Fort Walton Beach, FL (VPS-Northwest Florida Regional)
Airport, Fort Walton Beach, FL (VPS-Northwest Florida Regional)
33 min drive
Rooms & beds
2 bedrooms (sleeps 6)
Hallway
1 Single Bunk Bed
Master Bedroom
1 King Bed
Second Bedroom
1 Queen Bed
2 bathrooms
Bathroom 1
Bathroom 2
Spaces
Kitchen
Balcony
Dining area
About this property
Emerald Dunes #405 | Luxe Gulf Front Condo + Pool
In search of the perfect Destin, Florida condo rental? Your search stops at Emerald Dunes 405! Nicely appointed with beachy décor and a cool, coastal theme, this beachfront condo will be your new favorite place to stay year after year.
Once you enter this corner condo, you’ll find that Emerald Dunes 405 can comfortably accommodate six guests among its two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The Gulf views are certainly something to marvel at as well, as they seem to stretch for miles! Pull up a chair, sit back, and watch the waves roll in. Whip up a meal in the fully equipped kitchen, adorned with granite counters and stainless-steel appliances. You will find that the breakfast bar is long enough to accommodate five people in total and fit a large (and tasty!) spread. If you are the lucky one who sleeps in the master bedroom, you will love the en-suite bathroom complete with a dual granite vanity.
Then, there are the amenities. Soak up some sun at the pool, or head to the beach and sink down into the powder-soft sand. After a long day of travel, there is nothing like relaxing in the hot tub. In addition, barbecue grills at Emerald Dunes invite you to grill up the day’s catch with friends and family.
Because of this condo’s location in Crystal Beach, you’ll be close to area shopping, dining and entertainment. You can walk across the street to grab breakfast and lunch at The Crystal Beach Coffee Company. The sidewalks lining this community are wonderful for bike riding and rentals are available across the street. Henderson Beach State Park is just to the west of this accommodation offering miles of pristine shoreline for long walks on the powder white beach.
Your perfect vacation begins at Emerald Dunes 405. Call or book online today!
Clean Coverlet Program: This property provides fresh and clean bed linens, including comforters and coverlets, laundered prior to every check-in.
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
On-site parties or group events are strictly prohibited
Host has not indicated whether there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property; consider bringing a portable detector with you on the trip
Host has indicated that there is a smoke detector on the property
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher
About the area
Destin
Located on the beach, this condo is in Crystal Beach, a neighbourhood in Destin. Shoppers can check out HarborWalk Village, while everyone can enjoy the natural beauty of Miramar Beach and Destin Beaches. Looking to enjoy an event or a game while in town? See what's happening at Bluewater Bay Tennis Center or Preston Hood Athletic Complex. Jet skiing, scuba diving and snorkelling offer great chances to get out on the surrounding water, or you can seek out an adventure with cycling nearby.
Destin, FL
What's nearby
Miramar Beach - 2 min walk - 0.2 km
Shore at Crystal Beach Park - 2 min walk - 0.2 km
Destin Commons - 10 min walk - 0.8 km
Emerald Coast Centre - 14 min walk - 1.2 km
James Lee Beach - 17 min walk - 1.5 km
Getting around
Fort Walton Beach, FL (VPS-Northwest Florida Regional) - 29 min drive
Restaurants
Circle K - 10 min walk
Starbucks - 12 min walk
El Jalisco Destin - 17 min walk
Cracker Barrel - 11 min walk
Miller's Ale House - 10 min walk
Frequently asked questions
Does Emerald Dunes #405 | Luxe Gulf Front Condo + Pool have a pool?
Yes, this property has a pool.
How much does it cost to stay at Emerald Dunes #405 | Luxe Gulf Front Condo + Pool?
As of 9 May 2026, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at Emerald Dunes #405 | Luxe Gulf Front Condo + Pool on 28 May 2026 start from AU$592, including taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.
Is Emerald Dunes #405 | Luxe Gulf Front Condo + Pool pet-friendly?
No, pets are not allowed at this property.
