Made our Galveston trip a couple of weeks ago. Had not been there in probably 30 years.
We did the NASA thing on the way down and enjoyed it very much. The tour of Mission Control where they put us in the observation room overlooking the control room and then did a re-creation of the Apollo moon landing was very cool.
Rented a really cool house about 2 blocks from the seawall very close to Gaido's.
Gaido's was absolutley incredible. Service was amazing and the food was off the charts. All three of our adult dinners we ordered had crab meat on top and it was the best crab meat I ever tasted. Mine was with jalapeno bacon wrapped shrimp.
Amazing.
Rented umbrellas and chairs each day so it was no hassle. Always found a free parking space on the seawall right where we were going to be sitting.
Always went early though (around 9AM)
Beach was in great shape as was the water.
Visited the Pleasue Pier on Saturday night. It was fine but nothing to write home about. Grankids had fun which is all that mattered.
Visited the Strand on our getaway day and it was pretty cool. Those old buildings and houses have a lot of history.
Will definitely go back even though I am more of a Port A guy.