Turn in at 8701 Astronaut Boulevard and the highway noise simply stops. Radisson Resort at the Port arranges its 284 rooms and suites around the thing guests come back for: a sprawl of clear blue water carved out beneath cliffs of sculpted red stone, with cascades tumbling down the rockwork and a shaded grotto pool around the back. A whirlpool steams inside the same formations. Koi drift in the ponds along the landscaped garden paths, racquets knock on the floodlit courts past the palms, and the Tiki Bar starts pouring at eleven.

The address is the whole pitch. Port Canaveral sits about a mile away, and the resort sells its own cruise packages that bundle parking with round-trip transfers to the terminal, so a sailing can turn into a long weekend. Kennedy Space Center is roughly a 20-minute drive north, about as short a hop to the Rocket Garden as any hotel on this coast manages, and a launch is worth stepping outside for. Cocoa Beach and the Ron Jon storefront are three miles south for a surf lesson or a sunset walk; manatees loiter closer still. Orlando and its theme parks are an hour inland, close enough to be back for dinner at Flamingo’s.