Holiday Inn Express Pensacola Beach

Absolutely the best find on the Beach! Amazing staff, fabulous rooms all with Bay front Views.
We could not have asked for a better place to spend the dreary month of January! Thank you to the GM and whole staff for making us your family!

This hotel is wonderful! Reasonably priced for a spectacular ocean view, great staff, & the rooms are nicely decorated. Go from the pool to the beach & back again. Or just chilax on your patio to the soothing beach wave sounds… ahhh.

I absolutely loved this hotel!
Here’s why:
*Location – Every room has a gulf view! There’s literally not a bad room in the whole place.
*Fantastic staff – Every single person was genuinely sweet and helpful. You can tell they love their jobs and love taking care of people.
*Just-​what-​I-​needed amenities – This is a Holiday Inn Express, not a luxury hotel. But that doesn’t mean they skimp on what you need. The hotel is really pretty, and the rooms are extremely clean and well-​kempt. I love that they have a fridge in every room, so you can store all your beach bevvies. And the complimentary breakfast is legit. They have eggs, breakfast meats, potatoes, oatmeal, fruit, yogurt, pancakes, hot cinnamon rolls, cereal, and more. For a free breakfast, this is a winner.
–Price – With so many great things, the hotel is still a bargain. When I was there (in the off-​season, December) we paid about $ 150/​night.
If you’re in the area, I cannot recommend this hotel enough. For a nice, clean room, beautiful views, and free breakfast — Holiday Inn Express is a winner.

Absolutely amazing place for the price with the best view of the Gulf. Being a platinum member had its perks too when they advised me that my upgrade was available to a king suite. Staff is extremely wonderful and helpful. Highly Recommended!

This place is incredible!!! I have stayed in many hotels on Pensacola Beach, but this is by far the best one. Everything about this hotel is awesome!!!

We love everything about this hotel. The location is wonderful, so the beach isn’t very crowded. The service is wonderful. Rooms are very clean, and each one has a gulf view with a balcony. We will be back!

This property has the best employees. They are welcoming and knowledgeable. The rooms are clean and beds are comfy. Problems are really poor air conditioning and wifi is non existent. We had a difficult time sleeping because of the room temperature.

Not an ordinary hotel… A BED & BREAKFAST ON THE BEACH! Even before check in the hospitality began. After making a post to their Facebook page, Beverly, the General Manager contacted me via phone thanking me for booking a stay at the resort. Everything upon arrival was set to perfection. My daughter who arrived earlier checked in with ease. I was greeted warmly by Leslie after a long flight with delays & found room 804, one of the Executive Suites, in immaculate condition. It was a condo like room with 2 full baths, kitchen, living room & full terrace overlooking the city lights of Pensacola & the beach. Every need during the stay was met with courtesy & professionalism. The front desk staff… Quan, Leslie & Diane couldn’t have been more helpful! Their smiles invited you in at every turn. The aroma of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies fill the lobby at 1:30p every afternoon & there was always fresh FL oranges to enjoy. Breakfast in the mornings gave a wide variety to both dieters wanting to eat healthy & those that like to splurge on calories, carbs & high fat. Everything was delicious, fresh & kept neat, clean & well stocked. Housekeeping did an exceptional job!!! Beds stripped & tightly made with hospital corners nearing Marine Corps standards. Not one thing in the Executive Suite was out of place once the Housekeepers finished their sweep of the room! I hope I remember her name correctly… Robin…extremely professional & kindhearted has been there 3 years & her love of her job shows in every detail & warm attitude. Beverley (GM), be very proud of the hotel you manage… it far exceeds the standards & quality of many other fine hotels I’ve enjoyed. This was just the 1^st of many more stays I will plan to visit my daughter. It really does feel more like a B&B than chain hotel. Thank you to all who made my stay so pleasant & memorable… Dorothy Shannon (Derry NH)

Great hotel for the intermediate price range. Free breakfast buffet was a great value as was the gorgeous ocean front view from our room (every room gets this view!).

I stayed here with a friend for a wedding. Our experience was great! The front desk staff was very friendly and parking was easy. Our room was clean and comfortable and we enjoyed the gorgeous views of the ocean. If I am in the area again, I will definitely stay here!

I’m always a sucker for a good old Holiday Inn Express and this one is a jewel. Incredible location, beautiful rooms, great common areas, friendly staff, and a nice breakfast. Prices off season are about $ 150 and every room is on the water. Hard to beat!

Great hotel! Right on the beach. Very friendly staff, nice rooms, very clean and the beds– oh my, so comfortable! The view off the balcony is wonderful.
They do not have a tiki bar, or a shuttle van to get you to and from the air port. But, the service and hotel are absolutely wonderful.

Hardly a five star. It has no:
* restaurant
* bar
* silent air conditioning
* more than three drawers for clothes
* concierge
* bellhop to help with luggage and explain the room’s amenities
But it deserves four stars because it has:
* Beverly it’s super attentive and friendly manager
* super friendly and helpful staff
* wonderful gulf view and surf sounds
* quiet clean well maintained rooms

Nice (all) golf view rooms. Unbelievable nice staff, clear beach, and free parking lot.
Just one negative side-​internet connection. You need to reconnect every time you open your device.

