Plannin a trip to Gulf Shores: Suggestions!
 

Well me and my Girlfriend are trying to plan a trip to Gulf Shores looking for some advice or suggestions on hotel, resort, blah blah.
Looking for something either on the beach or close to it.
Also wanting to do a fishing trip one of the days we are there!
any help would be greatly appreciated THANKS GUYS!

We always go to "the Plantation", granny owns a condo there, its about 10 miles west of gulf shores, but tbhe beaches are private and your 15 min from the nite life, and its not a sulphur strip joint!!!

lol roger dat!

Check out "the hangout" cool place also tacky jacks and live bait are good to eat at, we always took charter boats out of perdido key

ill add it to the list! Yeh all the charters i have been looking at are out of perdido key

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Is that the one with the midget??

sorry, tired and on drugs.

all i can say is LAMBERTS CAFE is a must for dinner

Go to bed Charlie Sheen :rotfl:

The shrimp Basket awesome grub

TB

Gonna be down there from July 20-29 for my boy's World Series. If you haven't been by then I'll give you the scoop when we return. I do know we are staying beachfront. Orange Beach, I believe.
BTW, Like the new avatar. Reminds me of a milk commercial.
GOT OIL?

My wife and I love "The Original Oyster House". Its kinda touristy, but damn good.

Stay at the Caribe. Great place 12 pools at the resort, beach just across the street, and they have 100+ boat docks in the back so you can bring your boat and dont need a guide.

The resturant next to the Caribe is great.
Also have a bait dock next to the condos

Take her to a nice place for dinner. Cosmo on the canal rd in Orange Beach. Great Food, patio, live music. Go early if you don't want to wait an hr for a table.

:amen:

And they have 2-3 all you can eat nights

I'm gonna be there from july 24 to the 29. we are staying at the besr western on the beach. never stayed there before ill let you know what its like.

Slick and MossLake let me know how those places are im going August 18-21 is what its looking like as of now.

Latravcha is the Caribe on the Bay or is it Gulf Front? G/F and her friend want to be beach front lol me and my budd want to be on the Bay and im planning the trip soooooooo yeh

It is on the bay side.
They have a small bus to take you to beach only a 2 minute ride

whatever you do do not rent through Bret Robinson....just came back on sat and they are the worst....I have always went through meyers or vrbro...I learned a hard lesson

We stayed at the Perdido Key Beach Resort one time. We loved it! I think they have like 4 resturants in the resort that are good and they have free vallet parking that is sweet. You just call from your room before you head down and when you get down your car is at the front door.

Tacky Jacks is a great place!

Just got back yesterday for a quick weekend trip. Check out Cobalt. Best restaurant I have been to down there.

I didn't get to fish, but bringing my boat down there in September. I'll be looking for your fishing report from down there.

Think i might just go with a guide they run 300-400 bucks and ill spend that on gas pulling my boat, then have to worry about pulling my boat around all week so shat on that, but ill GPS the spots we hit :) lol

I went through VRBO.com found one at Phoneix East II booked it tonight! Got an ice machine and is on the ground level step off our patio in to the pool and few steps to the beach im stoked! :smokin:

the phoenix's are awesome.....we just got back yesterday from a 5 day trip.....we stayed at the royal palms right next to the state park on the beach this trip. I've stayed alot of different places down there and the phoenix's are one of my favorites.....The steamer is good for crablegs, the hangout is good, tacky jacks, lulus, mikees, sea n suds, the shrimp basket are all good food in my book....timing is everything as to whether you wait in line for an hour, or walk right in.

Thanks Chris!
I plan on doing some beer drinking at Live Bait, Florabamas, and The Hangout. All pretty good beer drinkin joints?

All of those are good drinking spots, don't forget Tacky Jacks. As far as fishing goes, I've spent a pile of time fishing there and it's not a difficult place to get around, finding fish can be a chore. If you go with a guide, the going rate is around 100 per hour and most trips last 4 hours. Don't expect to load the boat, fishing in August is tough. If wade fishing is your thing, you can catch some decent flounder off the beach early in the morning and the pass in Little Lagoon can be really nice if you have some tide moving just get there early to stake your spot.

Let me know if you need any guide recommendations. We know a pile of good folks over that way.

Shoot me an email with the guide recommendations
shawkade@yahoo.com
Thanks!
I'm gonna try a little wading while I'm there hopefully, just mainly want to catch some trout while I'm there lol i got to catch some fish in every state I visit