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Originally Posted by SunKneeMarie
The north Florida beaches (Destin area) are much prettier beaches than the Texas Coast, if you can swing that flight. That being said, we do the Texas Gulf Coast almost every year and enjoy it. Of course we live in Texas and go because it's just the cost of gas to get there.
We go to Port Aransas, which is North Padre. We stay at the Port Royal, which is pretty nice, but more expensive than I would like. Here's the link to their website. And yes, the pool is that big and that nice:
Port Royal Ocean Resort & Conference Center
here's my short trip report from a year and a half ago:
http://www.playa.info/playa-del-carm...its-beach.html |
Yes, the Port Royal is nice. We've stayed there many times but found out we could go to Playa or Cozumel for what we paid to drive and stay there. I know it's crazy, but true. Although I know she couldn't get that kind of price in Minneapolis.
I think as far as Texas beaches go, I like North Padre better than SPI. SPI is *very* busy and not very relaxing. We also found that we liked to drive and park on the beach better than walking and carring all of the beach gear across and down the boardwalk to get to the beach at Port Royal. We started staying in places like Plantation Suites and Holiday Inn Express and just driving to the beach. Our most favorite place to drive to the beach is to go across the JFK Causeway and continue driving straight instead of turninng left to go to the Port Royal. The road dead ends into the Padre Island National Seashore. It is a part of the National Park Service. It is awesome. The beaches are primitive and people can camp out there. Because we have a 4WD truck, we could go about 25-40 miles down the beach and enjoy much larger shells (the area is called Big Shell) if we wanted a real remote area..that was our favorite place, or we could just drive until we saw no one (about 5 miles down) and park where we wanted to. It wasa a blast. Here are a few of our picture from a few years ago.
My son at Malaquite Beach...it is the beach as you drive in to the National Seashore.
Sunrise at the Port Aransas
Another sunrise at Port Aransas
Big Shell Beach at Padre Island National Seashore
Big Shell Beach at Padre Island National Seashore
