Leavin' for Panama City FL on Friday

[razazteca 0]

(I'm bringing like $350...too much/little?), any interesting points.

That would be enough for a hotel room if you are staying at the beach. Hope you enjoy the cold rainy weather.

 

Yeah, Panama City is kinda ehhh..

It is called the Redneck Riveria for a reason. You are better off going to Pensicula or Fort Walton.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Pensacola wishes it were in Alabama. Fuck that place.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

These are all horrible Florida cities. I'll be home for a week, and I'm not going north of Tampa once I get there.

[razazteca 0]

Pensacola wishes it were in Alabama. Fuck that place.

It wishes it was Dothan, Alabama?

[geniusMoment 0]

I spent a couple of years in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. It was a beautiful little town right on the beach, about 30 miles south of Daytona. Once I graduate from college I plan on moving back, there is nothing like watching the white caps of the waves late at night.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

New Smyrna Beach is pretty, but I couldn't imagine living there. Too dull.

[Dandy 0]

Okay, I am a veteran of Panama City Beach spring breaks. I even won the Mr. Nitro contest right before the final Nitro, which was from PCB. I stayed right next to La Vela at the Boardwalk Beach Resort, which is an awesome place. But I have WAY too many stories to get into right now. Here are some things to consider:

 

If you are going to Atlanta, then through Alabama to get there, be extremely cautious on 431 South past Eufala. Eufala is a beautiful little town that has southern plantation homes complete with the columns and everything. Makes you feel like you are back in time. However, about 15-20 minutes past that is the worst road I've ever been on. Within 31 miles of two-lane road, there were 36 crosses marking where people died. The next year we went down, there were 39, I believe. The "houses" on this stretch are dalapidated shacks and those silver bullet trailers. It is the most poverty stricken stretch of highway I've ever been in. This road was featured in Maxim as one of the five most dangerous highways in THE WORLD! Now it has been 3 years since I have been there, and they may have the four-lane bypass completed, but I highly doubt it.

 

When I went, I took $2,000 with me. Take traveler's checks instead of cash. You will probably not need that much money, but you have to consider jail, car problems, getting kicked out of your hotel, all kinds of things.

 

Speaking of jail, if you get caught doing anything down there on spring break, you get community service of picking up trash on the beach and streets. You will pay a steep fine and have to do the community service, but unless you get busted for something big, you probably won't go to jail.

 

The package you got sounds decent, but unless the card you got is the Gold Card, you should definitely look into getting one of those. They were selling for $50-$100 down there, but we got them free at our hotel.

 

If you want to make some extra cash, buy beer for under 21 kids. A huge Walmart is close to La Vela, and we bought a lot of cases of Natty Light. While waiting to check in, I sold two cases for $20 a piece. Either sell some of the beer you have, or just go buy it for someone when they ask.

 

There will be all sorts of booths on the beach giving away free shit. In order to get shirts, video game demos and all kinds of cool shit, you have to fill out a credit card application. A good thing to do is fill out false info, but they will ask you to repeat everything. Here's a trick....change the last number in each sequence of your social security number to a repeating number. If your social is 224-58-8174, change it to 226-56-8176. Give a telephone number of something easy to remember like a hometown pizza joint or something, and just say you don't have your ID with you because you're on the beach. These booths are awesome, and I met Jenna Jameson and watched her finger herself right on the beach at her booth. You can score some big time shit at these places.

 

If it's not too late, look up Toomey's Mardi Gras online and go to there online store. I got 12 GROSS of beads for around $50. That is 144 dozen beads.

 

Make sure to hit up the foam party (Hammerhead Fred's???) but wear something you don't mind getting ruined. I wore swim trunks and one of the free t-shirts I got off the beach. Great place to hook up, and be sure to take beads to the party.

 

La Vela charged $20 to get in, and you have to wait inline for an hour or more most of the time. You figure out if that's worth it, because there are going to be drunk horny girls at much cheaper bars.

 

If I think of anything else, I'll post it. And if anyone wants to hear some of the stories, they are pretty awesome.

[Dandy 0]

Hmm, I guess I should have checked the date of his post and saw that he was leaving two days ago before typing out all that info.

[Gert T 0]

Hey so he may not have seen the post, but you have proven that Frommer's has nothing on you when it comes to Panama City.

 

I also like the extra money for the jail-car problems-kicked out of hotels scenarios. Those are the three musketeers of road trips.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Hey, I'm back.

 

BTW, hotel was already paid for.

 

$400 was enough. Had a great time, access to their big clubs (Club La Vela, Spinnakers, Latitudes (or Lot-of-Dudes as I saw it), Harpoon Harry's, Hammerhead Fred's.

 

So many guys, it sucked, like, securing a woman was quite difficult. Make all the "gay frat boyparty " jokes you want, but I honestly missed Jersey and how easy it was to dance with a girl at a party, whereas in Panama City, there was a goddamn 8:1 guy:girl ratio.

 

Highlights included fucking a girl from Florida, and then doing the same with a girl from my school that I met down there. Food highlights were "Dirty Dick's Crab Shack/Shop", where they had awesome pasta/stuffed shrimp/crab meals. Other days, hit up Taco Bell, KFC, and Hooters (most times).

 

My Hooters waitress refused to serve me the next day, due to the fact that I yelled at her, cursing, apparently, when I was shot down and was piss-ass drunk the first night, and she was bartending at the club next door.

 

Also, on that first night, I was pissing outside on the front entrance, RIGHT near the juiced up bouncer, and was quite lucky I didn't get killed. Some kid grabbed my by the shoulder and spun me around to try to help me and got soaked...my bad.

 

3-Story Beer Funnels were around, good stuff. South Carolina girls we got naked by shutting them out in pong, they then ran around the hotel. Drank lots of vodka/soda drinks, many Coronas, and Yeunglings.

 

Good trip, god damn the south has a lot of "Waffle Houses".

 

And I got to ride the mechanical bull!

 

Later.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Somehow, I'm not surprised there was like an 8:1 guy to girl ratio. But at least the chicks you find there are willing to get down.

[Slayer 0]

Make all the "gay frat boyparty " jokes you want

Can do!

[Art Sandusky 0]

I don't understand getting totally wasted to where it isn't even enjoyable or where memory fails.

[Guest Vitamin X]

It doesn't really happen on purpose. It's that the desire to reach the desirable mid-level drunkedness is so strong people will often times just overdo it and reach that point.

[Guest PlatinumBoy]

I heard Club La Vela shut down? Also some advice to those going to PC. PC is better for the night life, but if you want the nicer beaches to chill at during the day, hands down Destin destroys it. It's a real close drive--fun and easy to do for a Spring Break. Was my backup plan till it and my first Spring Break plan fell through.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Club La Vela is going very strong.

 

PC's beaches suck.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

What's this beads thing? That other guy brought it up, the Spring Break expert, and I've heard of it before...

[Art Sandusky 0]

Anal beads, duh.

[Guest PlatinumBoy]

What's this beads thing? That other guy brought it up, the Spring Break expert, and I've heard of it before...

Basically Spring Break at PC/Destin = a minture Mardi Gras. Girls will flash and do anything for beeds. Anything from flashing, to making out, to sex, I've seen it all happen there for fucking 3 dollar beeds.