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A gated entrance with a 'NO TRESPASSING' sign, a wooden fence, and a beach view. - MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly. (Miramar Beach)
Miramar Beach is located near MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly., which provides an adjacent golf course, a garden and a playground. In addition to laundry facilities, guests can connect to free in-room WiFi, with a speed of 500+ Mbps (good for 6+ people or 10+ devices).

Reviews

9.2 out of 10
Wonderful

Popular amenities

  • Pool
  • Kitchen
  • Washing machine
  • Dryer
  • Pet-friendly
  • Free Wi-Fi

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About this property

MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly.

  • Come visit our brick, one-level beach house in 'Paradise Retreat.' Just a short stroll to the Emerald Waters off the Gulf of Mexico. We are the first beach home in the Paradise Retreat community and the closest to the deeded beach access.We hope you will be as excited as we are in this four-bedroom, two full bath home. Dressed in a nautical style in appreciation of the coastal lifestyle and in celebration of the mystical creature the 'Mermaid'

    We offer a PRIVATE SALT WATER SWIMMING POOL WITH HEAT optional
    ($350.00 per week plus tax) NO you do not have to share with a community! Or an entire condominium! It is all yours.

    ***PLEASE NOTE***
    THE HOT TUB YOU SEE IN THE PICTURES IS A KIDDIE POOL.

    The master bedroom is private and features its own large bath, a walk-in closet, beautifully furnished, King-size bedding, TV.

    The large great room is sunny & bright with natural sunlight, a large sectional sofa with chaise for those extra friends! plenty of seating, TV, furnished with books & movies, games, cards, & you can sit & enjoy the pool view from the great room.

    Two children's bedrooms both have twin beds & TV in each bedroom.

    MINI MASTER
    The second adult bedroom is cool and inviting with a nostalgic theme for bathing beauties of the 30s and 40s.TV.
    original art.


    Large dining table seats 8 with ease, fully-stocked kitchen seats 3 at the bar, side by side refrigerator door ice maker water dispenser, gas grill by the pool, pool toys, bicycles in garage, pack and play for little ones.

    WE KNOW YOUR PET IS A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY JUST LIKE OUR PETS ARE, SO The Mermaid House is 'PET FRIENDLY' ! Bring your well behaved pet with you to have a wonderful vacation with the family for a pet fee of $175.00(plus tax) per pet. Must be on leash when out side of home. Guest to pick up litter after their pets. 2 pets max 50 LB Per Pet
    WASHING MACHINE & DRYER FURNISHED AND CABLE TV.

    Menus and directions to all local eating establishments, amusement parks, dolphin sight seeing excursions, sunset dinner cruise, & deep sea charter boats. Many Harbor Restaurants will 'Cook your Catch'.BAYTOWN AT SANDESTIN IS 6 MINUTES AWAY, THE DESTIN COMMONS HAS A MOVIE THEATER, DINNING, SHOPPING, KIDS WATER FOUNTAIN & PLAY GROUND. A HUGE PRO BASS SPORTING GOOD STORE IN DESTIN COMMONS WITH A GIANT SHARK FOR THE VACATION PHOTOS.

    PLEASE READ BEFORE BOOKING:
    Add-ons must be requested and paid before arrival. Pool heat, golf cart, or pets used without being arranged in advance will be charged at the rates below plus tax. Questions about any fee? Message us before booking - we're happy to help.


    OPTIONAL ADD-ONS (only if you request them):

    *Pool Heat Fee - $350.00 (plus tax) (for Cooler Days) Optional per Stay
    *Golf Cart/LSV - $450.00 (plus tax) - Tomberlin
    *Golf Cart/LSV - $250.00 (plus tax) - EZ GO an older, slower cart, great for short trips around the neighborhood.
    *Pet Fee - $175.00 per pet (plus tax) - max. 2 pets, 50 Lbs each.
    *Damage deposit insurance of $89.00 (Non Refundable)


    *****Minimum Age limit for Renters*****

    **Renters must be 25 years of age to lease home, with prepaid damage deposit. We prefer families and so do our neighbors... :)

    ****CANCELLATION POLICY
    100% refund if canceled at least 60 days before arrival date. You must contact the owner/VRBO directly to request cancellation.

