u/lowiqtrader

Hello, I'm planning a weekend trip to San Juan Islands for my wife and myself. We will be staying from Friday to Sunday sometime in July. At the moment, I've booked a room at Lakedale Resort. However, as I've done more research, it seems like we'd run into issues with parking, transportation within the island, lack of cell service, and reliability of the intra-island ferries. I'm figuring out how to solve these issues and would like some advice from people who've made the trip before. I'll try to keep my questions succint:

1. If parking is limited in Friday Harbor, and San Juan Transit is down, how do we get between Friday Harbor Ferry and Lakedale Resort? We want to rent bikes and ride around Lopez. To do that, we need to get from Lakedale Resort to Friday Harbor, then get on the intra-island ferry to Lopez. If we take our car to Friday Harbor, parking in Friday Harbor is very limited. We could take our car on the ferry to Lopez, but there is also very limited parking in Lopez Island, so that seems out of the question. According to multiple websites it seems better to just walk-on to the ferry. So the only option I see is San Juan Transit. But San Juan Transit is also currently down. https://www.reddit.com/r/sanjuanislands/comments/1tpsite/san_juan_transit_not_running/ . Lakedale says they have bikes on their website, but that is only for the resort, not for island biking. So biking from Lakedale to Friday Harbor isn't feasible either. So how do we get between Lakedale and Friday Harbor and back?
2. If the intra-island ferries are unreliable, then what do we do? From several reddit posts I read, the intra-island ferries are cancelled frequently. If we take a trip to one of the islands (either by foot or by car) and the intra-island ferry is cancelled, what do we do? We'd be stranded with no lodging and no cell service (we have Verizon and another reddit post I read said Verizon has terrible service in that area).

Given the above, is it a bad idea to stay in SJI? Should we stay in Anacortes and just take day trips to the islands? That way we can explore 1 island per day, and the Anacortes / <island name> ferries seem more reliable so we shouldn't be stuck. Or, should I do 1 night in Orcas (we'd take the car from Seattle to Anacortes, take ferry, drive around Orcas), one night in San Juan Island (from Orcas we'd take car onto intra-island ferry, then drive around SJI and stay at some place overnight), and then drive back and take a ferry back to Anacortes?

Hello, I'm planning a weekend trip to San Juan Islands for my wife and myself. We will be staying from Friday to Sunday sometime in July. At the moment, I've booked a room at Lakedale Resort. However, as I've done more research, it seems like we'd run into issues with parking, transportation within the island, lack of cell service, and reliability of the intra-island ferries. I'm figuring out how to solve these issues and would like some advice from people who've made the trip before. I'll try to keep my questions succint:

1. If parking is limited in Friday Harbor, and San Juan Transit is down, how do we get between Friday Harbor Ferry and Lakedale Resort? We want to rent bikes and ride around Lopez. To do that, we need to get from Lakedale Resort to Friday Harbor, then get on the intra-island ferry to Lopez. If we take our car to Friday Harbor, parking in Friday Harbor is very limited. We could take our car on the ferry to Lopez, but there is also very limited parking in Lopez Island, so that seems out of the question. According to multiple websites it seems better to just walk-on to the ferry. So the only option I see is San Juan Transit. But San Juan Transit is also currently down. https://www.reddit.com/r/sanjuanislands/comments/1tpsite/san_juan_transit_not_running/ . Lakedale says they have bikes on their website, but that is only for the resort, not for island biking. So biking from Lakedale to Friday Harbor isn't feasible either. So how do we get between Lakedale and Friday Harbor and back?

2. If the intra-island ferries are unreliable, then what do we do? From several reddit posts I read, the intra-island ferries are cancelled frequently. If we take a trip to one of the islands (either by foot or by car) and the intra-island ferry is cancelled, what do we do? We'd be stranded with no lodging and no cell service (we have Verizon and another reddit post I read said Verizon has terrible service in that area).

Given the above, is it a bad idea to stay in SJI? Should we stay in Anacortes and just take day trips to the islands? That way we can explore 1 island per day, and the Anacortes / <island name> ferries seem more reliable so we shouldn't be stuck. Or, should I do 1 night in Orcas (we'd take the car from Seattle to Anacortes, take ferry, drive around Orcas), one night in San Juan Island (from Orcas we'd take car onto intra-island ferry, then drive around SJI and stay at some place overnight), and then drive back and take a ferry back to Anacortes?

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