The Little Black Book
The 30A Girl’s Trip Experience Guide
Every chef, instructor, therapist and photographer below is a real, independent local business, and every phone number and price came off their own website. Call them directly – and call us, and we’ll help you fit it all around your dates.
Somebody Else Cooks
Private Chefs & In-Home Dining
They shop, cook, serve and clean up in your rental kitchen. Expect roughly $90–$145 per person for a standard multi-course dinner, most with a house minimum of $600–$1,000. Book three to four weeks out, especially for a weekend.
BEST VALUE
Cinders & Salt Chefs
30A · Santa Rosa Beach · Destin · PCB
Chef David Cunningham, 25+ years, and the clearest published pricing on the coast. They market directly to vacation-rental guests, and the “Coastal Cocktail Hour” is a good pre-dinner add-on when half the group is still getting ready.
Menus: Family style, 3–4 course plated, cocktail hour, brunch, multi-day retreat packages
Price: Family style from $90/person · plated from $100/person · cocktail hour $65–$90 · $600 minimum + groceries
Book: 2–4 weeks ahead
LOCAL & AWARDED
Blue Magnolia Catering Co.
Based in Santa Rosa Beach · 30A · Destin · Miramar
A father-daughter team based right here in Santa Rosa Beach, voted Walton County’s best personal chef and catering service three years running. They do in-home dining and grazing tables, so one call covers dinner Friday and the charcuterie spread Saturday.
Menus: In-home chef service, grazing tables (largest serves 14–16), breakfast & small-plate delivery, afternoon tea, beach catering
Price: By quote
Note: Explicitly caters bachelorette and celebration weekends
COVERS OUR END OF 30A
Seagrove Beach Catering
Blue Mountain · Dune Allen · Grayton · Seagrove · SRB
Chef Chris Mack serves every town on the west end — including Dune Allen Beach and Blue Mountain, which not every chef will drive to. Four-course dinners, family-style spreads, and a coastal shrimp boil that’s hard to beat for a porch night.
Menus: Four-course dinners, family style, shrimp boils, bachelorette & celebration dinners
Price: By quote
THE SPLURGE
Marrow Private Chefs
Dune Allen · Blue Mountain · Grayton · all of 30A
Three thousand events, seven hundred five-star reviews, and Best of the Emerald Coast two years running. This is the milestone-birthday, we’re-doing-it-properly option — up to a full Michelin-style tasting menu in your dining room. They’ll text you back fast.
Menus: Signature & classic dinners, Michelin-style tasting, brunch, meal delivery
Price: $200/person signature · $750/person tasting · $1,000 dinner minimum ($3,000 tasting minimum)
Call: 850.280.4319 (text is fastest)
BARTENDER INCLUDED
30A Vacation Chef
Seagrove · Grayton · Miramar · Destin · Sandestin
The most complete published menu of add-ons: dinner, plus bartending, charcuterie boards, and a “stock the fridge” grocery run before you arrive. Good if you want the whole weekend handled in one booking rather than four.
Menus: Chef dinners, poolside/buffet dinner parties, meal prep, bartending, boards, breakfast drop-off
Price: $105–$145/person · bartending $16.50/person as an add-on · 8-guest minimum · $400 deposit
Check: Confirm they’ll travel to the west end (Dune Allen / Blue Mountain) when you call
Call: 850-305-0624
CASUAL & FUN
Taco 30A · Chef Gordaux
Santa Rosa Beach · 30A through Destin & PCB
The chef behind the award-winning Taco 30A truck will do a taco night or a low-country boil at your house — or a beach bonfire dinner. When a tasting menu isn’t the vibe and everyone just wants margaritas and a table full of food.
Menus: Four-course dinner, Taco Night, Low Country Boil, “Hook & Cook,” beach bonfire catering
Price: By quote
Contact: Inquiry form on their site (no phone published)
Worth asking when you call: whether groceries and cleanup are in the price. Two quick questions, and then you never have to think about dinner again all weekend.
