Coastline RV Resort is located on the ‘forgotten coast’ of Florida’s Panhandle in the town of Eastpoint, FL. Directly on US 98, which hugs the Gulf Coast, this rv park offers sunset views of Apalachicola Bay. The bridge over to St.George Island and more camping opportunities is a short drive away. This area is beautiful and offers a multitude of interesting venues to explore. Notably St.George Island, historic Apalachicola lost in a time warp with good restaurants, Crooked River Lighthouse, and Carrabelle Beach with its beautiful sandy dog friendly beach.
We previously reviewed this campground and continue to frequent it on our way from southwest FL to Louisiana, points West, and north following the Mississippi River Road. Built in 2013 it continues to satisfy for several reasons. The wide gravel streets make parking uneventful on your pavered site with a wide paver patio, a picnic table and charcoal grill. And I have yet to witness a park actually cleaning sites and observed an employee cleaning the charcoal grill, actually washing the picnic table and blowing the site clean-what a pleasant surprise. The first three tiers of sites all face Apalachicola Bay and have views while the tiers in the rear, behind the clubhouse, have no or limited views.
The clubhouse provides private bath/shower rooms, a fitness center, laundry center, and fully equipped kitchen. The office/welcome center includes a store and a wide screened in porch for relaxing in one of the comfortable rocking chairs with a view of Apalachicola Bay and sunsets. The crystal clear pool is surrounded by ample patio chairs and lounge chairs with views of the Bay.
Although not a resort in the true sense of the word they do offer a restaurant 1 mile west on Rte 98, the Pesky Pelican. This restaurant has now morphed into the Blue Fish Family Grille with the same great food plus offering live music and the ability to order on-line thru a link on the Coastline web-site.
This review is purposely short on detail as one can read my first review with more commentary.
WiFi is provided, and as in most parks it is satisfactory streaming with occasional buffering outperforming what the numbers suggest at 1.11/2.98 Mbps. We used our OTA (over the air antenna) Winegard Rayzor Automatic antenna to receive the few local TV stations.
Their reservation system continues to offer what other rv parks could do well to emulate. The easy and intuitive on-line reservation app is unique in the rv park/campground industry (we have only seen this at a few other rv park websites and it has been offered at national park reservation sites for reserving tent and rv sites for some time). This app provides a picture and short description of each site (including the suite and cottages) and is so convenient as a particular site can be chosen and reserved in a matter of minutes. No more time spent on the phone as the booking agent attempts to decipher if any sites are available and does not guarantee any particular site. This is the future of rv park reservation systems.
The takeaway: Coastline RV Resort provides sunset views of Apalachicola Bay, a clubhouse with all amenities along with a pool, and access to their own pier on the Bay. A pleasant rv park, not a resort unless we include their restaurant 1 mile west, and well maintained with acceptable WiFi. A unique on-line reservation system allows the guest to pick and reserve a particular site. . Go to www.rickpicks.com for other reviews, critiques and essays with links to area attractions and a more detailed review of this park, etc.
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