Well, first let me say - everything is perfect.
It’s an apartment with two doors. One door, you’re steps away from the pool, and the other door you step onto a dock area with cute sitting areas and a million dollar view. Seriously - surrounded by million dollar homes and beautiful boats.
It’s a very basic one bedroom, meaning, not a lot of extra space. I think 4 would be tough for any extended period of time since one bed is the couch. If that was taken up by people, there’s be nowhere to sit. Except outside - which is beautiful. (On the doc side we had some cool birds perched on the boats and a decent sized lizard to watch.)
So if you had a couple of little kids along, fine, but another couple I think it’d be tight.
The place is clean and it’s pretty. We went to the store first day and got some English muffins and coffee. That set us for the week for a quick breakfast and not having to buy coffee out. Plenty of dishes, pots and pans. TV worked great and had Netflix, Hulu etc. good shower pressure, great stay.
Although it would technically be walkable to the ocean, we chose to take our car so we would have our gear handy. However, we did walk to the shopping/restaurant district on Las Olas, which is a beautiful place to walk and even better if you don’t have to fuss with parking.
Some other fun things we did - took a road trip to Hollywood for the day and saw some crazy things there.
Couple restaurant suggestions:
Henry’s sandwiches (drive) cool atmosphere, great food;
Taqueria El Paisa - street tacos. Drive up. Don’t expect fancy but you can expect good street tacos and a cheap meal. I’d encourage you not to go real late, we were there pretty late and it was a bit sketch but super tasty;
Primanni Bros Grill- (drive up the beach) get the traditional sandwich style. They’ll ask if you want it disassembled, or everything on it. It’s really important to order everything on it - or you lose the whole point of the sandwich. We grabbed this “to go” and ate on the beach as a picnic. You don’t need any sides. Trust me on this. And then you’ll eat the whole thing, and then you’ll need a nap on the beach.
On Las Olas in the shopping district, two places - the French bakery, and Louie Bossi (reservation required) some of the best Italian I’ve had, and I’ve eaten too much Italian.
Super trip. A+ location. Peaceful dock - a definite place for a recharge - I’ll be going back!
It’s a place where you quickly get the feel for how wonderful it would be to live in an ocean side town.