Hermitage by the Bay



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See why so many travellers make Hermitage by the Bay their hotel of choice when visiting Fort Walton Beach. Providing an ideal mix of value, comfort and convenience, it offers a luxury setting with an array of amenities designed for travellers like you.
Guest rooms offer air conditioning and a kitchenette, and Hermitage by the Bay makes getting online easy as free wifi is available.
In addition, guests can enjoy a pool during their visit.
While in Fort Walton Beach, you may want to check out some of the restaurants that are a short walk away from Hermitage by the Bay, including Angler's Beachside Grill (0.5 mi), AJ's Oyster Shanty (0.9 mi), and Rockin Tacos (0.4 mi).
If you’re looking for something to do, Okaloosa Island Pier (0.8 mi), John C Beasley Park (0.2 mi), and The Boardwalk on Okaloosa Island (0.4 mi) are a nice way to spend some time, and they are all within walking distance of Hermitage by the Bay.
At Hermitage by the Bay, your comfort and satisfaction come first, and they look forward to welcoming you to Fort Walton Beach.
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The kids fished off the dock most every night. They caught several nice fish and saw tons of other sea life.
The unit was sufficient for our needs for a great price. Not high end or exquisite but practical and usable.
Across the street from the beach and just a few minutes from action-packed Destin.
Highly recommend pizza at McGuires and Mexican at Pepitos.
We had some wifi issues but the owner Rick, went above and beyond to get it resolved as quickly as possible.
We would stay again in a heartbeat!
Tim
Flint, MI


First off, the owner Rick Saunders is an unprofessional, lying, harassing person! After we checked out half a day early he called us on our drive back home asking us, "What did you do to my condos? It smell like urine in here!" Excuse me!! His condos smell like urine and sewer to begin with. It is so nasty in there. When you use the RR, the toilet will make sounds and leaks, and the pull out couch you don't even want me to get into. When you pull it out, there is a big hole/dent in the matress and there are stains all over (female's stains). It's disgusting. So we couldn't sleep on there. When I slept on the couch at night a CATERPILLAR crawled on my pillow!!!! There are bugs everywhere and these two men came in sprayed bugs stuff when we had 2 children living with us.They are only 3 and 4 years old. Its so disgusting and dangerous. And when we told the owner, he said it's just caterpillars.
The place smell like sewer, so please don't kill youeself there. You don't get what you pay for. Pay a few more bucks and stay at other condos. They are clean, good customer service, and worth your hard earned money.
***NO ELEVATOR AVAILABLE***
The owner would keep calling us making harassing calls. He sent us an email stating he will charge $185 extra for "STOLEN ITEMS"... he was missing "more than 10 towels". There were not even 10 towels available to us to begin with. We didn't even use all of them because they were so dirty and smelled. The ones we did use, we washed and holded it respectfully. Most of the time we used our OWN towels and why would we want some cheap, smelly, dirty towels to bring home??? He called, and called, and harassed us... and the accusations!!! After a vacation you're supposed to feel relaxed, but after staying at this condos we're more stressed than before we left. It's the worst experience, and I do not want any other couples, or families wasting their money here at this condos and ruin their vacation! Please guys, do not get yourself into the same situation!!! Don't waste your money, time, and energy to deal with this scam owner!! He will be nice to you before you book, and once you're in you're done. Be careful, and book at SeaCrest or other neighbor condos instead.
We didn't want to complain while we were there because we didn't want to waste our vacation time complaining and worry about it, but who knew at the end it would stab us in the back. Unbelievable!!!



Recommendations:may need to bring extra trash bags, Landry detergent, toilet paper and possibly dish washing capsules/liquid. There's a strange stinging sensation felt around the lights inside the pool...not sure why but we all felt it. Overall...we all really enjoyed our stay and would recommend it to anyone! Making our reservations was really easy, all the info was sent by email with very clear directions for entering/leaving condo, etc. We only had one vehicle so our assigned parking area was no problem at all. Overall we had a very enjoyable trip. There's many excellent restaurants close by and of course the beach was BEAUTIFUL!

For the amount of money you spend you can go right down the road and have a nice beach and much more updated condo's. The condo itself was very dirty. We found tags from someone's new cloths and Mountain Dew bottle under the bed. And there was a nasty sock and sticky shirt in the cushion of the couch. The couch was full of sand and the kitchen has a smell like someone dropped meat or something down the drain or between the stove and cabinets. It was terrible. The coffee table and kitchen table are the old square glass tops and a hazard to anyone walking around them. Someone is going to be very hurt by those one day. The dish soap that was left there for us was full of water and only three pods to wash towels for a week with 6 guest.
Some of the only things we liked about unit 202 was the AC because it worked good, the pool was great and the view was pretty.
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