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Banana Bay Resort & Marina - Marathon, Florida Keys
The City of Marathon
Marathon is a city located on the island of Key Vaca and is the second largest population center in the Florida Keys. Known as the Heart & Soul of the Keys, due to it's central location and rustic seaside ambience.
The island of Marathon measures seven by 1 mile at it's widest point (MM 54 to MM 47). Banana Bay Resort & Marina, one of the only oceanfront hotels in Marathon, is located at Mile Marker 49.5 directly on the Gulf of Mexico. With-in walking distance to the towns center with banks, shopping, food stores, boutiques, restaurants, nightclubs, community theater and even a cinema! Attractions include the famous Seven Mile Bridge (the old bridge is now the world's longest fishing pier), Sombrero Public Beach with it's own little picnic island, West Sister Rock, Dolphin Research Center, Pigeon Key Historic Railroad site, Turtle Hospital, and museums of Crane Point Hammock (Florida Keys Museum of Natural History, Children's Museum and 5 mile Nature Trail through an endangered tropical hammock forest).
Tropical Beach Vacation with Resort Amentities
Imagine your day starting with a scrumptious breakfast at Banana Cabana, sipping coffee on the poolside veranda and taking a quiet stroll through the lush tropical gardens. A popular activity is to rent a bike and ride along the endless miles of bicycle paths the Keys have to offer. You can even ride out on the old 7-mile bridge that spans the Gulf of Mexico & Atlantic Ocean to Pigeon Key, a railroad village filled with historic significance and locked in time to the turn of the century. Or just keep your afternoons free for a nap or lazing out on our small private sandy sunning beach, then witness a Keys' famous sunset.
Banana Bay Resort is located on ten acres, but only has 61 deluxe guestrooms. The property offers all the amenities of a grand style resort, but is more like a tropical inn that is quiet, intimate and romantic! Facilities include deluxe guestrooms with either one king or two double beds, poolside Tiki bar with Lite Faire, huge heated freshwater pool, outdoor whirlpool, two garden tennis courts, BBQ grills, 2 horse shoe pits, conference rooms with full catering facilities, Garden and Bayside Wedding Gazebo, boat launching ramp, small private sandy sunning beach & snorkel area, complete water sport activities (boat rentals, charter fishing and various water craft rentals. We also recommend several great dive shops and sail cruises in the area)... all this & more making this the ultimate Keys escape!