Holiday Inn Cocoa Beach Oceanfront - anyone stay there?

[cruiselovinfamily]

Has anyone stayed at the Holiday Inn Cocoa Beach Oceanfront? How is the location? Is it on the beach?

What are the suites like? Are the rooms clean?
I have a king kid suite reserved.

Are there many places to eat nearby?

I would appreciate any info you can provide!

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[Ellya]

We stayed there in 1998. I don't know if they have had any refurbishments since then, so keep that in mind. The hotel is right on the beach, and they offer nice rental chairs/umbrella set ups. There is a restaurant on site which felt like a typical Denny's style place. Overall the buiding was a bit old and dated feeling, nothing really awful, but I thought it needed a remodel. We had some problems with noisy guests (the POLICE were having some type of convention there and being too rowdy!), but we requested a quieter room for the remainder of our stay and it was better. If you get a good price and you just want nice beach access it's ok, but if you want a modern hotel I'd look around. I guess I would give it 3 stars out of 5 at most. Two stars for the hotel and an extra one for the beach.

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NCL Norway to Eastern Carib * Feb 1986
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RCCL Serenade to Canada * Sep 2003
RCCL Explorer to Western Carib * Feb 2004
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Disney Wonder to the Bahamas * Nov 2004
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