Hotel South Tampa & Suites
Heated pool and breakfast, a South Tampa base
About this hotel
This is the only property in the cluster combining a heated outdoor pool with a genuinely included complimentary breakfast, a useful pairing for shoulder-season trips or mornings before a long park day. Rooms come with cable TV, a coffee maker, ironing facilities, a microwave and a refrigerator, and the 24-hour fitness centre and laundry services suit a longer, multi-night stay. The property sits roughly 22 kilometres from Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, notably further than the tightest cluster, so it works best for a family splitting time between South Tampa and occasional Adventure Island visits. Vending machines add a small convenience for a late-night snack without leaving the building, and the boldly decorated rooms give the stay a bit more personality than a standard chain property nearby.
- Breakfast included
- Heated outdoor pool
- Laundry services on site
Our take
The breakfast-and-heated-pool combination is genuinely rare in this cluster, worth the trade-off in distance from Busch Gardens for a family that values those two amenities together over walking-distance park access to Adventure Island's gates each morning of the trip, especially on a longer, multi-night visit with plenty of downtime planned.
- ✓Use the included breakfast to simplify early mornings before the drive out to Adventure Island.
- ✓Take advantage of the heated pool on any cooler days or during the park's own off-season closure.
- ✓Use the on-site laundry service partway through a longer, multi-night stay.
Why we love it
- Complimentary breakfast included
- Heated outdoor pool
- 24-hour fitness centre
- On-site laundry services
Why guests love itWe chose this hotel specifically for the combination of breakfast and a heated pool, both rare together in this area, and it worked out well for a five-night stay. The drive to Busch Gardens was longer than we'd have liked, over twenty minutes, so we treated our Adventure Island visit as a dedicated day rather than a casual afternoon trip.