If you are set on launching on the beach on Padre Island, I’d go for Access Road 3A and launch just south of Packery channel, if not I’d launch off Mustang island at JP luby. The sandbars aren’t actually too bad, and once you’re past the second one if it’s a calm enough day you’ll be clear, it’s not that intimidating. If you want a boat ramp then Packery Channel has a boat ramp in it not even a mile from the gulf. As for hotels you should look for one close to the Windward parking lot, a public lot on Access Road 3A. And if boat ramps and gulf launching won’t work, then there’s plenty of random spots off the side of the road to launch into the bay or Laguna Madre.
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