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    Best Western Navarre Waterfront

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    Spectacular view!
    Casey G.

    This hotel!! Such a gem, is it perfect and new? No. But the staff is AMAZING, and the pool is heated and right on the ocean. Everything about this is awesome, we had no idea what to expect and drove up with an open mind and couldn't have been more excited when we finally saw the hotel. I'm so grateful this is the hotel we booked, nothing could be better! No comment on breakfast because we slept in too late to have it everyday!

    Phenomenal sunrise toward the rentable pontoons on Santa Rosa Sound from the BW Navarre's lawn
    Shannon B.

    Alright, I have hesitated to even post a review about this place, as I selfishly want to keep it to myself. HOWever, in the interest of transparency and community, I must reveal that the most bang for your buck in lodging near Navarre Beach is right here at the Best Western. Don't be hatin'! The only reason I'm not leaving 5 stars is that it is not an "upscale" lodging experience, okay, it's a family-friendly, budget-friendly, older hotel with a fantastic water view and easy proximity to Navarre Beach and plenty of other fun things to do, eat, and see. Whenever I'm in this area, I will always be making a reservation at BW Navarre Waterfront. Splurge on the water view room. It is so nice to wake up and watch the sunrise over Santa Rosa Sound (between the mainland and the Gulf Islands across the way). There is a golf-course-like lawn between the hotel and the water with Adirondack chairs for lounging, but many guests just put their folding beach chairs out there to preserve their claimed spot for the duration of their stay. There's also a sandy area around a fire pit where marshmallow roasting may break out each evening. The water is shallow for at least 50 yards from the shore, so kids can swim and people can wade-fish right there. From our 1st floor SE corner room, we could go right out the door onto the lawn, grab a chair, and watch the fish jump every morning. At night, you can see stars, the lights of the highrise hotels on Navarre beach, and any fireworks displays that happen to be popping off. There is a buffet breakfast daily with the typical budget hotel fare: cereal, yogurt, pastries, fruit, coffee, and juice, plus a rotating hot breakfast such as biscuits & gravy with sausage or pancakes with bacon and scrambled eggs. We rarely ate the full meal (we preferred the Shark Bite breakfast burrito place next door and Deb's Coffee drive-thru up the road), but it was great to be able to fill our water bottles and grab some fruit or other handhelds to go before we headed out for a day at the beach. If you are dining on site, you can sit at the tables around the pool or the big open air pavilion between the pool and the restaurant next door; we often did this with take-out we brought back. On either side of the hotel, there are vendors for renting a watercraft for the day or by the hour. The guys on the east side have pontoons (call 850-888-0023 to reserve) while Navarre Family Watersports has jet skis, SUP, kayaks, and several types of motorboats and guided sightseeing tours, not to mention their floating waterpark and putt putt golf. If you are a runner or walker, this is a fine location from which you can do a daily morning bridge run over the 1-mile Navarre Causeway to the beach or fishing pier. Take the trail that hugs the sound behind the Best Western, Dewey Destin's, Navarre Family Watersports, and the souvenir shop to reach the bridge's pedestrian walkway without dealing with the road traffic on Navarre Pkwy. Other things to know before you make a reservation here: - Smokers are common here and so are their cigarette butts. I don't know why people do this, but the butts are littered in the lawn and on the sand where kids are playing. I picked up about 30 one morning because I just couldn't stand it anymore. Gross! Maybe the pandemic has overwhelmed the wonderful staff here, but I hope they will be able to add "butt pickup on the grounds" to the daily housekeeping or landscaping duties. - There are lots of families here during the summer and school holidays, so if you don't want to see or hear kids, try dates when school is in session. - The AC systems are very old school, the wall mounted type. It's noisy and has to work pretty hard to combat the FL humidity. Bring earplugs if this type of sound bothers you.

    Monty H.

    Can't go wrong here, especially for the price. The sunset view is amazing, and you can chill on a nice grassy area right on the water regardless if you have a waterfront room view or not. Free breakfast, and a pool and gym that has both cardio equipment and cables. Room walls are thin, so something to keep in mind if you're sensitive to noise, but I was there off season and everyone quieted down pretty early. The staff is also super friendly and helpful. Overall a very pleasant surprise!

