Radisson Resort at the Port Pool Area
Port Canaveral is one of our favorite places to cruise from for several reasons. The port area and the cruise terminal are easy to navigate. That’s good news especially for the folks who are driving to the port and parking their car there during the cruise.
Radisson Resort at the Port is our favorite place to stay when cruising from Port Canaveral. (We prefer a beachfront hotel when we are actually visiting Cocoa Beach.) We love the pool area, a fabulous Tiki bar, and easy transportation to the ship. We can’t wait to hang out with cruising friends at the Tiki Bar in the pool area the night before the cruise
Here are some interesting restaurants we’ve enjoyed in the Port Canaveral area:
Rusty’s Seafood & Oyster Bar: Roger especially enjoyed this place, because he loves oysters on the half shell. We enjoyed a fabulous group meal on the open-air deck of this restaurant, with fun live entertainment that had us all swaying our hips, even in our chairs!
Roberto’s Little Havana: This restaurant is just a little more than a diner, but I love trying new kinds of food, and this was my first taste of Cuban entrees, which I love. Good food, good service, so this might be a place you want to try!
Durango’s Steakhouse: Some friends picked this place to meet up with us, against our objection that you don’t eat steak on a coast. To our surprise, this was among the best steaks we’ve ever eaten, and we ate their twice during our week-long visit. Highly recommend this place for steaks!
Florida’s Seafood Bar & Grill: This restaurant is the furthest away from our hotel, but I wanted to throw it into the list, because we enjoyed a fabulous seafood meal here.
Rusty's Seafood Menuhere one evening.
While you’re out on the road headed to or from your restaurant, I highly recommend a stop in Ron Jon’s Surf Shop. We aren’t big shoppers, but we really enjoy visiting these stores, and we never leave empty-handed. The most comfortable beach sandals I’ve ever worn came from here!
We visited Cocoa Beach the first time after taking our kids on a whirlwind visit to the four Disney Parks, Universal Studio and Sea World in Orlando. We had scheduled three days in Cocoa Beach for beach time before flying home. As we pulled into our hotel, two long limos pulled out of the parking lot, and we commented that someone “important” must be staying there.
Later that night, our son, who was only 17 at the time, slipped out of our room for a little time to himself downstairs, and returned saying that we could get a free drink in the bar if we said we’d seen Tommy Lee Jones or Clint Eastwood at the hotel. Apparently that’s who the limos were for!
The next morning, Roger and Rachel headed down to the beach early, while Eric and I were relaxing a little longer in the room. As they rounded the corner from the elevator, they ran into Clint Eastwood who was just coming in from an early swim. (Yes, their bodies collided.) Roger was shocked, Rachel didn’t know who he was, so they just moved on, but Roger said Clint was in great shape for an older guy. We later found out they were filming Space Cowboys at that time, a movie that still makes us smile.
If you have time, you may want to add on some extra days before and/or after our cruise in the Port Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, Orlando area, because there’s so much to see and do there.
