I am typing this while sitting in a one bed room deluxe room at the Panama City Wyndham. This is a really nice resort. All rooms have ocean front balconies. There are two pools. One is ocean front and is supposed to be for adults but some parents can't seem to get it and bring kids here. There is another 2 pools across the street that is for families. It has a hot tub too and one of the pools is a kids pool with buckets that fillup and spill on the kids along with other kid features.
There is a Tiki bar by the adult oceanfront pool that serves drinks all day and into the night. There is a Starbucks on site. There is a walkway that crosses the steet where the parking garage is to connect you to the towers which overlook the ocean. On the skywalk is a bar called the Skybar where there are many flat screen TV's and there are windows allowing you to watch the traffic while relaxing and enjoying adult beverages.
The fitness facility is top notch. There are about 10 treadmills and elyptical machines, and each has it's own flat screen TV on the wall right in front of you to watch as you exercise. There are several Cybex machines including a chin/dip machine. There are bench press, leg press, curl, lat pulls, etc machines. It is one of the top fitness rooms of any resort I have visited.
The units are fantastic. This resort was built in the last 5 years and everything is new. it has granite counter tops, ceramic tile floors, washer/dryer in my unit and in all 2 bed units, flat screen TV's, everything you could want is here.
As far as what to do with teenagers, whatever you want to do you can do. At the resort the kids can rent sea doos to ride in the ocean. they can Parasail right in front of the resort leaving from the beach. You can rent chairs and umbrellas by the day or week. Within a mile or two of here are several putt putt courses, arcades, more championship golf courses than you can play in a week, movie theatres, a giant shopping, touristy, eating, walking complex called Pier Park built and opened in the last 4 years (
http://www.panamacitybeachonline.com/PierPark/ ), scooter rentals, pontoon boat rentals, etc, etc, etc. There is a gulf world aquarium which has dolphin shows, animal shows, aquariums, etc. There is a local zoo. There is a water park. There are even bars/night clubs that let teenagers in without allowing them to drink, but I would not send my teenagers there. Panama City, Daytona beach, and Cancun are the three areas where MTV sets up for spring break every year. What place is more for teenagers? The great news for parents is that the main teenage area where they film girls gone wild is several miles up the beach from this resort. You must be at least 24 to check in here, so the teenagers here are mainly with parents.
The beach is the best. The trip adviser readers poll 2011 ranked Panama Citry neach as the top rated beach in Florida, the second highest rated beach in the entire USA, and ranked it the number 12th best beach in the world.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/TCBeaches
I am here on exchange and I HATE to make it harder for me to get an exchange here in the future, but I must be honest and tell you that this is a fantastic place to spend a vacation.