I’ve stayed at this hotel twice, mainly because it’s located at the end of Pensacola Beach, bordered by pristine Fort Pickens. It’s clean, quiet, well maintained, and every room has a Gulf-​front view.
Really my only complaint is fairly minor, which is that the wi-​fi signal is all but nonexistent on either end of the hotel. This is because while each floor has a dedicated router, the routers are located in the center of the floors. So the rooms located near the middle of the floors get great wi-​fi reception, while those on the end get almost none at all.
That said, the hotel is clean and comfortable, and the location on Pensacola Beach is great. We’ve stayed here two years in a row, and we’ll be staying here again.
One important tip: On the first day you arrive, do buy a pass to nearby Fort Pickens. It’s just down the road to the west, and it’s one of the reasons this Holiday Inn’s location is so good. The beaches at Ft. Pickens are uncrowded, pristine, and your money goes to support an important nesting ground for birds. The cost is low, too: about $ 8.00 per car, and the pass covers seven full days after you buy it.

I would have given this place 5 stars, but what really got me was the air conditioning in the room itself. The person nearest to the AC unit got cold air blowing in their face the entire night. Not to mention the fact that the AC unit was so loud that my family members and I couldn’t really sleep through it. At one point, we just turned off the AC just to get a little bit of rest. Their free Wi-​Fi was also not that great. It worked only sporadically at times. Other than these two things, there were a lot of good things about this hotel.
Like everyone else, I really liked the ocean view from our room. I liked that the beach was steps away from the hotel as well. Just the sound and smell of the ocean was truly relaxing. The sand was nice and soft too. Though, the breakfast here is standard fare. Nothing spectacular. I think the best breakfast items were their pork sausages and biscuit gravy. Otherwise, I really liked their complimentary snacks and filtered water. One afternoon, they had hot, homemade chocolate chip cookies available to guests. It was delicious! Also, after breakfast (at any time), you can also get complimentary microwave popcorn, coffee, hot chocolate, and various teas. Perfect for late nights watching HBO in the hotel to just relax after a day of sightseeing. In addition, even if we chose not to have our room made up for a day, the housekeeper was still kind enough to leave a bag of clean towels for us to use if we needed it.
Their fitness center was also nice and clean. There were several machines to choose from. They had magazines for you to read, a plasma TV in case working out got boring, complimentary workout towels, and filtered water (to refill with your complimentary water bottle).
Overall, I really do like this hotel. I am hoping they will fix the AC situation so that I can make an excuse to come back and visit Pensacola. =)

I’m glad to see this had a perfectly solid 5-​star rating, because I felt the same way. You’ll enjoy all the same hospitality you’d expect from Holiday Inn. Needless to say the location is perfect, you really can’t ask for more on Pensacola Beach. Staff and guests were equally friendly. I always found great conversation in the hot tub and lazy river.

This hotel I can actually say I felt was one of the better hotels I’ve stayed in. From the moment I walked in and was greeted by the staff to the minute I checked out was a memorable experience.
The staff greeted me with a warm friendly smile and hello, acknowledged my son and gave him a beach bucket and shovel to keep and play with on the beach!
The lobby was very modern and updated! Our room was HUGE! Had a full size desk, oversized chair, two queen beds with ample pillows, a full size closet and bathroom, TV and a mini fridge!!! Oh and did I mention every room has a gulf beach view and balcony!!! YES EVERY ROOM!!!
Complimentary breakfast? This hotel has it, and it’s available till 10am!!! Yes that means you can actually sleep in and still make breakfast!!! And they put any breakfast you’ve ever had to shame! Milk, orange juice, apple juice and coffee are some of the drinks. They had eggs, biscuits and gravy, sausage and ham, yogurt, cereal, breakfast bars, fruit and so much more!!!
Housekeeping was even friendly! They had the room put back together before we were done with breakfast!!! Super fast and very friendly!
The hotel price was very reasonable, being that the room had a balcony and was very spacious with complimentary breakfast. It was worth it and I will be staying here again!

We are staying here on Our next visit to Pensacola Beach. All the rooms are gulf front view. Our room was very roomy and they already had a crib for my son in the room (along with baby wash, lotion, and rubber duckies).
The room was really nice and modern. I loved sitting out on the balcony listening to the waves crashing. Free hot breakfast. Free swim diapers for babies/​toddlers.
Customer service was great

Unilocal came through once again. I’ll provide some background first …
I have the luxury of not having to plan trips out. As such, when I go on vacation, I literally have nothing planned. I blow with the wind and allow last-​minute deals to guide me on my adventures. It’s a thrilling way to travel and adds excitement on every leg of the trip.
In order to successfully execute on such excursions, I rely on iPhone travel apps to find me bargains during my travels. Which brings me to this review of Holiday Inn Express.
On the final leg of my trip from Fort Lauderdale to New Orleans (and back), I opted to stop in Pensacola (this was a road trip and I was travelling in my own car). I read the Unilocal reviews, and this hotel received high marks from elite Unilocalers and all Unilocalers. While I was in New Orleans, I booked this place on Kayak for around $ 120. Three hours later, I arrived.
Tip: The On-​Star directions people guided me to the wrong place. Bear in mind that there is also a Holiday Inn Resort one mile north of this place.
What an awesome and economical choice. They placed me on the fifth floor and I had a wonderful view of the Gulf of Mexico (both the sunset and sunrise). The room was emaculate. The TV was large. The bed was comfortable beyond description and the pillows were nice and fluffy. The shower is therapeutic.
When I checked in, the person behind the desk was very helpful. She recommended a place to eat dinner, and made me aware that breakfast was on the house.
I walked around the place, and it’s a very simple, yet highly practical setup. It has a nice little pool, an exercise room, a beautiful and well-​kept building, ample parking, and all rooms have a great view of the Gulf.
Unilocal played a crucial role in my trip. My mode of operation can lend itself to bad decisions, but Unilocal certainly reduces those … Case in point: Holiday Inn Express.