Guidebook and House Rules
Guidebook and House Rules
Welcome!
We want to make sure you have everything you need for an exceptional stay.
As a reminder, your vacation rental property is located at
854 Amberway Drive, Pensacola, Florida .
For all your reservation information, including access to your vacation rental property:
Please contact Owner or your Local Host for any and all matters pertaining to your vacation rental home, whenever you have a question; want to communicate an issue; or otherwise need assistance.
Contact information :
Will be shared with you via confidential text message or email at your preference
Check-In / Check-Out
Your check-in time is 4pm and check-out time is 10am
Secure Guest Access
Each Airbnb property allows for secure and convenient guest access.
Arrival Information
Arrival and Parking:
Use GPS to locate the home. Upon arrival, you will find parking for up to 4 vehicles in the driveway. The garage is not available for parking.
Street parking is available, first come first serve.
Access Instructions:
After parking, walk from the driveway to the front door and use the smart lock and lock box instructions below to enter the home.
Lock Instructions:
Use the smart lock code provided to enter the home.
There's a guidebook binder regarding
Wireless Internet and Television Information:
Available on the Guest/s
Guidebook located on the left side of the fireplace ledge.
Washer and Dryer:
Washer and dryer are located in the garage which can be accessed from the dining room.
Trash:
Trash is picked up on Wednesday. The bins are located out by the street. There are bins for garbage and recycling.
Check Out:
Set AC to 79 during summer months when checking out.
Set heater to 65 during winter months when checking out.
To assist our housekeepers, please start a load of towels in the wash before you leave.
We’re here for your support
We’re here to help you create once-in-a-lifetime vacation memories.
Thank you for choosing The Mermaid Tale for your stay!
Thank you.
The Mermaid Tale Team
Think of Big Lagoon State Park as a gateway. It not only offers swimming, boating, fishing, camping, hiking and paddling, but adventurers also can begin or end a 1,515-mile sea kayaking journey on the Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail around the entire state. The top half of a kayak embedded in sand marks the launch site along with a box containing a weathered log book.
The park is also a gateway for the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail. The park is a stopover for more than 23 species of wood-warbler and a variety of ducks, sandpipers and black-bellied plovers. Bring binoculars or borrow a pair from the ranger station and roam the shore and extensive coastal forest, or climb the three-story observation tower for a bird’s-eye view.
Begin your outdoor adventure at Big Lagoon State Park!
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Big Lagoon State Park
12301 Gulf Beach HwyThink of Big Lagoon State Park as a gateway. It not only offers swimming, boating, fishing, camping, hiking and paddling, but adventurers also can begin or end a 1,515-mile sea kayaking journey on the Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail around the entire state. The top half of a kayak embedded in sand marks the launch site along with a box containing a weathered log book.
The park is also a gateway for the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail. The park is a stopover for more than 23 species of wood-warbler and a variety of ducks, sandpipers and black-bellied plovers. Bring binoculars or borrow a pair from the ranger station and roam the shore and extensive coastal forest, or climb the three-story observation tower for a bird’s-eye view.
Begin your outdoor adventure at Big Lagoon State Park!
MARCH - OCTOBER, 2022: Pensacola Bay City Ferry is a passenger ferry service that moves people between three destinations: Downtown Pensacola (750 Commendencia St in Pensacola), Pensacola Beach aka Quietwater Boardwalk (400 Quietwater Beach Rd in Pensacola Beach) and Fort Pickens at the Gulf Islands National Seashore. (The dock at Ft. Pickens is currently closed due to damage from hurricane Sally) Pensacola Bay City Ferry offers one way and round trip tickets throughout the day, as well as Group Rates. Pensacola Bay City Ferry uses two 149-passenger ferries which feature concessions, restrooms, an indoor climate-controlled seating area and an upper level for beautiful panoramic views. Our Mine Storeroom is located near the Ft. Pickens ferry dock (currently closed) and offers drinks for purchase! MARCH-NOVEMBER: Blue Angel Practice Cruises. Catch our hometown heroes perform their practice shows over NAS Pensacola. Sunset Cruises; watch the sun go down over Pensacola Bay
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Pensacola Bay Cruises
750 Commendencia StMARCH - OCTOBER, 2022: Pensacola Bay City Ferry is a passenger ferry service that moves people between three destinations: Downtown Pensacola (750 Commendencia St in Pensacola), Pensacola Beach aka Quietwater Boardwalk (400 Quietwater Beach Rd in Pensacola Beach) and Fort Pickens at the Gulf Islands National Seashore. (The dock at Ft. Pickens is currently closed due to damage from hurricane Sally) Pensacola Bay City Ferry offers one way and round trip tickets throughout the day, as well as Group Rates. Pensacola Bay City Ferry uses two 149-passenger ferries which feature concessions, restrooms, an indoor climate-controlled seating area and an upper level for beautiful panoramic views. Our Mine Storeroom is located near the Ft. Pickens ferry dock (currently closed) and offers drinks for purchase! MARCH-NOVEMBER: Blue Angel Practice Cruises. Catch our hometown heroes perform their practice shows over NAS Pensacola. Sunset Cruises; watch the sun go down over Pensacola Bay
Bird Sanctuary for exotic birds. These wonderful creatures sometimes live a long as 80 to 100 years and outlive their favorite person. A non-for profit organization. Admission fee is $ 5.00.
