What are family friendly beaches in Florida during spring break?
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Anonymous
| What are family friendly beaches in Florida during spring break? We will have a toddler with us. |
Anonymous
| personally love Siesta Key on the Gulf coast. It's crowded, but a beautiful area and great beach. |
Anonymous
+1 it is a beautiful beach with such nice sand!! |
Anonymous
| Sanibel and Marco Islands are always super family friendly. We really like Boca Grande as well. It’s a little more remote. |
Anonymous
| Are there really any beaches in Florida that *aren't* family friendly? What would make a beach not family-friendly? Too many waves? |
Anonymous
A plethora of college students on spring break getting drunk. |
Anonymous
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Sanibel/captiva
Do south seas resort. Awesome for the family and warm. |
Anonymous
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Daytona isn't really family-friendly. There's the huge area where you can drive on the beach, for one thing. The surroundings just aren't as nice.
I second Siesta Key. Just north of that, Lido's sand is ALMOST as nice, and it's not nearly as crowded. Also in the Sarasota area, you can do a mangrove kayak tour, see manatees. |
Anonymous
Which beaches allow conspicuous daytime alcohol consumption? Am I being naiive? |
Anonymous
| Sanibel down to Marco Island is very family friendly and the Gulf is a lot calmer than the Atlantic. No spring breakers are around. If you want a lot of good restaurants try Naples. |
Anonymous
| South beach is a nice family friendly place |
Anonymous
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Depending on when your spring break is, you are rolling the dice with the weather. Further south you go the better, I don't like the Keys but that may be your best bed.
Further North St. Regis Bal Harbour is great for families and kids. And I also love Siesta Key. |
Anonymous
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Really, nowhere in Florida is truly warm enough for enjoyable swimming in March. Water temps even in the Keys are in the high 60's to low 70's at best. That might be fine if you grew up swimming in Cape Cod or Oregon or Northern CA, but most people aren't gonna want to spend any time in 68 degree water.
You need to get south of Cuba for truly warm water in late winter. |
Anonymous
| Rosemary Beach is perfect for families. |
Anonymous
Idk, I think avoid Panama City. |