Flour on Your Hands
Pasta & Cooking Classes
The best version of this is a chef who comes to you and takes over your kitchen island for a few hours. It’s dinner and the evening’s entertainment at the same time, and it’s the thing groups tell us they’d do again.
OUR TOP PICK
The Somm Chef · Chef Sydney
Travels to rentals throughout 30A
A Culinary Institute of America graduate and a Certified Sommelier — so she runs the pasta class and pours the wine that goes with it. “Make Your Own Ravioli” is her stated best seller with girls’ trips, and she has guests buy wine direct from the supplier so there’s no caterer markup on the bottles.
Classes: Homemade Pasta · Make Your Own Ravioli · Food & Wine Pairing 101 · Tapas & Tasting · A Night in Paris · sushi · brunch boards with a mimosa bar
Price: By quote — she works across a range of budgets
Book: Starts with a 15-minute call to build the menu
Email: sydney@thesommchef.com
CLEAREST PRICING
Chef Jojo 30A
30A · Rosemary · Destin · PCB · Emerald Coast
A hands-on class that produces a full three-course meal, with gnocchi as the pasta track (sushi and her signature menu are the other two). A server comes with the package — so you cook, and then you get waited on and nobody touches a dish.
Format: Chef arrives 3pm · class 6:30pm · dinner served 7:30pm · done by 9pm
Price: $100/person + $35 food cost + $150 server fee, plus tax
Hours: 7 days a week
Text: 850-238-7815 · chefjojo@chefjojo30a.com
WINE BETWEEN COURSES
Swiftly Catered
Based in Santa Rosa Beach · travels to rentals
A four-course meal with a wine pairing poured between every course, in your kitchen. Fair warning: this one leans more demonstration than hands-on — guests prep and plate, the chef drives. That’s the point if your group would rather sip than knead.
Format: 4 courses with pairings · accommodates gluten-free and other restrictions with menus sent ahead
Group: Comfortable with groups around 8–13
Price: Custom quote
OUT OF THE HOUSE
Roux 30A
114 Logan Lane, Santa Rosa Beach (Grayton Beach)
If you’d rather go out for it: Roux runs a rotating workshop series that includes a Pasta Workshop in a serious restaurant kitchen five minutes from Grayton, alongside sushi, pastry and wine-blending nights. Call ahead — the workshop calendar runs in seasonal batches.
Workshops: Pasta · Meat · Sushi · Pastry · Alcohol · Wine Blending
Price: Around $100/person — confirm current rate when you call
Call: (850) 213-0899 · info@roux30a.com
WORTH THE DRIVE
Twisted Fork Culinary Classroom
8317 Front Beach Rd, Panama City Beach (~50 min)
A real teaching kitchen with a published public calendar — three-hour evening classes, 10–12 seats, ages 16+. The Tuscan night is the Italian one; there’s no standing pasta class, so book a private group class if pasta specifically is the mission.
Classes: “That’s Amore!” Tuscan · Sauces 101 ($85) · Cuban ($99) · ramen · Greek · Cajun · Gulf Coast Southern
Price: $85–$99/person · $198/couple for date-night formats · private groups by quote
Call: (850) 628-5175
BOARD-MAKING PARTY
Graze30a · Workshops
Santa Rosa Beach · 30A · Miramar
Not a cooking class exactly — a charcuterie board-making workshop, which is the lowest-effort, highest-photo version of the same idea. They also just deliver finished grazing tables if nobody wants to make anything.
Offers: Board-making workshops, grazing tables, brunch boards, custom cheese letters & numbers
Price: Order through their site
Contact: Inquiry form & @graze30a on Instagram
Come to Us
In-Home Massage & Beach Yoga
Massage tables on the porch, mats on the sand. Nearly every vendor here has a 24-hour cancellation policy, and the good ones book out — reserve wellness services 30+ days before you arrive for a weekend.
