Best Western Ft. Walton Beachfront

I’m sorry to have to give a 2-​star review especially when Trip Advisor rates this hotel as #1 in Ft Walton Beach Fl.
Upon arriving the sign is partially obscured by the trees so it was easy to miss. The hotel is defiantly older from the paint outside to the interior of the rooms. They defiantly need to be upgraded. More later.,
Let’s start with the service. Now that was outstanding every time from the check in staff to the MX team. They even moved me to another upgraded room when there was an issue. This is where the praise ends unfortunately.
My room as I stated earlier was quite old with large carpet stains, a shower head that didn’t work, a broken desk chair, and a burnt out light. After returning to my room on day two I noticed a large gap between the door jam and the door leaving the door mechanism completely exposed. It didn’t look recently tampered with but I was easily able to slide a card into the gap and pop the door open!
When I addressed it they said they are putting better doors on but haven’t gotten to all of them. Of course mine was one. They immediately upgraded me to an ocean view room with a new security door. Issue is they shouldn’t have placed anyone into that room. Walking around on my floor I found 3 other doors that way. Not acceptable!
Not sure how else to put it but this hotel needs an upgrade to properly represent the Best Western brand.

Swizzle Stick Lounge was awesome! Loved the live music and retro décor.

This is one of our favorite hotels to stay at in Florida. The staff is helpful and happy. The rooms are clean and recently renovated. We always get the balcony beach front rooms overlooking the gulf! The view is perfect! The free breakfast is great! Sausage, bacon, waffles, biscuits and gravy, muffins, yogurt great way to start the day. Expect to pay between $ 150-​$ 200 a night in peak season on the balcony beach front rooms which is well worth it. You get a free beach chair and umbrella daily as well. In the mood for a cocktail they have some great ones at the swizzle stick lounge on the first floor.

We loved this resort. It was classy, beautiful and still kid friendly. The staff was very nice. We had a beach view room and WOW! Worth every penny. The breakfast was great. The beach service was awesome. Our room was very clean and kept up well. Love love love it! Would definitely stay here over and over again!

Best view. Good staff. Needs make over. They are working on it now. Pool area limited. Would not want to be here during busy season. Great for winter break. No crowds. Décor unusual. Great for 6 year old. Reminds me of Disney. Breakfast area limited.

Staff is super nice! Very clean! Only complaint I have is need more lighting in the rooms.

This Best Western is like staying with family (in a good way). I was taken back by the level of customer service and friendliness (special thanks to Shil and James) of the entire staff! The hotel was very clean and well taken care of. I have stayed at much more expensive hotels with much less customer service and way less personalization and pride! Not only is it staffed by excellent and great management but it is in the beach! Thank you to the staff and management for making my stay a great one! I will gladly return here and highly recommend the Best Western on Fort Walton Beach!

Rented two rooms, despite the bad weather, staff did what they could, rooms are clean, beds and pillows were very comfortable, several small issues like a lamp that didn’t work and the computer chair was broken. Easy access to the gulf, most of the restaurants are on Miracle.

Great location, but rooms so ghetto, almost like a Motel 6 on the beach. No windows that you can open or a lanai (I would have to pay above the per diem rate for anything better). No freakin’ fresh air (ughh). A noisy mini fridge that I had that I had to unplug at night and a noisy window mounted ac that I had to turn off as well and sleep with no covers because of the heat. Got to be better accommodations in FWB than this; unfortunately I trusted highly rated Unilocal reviews when I booked this place at $ 126 + tax per night. So sorry if I offend previous high rating viewers; maybe my standards are different; but I cannot figure out why. Also, jackhammers throughout the day renovating adjacent units rendering this a most inhospitable place (thankfully, working most days and avoiding the audible assaults on the ears.). Clean though, so 2 stars.

Great place for families, as well as, couples. Staff was friendly and helpful, free parking, easy access to the Gulf of Mexico, complimentary chairs and umbrella. Wait staff on the beach taking drink orders. Great place for the money!!!

