Florida Beach Bummers 2017

[wizzo]

Mini update - 29/3/17

We've quickly decided that we need an extra 3 weeks to do everythig we'd like to do. So I think we're going to make this trip our Northern Florida Trip and we will fly into Tampa/Miami and do the southern route and take in the Keys in the future.

We should have an itineray of the town/cities we're staying in very soon. Then I will begin tracking hotel prices for many weeks and booking them as and when I see good prices in our chosen layovers

[KittyBlackDog]

I'm so looking forward to reading this trippie and excited to see where you visit 👍🏻😁

[Unexpectedpenny]

Sounds like a brilliant trip. I'm looking forward to reading all about it

[Kasalic]

We stayed in Englewood last year, which now sounds a little far south for this trip. For the southern Florida trip you could fly into Tampa and head down the coast. Boca Grande is worth a visit on route.

[Guest]

Sounds great will be reading with interest as it's something we have been talking about lately.

[wizzo]

Update - 31/3/17

So, after many hours of research so far and a lot of google maps driving distance searches, we have a draft itinerary.

We 'think' the following will be the places we visit (or locations nearby) so we need your hotel/restaurant/things to do recommendations for these places.

Obviously not St Pete Beach! We'll be sat in Bongos every night and looking for 'Cliff the Skimmer' I'm not expecting anyone to have stay in a cabin at Lake Eufaula either but you never know!

1 Night Atlanta
1 Night Macon
1 Night Cedar Key
2 Nights Ann Maria Island
3 nights Captiva/Sanibel Island
4 Nights St Pete Beach
1 Night Gainesville
2 Nights Lake Eufaula (or similar in a lakeside cabin)

Hopefully this won't change again (it's changed a lot in the last few days). I don't think Ann-Marie, Captiva/Sanibel and St Pete Beach will change at all. They are the three beach spots of choice for this holiday.

So if you've stayed in any of those places lets' have you recommendations please

[Redrach1903]

What a lovely looking plan!

Not sure if you saw my earlier comment, but we stayed at Blue Water Beach Club at AMI. It's on gulf drive, so close to everything. Every room has a balcony or terrace overlooking the water! Perfect!

[wizzo]

Originally Posted by Redrach1903

What a lovely looking plan!

Not sure if you saw my earlier comment, but we stayed at Blue Water Beach Club at AMI. It's on gulf drive, so close to everything. Every room has a balcony or terrace overlooking the water! Perfect!

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Don't worry I've seen it (and all the rest) they are all on our radar.

Thanks

[Redrach1903]

Originally Posted by wizzo

Don't worry I've seen it (and all the rest) they are all on our radar.

Thanks

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Cool Sure you have lot's to consider! Happy researching!

[helenlovesdestr]

so glad to see you back on here already! We're planning our trip for next year ( i also have a significant birthday then!) So far we've just booked the cruise - entirely your fault lol! and we are heading to AMI just before. I'm interested to know if you have found many places for a 2 night stay in august as most of the places i looked at had a 3 night minimum? I've made a note of the lovely one that @RedRach stayed at - thats a 3 night min thou.