Palm Beach - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides

By Andrew Delaplaine

Everything you need to know when you only have time for a “Long Weekend” in Palm Beach. One of the wealthiest—and most secretive—enclaves in the world, Palm Beach nevertheless can be experienced like a local. Much more, in many ways, than a place like South Beach.

+ LODGINGS

+ RESTAURANTS

+ ATTRACTIONS

+ SHOPPING

+ NIGHTLIFE

“We went to the Leopard Lounge based on the listing in this book and felt like we belonged. What a great piano bar.” –Jonathan T., Washington D.C.

“Greene’s Pharmacy is a local hangout where you can sit at a counter and get a cheap meal.  My wife recognized a notorious billionaire sitting three seats away.”

--Wilbur F., Redmond, WA

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gramercy Park Press
• Release date: Aug 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781536598346

Andrew Delaplaine

Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: [e-mail] He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details).  His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.  DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.

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PALM BEACH

The Delaplaine

2017 Long Weekend Guide

Includes Listings for West Palm Beach

Andrew Delaplaine

NO BUSINESS HAS PAID A SINGLE PENNY OR GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.

A list of the author’s other travel guides, as well as his political thrillers and titles for children, can be found at the end of this book.

Senior Editors - Renee & Sophie Delaplaine

Senior Writer - James Cubby

Gramercy Park Press

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WHY PALM BEACH?

GETTING ABOUT

WHERE TO STAY

High on the Hog

Sensible Alternatives

On a Budget

WHERE TO EAT

WHERE TO SHOP

WHAT TO DO

NIGHTLIFE

OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

Chapter 1

WHY PALM BEACH?

What can you possibly say to answer that question? There’s simply no other town like Palm Beach in America. Off South Beach there’s Fisher Island, which they say is the richest ZIP Code in America. But Fisher Island is not a town. It’s an island enclave where the residents are as much prisoner as protected.

There’s posh Indian Creek Island off Bal Harbour and Miami Beach, but there are only 32 homes on that island.

No, Palm Beach is a real live, honest-to-god city, big enough to have a critical mass of residents so that you get the widest possible range of angels and lunatics. You have here what’s left of the old WASP society. Now, with lots of Big Money from Europe adding a bit more flash to the scene than the old-timers would like to see, the social scene is a little less refined and a bit more turbulent, but things move on at a Palm Beach pace. And nothing will change that. 

The Madoff Scandal, of course, took a heavy toll, visiting upon the island a devastating hit that will last longer than any hurricane that struck, generations even, so