This is a hard review to write. There is so much that I loved about this hotel. It's a historic hotel shaped like a U with a courtyard--turning 100 next year--with really cool photos of historic Jacksonville Beach on the walls, spacious suites, and a really nice breakfast (fresh fruit, awesome coffee, eggs, bagels). It's right on the beach, and there are a number of restaurants within walking distance (Jekyll Island Brewing was great).
Here's the bad part--there is a nightclub in the same historic building that is not under the same ownership as the hotel. We checked in on a Friday and saw that there was a wedding going on (cool, cool). Our room was right under the nightclub and dancefloor. It sounded like the music was right in our room and a herd of elephants was dancing above us (historic construction). At 11:15, I called the front desk. The woman was kind and not surprised. She said that the music wouldn't go off until 1:00. I asked if this was every night because I was running a marathon Sunday morning and had to sleep the next night. She said that Fridays and Saturdays went until 1:00. Fortunately, they had another room in the other wing to move us to. Using a sleep app in the other wing, I could sleep. But it was loud. I don't know how anyone in the other wing could sleep. I've travelled all over the world and never had that much noise in my room. The hotel needs to not rent those rooms in that wing on Fridays and Saturdays.