BEST GROUP PRICE
Beach Yoga 30A
Your beach access, your rental, or poolside
The easiest yes on this whole page. Mats and tarps included, 60 minutes, at the beach access of your choice or right at the house — with an indoor studio in Blue Mountain Beach as the rain plan. Their public sunset class has live music and benefits Alaqua Animal Refuge.
Price: $150 flat for 1–4 people, +$25 each after — so eight of you is $250, twelve is $350
Length: 60 minutes · private classes 7 days a week, year-round
Groups: They’ve run everything from 3 to 17 people
Text: 864-723-6553 · beachyoga30a@gmail.com
BEST MASSAGE VALUE
Emerald Oasis Mobile Massage
Santa Rosa Beach · 30A · Miramar · Freeport · Inlet
Ten-plus years, licensed, and no travel fee or surcharges — rare in this category. Heated table, hot stones, essential oils, and a complimentary peppermint foot bath with every session. Their own site says “great for bachelorette parties and girls night in,” so you don’t have to explain the ask.
Price: 60 min $140 · 90 min $175 · 120 min $200 · no travel fee
License: MA76460
Policy: Appointment only, card on file, 24-hour cancellation
Call: 910-705-6253
WHOLE SPA DAY
30A Mobile Massage
30A east to west · Destin · PCB · Port St. Joe
The one to call when you want the entire wellness day at the house — massage, facials, body scrubs, yoga, sound bath and IV drips from a single vendor, with multiple therapists working at once. Owner Heather Forrester runs it.
Massage: 30 min $125 (2-person min) · 60 min $180 · 90 min $250 · 110 min $280
Also: Facials $120–$175 · yoga $180/hr for 1–7, or $30/person for 8+ · add-ons $15–$45
Note: Deposit holds the date; groups of 6+ have 20% gratuity added automatically. Book 30+ days out — their cancellation ladder starts there.
Call: (850) 319-3155
PUBLISHED TRAVEL FEE
Terraluna Spa
30A · SRB · Alys · Rosemary · Miramar · Destin · Freeport
Thirteen-plus years, licensed, and one of the few that publishes exactly what travel costs. They also do chair-massage events, which is a smart option for a bigger group — everyone gets 15 minutes instead of three people getting an hour.
Price: 30 min $100 · 60 min $130–$160 · 90 min $185–$215 · couples 60 min $260 / 90 min $370
Travel: $20 per therapist
License: MA105903
Call/text: (850) 510-7901 · Terralunaspa@hotmail.com
STUDIO ON 30A
Studio Thirty A
2052 W County Hwy 30A, Santa Rosa Beach
A real studio right on 30A with six instructors on the bench, so they can usually staff a private group on shorter notice than most. They’ll come to your house, hotel, favorite beach or park — or you can just drop into a public class for $25.
Private: Bachelorette, bridal and celebration group classes, on-site or at your rental — by quote
Drop-in: $25 single · 5-class $90 · 10-class $165 · sound bath & meditation events $50
Note: Mat and towel rental included · classes fill, book ahead
Call: 850-359-2727 · studiothirtya@gmail.com
ONE CALL, EVERYTHING
ROAM
30A · Santa Rosa Beach · Destin · Sandestin · PCB
A concierge platform rather than a single vendor — 125+ services delivered to your rental, all providers licensed, insured and background-checked. Worth it when the group wants massage and hair and makeup and a bartender and nobody wants to make five phone calls.
Covers: Massage, IV therapy, hair & makeup, spray tans, yoga & Pilates, private chefs, bartenders, photographers
Fees: Provider sets the price (travel included); platform fee 15%, capped at $150 per booking
Policy: Refunds require more than 24 hours notice
How to run a massage rotation: do the math before you book — six women at an hour each is six therapist-hours, so two therapists working in parallel is about three hours start to finish. Set them up in the shade on a porch or in two bedrooms, put someone in charge of the playlist, and stagger it around the pool so nobody’s just waiting.
The Long Conversation
An Enneagram Session
This is the one groups tell us they’re still quoting a year later. A certified facilitator types everyone, then walks the group through what it actually means for how you travel together, argue, and decide where to eat.
