The Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club has been catering to guests for over 30 years. Condo style suites, four golf courses, the Loch Ness Pool, tennis and fitness center, etc. make the place a mini-city of sorts. From biking to fresh and salt water fishing, and camps for kids there is a lot in store. Complete your day with dinner from any of the five in-house restaurants. Ranked as "One of America's Best 75 Golf Resorts", this one is definitely worth a stay.

Some 31 miles outside St. Petersburg is the city of Sarasota, and folks here head for the elegant Ritz-Carlton for a well-deserved, luxurious break. Adding a bit of glamour to Florida's Gulf Coast, the AAA Five Diamond-rated The Ritz-Carlton Sarasota hotel boasts of 266 posh guest rooms, with private balconies, rich furnishings, a well-stocked refreshment cabinet and luxurious bed and bath accessories, among other comforts. An excellent maid and staff service enhances the experience. Business guests are treated with the utmost care, while families are provided with a myriad of recreational activities. The hotel's Spa deserves a special mention, with its relaxing treatments and services. Complementary amenities are aplenty; check in to discover them all!

In this condominium development, you can choose to stay in hotel rooms or one, two, or three bedroom suites. The suites have kitchens and a patio or balcony overlooking lagoons, cypress and palm trees and the resort's two 18-hole championship golf courses. If you're interested in spas, tennis, golf, or all of the above, this resort offers complete spa treatments, the Hopman Tennis Program where Jennifer Capriati trains and the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy. Saddlebrook Resort's Sports Village provides a wide variety of activities and fitness options for both individual guests and groups. Overlooking a tranquil lake, this complex comprises of a fitness center, an open-air pavilion, one sand, and two grass volleyball courts, a regulation-size basketball court and a sports field.

This family-owned resort with 400-foot stretch of clean white sand on the Gulf has a tradition of hospitable and friendly adult service. Designed to preserve guest tranquility, the resort has no restaurant or bar and limited office hours. Accommodations are efficiencies or one- or two-bedroom apartments with all the home comforts of cable television, VCR, La-Z-Boy recliner and fully equipped kitchens with microwaves and private balconies.

This neat beach front complex, Page Terrace Motel, offers comfortable and immaculate efficiencies and suites. Here you can play on white sands, cavort in the aquamarine surf or lounge on the heated pool's spacious patio. Accommodations include direct-dial telephones, cable television, ceiling fans, microwaves and daily maid service. You can walk to shops, restaurants and nightclubs.

Walk directly out on the white sand beach to play in the Gulf or recline in the shade of a thatch umbrella by the heated pool. The Tahitian Resort offers fully equipped efficiencies and one or two-bedroom apartments with 60-plus-channel cable television, direct dial phones and maid service. You'll find both adult and children's swimming pools here, a private dock, barbecues and picnic area with a playground for the youngsters. To get your day off to a good start, there's complimentary coffee in the lobby. It's a short walk from the resort to restaurants and nightclubs.

The Thunderbird Beach Resort, located right on the beach, offers a bounty of facilities: Gulf-front rooms with private balconies and two queen beds, efficiencies, an over sized heated pool, a hot tub and a cafe with tiki beach bar. On weekends, live entertainment performs poolside or in the cafe area. Here, too, you will find exotic landscaping in a tropical garden, a likely retreat after a long day of meetings for those visiting as a convention delegate at the Thunderbird's business facilities.

In this small, clean and well-maintained motel, which has recently been re-modeled, all units have kitchenettes equipped with cooking and eating utensils, so you can easily create a home away from home here. You can also enjoy the scenic views of the beach, located in the front yard of this attractive property, Arvilla Resort Motel. The pool at this hotel is exceptionally inviting to take a dip in.

You rent these luxury beach front condos directly from the owner who charges by the week. This accommodation best suits families with each unit offering two bedrooms and two baths. Each is fully furnished with its own balcony overlooking a private beach and the Gulf. The complex has a heated pool, is close to John's Pass Village, golf and tennis, and is a half-hour drive from Busch Gardens and 90 minutes from Orlando attractions. All condos are rented out for a weekly rate.

This cozy resort is ideal for a small business conference of yacht owners. Private and family-oriented, its setting is ideal, opening onto blue Gulf waters with pool, restaurant and meeting rooms. Whether you are a boat owner or simply an admirer, it is pleasant to be so near the harbor's ambience. From the marina, fishing charters can be arranged for business groups or families, and there's fine and casual dining at the nearby Bon Appetite restaurant.