I'd been checking pricing and availability on the web and it looked like we had loads of choices. And a whole week wouldn't cost you as much as one night in Boston. But we didn't book it online. I've been a bit hesitant about "oceanfront" descriptions ever since I took my son to Disney World 50 years ago and the "oceanfront" hotel was at least two blocks from the beach. At least these days you can actually look on a map to see if it's on the ocean or not. But then sometimes even though they are on the ocean, they are so far away from all the restaurants and activity. So we thought we'd keep our options open and choose a hotel when we got there. Make sure it was close to restaurants and things that we wanted to do. And we wanted an oceanfront room so we could hear the surf at night.
What we didn't consider was Labor Day. (Because we typically start our holiday after my family reunion, Labor Day is typically a travel day.) So when we arrived in Cocoa Beach, after spending far too long on the "nickel and dime" tollway - (seriously, you have to stop and give them a dollar or more every mile) it became obvious that we were not going to get ANY room, much less an oceanfront room. Even the hotels/motels that were blocks away from the beach were full.
We ended up extending our search and found an oceanfront hotel in Indialantic, about 40 minutes down the coast from Cocoa Beach. We couldn't get oceanfront, but we did get a room with an ocean view.
And once all the people who were just there for the holiday weekend cleared out, we were able to upgrade to oceanfront. So we're going to consider this a serendipitous mistake.
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