Some of the SCRR Members are going to Florida in February for the Florida Marathon.
A few of us booked our rooms at Crown Plaza. Rooms are fully refundable until February 2022, and need to be booked through the link below. When you pull up the site, the dates will be automatically populated, but you can change to the dates you want, then click “search”. Lodging: 1) The race “host hotel” is the Hotel Melby. This is more of a “downtown” location. 2) Crown Plaza Melbourne Oceanfront. I did some research about the hotels that are waterfront and this seemed to have good reviews, room fridges, etc.
They agreed to provide us with special rates which will be available until January 14th, 2022 (standard parking fees will apply). The discounted rate is $175+ for two queen bed standard rooms and $185+ for king bed balcony rooms over the race weekend (PLEASE NOTE that the balcony rooms are not necessarily oceanview, she said they can have partial view but they are not actual ocean front view rooms).
Hotel Melby general info and race weekend booking link: https://thefloridamarathon.com/93-2/
Crown Plaza main website/hotel info(see above for booking link): https://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/melbourne/mlboc/hoteldetail/hotel-overview
Getting There: The options are to fly into Melbourne and take an Uber to the hotel. The other option is flying into Orlando which is cheaper, and then rent a car.
Race website https://thefloridamarathon.com/?fbclid=IwAR3ZPtUIj5tvdddRclPTZwe6BXRMlKwpoMeZ3-qHERqBhCSxQ1HMlU5Hh9A