Shores Of Panama 2314 - Sweet By The Sea

“Parking garage is tight for larger vehicles, rules, rules rules. Lighten up Francis!”

We booked this on AirBNB on the spur of the moment right after two hurricanes blew threw Tampa. My wife and I both had time off as a result, and thought, “hey, let’s go to Panama City”. I think a lot of people who review this resort don’t realize that the AirBNB host and the resort are two differe… more

We booked this on AirBNB on the spur of the moment right after two hurricanes blew threw Tampa. My wife and I both had time off as a result, and thought, “hey, let’s go to Panama City”. I think a lot of people who review this resort don’t realize that the AirBNB host and the resort are two different entities. Other reviews show rooms that are run-down, not clean, whatever. But ours was really nice. Had nice kitchen, good seating inside and on the deck, nice bedding and towels were average. Hosted by Theresa/Raquel Room 506. Had reserved parking on the 5th floor near the hallway to the condo. Our host was very responsive to messages. No complaints and will definitely book again. As for other reviews claiming that the parking is bad, pool is busy, elevators busy, etc. We probably got lucky on our stay. The resort was maybe less than half full due to the hurricanes, and we had none of these troubles on our stay. Others may have had different experiences. My only complaint were the weird rules at the resort. Rules posted everywhere with exclamation points threatening “immediate eviction” for violating said rules. Security staff were..meh. A couple of them seemed friendly but most seemed burned out and just plain rude. Parking garage - We got into a bit of an argument with the little d-weed that sits in the chair next to the entry gate (not the security gate). It is really hard to get your arm twisted around to the RFID reader to open the gate, and while I’m trying to get the gate to open the little A-wipe starts asking me where my parking pass is. I’m trying to tell him that it is so stupidly large, I put it in the console when I drive for safety reasons. He starts spewing his BS rules at me telling me he will have my car towed if the pass isn’t properly displayed. Then tells me he will open the gate for me when he sees the pass, and not before. Damn. How many things this guy want me to do at once? After that, we just started going in and out of the security gate and the guard would wave us through when I showed my armband and parking pass. Easier. Problem solved.

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