This Florida Gulf beachfront resort offers five swimming pools: one covered, two family pools, one adults-only pool, and a children's poo... more »
This Florida Gulf beachfront resort offers five swimming pools: one covered, two family pools, one adults-only pool, and a children's pool with wading area. Beach cabanas, volleyball, and a variety of water sports are available at the resort's white-sand beach. There are Har-Tru tennis courts, two spa tubs, a playground, hammocks, life-size lawn chess set, and supervised children?s programs.
The resort's fitness center has treadmills, elliptical cross trainers, recumbent and upright bikes, cable crossover machines, a Nautilus circuit, free weights, and Body Master equipment. The Body Works Salon & Spa offers 40 treatments.
The resort has 56,000 square feet of function space, including 30,000 square feet of air-conditioned space and 26,000 square feet of breezeways and open-air space. A business center has computers, high-speed Internet access, a printer, and copy machine.
Spanning 20 lushly landscaped acres on a seven-mile stretch of white-sand beach on the Gulf of Mexico, this St. Pete Beach resort is ony 30 minutes from Tampa International Airport.
Official Hotel Information
Both tropical and traditional, the Island Grand is the TradeWinds' classic, four-diamond fun, family-friendly, Florida beach resort; complete in its offerings, yet individual in its attention. The Island Grand is a paddleboat rides on a meandering canal... a massage just before a dinner of fresh seafood. It's stealing an evening alone while the kids are entertained at Kids Night Out...breakfast in bed in one of the newly renovated suites...an endless choice of things to do, all drenched in the warm, relaxing Florida sun.Enjoying Everything TradeWinds has to offer...Guests have told us their room is just a small part of their Florida beach experience, so we eliminated many incidental charges and include those amenities that make a vacation truly special in the resort amenity fee, a required nightly fee. The resort amenity fee ($25 plus tax nightly, per unit; multi-bedroom units and penthouses $35) includes: daily $15 parking fee, Wireless Internet Access, Just Let Go Sunsets (Happening evenings on the Breck Deck with live entertainment, a bubbling tropical punch fountain, and munchies. Play a little wall hooky, soak in the ambience of a spectacular Gulf Coast Sunset, and you may be fortunate enough to experience the "green flash."),$1 each local, toll-free and operator-assisted phone calls, use of fitness centers, tennis courts, beach cabana, water trykes, paddleboats, business center computers and printers, incoming and outgoing faxes, and other resort amenities as well as daily newspaper delivery and in-room safe. The resort amenity fee enhances your vacation with many amenities, eliminating many a la carte charges.
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male with a moderate budget, traveling for leisure
TRADEWINDS RESORT
Never book through Hotwire there is no way this is a 4 star hotel as they clam. Very disappointed. Water pressure in bathroom lousy. Hot water out of cold water valve in bathroom, difficult to shave. I had to call my wife to have her feel the water. I have never heard of such a thing. Security is lousy and rude. Apparently arrested a drunk on my floor who was running down the hall and banging on walls, room 4627 and I spoke, confirming what had happened. Restaurant the Bermuda expensive and not much better than frozen food from the supermarket. The fruit was rotted and smelled badly. We had breakfast the next day at the Don Cesar it was perfect. Room air conditioner rattled all night. Shower in next room would actually wake me up with a roaring sound. And I'm a sound sleeper. Parking is terrible if you leave the hotel you'll be searching for a spot for some time when you return. DON'T LEAVE. Parking spots are tiny. Most SUV owners like myself had to let passengers out first before squeezing into the spot. Pools are crowded and small. Water has odor. Yes there is a covered pool it’s a kiddy splash pool that's all. Apparently anyone can wonder in off the beach and use the pools, towels etc, security is scarce this is not fair to paying customers. I’m not even sure if the person arrested was a guest of the hotels, for all I know he could have walked in off the street.
I will make a complaint to the BBB however this is a long and lengthy annoying process, if you ever had the pleasure of dealing with the BBB then you would understand. I asked for a late check out for the inconveniences and was told no late check outs. I explained the night before and was told a manager would be contacted. Never heard back from anyone. DO NOT LET YOURSELF BELIEVE THIS IS A 4 STAR HOTEL IT IS NOT. THE DON CESAR WAS AWSOME SEVERAL YEARS AGO. not a single complaint. That's a true 4 star.
44 year old with a luxury budget, traveling for leisure
Pros: pools, scenic, location
Cons: $25 resort fee per day (plus tax) that was not indicated through Priceline until I checked in; Resort fee overly priced; Manager (Neil) did not address our concerns; Small window for lighting; Way too many peop
42 year old with a luxury budget, traveling for leisure
We stayed here 5/31-6/6 of '09. Here is what I didnt like: staying on the 3rd floor we had a pretty long walk to everything-suggest a room with direct access to the pools/beach or you'll be walking all over the place; the commode ran throughout th
We arrived early to the hotel (earlier
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Posted Mar 12, 2009
Good
We arrived early to the hotel (earlier than expected) and we were greeted with a smiling face and "your room is ready". How fantastic is that! The room was clean and having the refrigerator and microwave was very nice. We did not have an ocean...
We stayed here during the second week
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Posted Feb 23, 2009
Excellent
We stayed here during the second week of February 2009 and are already looking forward to going back. Everything about this resort was top notch. We never imagined the beauty that was in store for us here. The beach was breathtaking and the hotel...
The ocean was close.Everything. They
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Posted Jan 25, 2009
Mediocre
The ocean was close.Everything. They didn't do much right.“This place was a bad. They need serious remodeling. There were empty electric boxes in the walls with no covers on them. The carpets had been cleaned in, what looked like, years. The food...
Everything about this resort is fabulous! I was reading all of these poor reviews and I was a little hesitant about staying here, but I'm so glad we did! I have no idea where other reviewers have stayed but I don't think it was the Island...
Each year we stay on vacation at the
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Posted Oct 04, 2008
Excellent
Each year we stay on vacation at the Tradewinds. It's a conference center and resort comprised of 4 or 5 different hotel buildings and conference rooms. They have many pools and childrens' areas and has a private beach on the Gulf of Mexico. You...
Please take my advise & that of many others & don't stay at this hotel!!
To call it a 4 star is an absolute disgrace. The rooms are dirty & claustrophobic & infested with cockroaches which crawl over you during the night...
This is the worst place I have ever stayed. Awful service, dirty/gross rooms, roaches, remotes don't work right, staff is no help, lots of problems with a/c, etc. This hotel needs a major upgrade to be called a resort. Only nice thing is the...
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