You said "visit any time"—and then they did. If there’s no room at the inn that has become your home, the Gulfshore has great options for giving your friends and relatives shelter.

1. Your single young nephew
He loves the nightlife—you love your sleep. Downtown Fort Myers—now called the River District—has a happy buzz around its live music and club scene. Put him up at the Holiday Inn Fort Myers Downtown Historic, reopened this season after extensive renovation. On Naples Fifth Avenue South, the Inn on Fifth is an ideal home base for venturing into the famed street’s after-hours party scene.

2. Your sister the shell-seeker
She treasures long morning walks on the beach; you live in a gated golf community. The high-end Pink Shell Beach Resort, on the quiet north side of Fort Myers Beach, is on a wide and natural expanse of beach abutting a quiet park. Find the charms of old Sanibel, touted as the world’s best shelling destination, at Castaways Beach Cottages, convenient to all of the island’s beaches.

3. Your dear aunt
This resourceful lady has secured her tickets for the Phil and the Mann, planned her gallery- and museum-hopping, and will spend the rest of her visit treating you to dinner at the area’s best restaurants. The elegant Edgewater Hotel is just minutes from Old Naples and boasts the fine-dining establishment Coach. In Fort Myers, Hilton Garden Inn is convenient to all of the cultural action as well as the city’s newly trendy restaurant scene.

4. Your brother-in-law the sports nut
If golf is his game, the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort at Tiburón, one of the country’s best, will be his promised land, while tennis types will be well served by the five courts at Sanibel’s secluded Casa Ybel Resort. The versatile sportsman will find both games to play at the historic Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club and Captiva’s posh South Seas Resort.

5. Your celebrity gal pal
She "vants to be alone," dahling, except for a staff to pamper her. Your diva friend will enjoy luxe spa treatments at the Ritz-Carlton, Naples, where the stars land so often no one even blinks. The Golden Door Spa is set to open in spring 2007 at the fashionably contemporary Naples Grande (think South Beach in Southwest Florida). To rent a private luxury estate for a week or a season, try ResortQuest, with properties from North Captiva to Marco Island.

6. Your extended-extended family
Yes, Fido does count as a cousin. (He signs the family Christmas card, doesn’t he?) For relatives with pets and tots in tow, children eat free and small animals are welcome at the Gulf-front Best Western Fort Myers Beach. If the pooch isn’t petite, Fort Myers’ Country Inn by Carlson, near the Sanibel Causeway, accepts animals of all sizes, and in-suite kitchenettes are perfect for P.B.-and-J.s.