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A hotel at 801 East Strawbridge Avenue in downtown Melbourne, with a restaurant, a rooftop bar, a fitness room and meeting space indoors and out. Parking is charged, and there are charging points for electric cars. Melbourne airport is under three miles away, Indialantic beach about ten minutes, and Kennedy Space Center forty-two miles.
An extended-stay hotel on the ocean at 2655 North Highway A1A in Indialantic. Every room has a full kitchen, breakfast is included every morning, and there is a saltwater pool on the roof deck and a fitness room open all hours. Two pets up to forty pounds are taken for a fee. Built for a stay of weeks rather than a night.
A hotel on the ocean at 3003 North Highway A1A in Indialantic, with an outdoor pool, a restaurant, room service, a fitness room, a business center and meeting rooms. Parking is charged, and covered parking is available. Pets are not taken. Check-in is at four in the afternoon.
A timeshare resort standing directly on the Atlantic at 1600 North Atlantic Avenue in Cocoa Beach, with units let by the night as well as held by owners as weeks. The front desk handles reservations. Surfing, fishing and golf are all close by, and the Cocoa Beach Pier is a short way up the road.
A resort of rented townhouses and condominiums at 201 Ivory Coral Lane on Merritt Island, on the Canaveral Barge Canal. Townhouses have three bedrooms, a full kitchen, a garage and a patio. There is a pool, a gym, a clubhouse, a fire pit and a marina renting kayaks, paddle boards and pontoon boats. Port Canaveral is about nine minutes away.
A small inn at 2902 South Atlantic Avenue in Cocoa Beach, on the strip of land between the Banana River and the Atlantic with its own way onto the beach. Rooms come as queen, king and family rooms, all with a kitchenette. There is an outdoor pool, a dock with kayaks and paddle boards, and parking at no charge.
A family-run place at 176 South Atlantic Avenue in Cocoa Beach, across the road from the ocean and open for more than fifty years. Units are efficiencies or one and two-bedroom suites, every one with a kitchen; the larger ones have a full-size refrigerator and a range. Parking, wireless internet, a guest laundry and a barbecue are on site.
A twelve-room bed and breakfast on the ocean at 815 South Miramar Avenue in Indialantic, spread over a main house, a cottage and a carriage house, with steps straight down to the sand. A full breakfast is served each morning. A separate two-bedroom apartment is let by the week or month, without breakfast.
A recreational vehicle park in Titusville, a walk from the downtown streets and looking over the Indian River, with pull-through sites taking any size of rig. Stays run by the night, the week, the month or the year. Playalinda Beach is twelve miles away and Kennedy Space Center is close.
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