The Obamas to return to Martha's Vineyard? First Lady and her two daughters 'planning EXTENDED summer vacation at exclusive retreat'

By Leslie Larson

PUBLISHED: 13:33 EST, 22 May 2013 | UPDATED: 15:46 EST, 22 May 2013

The First Family are believed to be planing a return to the exclusive retreat of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts this summer for their fourth stay on the island.

Mrs Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha will reportedly enjoy the bulk of their summer break in the East Coast enclave, while President Obama is expected to spend his weekends at the getaway.

The Obamas have spent three summers on the historic island but opted out of a Vineyard vacation during the 2012 presidential campaign to avoid elitist overtones.

Hail to the chief

Hail to the chief: The First Family plan to head back to the exclusive retreat of Martha's Vineyard this summer for their fourth stay of the island (pictured the presidential motorcade on the island in 2010)

Let the good times roll:

Let the good times roll: Mrs Obama (left) and her youngest daughter Sasha (right) enjoyed a bike ride together on the Vineyard in 2011

The family are looking to rent a home in the Farm Neck area of the Vineyard, the Boston Globe reported this week.

The Obama ladies will spend most of their summer on the island and the patriarch is expected to jaunt in for weekends and then stay for two weeks at the end of the summer, the paper said.

The White House has not yet commented on the presidential summer plans to ensure for adequate security as the logistics are being hashed out.

 

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The historic 87-square-mile island has long attracted world leaders and presidents and since assuming office, Mr Obama has taken his family to the island in 2009 and returned in 2010 and 2011.

Photographs showed the Obama daughters enjoying the great outdoors on the beach and their bikes and their father, an avid golfer, teeing off at the Farm Neck Golf Club.

The picturesque green, on the Sengekontacket Pond, was also a favorite of President Bill Clinton.

Martha's Vineyard Map
Home away from home

Home away from home: Obama spent the summers of 2009, 2010 and 2011 at the Blue Heron Farm on Martha's Vineyard (President Obama is briefed by adviser Brian Deese at the farm house in 2011)

U.S. President Barack Obama
Respite:

Respite: The historic 87-square-mile island in Massachusetts has long attracted world leaders and presidents. President Obama (left in 2010) and President Clinton (right in 1997) are fans of the Farm Neck Country Club

For their three previous stays on the island, the family had rented the luxurious Blue Heron Farm in West Tisbury, on Tisbury Great Pond.

The impressive estate sits on 28-acres and includes two full-sized homes, a boathouse, a 150-year-old barn - originally from Pennsylvania that was reassembled for the estate, tennis and basketball courts, multiple gardens and an apple orchard.

Forbes magazine estimated it cost an eye-popping $50,000 to rent per week but the sprawling home was sold to British architect Norman Foster for $21.9 million in December 2011, so sadly it is unable for the First Family to rent.

In 2009, Obama's then Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton told the press of the president's admiration for the retreat.

'The president enjoys coming here and probably will continue to...There's a lot of great things about Martha's Vineyard.'

'It's comfortable - The beaches are nice. The people are particularly nice.'

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Family

Travels: The Obamas usually take a family trip during the summer as well (left, the First Family in August 2009 at the Grand Canyon and right, Sasha and Mrs Obama in August 2010 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

Martha's Vineyard is located to the South of Cape Cod - the peninsula that is home to the Kennedy family's famed compound in Hyannis Port.

The island was discovered during the Colonial era, when it was inhabited by the Wampanoag Indians.

The Kennedy family also has an estate on the Vineyard, in Aquinnah. It is on the opposite end of the island, away from Chappaquiddick - the spot of the late Senator Ted Kennedy's car accident in 1969 that killed Mary Jo Kopechne.

The Vineyard has become a nesting place for Old Money East Coasters and those wishing for a low key experience as opposed to the glitzy beach parties of the Hamptons.

The islanders are fiercely protective of their high-profile neighbors, that include filmmaker Spike Lee, CBS late night host David Letterman, singers Carly Simon, James Taylor and journalist Diane Sawyer.

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Too bad dear old Teddy Kennedy isn't still around to show them all the special places like Chappy.

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NO ONE CARES

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Well I can guarantee I won't be visiting MV or spending my money there...other states will get my dosh...

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The first family of the USA are entited to a vacation.

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They are disgusting.

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Enjoy your trip lovely first lady and first daughters of the USA!

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At first he made even Carter look good by comparison, now he is making NIXON look good. - GG, Beautiful South Carolina, 22/5/2013 19:28 Hahahaaaaa... That is exactly what my dad said one week ago..

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Stop complaining about his vacation. Look at George Dumbo Bush and compare how often he was on a holiday you sourpusses. - JmP, My Own, 22/5/2013 13:43 Yes that may very well be true but, when George Bush vacationed I believe it was always at camp David, or his ranch in Texas. So his vacations cost a lot less than the Obama's. I do not understand why they cannon go to camp David. It is not like they are too good for it. They are no better then any other average person out there.

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I am so very sick of these people. - Clay Lovett, Clayton-NC-USA, United States, 22/5/2013 22:34,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 3 more years of sickness for you!

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All they do is vacation. And while the other mothers will be working full-time and juggling a family and figuring out house payments, bills, food, fuel...the teens on school break will be out on the street looking for summer employment - not finding it - why? Because all the minimum wage jobs are already taken by adults with degrees and/or held by adult illegal aliens that can't be bothered to learn English. Yet for some reason people just blindly worship them.

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