Beachside Towers vs Westwinds at Sandestin

Views Beyond the Beach

Posted on 4/22/2016

Beachside Towers I & II and Westwinds are located on the wonderful Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. This gated 2,400 acre resort is actually a community comprising 30+ distinctively different "neighborhoods" and include golf course residences and luxurious condominium towers on the white sand beach. It has been dubbed "the gated city" and encompasses grounds that extend from the luminescent emerald green waters of the gulf on its southern border all the way to the wide expanse of Choctawhatchee Bay towards the north. Celebrity types can be spotted here although they prefer to travel incognito and some even have private homes located in places like Burnt Pine, which is "the gated community within the gated community" of Sandestin. There are four championship golf courses that meander throughout the lushly landscaped resort. They include Baytowne, The Raven and The Links, which are all available for public play. A fourth one called Burnt Pine, is a private country club for those fortunate enough to own homes within the resort. The Sandestin golf courses have won a series of national awards over the years including "Best Golf in Northwest Florida" by Birmingham Magazine and "Top 75 Golf Resorts Worldwide". Golf Digest has named Sandestin as one of the "Top Golf Resorts" nationwide.  All in all the Sandestin golf courses have received a sum total of almost 50 different awards.

Sandestin also has a professional Tennis Club with lighted clay courts, a large private marina harboring yachts, a charming nouveau rendition of the New Orleans French Quarter called Baytowne Wharf and a Town Center called Grand Boulevard. The delightful Village of Baytowne Wharf sits near the Sandestin Marina and offers lots of amusements which include a wide variety of restaurants, friendly bars with live musical entertainment, a two tiered dance club, retail shops, free outdoor concerts and an abundance of special seasonal festivals. "Baytowne" also has a long "Wharf" that juts far out into the beautiful bay where you can look out over the big boats, try your luck fishing or experience the sensational sunsets that are magically mirrored on the water's surface during the summer months. Besides all the delightful diversions for adults your kids will love Baytowne since it features an old fashioned carousel, bungee jumps, obstacle towers and cable zip lines high above the lagoon. Kids also bounce around in bubble balls, play with remote controlled mini boats on the lagoon, try pond putting and play video games at an Arcade. An ice skating rink is set up during the wintertime. During the high season of summer everyone enjoys weekly mini-firework displays over Baytowne. Spectacular pyrotechnic displays light up the skies with musical accompaniment on major holidays like July 4th and New Years Eve over both the bay and gulf. Sandestin's main town center of Grand Boulevard is adjacent to the Emerald Coast Parkway with its own set of restaurants, lively bars, specialty shops, upscale boutiques and a state of the arts stadium styled movie multiplex theater. It has an upscale Palm Beach kind of look with dancing interactive fountains and a million dollars worth of landscaping which include towering palms above a laid back pedestrian friendly setting. Frequent festivals also occur here throughout the year.

Beachside Towers

Ocean Reef Resorts is proud to represent a number of fine Sandestin vacation rentals. Some of our most popular offerings are located in the high-rise luxury towers of Beachside Towers I, Beachside Towers II, and Westwinds. They each soar above the sugar white shores and emerald green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. You catch your first glimpse of these towers as you enter the gated gulf entrance of this famous resort and the beauty of the setting almost makes you gasp. The drive meanders beside one of the lovely landscaped golf course fairways with a row of Royal Palms that are majestically up lighted at night. These opulent towers stand in the distance, right on the beach with the shimmering jewel toned waters behind them. The alabaster colored twin buildings of Beachside I and II sit side beside one another with step like levels that rise up to 20 stories tall. Westwinds, their tanned companion, looks like a curved box sandcastle of sorts with western exposures that offer guests dazzling sunset views. Both towers at Beachside and Westwinds have big pools overlooking the beach that are heated seasonally. Beachside Towers I and Westinwinds also both have sizzling hot tubs. The pool at Beachside Towers II is beside a boardwalk that crosses over the dune and leads to the shimmering sugar white sands that are abundant here. An iconic giant gazebo type structure nearby houses a popular restaurant called The Beach House. At Westwinds a virtual forest of palm trees and a serene creek that flows down from a recreated waterfall surround a large lagoon shaped pool. In addition to the bubbling hot tub there is kiddies' pool as well. Both the of the Beachside Towers and Westwinds have Fitness Centers. A Beach Tram service is available to take you all over the resort. Each luxury tower provides awesome views of the gulf with ever changing hues of jeweled color. This part of Sandestin is just west of Topsail State Beach Preserve with sugary 20-foot tall dunes that extends for miles along the shore towards the east. It is the perfect place to hike, jog or take a romantic walk enjoying the beauty of nature's solace in relative seclusion.

Westwinds

Enjoy taking some time to view images as well as individual descriptions for our vacation rentals at Beachside Towers I, Beachside Towers II and Westwinds.

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Magnificently towering above the emerald toned waters of the gulf, Beachside Towers II soars high above the sugar white sand beach at Sandestin. You catch your first glimpse of the Beachside Towers as you enter the gated entrance of this famous resort. A palm studded drive meanders down to the beautiful beach next to a lushly landscaped golf course
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