I cannot say enough good things about this hotel — and the rooms are such a great price. The staff is SO friendly and go out of their way to be kind. The FREE breakfast each morning was phenomenal. Absolutely outstanding — and they didn’t run out of any breakfast items like at other hotels I’ve stayed at. There is a bar by the pool with weekend beachside service. ALSO there are FREE BEACH CHAIRS. You just give your name and room number. Seriously, I would recommend this hotel to ANYONE. What a find!

Stayed there for our family vacation. The hotel is small compared to others we’ve been to in the area but it was great. Super friendly staff. Great free amenities like beach umbrellas and chairs, wi-​fi that went to the beach, breakfast, parking, cable. The rooms were good enough so the four of us didn’t feel cramped and the mattresses were so very comfortable. This is our new favorite hotel and are planning to be back there in 2016.

This is a great hotel for the price. We recently stayed here on a trip to Navarre. We flew in a couple days before our condo was ready and stayed at the Best Western in Fort Walton. The balcony rooms overlooking the ocean are worth the price. The view is amazing.
The poolside bar and Swizzle Stick bar are great little gems. Don is a fabulous bartender! We had a great time hanging out at the tiki bar with him! Lots of locals seem to frequent this place also.
I will definitely plan another visit to this hotel!

Not a «resort hotel.» Not a ton of space to spread out for a family of four. A older place redecorated for fun and in a great location in the beach. All balconies with two decent chairs and a table with a great view. If you are looking to hang out in the beach for spring break away from the cold Midwest… is a great spot.
Beach umbrellas & chairs, hot/​cold breakfast, pool towels: free. Like I said, infrastructure is a little dated, but the boutique décor puts it all in a cheery light. The bathroom is as basic as can be, and needs some serious touch up in places, but for the price and what we were trying to do this week? Easily overlooked. They are also undergoing renovations to some rooms. I’ll assume this will credit some of those minor faults. Even during the day, the noise was not an issue.
Not tons of parasailing, jet-​skiing excess. Just a great quiet beach excellent for families to chill out. The martini lounge is small but looks really cool. Unfortunately, we had the little ones so we didn’t get to partake in this spot nor the live music within. Tiki bar is great and a short few strides to the beach. Girls also enjoyed the pool.
I’m going from four to five stars based on our accommodation when one of our girls was super sick the first night. Crazy projectile stuff all over the bed, and they made us feel comfy about it all. That was a long night, but they were super friendly about it all, and tried to do everything they could to make her more comfortable. Front desk staff is really sweet.
Sure, it’s probably a three star hotel, but for the perfect beachfront locale/​balcony, extra conveniences, and sweet staff… they get five stars. If you pick an experience you are trying to deliver, and market it as such… then proceed to nail it… then you get a five from me.

They may call Fort Walton the Red Neck Riviera but you wouldn’t know it from staying at The Best Western. We decided to do a quick weekend get away and we never make reservations ahead of time. When we landed this place popped up so we figured we would give it a try.
Let’s go over the positive comments — the price! $ 150 a night for a hotel on the beach! We didn’t get an ocean room but no big deal. The beds are super comfy. Hot breakfast consisted of eggs, grits, sausage and other items. The décor — they are going for a retro 1960’s feel and frankly they pull it off.
There is a walkway right to the beach. Each room gets 2 chairs and an umbrella. You are able to rent kayaks and other non motorized water crafts. The sand is fine powder and the water crystal clear.
My favorite little area was the outside bar! Thanks Don for being awesome. The prices on the first day were lower but I guess they were raised over night. Still not terrible. A rum runner will cost 7.50. The locals seem to love this little gem as well and are pretty friendly.
At night, stop by for a dry vodka martini at the Swizzle Stick. A toss back to the the days of fun lounges. Live music plays around 830.
The crowd is older but god they know how to have a good time.
Not a big gay scene but frankly I could use some time away from the flakey gays.
We will be back for a weekend soon!

Great hotel at a reasonable price. My husband and I have stayed here for a second year in a row and loved it. Right on the beach with beautiful views. Rooms have always been clean and staff friendly. Complimentary breakfast. Inside bar open at night and poolside tiki bar during the day. My one and only tip for management would be to post hours for the tiki bar. We never could quite figure out their opening/​closing schedule and some days they were just closed. Very minor though and everything else was fabulous.