    ***IF THE DATES YOU REQUESTED ARE NOT AVAILABLE***
    WE HAVE ANOTHER PROPERTY 'SANDCASTLE' VRBO#398051 - 'STARFISH COTTAGE' VRBO#446001

    Location Keywords: Miramar Beach · Destin Florida · Emerald Coast
    Northwest Florida · Walton County · Santa Rosa Beach · Gulf Coast Florida

    Property Keywords: Clean 4 bedrooms vacation rental · 2 bathroom · sleeps 8 ·
    private heated saltwater pool · backyard oasis · walk to sugar sand beach · private beach access · Paradise Retreat neighborhood · beachside retreat

    Amenity keywords: pet friendly · family friendly · golf cart · adult bikes ·
    high chair · pack n play · baby friendly · kids beach toys · pool toys · books and games · fully equipped kitchen · high speed WiFi · outdoor dining patio

    Activity keywords: deep sea fishing · pontoon boat rides ·
    dolphin cruises · parasailing · paddleboarding · Silver Sands Outlets · Baytowne Wharf · Destin Harbor · championship golf · seafood restaurants · water sports

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About the area

Located in Miramar Beach, this holiday home is next to a golf course and near the beach. Shoppers can check out HarborWalk Village, while everyone can enjoy the natural beauty of Miramar Beach and Destin Beaches. Travelling with kids? Consider Big Kahuna's Water and Adventure Park and Rainforest Black Light Golf & Arcade. Jet skiing and kayaking offer great chances to get out on the surrounding water, or you can seek out an adventure with cycling and hiking/biking trails nearby. Visit our Miramar Beach travel guide
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Miramar Beach, FL

What's nearby

  • A beach with two people walking along the shore, waves gently lapping at the sand, and buildings in the background.
    Miramar Beach
    6 min walk - 0.4 miles
  • A golf course with a pond, trees, and a fountain.
    Emerald Bay Golf Club
    19 min walk - 1.0 mile
  • A pier extending into the ocean at sunset.
    Destin Beaches
    8 min drive - 4.8 miles
  • James Lee Park
    19 min walk - 1.0 mile
  • James Lee Beach
    3 min drive - 1.8 miles

Getting around

  • Fort Walton Beach, FL (VPS-Northwest Florida Regional)
    33 min drive

Restaurants

  • Pompano Joe's
    14 min walk
  • Crab Trap Destin
    20 min walk
  • Circle K
    3 min drive
  • Kenny D's
    5 min walk
  • Sandos Beachside
    8 min walk

Frequently asked questions

Does MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly. have a pool?

Yes, this property has an outdoor pool. Pool types include heated pools.

Is MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly. pet-friendly?

Yes, this property allows dogs (limit 2 total) with a maximum weight of up to 23 kg per pet.

How much is parking at MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly.?

On-site parking is available at the property.

What time is check-in at MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly.?

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly.?

Checkout is at 10:00 AM.

Where is MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly. located?

This family-friendly Miramar Beach holiday home is located by the sea, within 1 mi (2 km) of Miramar Beach and James Lee Park. Rainforest Black Light Golf & Arcade and Destin Commons are also within 3 miles (5 km).

