Staycation? Tampa Bay hotel swimming pools and cabanas are open for locals

If you are searching for a “daycation,” 1 choice is to hire a cabana or get a day move at a regional lodge, even if you aren’t a guest.

Some of these cabanas are established up on the beaches of Tampa Bay at fairly sensible selling prices.

Go to resortpass.com to see which resort pools provide day passes and how substantially they value. This booking web-site also presents passes for cabanas and daybeds. Day passes run anywhere from $25 to $100. Daybeds and cabanas price much more.

“Who requires to purchase a pool when you can share one for a day?” one reviewer of Tampa’s Godfrey Hotel’s cabanas wrote on resortpass.com. “The Resort Move surely redefined my strategy of staycation.”

Hotels and cafe cabanas

Tampa Marriott Water Avenue alongside the Riverwalk is inside walking distance of downtown warm places. You can get a working day go for the rooftop pool or hire a cabana, exactly where they will provide a bowl of fruit and bottled h2o. Because you aren’t a hotel visitor, you may have to stand in line to get a drink and food. Working day passes start at $20, day beds $75 and cabanas $159. 505 H2o St., Tampa.

Some dining places and resorts will take the price tag of whichever you buy in foodstuff and beverages off the price tag of the cabana rental, making the lounge and shade “free” as soon as you have splurged on lunch or meal.

At the St. Pete Pier, the rooftop bar and cafe Pier Teaki has six “Teaki Huts” with a perspective of St. Petersburg’s skyline on the west and the bay and downtown Tampa on the east. At $100 an hour on the weekdays, $125 on the weekends, up to 6 individuals can plop down and the food and drink orders appear off the price of the cabana rental. The weekend rentals offer out rapid, but weekdays can ordinarily be snagged with only a number of times detect at pierteaki.com or by contacting 727-513-8325.

You can also acquire your meals and consume tab off the cost of a cabana at the Hollander Hotel in downtown St. Petersburg. The cabanas seat 7 underneath the shade, and you do not have to be a hotel visitor to hire one. It charges $99 on the weekdays and $150 on the weekends — and the weekends ordinarily market out a month in progress, stated Tim Colandrino, associate standard manager at the Hollander.

“It created feeling for us because we have a lot of area people today who come out in this article and when they have friends in city, they convey to them to continue to be below,” Colandrino mentioned. Even if you do not have a cabana rental, you can use the pool at the Hollander on their “Sunday Fundays,” when the general public is invited to a pool party from 1-5 p.m. at 421 Fourth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. 727-873-7900.

The Epicurean Resort, situated in South Tampa’s vivid Soho District and across the avenue from Bern’s Steak Dwelling, attributes an outdoor pool with day passes that commence at $25 to reserve your pool chair. There’s totally free self parking at the adjacent garage with the alternative to valet. 1207 S Howard Ave., Tampa. 855-829-2536.

The Godfrey Lodge presents day beds and cabanas encompassing the WTR pool, which has a poolside grill, a whirlpool and often books concerts and DJs for pool parties on the weekend. The day beds get started at $50 and cabanas, which contain a flat-screen Television, get started at $125. Both of those the day beds and cabanas come with a fruit platter and two absolutely free bottles of drinking water. The resort is shut to Ben T. Davis Seaside, a great location to observe the sunset. 7700 W Courtney Campbell Causeway, Tampa. 813-281-8900.

Hyatt Regency Clearwater Seaside Vacation resort and Spa has working day passes that commence at $30 that not only permit accessibility to the pool, but also its health and fitness centre. It is in just going for walks length of Pier 60. Air-conditioned personal cabanas begin at $199 with a non-public lavatory and 55-inch Tv. 301 S Gulfview Blvd., Clearwater.

Some resort spas permit you to use the hotel pool if you book a treatment method. Mainly because of COVID-19 adjustments, numerous resorts, these kinds of as the Don CeSar and TradeWinds in St. Pete Seaside, are just beginning to bring again their spa and day passes, so get in touch with forward.

On the seashore

Carry your towel and sunscreen and rest and take pleasure in a day on the beach in at ease lounge chairs with an umbrella established up by an attendant.

The price is surely a plus: You can get two lounge chairs and an umbrella or cabana for $25-$30 all day. It is a rate place that can make working course people experience a tiny fancy, claimed Ted McNamara, one particular of the entrepreneurs of Sand Dunes Seashore Products and services, which supplies umbrellas and cabanas on the beaches of Move-a-Grille, St. Pete Seaside, Upham Seaside and Madeira.

“For these doing the job course families, we have intended a value point that lets them make it uncomplicated on themselves and enable us do the do the job,” McNamara said. You can come across them at the seashore accesses in St. Pete Beach front, 4700 Gulf Blvd., and Madeira Beach front. 14400 Gulf Blvd. sanddunebeachservices.com.