Perfectly nice hotel in a very handy position. The shuttle from/to the airport works well, and there are enough food and beverage places within easy walking distance to keep you safe from the hotel's predatory pricing on breakfasts and in-room refreshments. During the week you can find an excellent sandwich shop within the office complex itself.
One good thing about the office building set-up is (free) parking in the multi-story park accessed from the rear or the side of the building.
Staff are cheerful, friendly and helpful, though sometimes you wish the reception staff would relax their perky faux-friendliness.
But it's a rather odd hotel, the central part of an office complex. Most rooms look into the building's atrium, giving you a view of office workers, and giving them a view of you. Other rooms at the end of the corridors look onto a major road through poorly insulate floor-to-ceiling windows. Couple this with the rather flimsy room doors and you can get a noisy environment from outside your window and from cleaners and guests outside your door.
The rooms are clean, well presented and comfortable. My bathroom had a tub with shower over. Typically for the US, there was no hand shower and no bidet.
I took friends to the in-hotel franchised restaurant (Shulas). It seems popular, but it's pretty much run of the mill as steak houses go. But comfortingly expensive!
Room Tip: A higher floor probaly cuts down on outside noise.
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23 February 2012
Thank you for your review. I am grateful for all of the feedback you shared about our property. Hope to see you again next time you visit Tampa
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