I'm with you. As long as it is clean. I cannot get my husband to stay on the strip anywhere though. We stay at the west end of the beach in a townhouse with 4 units all beachfront of course. They share one walkover even though the walkover is only half there. The steps are gone due to the hurricane. He is not a person that cares for huge crowds. I myself would like to stay somewhere like Edgewater Beach where there is a nice pool as we do not get in the ocean.