Where to go for spring break?

Where ever you think you may want to go, had better start making the reservations now if it is from the Florida panhandle or further south. Son's family was wanting to come see us for a week in the Fort Myers area. They waited too long to start checking motels. Last night they finally got a room for late April at a "okay" rate.

I second the Waveland/Bay St. Louis MS Area and Bucaneer SP! Beach, great seafood and not really a spring break destination.

We always stay at Gulf State Park. It's not ocean-front, but it has pretty much everything you NEED. Pool, wifi, tennis courts, FHU at $31/night, up to $41/night for a premium site. They have a fishing pier and a great pavilion on the beach. (It's about 1 mile away, so you must either drive or bike).

We have stayed in a few others, but they feel like parking lots with services.

Just my opinion.

Buccaneers state park has a new water park.

352 That looks awesome. Thanks!

Just be sure you don't go to the same place the spring breakers are going! :B

Thanks for the replies so far. Gulf shores sounds like an option any reccomendations for a campground? Disney world would be great but it's out of our budget this year as we will be traveling back to my wife's home country to visit her family in September and that's taken up most of our vacation budget. Anyone have any "must see" places en route to Florida/Alabama from Ohio? Thanks again.

Would you consider Disney World?

How about Gulf Shores, AL?

I don't know when your spring break is, but we have gone the 3rd week of March and had some very good weather other than a horrific storm that blew through on our 5th day. It also brought some cooler weather, so the ocean was no longer an option. We still had a great time, DH and DD got in some good fishing in the lake, ocean and from the pier.

We have also gone in April and had cooler weather and a couple of times, great weather.