our story
Our goal is to create a very special luxury holiday house that is warm and inviting with all amenities you would need to have a relaxing coastal getaway with family and friends. A space where you can stay and play together and experience all the delights Jervis Bay has to offer and create memories to last a lifetime. We want to see you come back again to continue your adventure. This is Bethany Beach House Jervis Bay.
This special beach house is inspired by our dear friend Jean from the Eastern Shore in Maryland USA (originally from Washington DC). We taught at a private school together many years ago. It was not long after we met that Jean discovered she had numerous breast cancers. This was shortly after the birth of her only son RTP. She went through chemotherapy and other treatments and a double mastectomy. Thankfully, she survived. That summer we rented a beach house on Campbell Place Bethany Beach Delaware and our special beach house memories began. This was 1997.
We have rented a beach house in the same street in Bethany Beach almost every year since then. I have travelled back from wherever I was working (Brussels, Melbourne Australia, Washington DC) to spend that special beach week with Jean and RTP. Jean survived a second bout of breast cancer around ten years after her first. She soldiers on and we keep going back to Bethany.
We have made some wonderful memories from those beach weeks. Memories of a lifetime that last a lifetime. We are so grateful. I can remember RTP as a baby at the beach house. He is such an amazing caring young man teaching children at a local school, following in the footsteps of his mum.
It doesn’t take much to make for a very special holiday - a fully stocked house, your home away from home, beaches, nature walks, and shops close by, some comfy chairs, good books and games, and time to sit back, relax and enjoy each other’s company. It is the time you spend together that matters.
We hope that Bethany Beach House Jervis Bay helps create your special beach week memories. While we cannot all be in Bethany Beach, we can recreate the loving and relaxing beach house feel for families and friends here in Australia.
It is time to give something back. To say thank you to the researchers who have helped Jean survive, and to help others who may be suffering from this terrible cancer or who are yet to be diagnosed. We will donate $50 from each completed booking to Australian Breast Cancer Research. We hope by giving back we may be able to help others survive and thrive, like Jean.
Thanks for being part of our story. We hope you enjoy it.
Mike and Tanya
Bethany Beach House Properties