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Ft Walton Beach

Posted on 7/27/24 at 5:57 pm
Posted by MWP
Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
Member since Jul 2013
10955 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 5:57 pm
Since Panama City Beach got a thread about how rundown it has become since its 80’s and early 90’s heyday what about Ft Walton Beach? I literally never hear anyone going there. We did our Senior Trip there in ‘90 along with just about everyone else that year from our town. Now, we either drive right through it or bypass it completely when we go to Destin and obviously 30A is the new hotspot on the panhandle.
Posted by GeauxTigers123
Member since Feb 2007
3056 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:05 pm to
It still looks decent when I drive through? They have some decent priced places to play golf over that way. Lots of nice homes on the bay.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
112230 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:08 pm to
Shhhhhhhh...

It's terrible.

Don't go there!

Posted by Grebe
Member since Jan 2015
354 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:09 pm to
No Conquistador and no Blue Horizon (a/k/a the Blue Whore).
Posted by supadave3
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2005
31751 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:09 pm to
We always stayed at The Carousel. It was definitely the place to be in 1992-94.
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
61265 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:09 pm to
We went 7 or 8 years ago to stay at the Destin West Resort. It was a nice property and there was a little beachside strip mall kind of place nearby that was alright.

Def not a lot of good dining and nightlife, but I liked the area.
I have several friends who go there twice a year to play in the massive Fudpuckers volleyball tournament and they have no complaints.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
104241 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:12 pm to
Cash's tyfys
Posted by TigersnJeeps
FL Panhandle
Member since Jan 2021
2632 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:21 pm to
No Hog's Breath...

No Little Bar

No Pandora's

Breakers is still there....
Posted by bobbyleewilliams
Tigertown
Member since Feb 2010
8413 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:23 pm to
quote:

Cash's
Fun fact: I helped judge a wet t-shirt contest there in 1997. Good times.
Posted by LSU Grad Alabama Fan
369 Cardboard Box Lane
Member since Nov 2019
13889 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:24 pm to
quote:

Ft Walton Beach


Mexico Beach
Posted by MWP
Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
Member since Jul 2013
10955 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:25 pm to
The Carousel. Yep that’s where we stayed. We even got our deposit back. It covered us with gas money to get back home. Thank God most of us hooked up on that trip and we hardly touched the room.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
71349 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:26 pm to
I, personally, blame the sharks.
Posted by N2cars
Close by
Member since Feb 2008
37880 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:26 pm to
quote:

Breakers is still there...


PTL
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
72911 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:26 pm to
Because of the gov property on the beach there just isn't enough beachfront real estate for a hundred thousand condominium units to go up.
Posted by johnnydrama
Possibly Trashy
Member since Feb 2010
9126 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:27 pm to
Is the Ramada still there with the grotto?
Posted by RedFoxx
New Orleans, LA
Member since Jan 2009
6610 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:28 pm to
quote:

Is the Ramada still there with the grotto?


Now called the Island and the grotto is still there. Very retro in a good way.
Posted by JerryTheKingBawler
South of Memphis
Member since Jan 2023
7351 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:41 pm to
quote:

Is the Ramada still there with the grotto?

The GOAT
Posted by pbro62
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2016
15171 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:48 pm to
Cash ‘s helped this young man tap that arse.
Posted by GetBackToWork
Member since Dec 2007
6518 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:56 pm to
Lsu spring break in the 90’s meant piling into the Carousel like it was Murphy’s on the beach. I remember some poor people from Canada who booked a vacation there thinking it was a normal hotel, only to have college kids with kegs and fraternity house stereos going all day.
Posted by Ham And Glass
Member since Nov 2016
1687 posts
Posted on 7/27/24 at 6:58 pm to
It has gone downhill and all the construction has made traffic terrible.
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