    Bay views from waterfront at Best Western Navarre, FL.
    Sheryl F.

    I booked our stay here based on the mostly positive yelp reviews!!! I'm so glad I did! Check in was a breeze, friendly staff, CLEAN room, comfortable beds, beautiful hotel setting with private beach, pool overlooking the bay, fire pit at night with lot of chairs for lounging and relaxing, very nice breakfast and FANTASTIC Community brand coffee available in the lobby 24/7. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay!!!!!

    Monica N.

    Our view of the Navarre bay from our room was beautiful!! We stayed in other hotels for our four-day vacation but this one was our favorite. The room we got was very clean and nice, but the view and proximity to food and places to explore were great. Only complaint was that we couldn't enjoy breakfast due to a family of 25+ people crowding the downstairs and pool all night, but obviously BW couldn't control that factor.

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    Sarah K.

    Second visit here. Came in July 2016. Nice views. Pricey for a BW imo but it's bc near the water. Rooms are cute and clean and at least have a microwave, free wifi and breakfast! I am spoiled by bellhops but all is good. We like to come here when daughter does dance workshops in Navarre rather than stay at days in or Hampton in. Like the water view. And short drive over to Navarre beach. Playground cute. A grocery across st. Good Mexican eats near too. And sno cones. Tho I can't wait till the spring hill suites opens on beach.

    Dirt, dead bugs, and something strange and gross on the comforter!
    Samantha T.

    Don't do it!!!! The 1st thing to greet us when we were trying to check in were at least 3 cockroaches (one running towards the front door). It was around 11:30 pm (we had called ahead to get a late check-in and were told "no problem at all") and my husband was told, quite rudely, we couldn't check in because my mother booked the room for us (as she's done almost every time with no problems, because she is awesome!) The girl at the front desk wouldn't even let my husband tell her that we were paying for the room because his name wasn't on the card used to hold it. She called my mother at around 12am (way too late to call her btw) and left a message saying someone else was trying to check into her room. Finally, my husband interrupted her to say we were paying for the room and she had just reserved it for us because we were at Disney world. At that point my 3 year old was hysterical and my 10 year old was extremely tired and angry he couldn't get out of the car we had been in since noon! The front desk girl changed her tone just a little when she finally listened to my husband saying we were paying for everything. So, around 12:45/1am we got to go to our room. Once walking in I noticed that there was something disgusting on one of the comforter, dead bugs and dirt in the corner of the room and on the lights but we were so exhausted from the trip and ordeal that my husband just took it off and used our own blankets (thank goodness we had them). This was going to be the 1st time in a week we were going to be able to sleep in.......... but nooooooooo, we were all abruptly awoken by the lawnmowers at 6:30/7am..... All in all, we will never come back to this awful best western and would not even recommend it to our enemies!!!!!!

    View from our hotel room and balcony.
    Jennifer M.

    I got a deal to stay here through hotwire. This hotel is clean, well maintained and the staff is accomodating and kind. The views are beautiful. Sandra helped me get checked out quickly at 4:15 in the morning to head back to Texas where I live. She already had coffee made and did not charge me for a lost key card. All of the staff are very nice. The room was really nice. It had a fridge and microwave. The temperature could be set so that it was not too hot or too cold in the room. The pool is heated so you can swim anytime. They keep plenty of towels stocked in the room and there are pool towels kept by the pool. It is located right by the bridge to head over to the gulf. They serve free breakfast. Just a wonderful experience. We will definitely stay again if we go back to Navarre.

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    Came in at 3 in the morning, only needed to stay a few hours and paid over $200 for there to be pubic hair all over the bathroom.

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    Hotel is 3.stories, we had an oceanview which was fabulous. Had the most remarkable sunset. Very clean rooms & friendly staff

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    What a wonderful, affordavle, close to the beach place. Clean, big beds, fresh, and quite. Loved it!

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