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If you are looking for any hotel recommendations for the panhandle, then you might get better results posting the Florida travel forum. If you are looking for info on Marriott properties, then this is the place.
Marriott doesn't have too many "resort" properties in the Gulf Coast/Panhandle area. And unfortunately, the two "resorts" that Marriott has in that area, the Bay Point Resort in the Panama City area, and the Grand Hotel near Mobile, are not on the Beach. They are more "golfing" resorts rather than beach resorts.
Marriott has opened some lower end properties along the Gulf Coast, Courtyards and RIs, but I haven't stayed at any of them yet. There is a fairly new Courtyard and RI in the Destin area (actually in Sandestin and you may get some access to the Sandestin amenities.) But again, I do believe that both of those properties are not directly on the beach. There are also some properties in the Pensacola area, but none are on the beach and are the lower end properties as well.