We spent last weekend with friends down in Baytowne Wharf in Sandestin, Fl. Although we have stayed in Destin many of times, we have never stayed inside Baytowne Wharf. Our friends had been back in November and loved the way you could walk to everything and all the activities they had for the kids. So they found a condo at The Grand in Baytowne that we could all fit into.
I am going to go ahead and state that I understand traveling is not for everyone right now. This trip was one hour from our home and masks were worn inside, but did not have to be worn outdoors. You can keep all your opinions about travel to yourself and I applaud you if you have been perfectly quarantined citizen 🙂
Our condo was super spacious with gorgeous views. It had four bedrooms and five bathrooms with an extra tv room upstairs for kids. All the bedrooms had nice size closets if you needed to use a pack n play and the walking access to all the activities was really nice. The unit could use some updates for sure, but it was plenty comfortable for us.
Baytowne offers an outdoor ice skating rink during the winter months which the kids loved! They also have a huge playground, several ropes courses, a zip line and a trampoline harnessed jumpy thing!! The resort is right next to four golf courses if you have any golf lovers and they had a heated small pool and two hot tubs at the resort. There are several different restaurants within Baytowne as well as some cute stores and ice cream shops for the kids! It has a little bit of a New Orleans feel as you walk around.
We ate at this breakfast/lunch spot, 2 Birds, all 3 mornings!! This is about a 5 minute drive from the hotel, but it was so good and so cute!! I wanted to try everything on the menu plus they had great coffee.
Saturday evening we had a babysitter come to watch the kids while we grabbed dinner close by at Emerils Coastal in Grand Boulevard. We grabbed some appetizers and wine first at Vint’j Wine Bar first which is always one of our favorites. This blue cheese and nut pie thing was incredible! I forget what they call it on the menu.
We had so much fun actually catching Emeril in the kitchen while we were at dinner. It is an open kitchen and you could see him working all night long. A few of you have asked about our experience and as much as I want to give it rave reviews, we all decided it was just pretty good and not great. The service that night was not great and some food was better than others. I would still go back and try it again and I definitely would love to try to make their Sunday jazz brunch. It looked like so much fun.
More photos from our second morning at 2 Birds for breakfast… everything was so good!
The boys played a round of golf on Sunday and we entertained the kids around Baytowne. They had fun doing all the activities again plus eating ice cream!!
We had a great trip and loved trying something different. You can see a lot of our other weekends in Destin here. If you have any specific questions, you can ask them below and I will try to answer them as I finish up my Destin travel guide that Ive been working on for you guys!
