Daytona Beach & New Smyrna Beach

My husband and I took our two kids to Daytona Beach last summer for a little oceanfront fun... we stayed at Daytona Bahama House, http://www.daytonabahamahouse.com/, and everyone had an AMAZING time! It's so close to the beach, plus it has a pool if you'd rather not swim in the ocean. My husband loved the golf courses, and they even did fun arts and crafts for the kids. We felt like we never needed to leave the resort! It even has FREE wireless! I think they do discounts for bike week and the race, too. :)

I don't know about the rest of the year,but I've had a blast there on Bike Week more than once!

redneck riviera!! yeeha!! please clean up this town!!

Daytona is the whitest, hardest beach on the mainland. If you get up before sunup and drive down the beach as morning arrives, you'll never forget it... ever. Take away the crime and the people then clean it up some and you got yourself a vacation spot. Anyway, that's what I said the first time I was there 30 years ago.

My favorite since childhood. Daytona is just Daytona. Spring Break was always fun, driving/cruising on the beach, and Daytona International Speedway!!

Sand is so hard packed that cars are allowed to drive on the beach. Definitely not the best beach in the state. Daytona itself is extremely tacky. Skip this one.

Too crowded, too dirty, and not a particularly attractive beach to begin with. Add crime and a sprinkling of rednecks to the mix. There are better destinations.

NASCAR! This beach has a bunch of rednecks and a bunch of cars rolling around. A few times a year a bunch of high school chicks come by and flash their boobies and get wasted, that's kinda cool.

Too crowded, cars on the beach...yuck!

There is a lot of beach at Daytona, but the sand feels more like concrete. Daytona suffers from too many visitors in my opinion.