Daytona Beach, Florida

Daytona Beach

Seekers of a quintessential Florida beach vacation will warm to Daytona Beach, a city of 70,000 on the Sunshine State’s east-central coast. With the ocean right at Daytona’s doorstep, travelers savor locally sourced seafood at an abundance of area restaurants. Nightspots rock well into the early morning hours, and the city has more than 12,000 rooms to accommodate its enormous tourism industry.

Daytona Beach is one of the few Florida resorts that date to the late 1800s. Its wide, world-famous sandy shore has always been Daytona Beach’s main attraction. In the early 1900s, automobile enthusiasts discovered that its hard-packed sands provided a perfect course for racing cars.

Daytona has been…