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This is the best beach in the USA. Walk to restaurants/bars/live music and activities. This town does not get good concerts but it does have a lot of positive things to do and participate in. Beautiful white sand, warm clear water most of the year. It is sometimes burdened by seaweed, that's mother nature, but this is the only place I've seen who gets the tractor and cleans it up before it starts smelling and attracts biting flies. They care about tourism and it shows.

Beautiful beach. Tourist oriented but not in bad way. Restaurants were great. We are at Red Fish Blue Fish. Yummy mahi fish sandwich. Ate at Cajun restaurant. Good creole and delicious beinyets. Ate at Tacos Rock in town. Very good.

There are 2 people that stood out. Our first encounter soon after arriving was Lonnie, the Maintenance Man. We went to look at the pool area & it was not open just yet. He was so friendly & let us know the opening time. At the same time there was an obviously drunk man giving him grief because it wasn’t open. The way Lonnie handled him was so professional & loving at the same time. Each time we encountered Lonnie over the next 4 days, he always greeted us & made us feel so wonderful staying at the property. The second outstanding person was Miss Elizabeth who oversaw the daily breakfast. Aside from the breakfast being outstanding, she was so good at making sure everything was kept up & in order. Lonnie had mentioned to us adding blueberries in their waffle makers. I thought they had them available but found out from Ms. Elizabeth they didn’t have them all the time. She went to the market later that day to purchase her needed breakfast items & made it a point of getting blueberries. She held them back & when she saw us the next morning, gave them to us. That’s called above & beyond personal outstanding service. Everything you wanted from the beach, access to stores was easy to walk to from the perfectly located hotel. We travel a lot & stay in name brand hotels or Airbnb. Surf & Sand stands out with excellence against any of those. The beds were very comfortable & gave a great night’s sleep to all 3 of us. (Husband, wife & adult son). Can’t recommend Surf & Sand high enough.

I wasn’t impressed about Pensacola! I can’t think of much I liked! I didn’t like the area I stayed! It looked run down! I didn’t like that restaurants and malls were 20-25 minutes from booked area! I probably won’t visit again. We ate at Longhorns and service was great and food was good! No complaints there! We also had Chick Fil A it was okay to fill a hunger! It was always crowded and congested there! It was frustrating traveling so far to get to restaurants/malls

Water was beautiful as was the view from my room. The sunset was spectacular over the bay. Lots of restaurants and shopping areas. Lifeguards were very attentive and monitored swimmers and surfers so they were safe. Large public bathrooms with plenty of space to change.

I think the only thing that would have made it better would be if they had all of the outside activities setup but it also happened to be the same weekend that there was a Beer Festival? We are from New Orleans so we were expecting something similar and much bigger. There was about 6 tents set up with a live band and the really neat thing was the Bagpipe players! All in all you really don’t need to go far if you stay there because you have everything you need on site!