BOOKABLE NOW
Nuance Enneagram Coaching
Live virtual session — run it from the porch
Kristen Caldwell, MA, CTRS, Certified Enneagram Coach — and one of the few facilitators who explicitly builds workshops for friend groups and sibling groups rather than corporate teams. Set up a laptop, pour something, and give it an afternoon.
Format: 3-hour small group workshop for 3–6 people · optional individual typing interviews beforehand
Price: $300 small group workshop · typing interview $150 · single session $100 · free 15-min discovery call
Note: In-person is Utah-based, so for a 30A trip this runs virtually — which also means no travel fee
LOCAL — ASK US
Journey Bravely
Santa Rosa Beach, FL
Stephenie Craig, LCSW, and Todd Craig run an Enneagram coaching practice right here in Santa Rosa Beach. It’s a counseling and coaching practice rather than a retreat-entertainment vendor, so group availability varies — call us and we’ll find out where things stand for your dates before you get your hopes up.
Format: Enneagram coaching — group availability by arrangement
Ask us: 850.267.2121 and we’ll make the introduction
DO IT YOURSELVES
The DIY Version
Free — and honestly pretty good
If you’d rather not book a facilitator: have everyone take a typing assessment on the drive down, then do it around the fire pit on the second night. Print the type descriptions before you leave — reading them out loud is the entire experience, and phone service is better used for photos.
Works best: Night two, after the chef dinner, with the fire pit going
Ground rule: Nobody gets to type anybody else until they’ve typed themselves
The Rest of It
Picnics, Photos, Boats & Carts
The add-ons that turn a good weekend into the one that gets a photo album. Two notes up front: luxury picnic and mobile-bar companies quote by inquiry — none publish rates — so send the form early.
GROUP PHOTOS
Shore Shooters Beach Photography
30A · 20+ years on the Gulf Coast
The only photographer we found who prices by headcount instead of charging extras per person — which matters when there are nine of you. About 45 minutes at sunrise or sunset, 75–150 images, gallery back in 2–4 business days.
Price: 1–10 people $600 · 11–19 people $650 · 20+ $1,250 (two photographers) · $150 retainer
Call: (866) 856-2435 · info@shoreshooters.com
GROUP PHOTOS
The 30A Beach Photographer
Santa Rosa Beach · all of 30A
Sessions in three lengths so you can match the budget, with payment plans available. Standard packages cover up to six people — tell them your headcount when you inquire and they’ll quote the larger-group rate.
Price: Sunset $900 (40–60 min) · full $700 (25–30 min) · half $500 (10–15 min) · $250 retainer
BEACH PICNIC
BOHO30A
30A
Low tables on the sand, blankets, florals, string lights, real glassware and a Bluetooth speaker — set up and struck for you. Packages run two hours, sized for 2, 4 or 6, and everything is included down to the iced water basket.
Includes: Blankets, pillows, low table, runner, florals, flatware, plates, wine glasses, LED candles & string lights, speaker
Price: By package — inquire
Call: 850.696.6885 · boho30a@gmail.com
PICNIC + BONFIRE
SALTY Beach Setups
30A · Destin · PCB
Picnics and beach bonfires from one vendor, with a dedicated bachelorette category and their own “SALTY Rosé” if you want the wine handled too. Operating since 2020. The bonfire is the better call for a bigger group — everyone fits around a fire.
Offers: Luxury picnics, beach bonfires, boat excursions, custom wine
CHARCUTERIE
Let’s Say Graze
30A · Destin · Miramar Beach
Boards, grazing tables and dessert boards made to order with local ingredients and delivered to the house. The Thursday-arrival move: have one waiting when everyone walks in, before anybody has thought about dinner.
Offers: Charcuterie boards, grazing tables, dessert boards, delivery
MOBILE BAR
The Wandering Spirit
30A and beyond
A vintage horse-trailer bar — plus three smaller setups for tighter driveways. They explicitly do bachelorette weekends, poolside parties and beach bonfires, and the trailer is, frankly, the photo. Inquiry form only, so reach out early.
