We like Gulf Highlands so much that this is our second year of staying there. And we are already looking to book another week next year. We think that it is a great location, centrally located between Gulf World and St. Andrews Park. So yes we highly recommend Gulf Highlands.
Now about this unit… This unit is nicer than the one we stayed in last year. Last year’s unit was nice but the master bathroom was so small that we literally didn’t use it. This unit basically had 2 master bedrooms upstairs each with their own private bathroom. And both bathrooms were big enough. This unit includes some beach chairs and floaties for use. But no beach wagon to haul everything to the beach. However this unit is about as close to the beach as you can get in Gulf Highlands. The walk to the beach is literally less than 5 minutes including pulling our beach wagon and waiting for the crosswalk to stop traffic.
Now the unit is not perfect but nothing to prevent you from staying there. But just to let you know what to expect… Be sure to bring your own trash bags as there were none there other than Walmart bags to use as trash bags. And there was only 1 small teeny tiny trash can in all of upstairs located in the master bathroom. And there were some items that we only assume were left by previous travelers opposed to the owners such as sandwich baggies, hand soap, toilet paper and those Walmart bags. It doesn’t appear that you can count on the owner leaving the place stocked and ready for you when you arrive. So bring your own necessities or run to Walmart to stock up. And if you want hot water upstairs then you need to turn the facet on and wait about 3-5 minutes or so. And I realize that there is no place like home but man it would be nice for some of these places to start installing a bidet toilet seat. (If you have never tried one, don’t knock it until you try it!) And we have yet to find any place that has a memory foam bed. But the bed in the master bedroom was about as bad as it gets. The last 2 mornings I couldn’t hardly walk after sleeping in that bed. I might have to take an air mattress with me from now on. And we have yet to find a place in Florida that has blackout curtains. I guess all Floridians like to wake up at the crack of dawn. So we take a big black blanket with us that we can hang over the window to block the sunlight.
So anyway, all those “issues” can be remedied by the traveler and should not stop one from staying.