Huntington By the Sea 306

There was just two of us on an anniversary trip, so the two room condo was plenty big enough. I think even with four people it would have been quite comfortable. The room was nicely decorated, very clean and easy to keep the temperature comfortable with the HVAC. Kitchen was stocked with everything in the world you might need. Bed was super comfortable, on the soft side. The grounds were manicured and well maintained. Pool was very clean and overall the complex was VERY quiet. For more than 30 years we've stayed in countless different places from Destin to Panama City and everywhere in between. I'd have to say that this room and complex was by far the most pleasant and relaxing of all of them. The location is off the main road behind secure gates with a very large frog pond behind it (I could sit and listen to those frogs all night) and small quiet condos on either side and behind you is a very private beach. This place is a hidden gem and is on my list of places that we'll consider as we look to invest in a condo of our own in the next year or two. If you're looking to be close to everything but feel like you are just as far from it, you can't go wrong here. Before, after and during the stay the leasing company was super to deal with.

We were originally assigned the WIFI of the unit below us and the office seemed to think that was just fine as long as we actually had WIFI. Eventually we did get into the correct WIFI for our unit but I then I found that the either the ATT router was misconfigured or someone was spoofing IP addresses on the network. The WIFI password was generic and easy to guess and likely never changes, so no wonder. My laptop security was going crazy with ARP poisoning warnings and some others so we just used our iPhone hotspots which have terrible speeds. Normally I always use my own MIFI unit but stupidly left it at home. I retired last year from a career in cybersecurity and probably I'm overly paranoid but for the typical non-techy visitor, BEWARE!!!!! At best, the network is just misconfigured. At worst, it's completely compromised. If you must use it, BE SURE to have your VPN running, use good AV like ESET and it wouldn't hurt to through Malwarebytes on top of that but my advice would be to avoid it entirely. Also, the streaming on the TV (which was hard wired to the router) keep hanging up so that led me to be even more suspicious to other devices outside our unit being tied in, either maliciously or due to no concern for digital security by the leasing office.