Florida Renowned beaches

Clearwater Beach

Standing on Pier 60 gives you a great view of the beautiful white sand beach. Best practice is to get here early to find a parking spot.

Right behind the beach is Gulfview Blvd, with all its shops and restaurants. You can walk just about anywhere in 10 minutes, so you don't even need a car to go shopping, or to have lunch, dinner, or drinks.

Clearwater beach offers popular water sports such as jet skiing, parasailing, and water biking. Pirates Cruise and Clearwater Marine Aquarium make Clearwater a unique family destination. The Pier offers a fabulous view of the sunset and the water is generally shallow and reasonably clear most of the time. There is entertainment around the pier at night with arts, crafts, music, and street performers. Busy place, Clearwater Beach. Clearwater Beach is very swimmer friendly and has lifeguards.

Cocoa Beach

A part of the Space Coast, Cocoa Beach sits south of Cape Canaveral between the Atlantic Ocean and Banana River. Known as the small wave capital of the world it's perfect for beginning surfers. The beaches are wide in Cocoa Beach and there is plenty of access and parking.

Other than its surf, Cocoa Beach and nearby cities Cocoa and Cape Canaveral are best known for their association with astronauts at nearby Kennedy Space Centre. If you're looking for a place to eat, drink and have fun, Cocoa Beach is chock full of choices! The beach is an hour's drive east of Orlando, it offers endless ways to enjoy recreation and leisure. Whether you are planning a family beach vacation, leisure travel, a business trip, a weekend getaway, or just a day at the beach, you will find everything you need in Cocoa Beach and the Space Coast area to make your stay one to remember.

Daytona Beach

Surfing goes well on the north side of Ponce Inlet, while kayaking, canoeing, and parasailing are also popular, but sunbathing in beauty and tranquility?

Daytona Beach Shores is located on a barrier island on the Atlantic Ocean. Just 5.5 miles long and a few hundred yards wide, the City features a pristine beach where famed race car drivers once vied to set world speed records. It is is special for automobile-race enthusiasts or indeed anyone who wants to fool around with a car on a beach - legally. 18 miles of hard-packed sand is open to drivers for $5 a day, but with a 10 mph speed limit.

Proclaimed the "World's Most Famous Beach," Daytona Beach is popular with spring breakers, bikers and families alike. The beach is up to 500 feet wide at low tide and is perfect for castle building, cycling, jogging, fishing or just relaxing in the sun.

The beaches in the Daytona Beach area are always open and free to pedestrians! Cars are allowed on the beach in designated areas from sunrise to sunset depending on tidal conditions.

Daytona Beach Shores is home to various attractions, including: The Court of Flags - a rotating display of 12 flags representing the national origins of Shores residents and highlighting the cultural diversity that unifies this country.

Legends Walk of Fame - featuring bricks dedicated to famous car racing participants.

Otto Schultze Memorial - a tribute to the late City Councilman that includes the seven flags used in automobile racing. A display of racing memorabilia in the Community Center.

The Shores Resort and Spa, located in the Shores, hosts the Auto Racing Hall of Fame with plaques honouring the great drivers and racing figures from the past.

Daytona Beach offers a wide range of shopping, dining & nightlife activities. From quaint antique stores and downtown collections to major shopping centers.

Miami Beach

Miami Beach is a separate municipality located on a thin strip of island across the Biscayne Bay from the city of Miami. It can be reached by driving the MacArthur, Julia Tuttle, or one of three other bridges and causeways. Miami Beach is perhaps best known for its white sandy beaches, clear water, art deco architecture and nightlife.

Beyond the radiant sun, surf and sand, discover Miami Beach’s rich history as an entertainment and cultural destination, from world-famous Art Deco architecture to renowned nightclubs to designer fashions on Collins Avenue and Lincoln Road. There’s so much going on in Miami Beach, you’ll need an extra hour to enjoy everything that makes this city so vibrant. As the world’s elite playground, Miami Beach promises a 25-hour day; and whether you are an arts enthusiast, foodie, shopaholic, socialite or sun worshipper, there are plenty of options for where to spend that extra hour (or at least wish you had).

Miami Beach is a smash-up of everything that is wonderful and over-the-top about South Florida. It's both a fabled paradise for celebrities and sun worshipers and a patchwork of family-friendly neighbourhoods and residential beaches. It's a place where noisy club goers don't rev up for a night of revelry until after midnight, while elsewhere on the island sleepy seniors hit the hay by nine. It's food and fashion, surf and spring break, and beach bums and bikinis rolled into one. But what Miami Beach isn't, is a neighbourhood of Miami proper. This seven-square-mile island is its own separate city with a population of nearly 90,000, and you can mingle with them when you stay at one of the pleasant hotels on the beach.

You can be forgiven for wanting to do no more than head straight for the water, where you can hop on a kayak, charter a yacht, or just stick close to the sand or curl up on a hammock. Whatever you want to do, Miami Beach delivers

Top 10 Florida Beaches as rated by the Travel Channel:

• South Beach, Miami
• Siesta Key Beach
• Palm Beach
• Lovers Key Beach
• Clearwater Beach
• Smathers Beach, Key West
• Sanspur Beach, Bahia Honda State Park
• Panama City Beach
• Sanibel Island
• Daytona Beach