A well installed tile is guaranteed to work in your situation. A vinyl plank *might have problems if the heat/humidity isn't controlled. Laminate will have issues with moisture unless you work with a water proof laminate (not water resistant).

A vinyl plank *might have problems if the heat/humidity isn't controlled.

Not if it's glued down.

My parents put a wood look tile in their second home in Florida. The grout color selected makes or breaks the look. They chose a color that is similar to the wood color. Using a smaller grout line helped also.

My main concern with a wood look tile is that it will become quickly dated. It's harder to replace tile than vinyl.

Wood look tile can be installed in different patterns. If you find an installer who can do random it could not go out of style so fast.

We have 13 year old real hardwood floors throughout our beach house, no issues whatsoever with scratching, fading, warping etc. We are steps from the sand and the house is heavily used in the summer. No regrets!

Copious amount of grout in a living space sounds terrible. Even the supposedly stain free urethane grout used in my house needs elbow grease to clean it.

For the past 20 years, I've been renting a house that is over 100 years old. It's about 1/2 mile from the ocean. Sand gets tracked in. Sometimes, people are dripping wet from sailing. And yet these floors look fabulous. Of course there is humidity, and this house is not heated during the winter, yet no problems with the floors. I would never use anything else.

No laminate. We tore out carpet in my dhs childhood home which we now own and live in. Replaced it with laminate several years ago. Terrible, terrible stuff. Hasn’t held up and it wasn’t cheap.

Like Cpartist suggested I recently put luxury vinyl plank in my new master suite. I couldn't be happier with it! It is soft, easy to clean and looks great.

We chose to glue it down even though it is supposed to work as a loose lay. We have it in the bathroom and have no problems with the water or moisture. I will eventually be doing my entire house in it.

Tile worked better for my home. I tried some vinyl in a couple of rooms, a few years ago, but my old, large dogs had trouble getting purchase to rise. If you're on a slab do the moisture tests to determine if glue down or floating is the way to go. You don't want mold growing underneath or installation failure.

If you choose tile, make sure they leave an expansion gap around the perimeter and don't grout up to the baseboards. Every person I interviewed did it that way as a matter of course. I removed the baseboards and reinstalled them, to ensure I had the gap and a nicer finish than shoe mould. I also told him where I wanted the movement joint where the flooring ran longer than 20-25 feet. I'm extending this tile into other areas, with the current reno, and have indicated where the expansion joints will go, because they never use them. For the kitchen, watch the clearances for any under-counter appliances. They might not fit! Tile raises the height of the floor more than LVP will. My project manager wanted to install my flooring after the cabinets, which wouldn't have worked out well for the tall tub dishwasher. I think he rolls his eyes over my requests, a lot. A helpful link about tile movement.

The tile I chose is Mohawk Stage Pointe and has high texture and shading variation. The grout color is the darkest of the shades and hides any staining that might occur. The close-up pic is how it looks IRL. Second is of the room right after install. I love wool area rugs and they dampen sound nicely, as well as providing softness underfoot. Most of the floor in the second pic was covered by an 11x14.

I'd invest in humidity control and real wood. Having enough humidity to swell the wood probably isn't that healthy.