we look forward to your visit. Rental Rates: $509 to $775 Per Day*