As frequent visitors to Port Aransas- Mustang Island over the years, we finally decided to check out the SandPiper Condominiums. First, the gulf view from our 5th floor condo was fanatastic, and certainly worth extra $ above competing condos without a view. The staff is efficient and friendly. The typical beach vacation on Mustang Island consists of parking your vehicle on the beach and seting up a beach camp for the day. The Sand Piper offers beach canopies for $10 a day, which allows you to spend the day at the beach with the comfort of your condo just steps away. Very Nice. The number of canopies is limitied (30), so you need to reserve one early in the day (8am). The Sand Piper has a nice lobby and air-conditioned lobbies on each floor. The lobby area also has a very nice sittingarea with library and coffee bar. Pool area is OK, not exaclty resort style, but adequate and well maintained. Our condo was well equipped with a full kitchen and a nice living-dining area all with a full gulf view. Check out their website for a virtual tour of the complex and each condo. One great convenience: there is a HEB+ grocery store about 15minutes away, just across the causeway to Corpus Christi.

Right on the beach, nice pool area, canopy rental for 10 dollars a day, very clean and nice condos. A little on the pricey side but well worth the money we will deinetely be coming back.

We enjoyed our off-season stay at the Sandpiper Condominiums and thought it was very reasonably priced. I noticed, however, that next year's prices are considerably higher.

Here's what we loved:
Location--Nice, quiet stretch of the beach, not too far to drive to N Padre or Port A restaurants and jetty action. Very easy-to-find location.

Condo facilities--Staff very friendly and helpful. Being right on the beach was great. Seems a lot of thought went into providing everything you’d need and want: The pool and hot tub (but it was rarely actually hot) were big, nice, and clean. You could check out equipment for shuffleboard, table tennis, and tennis. Pool towels were provided. Beach chairs and outdoor showers were provided. Inside were nice seating areas, a 24-hour coffee bar, and luggage and grocery carts. We enjoyed the propane grills and outdoor seating on sun deck. Also enjoyed the ice cream social organized by the residents. What a fun idea.

Our condo itself (208)--It was VERY nice to be able to preview online all of the available units. We had a nice view of the ocean over the dune from our balcony. (Any lower and you’d see only the dune. Higher would get better ocean views, but also be less quick to the first-floor boardwalk to the beach.) All kinds of dishes, utensils, appliances, dish towels, hot pads, trash bags, dishwasher detergent, etc., etc.—really everything we could want. Beds and linens were nice and comfortable; HOWEVER the sleeper couch was absolutely unusable as a bed. There was plenty of comfortable seating in the living room and dining area. There was also wireless that we enjoyed and three TVs, which we didn’t use. Linen exchange and trash removal service came by about 9am, and there were trash chutes on every other floor if you wanted to get rid of say, seafood garbage, immediately after dinner.

We were frustrated with:
Condition of the sleeper sofa--Condo said it slept six, and we saw online that there was a king and two twins, so we knew two of us were going to be on a sleeper sofa. Sleeper sofas are rarely as comfortable as real beds, but since it was offered as a bed for two people, we thought it would be okay for kids for a couple of nights. We were wrong. This one was THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE sleeper sofa we’ve ever experienced. You could feel every single 4-inch coil in the mattress. We put two kids there, and they begged to sleep on the floor the next night. I wouldn’t subject anyone to that mattress for a single night much less an extended stay. It felt like false advertising to say the condo accommodated six.

The "hot" tub--The hot tub was almost never working (or is it that they kept it turned to a tepid temp except when people complained)? Could be because it was the off season and they wanted to save on the utility bill.

Overall, I felt this was a thoughtfully equipped facility in a great location for our interests. Prices are high for in season, but the quality is very good, so no worries about the Sandpiper meeting your expectations. We checked out some other places right on the beach and felt they looked run down and were no differently priced.

My daughter was suppose to get married on the beach. But as luck has it , it rained all weekend. The staff was very helpful and allowed us to use one of the common rooms for the wedding. The Condo was like being a home. Very comfortable and inviting. Our view was fantastic and the staff was very nice. My family and I have stayed in Port A several times and I will be using the Sandpiper from now on.