How much is parking at Emerald Dunes #405 | Luxe Gulf Front Condo + Pool?
On-site parking is available at the property.
What time is check-in at Emerald Dunes #405 | Luxe Gulf Front Condo + Pool?
Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.
What time is check-out at Emerald Dunes #405 | Luxe Gulf Front Condo + Pool?
Checkout is at 9:00 AM.
Where is Emerald Dunes #405 | Luxe Gulf Front Condo + Pool located?
Nestled on the beach, this Crystal Beach condo building is just steps away from Shore at Crystal Beach Park and Miramar Beach. Destin Beaches is 2.4 mi (3.8 km) away.
Reviews
9.4
Exceptional
Reviews are presented in chronological order, subject to a moderation process, and verified unless otherwise labelled.
Thank you for your kind words! We're delighted you enjoyed your stay. We look forward to welcoming you back soon for another memorable stay.
Your Southern Team
Wonderful condo. Great location, clean, easy to check in. Great experience and we’ll definitely be back!
Thomas W.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2025
Response from VrboOwner on 25 Oct 2025
We're thrilled you enjoyed your stay at the property! Your positive feedback is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to welcoming you back. Thank you for choosing us!
Love the views. Very nice property. Would stay again
Luanne B.
Stayed 28 nights in Feb 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 24 Sept 2022
Thank you for the positive review! Here at Southern we pride ourselves in providing an expert level of customer service while supplying quality properties and creating lasting Southern Moments! Come back and see us soon!
Verified
10/10 Excellent
Verified traveller
20 May 2019
Vickie
Enjoyed our stay! Condo has beautiful ocean view, very clean, was equipped with everything we needed. Will definitely stay here again.
Verified traveller
Stayed 3 nights in May 2019
Response from VrboOwner on 6 Mar 2020
Hello,
We are so glad to hear you had everything you needed for a perfect vacation! We hope to see you again soon on your next trip!
Best,
Your Southern Team
Clean, comfortable and modern accommodations overlooking the beautiful gulf with white clean beaches! Close to stores, restaurants and museums too. Sorry to leave it.
Diana C.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2020
Response from VrboOwner on 14 Nov 2020
Hello Diana, Thank you for your review and feedback. We are glad to hear you had a great experience. We hope that you come back next year for another memorable vacation!
Kindest Regards,
Your Southern Team
Hello Mark and Paula, We love a good friend vacation and we are happy to know that you had a great time! Thank you for your review! We hope to see you again soon! Kindest Regards, Your Southern Team
This condo was so nice and very clean. Had a huge pantry closet to store a lot of our food and the huge island was nice as well. The views from this condo were amazing and beach access was very convenient. Highly recommend this condo.
Taylor L.
Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 20 Sept 2022
Hello Taylor, Thank you for sharing the positive review. We also LOVE a good view and a big kitchen! Hope to see you again in the near future! Kindest Regards, Your Southern Team
Our family travels to Florida once a year. Between Siesta Key and Destin love the Gulf with its white sand. This property was very nice right on the beach, great view, roomy, everything you need for a relaxing getaway!
Thanks!
Janell H.
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 24 Sept 2022
Hello Janell, We love a good family vacation and we are happy to know that you had a great time! Thank you for your review! We hope to see you again next year! Kindest Regards, Your Southern Team
Hello Rose,
Thank you for your review and feedback. We are glad to hear you had a great experience. We hope that you come back next year for another memorable vacation!
Kindest Regards,
Your Southern Team
What a pleasure it was to vacation at this beautiful property. It was clean, well decorated, and spacious for four adults and 2 children. With easy access to the beach, and breath taking views from our balcony, we highly recommend this property. I know that not all rentals are updated, so be sure to do your research. The check in and check out process were a breeze, too. The pool was refreshing, as was the hot tub. Close to so many restaurants and shopping, I cant imagine staying anywhere else in Destin. The elevator did go out a few times during our stay, but four flight of stairs are worth it to stay in this gem of a location.
nicole S.
