Situated right next to Vinoy Park, the Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club provides guest with all the amenities to assure an exceptionally comfortable and convenient stay. With its elegant, decor, private marina and beautiful 18-hole golf course, visitors may just very well forget to explore all the attractions that the rest of St. Petersburg has to offer!

This seaside property offers fully equipped studios and one- or two-bedroom suites. Amenities include a heated pool, sauna, cable television, hot tub, barbecue grills, exercise room, bikes and shuffle board, with golf, tennis, waterscooters and fishing nearby. Blessed with its own strip of sand, the resort also has a swimming pool.

Here, you have fully furnished efficiencies and one-bedroom apartments for couples or small families. While you will find less luxury here, there are no fewer beachfront amenities, with the resort featuring a swimming pool next to the sand, sun and breeze. The Plaza offers weekly and monthly rates for accommodations that give you the opportunity for quiet reflection on wide beaches or lively fun at restaurants, lounges and shops within walking distance from this property.

This property is situated on picturesque azure Gulf waters, with a five-story villa style complex rising over the water. It offers one-, two-, and three-room suites that include hot tubs and kitchens, uniting independence and luxury under the same roof. King or double rooms have private balconies or patios, cable television, refrigerators, and coffee makers. A laundry is available and outside, there's a regular and kiddy pool. Thatch umbrellas shelter you from the sun as does Barnacle Bill's Beach Bar.

These accommodations offer the comforts of home. Tucked away in a quiet corner of St. Pete Beach, this homey resort offers condo units with fully equipped kitchens, central air and heat, cable television and beach access across the street. Non-smoking units are available. You have a choice of pool or the Gulf for swimming. Shopping and restaurants are just a short walk away.

Directly on the beach on more than 500 feet of soft white sand, this hotel offers resort rooms with coffee makers and many with kitchenettes and cable television. You'll find a large freshwater pool next to the Gulf, so beach activities easily spill from one to the other. Surfing, shelling and strolling the beach are popular diversions here. A good seafood restaurant, Shells, is close by.

This resort hotel caters to a mix of business and leisure travelers. Meeting and banquet facilities accommodate 25 to 275 and efficiencies are available to travelers who cherish independence from hotel service. For others, dining room and room service are available, along with patio dining and a cocktail lounge. For entertainment, the resort offers a beach bar and game room, and for the more adventurous, surfing and parasailing. Tennis, fishing and golf are nearby and a heated pool is right next to an open beach.

This resort prides itself on its attention to details and boasts a responsive, caring staff. It offers facilities for small business gatherings, seminars, family reunions and parties. Accommodations are suites with fully equipped kitchens, an extra sofa bed in the living room, cable television and VCRs, clock radios, telephones and in-room safes. Most units have private porches or balconies with views of one of the two tropically landscaped pools, each of which is surrounded by gardens. Adjacent to a Gulf beach, the resort also features such recreational amenities as whirlpool spas, lighted tennis courts, basketball, volleyball, shuffleboard, table tennis, a game room, a playground and barbecue deck.

Marina Cove is optimally situated at the foot of Tampa Bay with a view over its wide mouth spanned by the Sunshine Skyway Bridge that takes travelers to Sarasota and points south. Add to that bridge view, a marina where massive yachts bob at anchor. On 18 tropical acres, the resort offers amenities that include two pools, a whirlpool, five tennis courts, fitness room, playground, game room, shuffleboard and volleyball. Rooms have refrigerator, coffee maker and cable television. Meeting facilities are available for small business groups.

In south St. Petersburg, this downtown hotel offers resort amenities. In addition to the spacious, pleasantly decorated rooms that travelers have learned to expect from HoJos, amenities here include a heated pool, restaurant, free Continental breakfast, exercise facilities and meeting rooms. Beach access is available and the hotel is convenient to trunk travel routes to St. Petersburg Beach, Clearwater and Tampa.