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Uncle Sandy's Macaw Bird Park
9513 N Palafox StBird Sanctuary for exotic birds. These wonderful creatures sometimes live a long as 80 to 100 years and outlive their favorite person. A non-for profit organization. Admission fee is $ 5.00.
Historic Pensacola Village includes self guided and guided museums as well as living history programming. The self guided museums include the Museum of Commerce, Museum of Industry, the Julee Cottage, the Manuel Barrios Cottage, and the John Appleyard Cottage. Tours include: 11:00 a 1920s Tour of the Lear/Rocheblave House; 1:00 a Tour of Old Christ Church and the Dorr House; and, 2:30 Tour of the Lavalle House. Unified ticket also provides admission to the Pensacola Museum of History, the Pensacola Children's Museum, and the Pensacola Museum of Art
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Old Pensacola Village
205 Zaragoza StHistoric Pensacola Village includes self guided and guided museums as well as living history programming. The self guided museums include the Museum of Commerce, Museum of Industry, the Julee Cottage, the Manuel Barrios Cottage, and the John Appleyard Cottage. Tours include: 11:00 a 1920s Tour of the Lear/Rocheblave House; 1:00 a Tour of Old Christ Church and the Dorr House; and, 2:30 Tour of the Lavalle House. Unified ticket also provides admission to the Pensacola Museum of History, the Pensacola Children's Museum, and the Pensacola Museum of Art
Ways to Experience Downtown Pensacola:
1. Bayou Buzz Coffee Tasting Tour
2. Hop-on-Hop-Off Tour
3. Ghost and Graveyard Tour
4. Segway Tour Downtown
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Downtown
Ways to Experience Downtown Pensacola:
1. Bayou Buzz Coffee Tasting Tour
2. Hop-on-Hop-Off Tour
3. Ghost and Graveyard Tour
4. Segway Tour Downtown
By Chelle Koster Walton:
Gulf Islands National Seashore of Pensacola protects 5,842 acres of public land and 18,953 acres of water along 52 miles of Gulf and bay shoreline around Pensacola. The seashore is not continuous, but spread out over one Florida island, parts of other islands and Mississippi. National parks and other protected public-use areas provide access to the intriguing terrain and opportunity for playing in the seductive sand.
The largest parcel lies within Fort Pickens at the west end of Pensacola Beach on Santa Rosa Island. During the Civil War, the Union and Confederacy divided Pensacola. While Rebel forces occupied Fort McRee on nearby Perdido Key and Fort Barrancas on the mainland, Federal troops moved into Fort Pickens, one of only three Union strongholds in Florida. In later years, the fort gained attention when the government sent Geronimo and his band there for incarceration. Tourists by the boatload would sail by in hopes of a glimpse of the mighty American Indian warrior.
The massive brick fort and its ruins spread over the park's 1,742 acres. The island slims down as you enter the park, to let you glimpse views of both the Gulf and the bay. At Langdon Beach, battery remnants begin to crop up among the dunes. Picnic shelters are found both on beach and bay. A Dune Nature Trail snakes through this sea- and wind-whipped environment that turns magnolias, pines and oaks into bonsai versions. Wild flowers and sea grasses add color to the searing whiteness and sightseeing for bicyclists following a 2.2-mile bike trail.
The actual fort structure occupies the very western tip of the island. Here, visitors can travel back in time through the archways and tunnels, to the escarpments, casements, bastions and cannon. Tours can be self-guided or guided. On certain nights, candlelight tours add an element of historical authenticity and eerie romance.
East of Fort Pickens, between Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach, the Opal Beach Area Gulf Islands National Seashore of Florida is less facilitating, but perhaps even more alluring with its uninterrupted stretches of wind-sculpted dunes rippling as far as the eye can see. Salty wind off the Gulf sends the fine sand blowing across the road like sugar coating. Signs warn motorists not to leave the road. The unheeding sometimes get stuck in sand drifts. Nearly eight miles of road traverse this departure from civilization, with only an occasional parking lot and restroom facility to mark human presence and allow access to the Gulf.