Stayed 5 nights in May 2019
Response from VrboOwner on 6 Mar 2020
We love a good family vacation and we are happy to know that you had a great time! Thank you for your review! We hope to see you again next year!
Not one issue. NOT ONE. Oh, maybe the TV was a little frustrating -limited channels and complicated streaming services and the table in the dining table is odd to sit at but it only mattered because the weather was so cold and rainy. Beds were super comfy. Perfectly clean. Every available kitchen item. Washer/dryer. Truly an excellent property.
Stacy H.
Stayed 9 nights in Oct 2019
Response from VrboOwner on 6 Mar 2020
Hello Stacy, thank you your taking the time to review your stay. It is wonderful to hear you took full advantage of everything this condo has to offer. We will certainly pass on the feedback regarding the TV channels/streaming services to make this more streamlined for our guests. We would love to host you again on your next trip to the Gulf coast! Kindest Regards, Your Southern Team
Nice but over the top too strict with ridiculous rules
Dryer burnt several pieces of clothing. Parking pass and voucher for umbrella and chairs were not in room. Security aka deputy dog is over the top ridiculously strict. Everything else was amazing.
Teresa M.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 5 Nov 2022
Thank you for your feedback! We are thrilled you enjoyed your time with us. We hope to host you again soon. - Your Southern Team
Great stay, until housekeeping barged in on us an hr before our checkout time
Our trip was a success, and we only had one complaint. On the day of our checkout at 9 am mind you, housekeeping decided to ring our doorbell and proceed to walk in without permission. We told them that our checkout time is at 9 am and why are you an hour early. They apologized and I guess forgot they already came to our room. 30 mins later, housekeeping walked into our room again, and that's when we became annoyed. I give our stay 7 out of 10, only due to housekeeping coming in our room on 2 separate occasions, and that was the only thing that would have made our trip perfect.
Julian B.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2023
Response from VrboOwner on 17 June 2023
Hello Julian,
Thank you for your review and feedback. We are glad to hear you had a great experience. We assure you that we have heard your complaints and will use this as improvement criteria going forward. We hope that you come back next year for another memorable vacation!
Kindest Regards,
Your Southern Team
This property was amazing. We had a couple bad encounters with the owner of the building. He was rude on more than one occasion, got in my face on the pool deck for having my one year old chilDs juice and a seltzer when we were checking on my husband and other kids swimming. He told me to get the drinks off his pool deck right this second and if I didn’t follow his rules I would be kicked off his property. Other than that the condo was amazing and the view was breathtaking. One thing that needs to be better is there were no wash clothes for the kitchen and the dryer left black marks on our clothing. Other than that I would definitely stay here again!!!
Andrea G.
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2021
Response from VrboOwner on 21 Oct 2021
Hello Andrea,
We are so happy to hear you enjoyed your stay. We do apologize for any rude behavior on the pool deck and the dryer leaving marks on clothes. We have not had any other reports of this. We do only provide one washcloth/bath towel per guest and one kitchen towel. We hope you do decide to come and stay with us again.
Sunny Regards,
Your Southern Team
Archival
10/10 Excellent
margie d.
27 Oct 2010
My stay in October
Just got back from spending a week at Emerald Dunes. The water was very clean and the sand as white a snow. It was a great place to spend a week in October. There is every little wait when you go out to eat. We had 5 days of clean beach but on the last day there was a lot to jelly fish but that is what is the was it is sometimes. The view is great and it is really nice to have the end unit. The master and the second bedroom have great views of the gulf and the beds look new. The bathroom are a little small but who wants to spend much time in the bathroom when you have the gulf steps away. The chairs in the living room are a little worn for wear but other than that every things is great. We did not do any cooking but looking at everything that was in the kitchen I would not have a problem with fixing a meal. Thanks for a great week in October and looking foward to a great week in June. .
margie d.
