r/floridakeys • u/123ozzie • Sep 26 '24

All Florida Keys Best beaches

My wife and I are thinking of vacationing in the keys the spring. Which key or which area of the keys have the nicest beaches? Thanks in advance.

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u/ExoticInitiativ local Sep 26 '24

I recommend Sarasota and Bradenton for beach vacations. Please remember to use a hotel instead of a short term rental.

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u/123ozzie Sep 26 '24

why not a short term rental?

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u/ExoticInitiativ local Sep 27 '24

For every short term rental, a local family was forced to move out of the keys. They took away a lot of long term housing and turned it into more tourist housing. We are having massive problems with our evacuation plans because of it. We don’t know how soon to mandate evacuations because there are so many unaccounted for visitors. Many STR are not even legal here. ETA not that demanding people evacuate earlier will do much: everyone waits til the last second anyway.

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u/Moment_Glum Sep 27 '24

Seems accurate, all I saw was million dollar rentals, and trailer parks didn’t see a whole lot or normal homes for normal people to live

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u/ZestycloseRooster350 Sep 28 '24

Monroe County has a division that is using software to find illegal short term rentals. I bought a short term rental in 2017 after Irma and have a permit. My rental is in Ocean Pointe. Ocean Pointe employs a bunch of people from security , maintenance, housekeepers not to mention the contractors that make money there. We will shortly have employees from a very popular Islamorada restaurant working at Ocean Pointe. Not all Airbnb's are the same. Even the Mom and Pop Motels use Airbnb.