There’s a moment every reunion planner dreads: the cousins are in a hotel across town, grandma’s rental is ten minutes the other way, and dinner requires a group text with 14 replies.
We built Color House so that moment never happens. One home in Hurricane, Utah, five minutes from Sand Hollow State Park and 30–45 minutes from Zion, that sleeps 35 under one roof with enough bathrooms, refrigerators and dining chairs that nobody takes shifts.
We’re Cortney and Lana. We host every stay personally and we’ve run our own big family gatherings here. What follows is exactly what we’d tell a friend planning one.
Why one house beats a hotel block
Reunions fall apart in the gaps: the drives between lodgings, the restaurant tables for 30 that don’t exist, the kids who never quite settle. Under one roof, the reunion happens in the in-between moments. Cousins at the ping pong table at 10 PM. Grandpa making pancakes for whoever wanders down. The whole family actually eating together.
“This is the first place we’ve stayed at where there was enough seating for all of us at our meals.” — Annette, who came with four children, their spouses and 17 grandchildren
Step 1: lock the house before anything else
On average, groups book Color House about five and a half months before their trip, and there is exactly one Color House. If your family has a date in mind, the house is the thing to lock first. Flights and tee times can follow.
Booking direct is about 10% less than the same dates on Airbnb, with no platform fee. Rates start at about $500 a night for the whole house in January and February and typically run $900 to $1,100 a night in spring and early summer, plus a $650 cleaning fee and 13.65% Utah lodging tax, all shown before you pay. Full refund up to 70 days before arrival; 50% up to 30 days before.
Step 2: assign rooms on paper, a month out
Color House sleeps 35 across eight sleeping rooms: seven bedroom suites with their own bathrooms, plus a work/sleep room with a queen sofa sleeper and a half bath across the hall. The assignments that work:
- Grandparents → the Yellow Room. Main floor, king bed, step-free shower with grab bars, porch access. No stairs between the bed and the coffee.
- Families with little ones → Green Room or Orange Room. King beds plus bunks (and a trundle in the Green Room), with two pack ‘n plays in the house.
- Teens → the Loft. A king, two twin loft beds and a queen sofa sleeper.
- Couples → Blue and Olive Rooms. Kings with balconies.
- The cousins → the Bunk Room. Eight twin bunks and two trundles, its own bathroom, a PS5. The sleepover they’ll talk about for years, “still just down the hall from mom & dad,” as one guest put it.
- Late arrivals or the early riser → the Work/Sleep Room. Steps from the kitchen.
The full bed map is on our Rooms page, and the floor plan is on the homepage.
Step 3: give every family one dinner
The kitchen has two of everything: two full-size fridges, two gas ranges, double ovens, two dishwashers, so the brunch crew and the dinner crew never collide. Our favorite trick from years of hosting groups: every family owns one dinner. They plan it, cook it, clean it up. Nobody cooks twice; nobody cooks alone. Walmart is five minutes away for the day-one grocery run. (We wrote the whole system up in the meal-planning post.)
Step 4: plan less than you think
The backyard is the headline: a private pool with a waterslide, waterfall and basketball hoop, a hot tub that’s always on at 103°F, a putting green and a gas fire pit. Inside, the air-conditioned game garage has skee-ball, foosball, pop-a-shot and two arcade cabinets; ping pong, shuffleboard and a PS5 and Xbox live in the family room.
Beyond the fence: Sand Hollow State Park is five minutes away for paddleboarding (two boards at the house) and the dunes; Zion is 30–45 minutes; golfers have ten courses within 30 minutes, with Sand Hollow seven minutes out.
Honestly, though, the do-nothing pool day is always the favorite. Plan one big outing, not three.
Visiting in the cooler months? Pool heating is $125 a day with 24 hours’ notice, recommended October through March. The slide and waterfall are winterized mid-November through February; the hot tub never is.
Step 5: the small logistics that save the trip
- Laundry: three washers and dryers, so a week with 35 people’s towels is fine.
- Parking: 4 cars in the garage and driveway, plus ample street parking and an overflow lot at the edge of the complex for large vehicles and trailers.
- Check-in 4:00 PM, check-out 11:00 AM. Address and door code arrive before your stay.
- House rules: no pets (including emotional support animals) and no large events beyond the group staying here.
Steal our reunion playbook
We wrote down everything we know, from the 12-month timeline to the room-assignment worksheet, in the free Group Getaway Playbook. The signup is at the bottom of every page on the site.
“The pool was the highlight of the house, and everyone from kids to adults had a blast.” — Karissa, 28-person reunion. One of 95 reviews across Airbnb and Vrbo, rated 5.0.
Questions? Call or text 801-960-2394. We typically answer within the hour.