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Reviews

MERMAID - Largest Heated Pool, Walk to Private Beach, GolfCart, Pet Friendly. Reviews

9.2

Wonderful

8.2

Cleanliness

9.8

Location
Rating 10 - Excellent. 84 out of 113 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 15 out of 113 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 10 out of 113 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 113 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 113 reviews

Reviews

Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
The house was perfect for what it is. A Beach house with everything you need. The rooms are perfect size for your family and the twin beds work out great. The pool was great. However it does need some work. The kids pool was a nice feature for my granddaughter. Being, that we have stayed in paradise retreat 3 years in a row. This is by far the best house we have stayed at. With it being the 1st house in the neighborhood and so close to the beach was absolutely perfect! Our host rosemary was great. Anything you need she will take care for your perfect stay. We are already planning next year's trip!!!!!
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Amazing

The house was beautiful and the short walk to the beach was breathtaking. The pool was wonderful. Everything you need is just a short distance. I would definitely recommend.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Close beach access

Rosemary was very easy to talk to! This house is excellent location! It is the first house in the quiet subdivision, so very easy access to the beach. Extremely short walk! Pool is very nice size and deep for older children!
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2024
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Very nice.

Loved everything, but the pool water was so hot in the afternoons due to no shade. I also thought the golf cart came with the price of the home. I will still rate it a 5/5 and will stay there again if we go back to Destin.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family Vacation

Best vacation ever! The house was beautiful and clean. There was plenty of room for everyone and plenty to do. The pool was wonderful and private. Short walk to a gated private beach with chair and umbrellas for rent. It was close to shops and the best restaurants. The beds were comfortable TV’s in all rooms. Board games and books available. Bikes, pool toys/floats and a golf cart in the garage as well as an extra refrigerator. We did not use any of the bikes or the golf cart but was nice they were so convenient. The owner was very helpful and answered all messages within minutes. I will definitely be back!
Stayed 5 nights in May 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Excellent location with a pool and easy access to white sand beaches

Selected the Mermaid home based on location and pool. Grand kids, 5 & 7, loved the pool (right size, we paid for heating, and deep (excellent for cannon balls!). They swam every day of their visit, regardless of the weather!!) The 5 min walk to white sand beaches was also a huge bonus as was less than 10 min drive to numerous restaurants. Beaches clean, wide, and kids enjoyed digging for treasure. When we drove, there's a free parking lots with in 5 mins as welll. The house was perfect for our stay. A master w/bath on one side of the house and 3 bedrooms on the other side with a huge family room in the middle. lots of space to spread-out. An older neighborhood, that had flat sidewalks and very little car traffic. Perhaps, the best takeaway, was working with the property manager, Rosemary. As the Mermaid house is a "mature" property, challenges are expected. Rosemary quickly responded and resolved each challenge. She was always positive and helpful. We'll stay again if we return to Miramar beach!
Stayed 33 nights in Jan 2024
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family Vacation

Honest review we loved this house. I’m going to start off with the positives. First, location was perfect super close to the beach plus private pool. The master bedroom bed was so comfortable loved the mattress!!! The living room couch was super comfy. Kitchen was a good size and had most utensils needed. The bikes were super fun! Very clean house. We had the best vacation! Now for the negatives: House could use some updates, the kitchen needs some good new non stick skillets and pizza pans to cook with,kitchen could use a dish drain stopper to hand wash dishes, the golf cart which we paid for that comes with house is electric however it would not keep a charge so we ended up renting a gas powered one which was amazing, pool had lots of ants around it outside (bought some ant spray and sprayed around pool which helped), pool was dirty and net to scoop out leaves and bugs had huge rip in it so was unable to do so, they did come clean it when asked to do so, it would be nice if living room had bigger tv with Roku stick so we could utilize Netflix. All in all I would totally rent this house again. Very clean and nice home. Rosemary was very tentative when needed. We had a great time! Thank you for amazing vacation.
Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Beautiful house close to the beach. Awesome private inground pool. Was was very clean and Rosemary does excellent job communicating. Will stay here again.
Stayed 7 nights in May 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Loved our stay…even with Tropical Storm Bertha blowing through during it. Our host was very helpful and responsive. The short walk to the beach and private access was a definite plus!
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Great location and the Host was awesome
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Great stay, would reserve again.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Miramar beach house

Great trip. Great place to stay with teenagers and grandparents!
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Was a great location. Loved how homey the house was and the decor was perfect. Our host, Mrs Rosemary, was very courteous, helpful, and was always quick to respond to our needs and questions. It was all we could have asked for and then some for a great vacation. Would definitely go back and absolutely will recommend to friends and loved ones!!!
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

May get-away

Over all visit turned out nice and what we needed.
Stayed 7 nights in May 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Amazing Stay!

