# Any recommendations for Cocoa Beach?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 27, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recommendations-for-cocoa-beach/494534 "2009-04-27T18:41:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![vertizontal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ad7895/32.png) [@vertizontal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertizontal)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recommendations-for-cocoa-beach/494534/1 "2009-04-27T18:41:29Z")

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We’re planning to take a trip to Florida this August, with two main objectives: swim in an ocean, and visit the Kennedy Space Center. It’s looking like Cocoa Beach might be the destination, so can you recommend a place to stay?

There will be the four of us: Mom, Dad, and a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old. Since one of the main things we want to do is experience an ocean, we must have a place right on the beach.

We’re also definitely going to spend time at the Kennedy Space Center and Sea World. (But I doubt we will go to Disney).

**So have you been to Cocoa Beach or nearby, and do you have any recommendations on a place to stay (or stay away from)?**

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recommendations-for-cocoa-beach/494534/2 "2009-04-27T19:17:15Z")

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[Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge](http://www.fws.gov/merrittisland/Index.html) is really cool. There’s an excellent chance that you can see manatees at Haulover Canal.

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recommendations-for-cocoa-beach/494534/3 "2009-04-27T21:04:31Z")

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If you need a nice, clean hotel, our collective family ( about 50 people) have been staying at the [for nearly 50 years.](http://www.wakullasuites.com/) Bonus: my aunt lives about .5 miles away.  
[Ron Jon’s](http://www.ronjons.com/) is almost mandatory if you need souveniers. Locals hate it.

You \*\*must go to the Space Center. \*\*