Fort Walton Beach Florida USA Vacation Rentals

White Sand Beaches and Crystal Blue Seas invite you to take a Fort Walton Beach Vacation

Fort Walton Beach is located on the stunning Emerald coast of North West Florida which stretches from Pensacola to Panama City. Fort Walton Beach is a popular vacation destination which is especially well-known for its Spring Break festivities when hordes of students descend on this affordable beach town to frolic on its white sand beaches and cavort in its azure seas as they indulge in the many hedonistic delights that Fort Walton Beach offers. However aside from this student population influx during Spring Break, Fort Walton Beach also welcomes vacationing families all year round as it offers various family friendly attractions which are enjoyed by both adults and children alike.

Fort Walton Beach Vacation Rentals

Vacation rentals in this beach front community are an extremely popular mode of accommodation. As Fort Walton Beach is frequently visited by students who are generally on a budget , these vacation rentals represent an incredible value as unlike hotels they do not charge a per person charge rather the rental is same even if it is shared by a few guests. For instance a bed room rental in Fort Walton Beach is typically shared by nearly four guests who occupy the single bedroom and the living room sofa bed sleeper which is usually included in such a rental. Owing to Florida’s construction boom in recent times, most vacation rentals in Fort Walton Beach take the form of beach front condos. These condos generally have one or more bedrooms and are usually equipped with everyday necessities like washer/dryers, microwaves, refrigerators and air-conditioning. Some of these condo vacation rentals even have added ‘luxuries’ like hot tubs, private pools, flat screen TVs, DVD players and more which are almost always included in the price of the rental.

Attractions and Activities in Fort Walton Beach

Fort Walton Beach has often been voted as the ‘Best Beach in America’ by the readers of USA Today while the readership of Southern Living has voted it as ‘the Best Beach in the South’ and a ‘Top Family Destination’ and it has consistently featured in lists that rate it as one of the top 100 cities to live in.

Most of the action in Fort Walton Beach centers around its main drag called the Miracle Strip Parkway. One of the major attractions located here is the Pleasure Island Water Park which offers a huge water slide, go-kart rides, wave runner rentals, pontoon boat and jet boat rentals and parasailing facilities. Pleasure Island Water Park provides hours of fun for all the family.

family friendly attractions in Fort Walton Beach include the Gulfarium which offers many entertaining shows that feature all sorts of marine creatures like dolphins, sea lions, penguins, sharks, pelicans and otters and Gator Beach which showcases the many species of the Florida native –the alligator.

Located next to Pleasure Island Water Park is the Island Golf Center which is bound to please any golfing enthusiast as it has excellent golfing facilities which take the form of a par three golf course, a miniature golf course, a nine-hole pitch and putt course and an arcade.

Fort Walton Beach is a well known fishing destination as it has an offshore shelf that dips to 100 feet in less than 10 miles rendering it perfect for deep-sea fishing. Many Fort Walton Beach marine outfits offer fishing charters which feature boats equipped for deep, inshore and bottom fishing though you can even fish off the Okaloosa Island Pier after paying a nominal charge.

Scuba Diving is yet another favored activity in Fort Walton Beach which is ringed by colorful coral reefs and thus offers numerous opportunities for scuba diving lovers.

If you need to take a break from the many marine based attractions in Fort Walton Beach, you can always choose to spend a day exploring this beach city’s prime historical attraction, The Indian Temple Mound Museum which originally was a civic and religious center but is now a museum that has displays of ancient Native American arte facts or you could also take in the U.S. Air Force armament museum which is located at Elgin near Fort Walton Beach which has interesting exhibits like the fastest plane ever built and an airborne battlefield command center and much more.