We stayed a week in Sugar Dunes Unit 13. This is a three bedroom unit. My wife and I were the main tenants and we had frequent visits from our son’s family who rented across the street. This included overnight stays by our grand children, ages 9 and 12, who loved the bunk beds. We had a great time there. It really is a nice unit.
The unit is spacious because it is not overburdened with too much furniture. The ocean end offers a grand view of the beach via its full width of windows. The balcony is wide and provides a crow’s nest view of the beach which is directly below (the water line is less than 100 yards behind the unit). You really don’t have to go down to the beach to be “on the beach” it is so close.
The unit appears to have been remodeled in the last few years. It is very clean and tastefully decorated. The floors are vinyl (looks like wood) with area rugs in the dining and living areas. The kitchen is well equipped but you will not finds any leftover spices, coffee filters, cooking oil, etc, from previous tenants. The cleaning crew cleans out everything.
The unit has an outside closet on the balcony with tons of beach toys and stuff including plenty of boogie boards. We did not use it, but it is stuffed full of beach goodies.
Recent Florida legislation now allows property owners to lay claim to the beach all the way to the water line (this is a big change from the perspective of an old Florida native who has been away since 1972). The benefit is the condo unit pays for Spyglass to provide chairs and place warning placards that basically make the beach area behind the condos private for use by guests only. This was nice, especially since there is public access on either end of the property and those areas were very crowded. Our unit has one setup (one umbrella and two chairs) provided by Spyglass and we rented an additional setup for our son’s family. These were setup at 7 am and removed around 4 pm daily.
Front Door is hard to close and leaks air badly. A fly swatter and vacuum sweeper would have been helpful to have. Access to a luggage dolly would have been helpful (this is a 3rd floor unit).