Off Exit 7 on Interstate 10, the newly remodeled Best Western Plus Blue Angel Inn, located in Pensacola, Florida, is a friendly base near the coast, with a free daily full hot breakfast, a microwave and refrigerator in every room, free high-speed Wi-Fi, a 24-hour business center, an outdoor pool, and a shaded poolside gazebo.
The setting puts the naval air station and home of the Blue Angels, a university, and historic downtown close by, with a local speedway nearby. The Blue Angels air show and the interstate fair headline the calendar.
Pensacola anchors the western tip of the Florida Panhandle; a navy town wrapped in sugar-white sand and turquoise water. Blue Angels jets trace their loops over the naval air station, the city's Spanish-colonial roots show in its historic district, and just offshore the white-quartz barrier islands of Gulf Islands National Seashore run for miles past dunes, sea oats, and the 1830s brick walls of Fort Pickens.