So let me start by saying the condo is fine. No complaints.
But the Gulf is very sick. Our trip was quite disappointing due to the toxic algae bloom that is affecting the coast. We tried to cancel and go somewhere else, but no one would offer us a refund, including PRM nor the travel insurance. Seems hazardous water doesn’t count. Ironically if we had gotten sick after swimming we could have been refunded. But not before. We spoke to the HOA of the building and attempted to contact the actual condo owner with no luck. Either PRM or the HOA never tried, or the owner never called us back. To make matters worse, Tropical Storm Barry set its sights on the coast during our stay.
We tried to make the best of it, but the beach experience was horrible. Biloxi, you need to clean your beaches! The only beach I’ve seen worse than this was in Mexico. There was nobody on the beach...It was a ghost town due to the algae and forecasted tropical storm. But every day I filled a small bag with cans, bottles, fireworks remnants, and other various trash that was scattered about. Once the surf came up with the storm, the trash got much worse. And with that storm came the dead wildlife. Numerous fish, birds, and a sea turtle washed up dead on the beach. The gulf is really, really sick. I’ve never seen such dirty water and beaches. It’s truly sad. I know the area has taken a beating between Katrina, Deepwater Horizon, other storms and now inland flooding, but I’ve never seen it this bad. We saw trucks empty trash cans on the beach once during our stay, but no work to clean the beaches.
We won’t travel back to Biloxi. I wanted it to be a great place. But we were so disappointed and disgusted.