Looking for a great place to stay for your next family vacation, wedding, anniversary or special reunion? If so, Ocean Reef Resorts has an abundance of fine private vacation rentals to offer you and yours at great value! We have been serving literally generations of guests who have visited Destin, Miramar Beach, and South Walton's Scenic 30A along the coast of Northwest Florida for over thirty years.  Our loyal esteemed patrons consistently give Ocean Reef Resorts high accolades since our properties are distinctive, diverse, and delightful. Our vacation rentals include a wide variety of beachfront homes, luxurious condominiums, and charming cottages. In addition, our guests have found that the weekly rentals of these properties provide such great value because multiple family members and friends can stay in one place sharing the expense. Here you are able to select your own personal "home away from home" in order to create magical memories year after year.  All private residences are comfortably and fully furnished with as many bedrooms as you may need along with full kitchens to prepare meals so that you may save some of the cost by "dining in." This is a better option of course compared to staying in an expensive, impersonal hotel room with limited space. When going that costly route, you're lucky if you have a microwave oven or mini refrigerator included, (usually with a high priced "Honor Bar"), and must almost always dine out.

Besides having your own personal space at a better value than staying at a hotel, in a vacation rental, you also have a huge selection of special amenities available for use depending upon where you stay. Many of our properties are located in outstanding gated resort communities like the Amalfi Coast, Sandestin, Seascape, and Hidden Dunes. Besides the sugary white beach, many of these idyllic resorts offer the use of multiple swimming pools, championship golf courses, tennis courts, and fitness spas and have close access to restaurants or bars. Other properties we offer like Ariel Dunes, Edgewater, and Windancer have their own wonderful amenities in fabulous luxurious condominiums that overlook the beautiful beach.

Many Ocean Reef vacation rentals are outstanding, privately owned single family beach homes that come in all shapes and sizes. They represent architectural styles that include classic Mediterranean, Antebellum, Old Florida, Victorian, and Contemporary. Each one of these private vacation homes is comfortably furnished, usually professionally decorated, and lushly landscaped. Some are right on the crystal white beach overlooking the jewel toned waters of the gorgeous gulf while others are only just a short stroll away. Quite a few rental homes also have their own private swimming pool or access to neighborhood pools. Searching for your own favorite on our user friendly Ocean Reef Resorts website is like shopping for your own home since each one has its own distinct "personality" and individual location. We include complete property descriptions along with multiple photos and some even have videos. The "Details" section gives you the list of specific amenities, a hybrid satellite view for location, various rental rates for each week of the season, and dates of availability. Many of these properties are also Pet Friendly and several are available for wedding receptions. Our professional (and local) staff is always on hand to help answer any questions you might have or take reservations over the phone.

Besides the individual amenities offered by each vacation rental property or the resort they are located within, all Ocean Reef guests receive added value through our Reef Rewards program. These rewards are part of our way of saying thank you to rental guests by providing complimentary "freebies" and discounts to area attractions. Complimentary guest freebies are provided for golf, snorkeling, dolphin cruises, champagne, movie rentals, museum tickets, portrait photography, and even snow cones.

For every day of your stay, Ocean Reef provides you with one free round of golf at the Bluewater Bay Golf Club in nearby Niceville and The Hombre Golf Club in Panama City. The Bluewater Bay Golf Club is easily accessible to our Destin and Miramar Beach guests by crossing the Mid Bay Toll Bridge to the mainland where Bluewater Bay is located. Besides the free round of golf, you also receive a 50% discount on your golf cart rental. Nestled along the shores of shimmering Choctawhatchee Bay, this thirty-six hole course was designed by Tom Fazio and Jerry Pate.

For Ocean Reef guests staying down along Scenic 30A in eastern South Walton or in Panama City Beach, you will receive free rounds of golf daily at the Hombre Golf Club. This lovely championship golf course has three nine hole courses that are nicknamed "The Good", The Bad" and "The Ugly" which describes their difficulty of play. The PGA Qualifying Tour plays at Hombre every fall since you will use almost all of the clubs in your bag to navigate this course successfully. You are also entitled to discounts on golf as well as tennis at the Seascape Golf Club in Miramar Beach. Seascape is a seventy-one par course with eighteen holes that straddles forest between the Emerald Coast Parkway and Scenic Gulf Drive designed by golf architect Joe Lee offering glistening gulf views in the distance.

Our Reef Rewards program provides a free ticket at the premier Destin Snorkel Group so now you can literally "swim with the fishes." They provide boats, tours, snorkeling equipment, and even something called Snuba diving which is a hybrid sport of simultaneous snorkeling and scuba diving. Two big boats called Reef Runner and Kokomo accommodate up to forty nine people on each vessel. Experienced Captains as well as the friendly crew make sure that you have a safe, enjoyable experience that pleases people of all age groups and abilities.

Ocean Reef Resorts is proud to be able to offer all of our guests the opportunity to order food from Sarah K's Gourmet Foods through our special Concierge Service. With the Reef Rewards program, you can sip on a bottle of free champagne if you order four or more of her nationally renowned famous Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes. Readers of Emerald Coast Magazine have selected Sarah K's Gourmet as the Best of the Best every year since 2006. Taste of Home magazine gave her an award for having one of the "Top Five Best Crab Cakes" in the entire United States. Gourmands rave about her Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes which are filled with 100% lump crab meat and weigh almost a half pound each.

Complimentary discount tickets are available to Ocean Reef guests on one of Destin's newest attractions which are called The Buccaneer Pirate Cruise. This unique exciting adventure takes place aboard a 100 foot long vessel that was built in 2012 as a reproduction of an 300 year old flag masted ship. It departs in seek of treasure from Destin Harbor Mondays thru Saturdays. The two hour Treasure Hunt cruise has fun delights for children and parents alike. Costumed pirates and "wenches" serve up hotdogs, snacks, smoothies, soft drinks, margaritas, wine, and beer. Music, dancing, singing, and excitement are provided to all by this merry band of Buccaneers who interactively engage the guests while preparing them to find treasure. Reef Reward discounts are also available to Ocean Reef guests for renting bikes, jet skis, golf carts, pontoon boats, or fishing vessels. They may also be used for going on sunset cruises, playing tennis, and splashing around at Big Kahuna's Water Park.

Enjoy reviewing our vacation rentals as well as all of the complimentary Reef Reward freebies and discounts on this user friendly website. Now along with choosing your wonderful "home away from home "at a great value, you may plan on taking advantage of fun family freebies and special discounts that Ocean Reef is able to provide for your own memorable vacation. You may never want to stay at a hotel again!