Your Beach Vacation, Run by Neighbors, Not Algorithms
Founder-led. Locally run. Here when you need us, from the moment you book until the drive home. Serving our guests and owners with a Heart of Hospitality.
Who We Are
When you book your stay with Beach Getaways, you’re booking with people who live here, work here, and answer the phone here.
We’re a locally owned and operated vacation rental management company serving Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Perdido Key, Pensacola Beach, Navarre Beach, Destin, 30A, and beyond. Our founders, Ken and Deb Furlong, are actively involved in the business, and along with our leadership team work side by side with our reservations, operations, and maintenance teams daily.
Over the past several years Beach Getaways has welcomed thousands of guests annually, with 91% rating their stay 4 or 5 stars. Every guest gets a real person who knows the area, knows our properties, and cares how your vacation turns out.
Our Story: It Started With Three Condos and a Family
Meet the Founders — Ken & Deb Furlong
Beach Getaways didn’t begin in a boardroom. It began with three family-owned condos in Orange Beach, AL, and a couple, Ken and Deb Furlong, who decided to manage their family-owned condos themselves.
There was no big team and no playbook. Ken and Deb answered guest calls, handled check-ins, and made sure each condo was ready before the next family arrived. What they learned in those early days shaped everything that came after: vacationers don’t remember the listing, they remember how they were treated will never forget how you made them feel. A guest who feels cared for comes back, tells their friends, and trusts you with their next vacation.
For more than 15 years, Ken and Deb Furlong have led Beach Getaways with an owner’s perspective, a commitment to personal service, and a genuine love for the Gulf Coast. The company has grown from its local beginnings into a professional vacation-rental organization managing more than 600 properties across the Beaches of the Alabama and Florida Gulf Coast, while remaining grounded in the principles Ken and Deb have lived by for years—Respect, Integrity, Teamwork, Trustworthiness, Empathy, and Servant Leadership. Those values continue to guide how Beach Getaways treats its property owners, guests, teammates, and communities.
Values Before Growth
As word spread, other owners began asking Ken and Deb to care for their homes the same way. The company grew, but they decided early on that growth would never come at the expense of how they treated people.
That decision led to developing our core values. Those weren’t slogans. They were how Ken and Deb ran the business from day one, and they became the standard every new teammate is hired, trained, and held to.
- Integrity meant being honest with guests and owners, even when the truth was inconvenient, and making it right when we got something wrong.
- Respect and Empathy meant treating every guest and owner the way they wanted to be treated and listening first.
- Trustworthiness meant doing exactly what we said we’d do, every time.
- Teamwork and Servant Leadership meant building a team that looks out for one another, led by people willing to roll up their sleeves right alongside them.
Growing Without Losing the Heart
Today, Beach Getaways partners with hundreds of homeowners across the Beaches of the Alabama and Florida Gulf Coast. Our team has grown right along with us: reservations, revenue management, housekeeping, maintenance, and operations, all working toward the same thing: providing great experiences for owners and guests alike.
At the heart of Ken and Deb’s philosophy is something increasingly rare in today’s vacation-rental industry—personal accountability and genuine relationships. We answer the phone. We know our owners. We know their properties. And we believe our responsibility goes far beyond simply generating reservations.
Why Book Direct With Us
Third-party sites are great for browsing. But when it’s time to book, there’s a better way to do it.
You get a real person, not a ticket number.
Questions before you book? Need to change something? Call or message the same local team that manages your rental. No middlemen, no chatbots, no waiting on a platform to relay a message.
You’re booking with the people who actually manage the home.
We know these properties because we maintain them, inspect them, and our housekeeping teams turn them over. What you see on our site is what we know to be true.
Local knowledge you can’t get from a listing website.
Our reservation team includes Gulf Coast natives who’ll tell you where to eat, which beach to pick, and how to beat the traffic.
Accountability that stays local.
If something isn’t right, you don’t have to fight through a platform’s support queue. You talk to people who can fix it and have a reputation in this community to protect.
Meet the Team Behind Your Stay
Our leadership team has decades of combined experience in hospitality, operations, and the local real estate community.
Beach Getaways remains led by the Founders/Owners, with Ken and Deb working alongside an accomplished Leadership Team with more than 50 years of combined vacation-rental and hospitality experience. Together, they lead a local team of professionals specializing in revenue management, property care, housekeeping quality assurance, guest services, marketing, accounting, and operations.
Ken Furlong
Founder & Qualifying Broker
Oversees owner relationships, accounting, revenue management, and sales & marketing.
Deb Furlong
Founder & Guest Experience Manager
Her mission: make every guest’s stay exceptional by going the extra mile.
Tony Smith
Director of Operations
20+ years leading hospitality operations with a servant-leadership approach.
Stephanie Hamilton
Reservation Manager
8+ years of helping our guests receive our core values experience each stay.
Chele Redmond
Revenue Manager & Marketing Director
Orange Beach resident and realtor who combines data and heart for every home and condo.
Kerry Pelletier
Business Development
A passionate Pensacola native who knows the vacation rental industry from operations to sales.
Proof You Can Trust
- 15 years in business on the Gulf Coast
- Thousands of happy guests annually
- Hundreds of owners
- Amazing Reviews from Guests and Owners
