I have not ever stayed on the pass area in Destin and I was pleasantly surprised. It was exactly what me and my husband were looking for. No crowds, no long waits on elevator, etc. We had the pool to ourselves everyday and for July that's unheard of. The people we did see were older couples like ourselves just relaxing and laying in the sun. I enjoyed watching the birds, boats, and the fisherman, it kept me entertained. You do have to walk down the road a block to get to the actual sand beach with a shore due to birds nesting next door, but there's a sand beach with a seawall directly in front of condo that was great for laying out while husband fished. There's restaurants very close by, we never had to go far for anything. Condo is an older complex but has been well maintained, our particular condo was very well appointed, very large space, I will mention there's no blinds or curtain on half of the floor to ceiling windows in living room and in the afternoon that sun will run you out of there, all the seating is directly in the sun so I would suggest to owners to have an option there for something to block sun when you want. There was a couple little quirky things with the condo (some light switches didn't work, lamp couldn't be plugged in on left side of bed because there's not even a plug on that side that it would reach, little things like that were not a big deal to us, just attributed to being an older complex as mentioned. Very happy with price versus what we got