Awesome hotel and we booked through
so we saved a good bit on the room. Not sure it would quite be worth the normal price but if you can get a deal it’s awesome! Clean rooms, helpful staff, and a great breakfast in the mornings. Oh and did I mention it’s BEACHFRONT! If your gonna stay in the Destin/​fort Walton area, why not be on the beach right? Has a nice pool and a poolside bar. Definitely will stay at again in the future.

We found this place based on high ratings and a fair price. We have thoroughly enjoyed our stay. Hotel is very clean and all staff are courteous. A/​C is wonderful! They provide an umbrella and two lounge chairs on the beach for every room for no extra charge. It’s on a side road with only hotels and the beach is never crowded. Lots of great places to eat in Fort Walton Beach and Destin. Stewby’s Seafood Shanty was our favorite by far. Margaritaville in Destin was awesome too. Oh, back to the hotel! Great poolside bar. Nice and clean pool. Plenty of parking and the place was sold out. Kid and adult friendly. We will definitely book it again. This place has the best staff of anywhere we have stayed. People are what make a business successful and this place hires right and runs it right! Loved it!

Stayed here last night for a brief stop over. I booked online before I left Orlando and was able to get a 1 night web special rate for a Gulf front room. Let me say that if you decide to stay here, you have to get a room with a beachfront view. It’s absolutely AMAZING!!! We made it almost in time for sunset but I was up in time for sunrise. Can’t get more peaceful than that.
The front lobby is so inviting and colorful. It immediately puts you in vacation mode.
Check in was a breeze. Everything was explained I great detail regarding the complimentary breakfast, hours of the bar and pool. You are also given a paper explaining all of this as well. Your room includes a 2 seat umbrella chair on the beach and they provide towels for the pool!
We booked an Oceanfront 2 Queen room. Everything was super clean and pretty well maintained. We had our own private balcony with chairs and a little table. I could have slept out there listening to the waves crash into the beach.
The hotel is super quiet. We were on the 3^rd floor an the only thing we heard were people in the pool but it wasn’t a big bother. You have 100% total beach access.
Breakfast was ok. Coffee, juice, waffles etc were really good. I was not a fan of the eggs, biscuits and sausage but my son loved them.
This place is a must stay. We will be back. Kudos to the great staff!

When I went on vacation this year I decided to head to Florida and go to a part I’d never been before. I must say Ft. Walton didn’t disappoint in any way. I will definitely go back!
I booked the hotel on Priceline, and managed to snag a pretty good deal on a room. Before I even got into the hotel I was excited. There was a row of pastel colored stools lining the door to the lobby. When I walked in, it was like I stepped back in time, and I was so freakin excited. I am a lover of all things retro, and this place did not disappoint.
The lobby was filled with retro furniture in a swirl of pastel colors, and glass vases of assorted style and sizes adorned the shelves behind the pieces. The staff were very accommodating and super friendly. The lobby is very condusive to sitting and just enjoying life. They serve a free breakfast as well, and they had cute little round tables with ice cream parlor style chairs to complete the look.
When I went to my room, I was in love. The furniture was turquoise and it had a retro feel about it as well. I was lucky enough to score a beach front suite, and had no idea until I actually opened the door to my room. (Thank you Priceline!!!) I had a balcony that overlooked the ocean and I got to witness the most beautiful sunset. It was incredible.
The next night I downgraded to a regular room, and it was nice as well, with that retro feel, but I do admit I missed the balcony and my ocean view.
One of the bonuses that I really enjoyed about this hotel is that they give you beach chairs and umbrellas on the beach for free! The bartender actually comes to the beach to serve you. Talk about vacation. sigh… I wish I could go back right now! Maybe they are hiring and I could just stay there forever??? :)
Breakfast was the norm, and the hotel is close to many things that are just a short drive or taxi ride away. Our cab driver was actually very cool and suggested a place across the bridge to take us to. It was a whole entertainment complex of restaurants, shops and bars right on the water.
Next time I’m headed to Florida for a get away, I will definitely try my priceline luck with this amazing hotel again. I loved it. and would go there just for this place.