On the mainland side of Santa Rosa Sound on the Gulf Breeze peninsula, Naval Live Oaks Reservation accounts for 1,337 acres of the national seashore. It has a small beach, but the emphasis here is on nature hiking and education. Five miles of trail penetrate live oak and gray squirrel habitat and pass the shell middens left by ancient American Indian cultures. The visitors' center holds exhibits on archaeology and the harvesting of live oak trees.
The patch of National Seashore occupied by Fort Barrancas lies also on the mainland at Naval Air Station Pensacola, overlooking the entrance to Pensacola Bay and Fort Pickens, erstwhile enemy camp. You can tour the fort on your own or with a guide.
To the east of Fort Barrancas, on Perdido Key, Gulf Islands protects 1,041 acres of stunning dunescape. The Johnson Beach Day Use Area supplies access to the seashore at Perdido's east end. It's a popular spot for beach-goers, but you can easily lose the crowds on the six miles of beach. Fort McRee once stood sentry at island's end, but remains have been cleared away or have long since slipped into the sea.
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Gulf Islands National Seashore
1400 Fort Pickens RoadBy Chelle Koster Walton:
Gulf Islands National Seashore of Pensacola protects 5,842 acres of public land and 18,953 acres of water along 52 miles of Gulf and bay shoreline around Pensacola. The seashore is not continuous, but spread out over one Florida island, parts of other islands and Mississippi. National parks and other protected public-use areas provide access to the intriguing terrain and opportunity for playing in the seductive sand.
The largest parcel lies within Fort Pickens at the west end of Pensacola Beach on Santa Rosa Island. During the Civil War, the Union and Confederacy divided Pensacola. While Rebel forces occupied Fort McRee on nearby Perdido Key and Fort Barrancas on the mainland, Federal troops moved into Fort Pickens, one of only three Union strongholds in Florida. In later years, the fort gained attention when the government sent Geronimo and his band there for incarceration. Tourists by the boatload would sail by in hopes of a glimpse of the mighty American Indian warrior.
The massive brick fort and its ruins spread over the park's 1,742 acres. The island slims down as you enter the park, to let you glimpse views of both the Gulf and the bay. At Langdon Beach, battery remnants begin to crop up among the dunes. Picnic shelters are found both on beach and bay. A Dune Nature Trail snakes through this sea- and wind-whipped environment that turns magnolias, pines and oaks into bonsai versions. Wild flowers and sea grasses add color to the searing whiteness and sightseeing for bicyclists following a 2.2-mile bike trail.
The actual fort structure occupies the very western tip of the island. Here, visitors can travel back in time through the archways and tunnels, to the escarpments, casements, bastions and cannon. Tours can be self-guided or guided. On certain nights, candlelight tours add an element of historical authenticity and eerie romance.
East of Fort Pickens, between Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach, the Opal Beach Area Gulf Islands National Seashore of Florida is less facilitating, but perhaps even more alluring with its uninterrupted stretches of wind-sculpted dunes rippling as far as the eye can see. Salty wind off the Gulf sends the fine sand blowing across the road like sugar coating. Signs warn motorists not to leave the road. The unheeding sometimes get stuck in sand drifts. Nearly eight miles of road traverse this departure from civilization, with only an occasional parking lot and restroom facility to mark human presence and allow access to the Gulf.
On the mainland side of Santa Rosa Sound on the Gulf Breeze peninsula, Naval Live Oaks Reservation accounts for 1,337 acres of the national seashore. It has a small beach, but the emphasis here is on nature hiking and education. Five miles of trail penetrate live oak and gray squirrel habitat and pass the shell middens left by ancient American Indian cultures. The visitors' center holds exhibits on archaeology and the harvesting of live oak trees.
The patch of National Seashore occupied by Fort Barrancas lies also on the mainland at Naval Air Station Pensacola, overlooking the entrance to Pensacola Bay and Fort Pickens, erstwhile enemy camp. You can tour the fort on your own or with a guide.
To the east of Fort Barrancas, on Perdido Key, Gulf Islands protects 1,041 acres of stunning dunescape. The Johnson Beach Day Use Area supplies access to the seashore at Perdido's east end. It's a popular spot for beach-goers, but you can easily lose the crowds on the six miles of beach. Fort McRee once stood sentry at island's end, but remains have been cleared away or have long since slipped into the sea.
Conseils aux voyageurs
À ne pas manquer
NO SMOKING!
THIS PROPERTY IS NO SMOKING POLICY:
CIGARETTES
MARIJUANA