... family, have you considered an apartment-style lodging? I'll mention three of the best. The Discovery Beach Resort is directly on the beach just a few blocks north of the Pier. The units have 1-2 bedrooms and kitchens, and all have balconies with direct ocean views, close enough ... more

... surf shop is next door. I would note that local surfers are likely to buy their boards from smaller shops, or directly from local shapers. The hotel's in a mixed apartment/motel/commercial area, supermarket across highway A1A (there are traffic signals), Taco Bell and such in the area ... more

... any ocean view. All in all, I think they are very similar, and with the La Quinta Oceanfront, are among the best non-apartment hotels in town. Either way, you'll have a great vacation if you relax and take advantage of all the Cocoa Beach area has to offer ... more

... three BR, however. Other good apartment resorts along the beach are the Resort on Cocoa Beach, and the Ron Jon Cape Caribe Resort. Both have some rooms with direct ocean views and some without. Ron Jon has a small water park and lazy river, but is up near the port ... more

... a couple of oceanfront timeshare/apartment style lodgings that are better for larger families and when you want to settle in for a few days: the Discovery Beach Resort and the Resort at Cocoa Beach. Both are oceanfront, and most of the rooms in the former have direct ocean views ... more

... Discovery Beach, but they offer apartment units and are beachfront. The Sheraton is not beachfront. Just north of Cocoa Beach, in Cape Canaveral, the Ron Jon Surf Shop has established a timeshare resort with both beachfront and non-beachfront rooms. Although anything can happen anywhere, after 30 years of visiting ... more

... Winds reminded me of an apartment building instead of a condo. Cape Winds even offered a top floor ocean room and I choose to keep Royal Mansions over that and/or any of the national brand hotel rooms. The Royal Mansion inside due to being a condo style, does have ... more

... a neighborhood mixed with houses & apartments & condos. It would be the quieter choice of the two. Ocean Pines is four blocks north of a popular beach in Cocoa Beach at Minutemen Causeway. It's not the center of the action, but it is much closer to the party than Cape ... more

... within the hour we had four kayaks delivered to our vacation home. The guys were very nice and knowledgeable of the area. They deliver and reccommend different drop off areas depending on weather conditions and animal sightings. We saw manatees, dolphins and pelicans. WWW.A1Afunrentals.com is the web page ... more