After 30+ AirBnB stays, this one is top of the list for being a fun place. For a fully modernised retro experience, away from all the high-rises and cookie-cutter Marriotts and Holiday Inns, this apartment is, as many of the other reviews comment, two short blocks from the beach. There are (at least) two beaches to choose from: the commercialised and busy one in front of Aruba or the pretty-much-empty one straight up the side street from the apartment. (Tho this was November, of course.). The two are separated by the pier.
I was in the apartment for 3 breakfasts and Hyatt had stocked up with 3 bagels and 3 juices, 3 days’ stay and 3 snacks. One of the attention-to-detail touhces: there’s a coffee machine AND coffee pods to go with it. (As other AirBnB users will know: arrive late in the evening and have a coffee machine but no matching coffees pods to greet you in the morning. Not so here. Machine AND pods.) What attention to detail. And there are all the bathroom amenities plus a great bed and smooth sheets.
Back to the place. This is a 50s/60s-style single story house and completely quiet and secluded, yet convenient to shopping, cafés, the works.
This section of Fort Lauderdale/Lauderdale-by-the-Sea is outside the congested hotel and high-rise zones and provides a much more live-like-a-local experience - which is the main reason I choose AirBnB places.
Hyaat’s place would be great for a single, a couple, a family with kids, or, if friendly enough, two couples.
I would use the word over and over again: this place is FUN