Hotel Effie Sandestin

Sandestin’s flagship hotel raised the bar for the resort’s west end — a design-forward property with the area’s only rooftop pool, a spa, and Ovide, the lobby restaurant from James Beard Award-winning chef Hugh Acheson. It’s polished, buzzy, and built for celebration weekends. Note: while locally developed, Effie is now affiliated with a major hotel collection — review against the site’s no-chains standard before publishing.