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Captiva Beach Resort

About half a block from the beach, the old Florida-style Captiva Beach Resort is popular with longer-term guests during winter, Europeans during the summer. Every one of the comfortable, sparkling-clean, modern units here has some form of cooking facility and five-star queen-size pillow-top beds, and some have separate living rooms with sleeper sofas. These are older buildings, so you’ll find window air-conditioners mounted through the walls; however, the property has been upgraded for all the modern conveniences, such as speedy WiFi and bottle-quality water at every faucet. Rooms also have personal barbecues, beach chairs, and umbrellas. A retro-fab Palm Springs-esque courtyard and artificial grass lawn has ping pong, cornhole, bocce, shuffleboard, and cute patio areas with umbrella’ed picnic tables. There’s also an old, but well-maintained outdoor pool, but the proximity to the beach here is the main attraction.