Hey everybody, I’m going to subject you to my thoughts and feelings on Fort Myers Beach down in Florida! Actually, if you don’t like it you can always leave but short of that you are going to hear about Ft. Myers.
I was having a discussion with a good friend the other day talking about Florida and where do you like to go when I visit the Sunshine state.
For a variety of reasons Fort Myers Beach is my favorite place in all of Florida!. I’ve been to many of the beaches and a bunch of the cities in Florida and always seem to find myself planning trips back to the same place.
I do have to say that Key West is a close second, but I feel that Ft. Myers is a little better because of the miles and miles of beaches.
Fort Myers is a pretty cool town with lots of things to see and places to eat but that beach is my favorite. It’s not a place with tons of activities, kids rides, clubs, bars and/or restaurants. The beach is much more laid back and relaxed and chill.
I had an opportunity a couple of years ago to basically get to take a vacation by myself and went down there for four or five days and stayed at the Neptune Resort. It was a decent hotel, typical beachfront cinderblock construction type of hotel. They don’t have an onsite restaurant but most of the rooms have a full kitchen or a kitchenette so I was able to cook my own breakfast and lunch.
The main draw of that hotel was its location, right on the beach and close enough to the Times Square area to walk to but night right on top of it so you don’ t have all that noise and activity. It was basically like right in the middle of Estero Boulevard, which is the main drag in Fort Myers Beach and it was like seven or eight minute walk to Times Square which is the area where a lot of the restaurants and bars are and I was right on the beach and it was just glorious.
For anybody that is from the east coast the gulf coast beaches are different the waves are infinitesimal, maybe a foot, rough seas would be a two foot wave but it’s always warm and the sun is always shining, so don’t go there expecting to do any surfing.
Times Square
Times Square is the the shopping and restaurant area basically as soon as you come over the bridge into Fort Myers Beach. They’ve got a really good Mexican place, a great sushi place, several other good restaurants as well. They’ve got their own brewery Smokin Oyster Brewery which has several tasty beers and the food in just as good. Their specialty is oysters, which are really good.
Most of the bars and restaurants have live music seven nights a week night not usually a big full on six or eight piece band it’s usually one or two guys and an acoustic guitar but they’re usually good.
The other kind of a must do thing while you’re down there is to head over to spend take a day and head over and do Sanibel and Captiva. Those beaches are very different than Fort Myers Beach and a lot of fun.
Fort Myers Beach has several big hotels and you can do all the the the watersports you expect from banana boat rides to jet skis, stand up sailboats and parasailing.
If you want you can also do the Key West Express and spend a day or two in Key West. It’s a big boat that leaves every morning from Fort Myers and lands in Key West after a four hour ride. They leave Key West at four or five in the afternoon. Or spend the night down there and come back to Ft. Myers the next evening.
That’s about it just figured I would subject y’all to my opinions and feelings on Fort Myers Beach. So if you’ve been there and I left something out or if there’s a favorite place you have down there, let me know.
Alright, hope you have a great day. See ya.
