place to stay

Me and little brother coming down the 19th to fish for the weekend. We usually have the wives and kids but this time we are just fishing the pier. where is the closest and cheapest place to stay? We are are not cheap just broke...

Do you want bedbugs, crack whores, meth lab in the next room and/or gunshots & blood curdling screams?

How broke is broke? How much are you looking to spend per night?
A quick search turns up half a dozen hotels in Foley for under a Franklin (pretax).

No kids, no wives, just fish around the clock!!!!

Further north you go, the cheaper the rates should be.

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The closer you are, the more it costs, check the www. for rooms in Foley.
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Its July. Prime-time tourist time, the busiest time of the whole year. You will likely have a hard time finding a room at all, so book early if you really plan on coming. The ones with vacancies are open for a reason. Microtel aka methrotel always has availability, and hopefully they cleaned up the meth labs they found real well, make sure you stay in the new building and not the old one. Staybridge is pretty nice, 2 years old right at the border of foley, and gulf shores, there's also a holiday inn that's new 1.5 miles north of the beach. Courtyard in foley is nice but overpriced just renovated (its about 15 years old.)

Stay away from beachside, travelodge in gs, and cornerstone.

There's a few more cheaper places in Foley but be careful most are tourist traps. Check your room before you check in. You might check into the cabins in the state park, or maybe even campgrounds. If they have any availability they are one of the most economical places to stay.

Source: Worked for years in GS/OB hotel industry.

I have started staying in Pensacola. The drive from there is better than fighting the tunnel and 59 traffic. As an added bonus, you are about the same distance from the naverre pier and pcola pier is ten minutes. 30 to 40 minutes to gspp or naverre. Hotels around sixty if you book seven days out and join a booking site. Sometimes fifty. There are some places near the base that are fairly nice. Quality inn is usually a good bet.

Bring a chair to the backside of the bathrooms and take sleeping shifts. Take turns fishing through the night and always have a line in the water. Bathrooms are available and has an awesome gulf view. The cost per day is $8 best bang for the buck on the gulf. Hotdogs and chips are served all day after 11am. Have fun be courtious and keep the rod bent.

All suites Hotel beside the hang out is just as cheap as any hotel on the beach

I stayed at a place on Navy Blvd in Pensacola(extended stay) very nice with a small kitchen in it...(microwave,full fridg and freezer,microwave,coffee pot,2 burner stove top,sink) computer desk wifi,big bathroom,nice flat screen tv,inside pool, washer and dryer down the hall,security doors....decent bed, 84.00 a night.....they had another that didn't have all the extra's for 49.00 a night but at 5am they didn't open till 8am and I was sooooo tired so i went there,the other place was a couple building away
a lot of military were staying there....and construction workers it seemed like

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Bring a chair to the backside of the bathrooms and take sleeping shifts. Take turns fishing through the night and always have a line in the water. Bathrooms are available and has an awesome gulf view. The cost per day is $8 best bang for the buck on the gulf. Hotdogs and chips are served all day after 11am. Have fun be courtious and keep the rod bent.
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That's the way my brother and I did it BITD. You may not be cheap, but when you're broke you must think cheap. To think cheap efficiently one must think along the lines of what can be had for free.