Setups: The Paloma (large, ~150 guests) · The Stella (4-tap) · The Manhattan (~75) · The Collins (compact)
Price: By inquiry
MOBILE BAR
Coastal Caravan Mobile Bar
Santa Rosa Beach · 30A
A restored ’68 camper turned bar, plus three wooden satellite bars. Bartender service or dry hire — so you can just rent the setup and pour your own if the budget is going toward the chef instead.
Price: By inquiry
ON THE WATER
Destin Vacation Boat Rentals
Destin · Fort Walton Beach
The cleanest published price for a small private group on the water: a two-hour private sunset cruise for six, captain included, $400. The tiki boat and double-decker pontoon with waterslides scale up from there.
Price: Sunset cruise (6 people + captain, 2 hrs) $400 · tiki boat $325–$695 + skipper · double-decker pontoon $395–$845 + operator
Call: (850) 650-2628 · 102 Harbor Blvd, Destin
ON THE WATER
30a Yacht Charters
Departs Santa Rosa Beach, Sandestin & Destin Harbor
The upgrade, and the only fleet with a Santa Rosa Beach departure point — a 43-ft Formula for twelve, right near home. Sunset cruises plus 4-, 6- and 8-hour charters. Rates by phone.
Boats: 43-ft Formula (12 guests, SRB) · 50-ft Cantius (8, Sandestin) · 22-ft Duffy (6, Destin Harbor)
Call: 850.220.6400
GETTING AROUND
The Rental Shop 30A
28 Turtle Creek Dr, Santa Rosa Beach
Street-legal 4- and 6-person carts with lithium batteries and full-length roofs, delivered free — and Dune Allen Beach is on their delivery list. Worth knowing: they don’t rent into WaterColor, Seaside or Rosemary, which restrict rental carts.
Carts: 4-person · 6-person standard & premium lifted · free delivery and pickup
Call/text: 850-260-0001 · info@therentalshop30a.com
GETTING AROUND
30A Gulf Carts
Prominence · Santa Rosa Beach
Premium 4- and 6-passenger street-legal carts, short-term rentals and longer leases, with a mobile mechanic on call if anything goes sideways mid-week. A cart is how you do dinner in Grayton without a designated driver argument.
Call: 850-753-9162
Pick a Lane
Three Weekends, Three Very Different Vibes
You don’t need all of it. Pick the one that sounds like your group and build from there — every name below is on this page with a phone number.
The Slow One
Nobody sets an alarm except for yoga. Beach Yoga 30A on the sand Friday morning, a grazing board from Let’s Say Graze that lasts all afternoon, and one family-style dinner from Cinders & Salt so the kitchen stays clean. Two things booked, three days of porch.
The Milestone Birthday
Go big and don’t apologize. Marrow for a tasting menu in the dining room, golden-hour group photos with Shore Shooters, and a private sunset cruise from Destin Vacation Boat Rentals. She’ll talk about it for a decade.
The One That Gets a Group Chat Name
Maximum shenanigans. Ravioli night with The Somm Chef, a vintage trailer bar from The Wandering Spirit in the driveway, a beach bonfire from SALTY, and a golf cart from The Rental Shop 30A to get everyone to Grayton and back.
Whichever one you pick, call us and we’ll sort out the order — not every vendor drives out to Dune Allen and Blue Mountain, and we know the ones who do. 850.267.2121
Ready to Pick a Weekend?
Tell us how many of you there are, roughly what you want to do, and when. We’ll match you with a house that fits the group — and help you get the chef, the instructor and the photographer on the calendar in the right order.
Or just call — a real person answers. 850.267.2121
The businesses listed here are independent local companies. They are not owned by, affiliated with, or booked through Dune Allen Realty, and they set their own prices, policies and availability. We researched and compiled this list for guests planning a girls’ trip; being on it isn’t an endorsement or a guarantee. Prices and details were read off each vendor’s own website in August 2026 — please confirm directly with them when you book.