Response from VrboOwner on 3 Nov 2022
We love a good family vacation, and we are happy to know that you had a great time! We here at Southern pride ourselves in providing quality guest services and products to our guest. Our 24 hours Guest Service Team is always available to assist with any issues. We would like to ask in the future, to please let us know if any issues come up so we can quickly address them and get your stay with us back on track. We look forward to hosting you again here on the Gulf Coast. – Your Southern Team
The location of this condo was great however the family renting above us all week with 4 young kids got up every morning at 06:45am and ran back and forth slamming doors. So much for a relaxing vacation and sleeping in. They didn't leave a beach chair and umbrella voucher so had to play the email and text game for 2 days before they would allow us to get our chairs on the beach. Would have been nice to have them the first day we arrived but with out the voucher they told us they couldn't do anything even though there were multiple chairs not being used all day. They are included with your rental so they should have been available to us the first day. Our check out was at 0900am our last day and the cleaning lady came barging in at 07:45 am and scared my daughter. Happened again at 0800am so we decided to just leave and hour early. I thought it was extremely rude considering that we couldn't check into the property on our first day until exactly 4pm unless you want to pay $60.00 extra to enter one hour early. We left our place spotless so I know it was available by 10am for the following family to check early and enjoy the day.
William G.
Stayed 7 nights in May 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 15 Sept 2022
Hello William,
Thank you for your review and feedback. While we do our best to make sure that things are prepared and ready for your arrival, we do apologize that this was something that was missed in the way of beach service and will be fixed for future guest experience. In regards to the clean, we apologize that you experienced this, this is definitely not the way that we handle check-outs and we are looking further into this. Despite this, we do love hearing that the area and location worked out well for your family and do hope that the next time you visit the Emerald Coast you do allow us the chance to show you what a true Southern 5 star stay can be!
Kindest Regards, Your Southern Team
We found the property to be well kept and enjoyed the proximity to the beach. The beach attendant was helpful and we enjoyed having our beach chairs and umbrella set up and ready for us each day.
The kitchen was well stocked and all utilities worked well. The bedrooms and bathrooms were comfortable and clean.
Only issue was the outside noise from the street. I don’t think this is the fault of the property manager, just the busyness of the Destin area during this time of year.
Also, we had a leak from the ceiling of the unit and called the number given at check in. The answering service said the property manager had left for the day and we would need to wait until the morning.
My daughter had already slipped and fallen on the puddle of water (which is how it was discovered) and we didn’t want to be emptying a bucket throughout the night or the property to be damaged. So we took it upon ourselves to go upstairs to the unto above and determined their washer had flooded the hallway in their unit, resulting in the leak. Once they were able to contain the water, the leak stopped. Had we not communicated with the neighbors above, or had they not returned quickly to clean it up, the damage could have been much worse. We found it to be unacceptable that we were told to wait until the next day for a leak of that degree where a stream of water was steadily coming through. I don’t know if this is an issue with the property manager or the answering service.
Amy S.
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2023
Response from VrboOwner on 7 June 2023
Hi Amy,
Thank you for this feedback. We are glad to hear you had a great experience. We do apologize that this vacation fell short of expectations. We can assure you this is not Southern's standard. We assure you that we have heard your complaints and will use this as improvement criteria going forward.
The location of the condo was perfect, and the view was even better! There were 5 of us (3 adults, 2 teenage boys) and there was plenty of space for us. We were even blessed to be able to sit and watch dolphins play from the balcony. The only negative thing is number of towels, but even more so washcloths. We had to do laundry daily just to be able to take showers. I would definitely stay here again.
Leah S.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2021
Response from VrboOwner on 17 Nov 2021
Hello Leah,
Thank you for your review and feedback! We are happy to know you had such a great time. We hope that you come back next year for another memorable vacation!
Kindest Regards,
Your Southern Team
We absolutely loved this property! The condo was clean and had everything we needed. The location was superb! It wasn’t crowded on the private beach AND they gave us 2 chairs and an umbrella for the duration of our stay. The only con was the water pressure wasn’t great, but that would not stop us from staying here again.
Catherine M.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2021
Response from VrboOwner on 28 Oct 2021
Hello Catherine,
Thank you for the 5-star review. We would love the opportunity to host you again on your next Gulf Coast trip.
Sunny Regards,
Your Southern Team
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