Private Gated Community on the Beach in Perdido Key

The Woodards from North Georgia

Nancy (Jasper, GA)
Review submitted: November 1, 2012   Date of arrival: October 1, 2012

We rented this beautiful beach house for the month of October 2012 and just can't say enough about our wonderful stay. This is a lovely community with very friendly and helpful neighbors. This high-end home is lovely and well stocked for all your needs for a brief or extended stay. There is great access to the beach, the pool and to Johnson Beach National Seashore where we walked or biked everyday. I would highly recommend this home and look forward to returning next year.

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beautiful home in excellent neighborhood

Tom (Athens, Alabama)
Review submitted: August 17, 2012   Date of arrival: August 11, 2012

We had an amazing time this summer. The house was very spacious and beautiful. The beach was a very close walk. grocery stores and restaurants were nearby. Would definately recommend this property.

Recommended for: families with teenagers

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Bendel (Lafayette, LA)
Review submitted: July 6, 2012   Date of arrival: June 30, 2012

The house is very spacious, and was very comfortable for our large and extended family. The main living area (a combination two-story great room, kitchen and dining area) is surrounded by large windows and is very bright. The great room includes a Samsung home theater system. The floors throughout the house are a light-colored slate tile.

The kitchen boasts all-granite surfaces and two islands, including one which serves as a bar. The built-in kitchen appliances are state-of-the-art, and the kitchen is well stocked with up-scale cookware, dining ware and utensils; and there is a large pantry.

The house contains a full-scale washer and dryer, with an extra refrigerator in the laundry room. There is WiFi throughout.

Each of the spacious bedrooms has its own bath, with one of the baths being also accessible from the great room.

The house is nicely furnished throughout, has been well-maintained and had been spotlessly cleaned prior to our arrival.

Although the house is great, the feature that is most appealing is its location: its proximity to both the beach and the the National Park - and its distance from the high-rise condos and their crowds. While the house does not front on the Gulf, the Gulf is always in view from the windows across the back of the house, as well as from the porches on the second and third levels of the home. The boardwalk to the beach is immediately behind the house, and the beach is an easy 90-second walk from the back porch. And unlike the condo crowds just down the beach that have to fight for beach chairs on the front row, you've got the beach here almost to yourself: even on the Fourth of July, there were perhaps 10 other people within 100 feet on either side of our little family encampment.

The house is near the entrance to the development; and a right turn out of the neighborhood is perhaps a quarter-mile from the entrance to Johnson Beach and its two-mile dead-end highway that runs on the thin spit of land that separates the Gulf and the Bay: due to its restricted access and the virtual absence of vehicular traffic, it's a perfect venue for runners and cyclists.

We've been vacationing in the Perdido Key area for almost thirty years, and have stayed, at one time or another, in most of the older condominium complexes along the beach. While many of them hold fond memories of family vacations, we feel that, in this home, we have now found the best that the Key has to offer, in terms of comfort, privacy and location.

Recommended for: age 55+, families with young children, families with teenagers, girls getaway

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