Mermaid house was great! Location was so close to the beach and having the private beach entrance and beach area was so convenient. Our kids loved having the bikes to ride around the neighborhood, which is very quiet and we felt safe letting them ride whenever they wanted. The pool was huge and our family of 7 had plenty of room to all be in at the same time.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2025
Archival

10/10 Excellent

Wonderful week!

We had a wonderful stay at the Mermaid House! The home was roomy, clean and very close to the beach. We really enjoyed the pool and quiet neighborhood. We will definitely stay here again.
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Good

House was nice. Great location.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Mermaid house

We absolutely loved this house. It is so close to the beach, the house is adorable and the hosts are wonderful! 5 stars from our family! We will be returning!
Stayed 7 nights in May 2023
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Mermaid Stay

Overall was a great time and place. Pool was a great size for the entire family. Only issue at all was the HOA president telling us to move our golf cart as soon as we parked it to move cars around. When we told him what we were doing to rearrange he didn’t seem to care or be interested in what we said.
Stayed 8 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family fun

We took 4 grandkids ages 9-17. House was set up perfect. We paid for the pool to be heated and well worth the extra money!! Short, nice, easy walk to the beach. Clean. Loved having linens and towels, saved space on packing. Only complaint is wished there were better frying pans, but what's there definitely took care of our needs. Definitely will rent again.
Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Farmlife reboot!

Perfect all around we just feel like property needs a little TLC ! Thanks A Melon, Michelle
Stayed 6 nights in Sep 2023
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, communication, location, listing accuracy

Nice house - met our needs

We had a glitch getting in the house, key pads did not work. Rosemary had someone let us in quickly. Will be contacting her about no beach access.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2024
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Disliked: Cleanliness

Very hot house

Nice location, home needs many updates. Home stays really hot inside, doors dont seal. The house needs a good deep clean. Carpet needs cleaned in rooms.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2024
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Check-in, communication, location
Disliked: Cleanliness

Family vacation

We loved the area and hope to return but we will not stay at this house again. This house is very dirty and could use a little love. There is a garage but they don’t let you park inside. The golf cart is subpar, don’t rent it. The king bed is very soft and the others are very hard. I brought my own fry pan and I am glad I did. You have minimal towels and they don’t offer beach towels the pool was nice but it too needs updating. There are lots of rentals in the area in my opinion you should rent one of those.
Stayed 7 nights in Nov 2023
Verified review

2/10 Terrible

Liked: Check-in, communication, location
Disliked: Cleanliness

Beautiful beach, but very dirty house!

This house needs a deep cleaning! It’s very dirty and by dirty i mean filthy. We traveled with kids ages 3-10 and the property is just disgusting. It has a nice coastal vibe and a beautiful beach that’s located just 1min walking distance from the house, which is a game changer. The owner is older and maybe she doesn’t care about the cleanliness, but she really should invest in couple updates. The dryer requires 2 cycles to dry 6 towels, toaster is only working on 1 side, front door lock got stuck couple times (we couldn’t enter the house and had to contact the owner), bikes in the garage are old and rusty, the golf cart is veeeery old and not working at all, grill is in horrible condition, outside furniture are old and had mold all over (no furniture cushions), pool area needs a solid power washing. Inside of the house is disgusting and it made us so angry when we arrived. We stayed there for a week (8 people) and there were only 2 paper towels, 4 garbage bags, 6 rolls of toilet paper, no Windex and a tiny dish detergent. We had to buy everything ourselves which is ridiculous. The owner wanted to send a cleaning person, but the house should be cleaned before our arrival not when we needed some privacy and relaxation. I wish i could submit all the photos i took, but unfortunately it’s not an option when posting a review…Reconsider renting this property… that’s all i have to say!
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2025