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  • 2443 Overseas Highway
     Marathon, Florida 33050
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Sandpiper Motel

  • February 18, 2006
  • Rated 3 of 5 by Red Mezz from Inverness, Scotland
Sandpiper Motel

There's not really a lot you can say about a motel, as most of them are pretty much the same. But it is true that there isn't an over flowing abundance of places to stay in the Florida Keys,and so I will review the simplicity that was The Sand Piper Motel.

Simple is probably the best way to describe it. There is no glowing report I can add to it, but I can not think of a single problem that we had staying there, either, and for someone on any kind of budget wanting to visit the Ernest Hemingway spirit of the keys, the Sandpiper is as good a place to start as any.

We drove into Key Marathon at sunset with, as of yet, no place to stay. We pulled into the Sandpiper, with a pink-neon sign lit up outside, the stinging smell of salt water blowing off the water just a few steps across the road.
Being April, they had vacancies, and for a very reasonable price we were able to book a room for the four of us for the night.

The place is very clean and has everything you need. The night was quiet, and even came with a complimentary black-and-white cat that wandered in to say "Hello" when we arrived, and went back out and on about his way when we went out for dinner.

It's very "Florida Keys", and has a room for cooking and cleaning fish just off the main room. The whole place was very clean and kept-up, the air-conditioning worked flawlessly, and the bathroom was adequate. The TV worked fine—everything you needed in a room to crash in while you enjoyed the outdoors of the keys. There were no extras, but what it did offer was more than adequate. It even offered a little bit of local color, with palm trees and unripened coconuts littering the yard outside.

And the Sandpiper is conveniently located across the street from the one and only Turtle Hospital, and within walking distance of seeing some of the local stuff.

All in all, a very pleasant lodging experience, for a really decent price. I would look to the Sandpiper again the next time I'm in Key Marathon.

From journal The Hemingway Awe of the Florida Keys

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