Exceptional Stay, the service and friendly staff can’t be beat. The experience is world class for being in our ‘backyard’ in Florida. The dining room is exquisite, the hotel bedroom suite was lovely comfortable bed, crisp white linens every attention to detail is met.

The Gasparilla goes out of its way to make sure you're happy. The location and facilities are beautiful (fabulous adult pool in the spa), the food is very good (excellent breakfast), and the service is outstanding. When one glitch threatened to significantly diminish our vacation, the manager did what he could to make it right. A special shoutout to Mario at the beach restaurant and Stephanie in the dining room. We look forward to returning!

Elegant historic hotel with food service, high tea in the afternoon and a fabulous beach club within walking distance but no beach access at this time due to the lack of stairs - so that’s weird. Nevertheless it’s a good hotel if you’ve got the money. The clientele are almost exclusively WASPS from South Carolina and expensive northern suburbs. It’s all Lilly Pulitzer and men in peach colored burmuda shorts (their kids are similarly dressed) - so if that’s your scene you’ll enjoy it. There were no black, Asian, Hispanic guests while we were there. It’s a bit out of the old south on an island that reminded us of the movie “GET OUT!” But again, if that’s your thing g you’ll love it.

We visited for our friends birthday event. We utilized the cottages for our trip. Absolutely fabulous. We had a golf cart for touring while we were here and it was wonderful. The staff were incredible keeping us returning time and again. The golf course renovation is beautiful. Dinner in the main dining room was a truly memorable event. We Absolutely will return. It has been one of our happy places.

First time guests at the Gasparilla Inn. Because we preferred less formal and ground level accommodations, we chose a "cottage" which unfortunately is a very small hotel room with a bed and one small chair. Not appreciated. Highly recommend an upgrade to room with lanai. Also, be aware that your cottage room will likely have a locked off adjoining room which is convenient for families but certainly not for privacy. You will overhear conversations, bathrooms, and tv/music from the adjoining room. Very disturbing, like a cheap hotel sorry to say. Inn atmosphere described as "Old Florida"? Translation: "Old Florida Money". The Inn itself basically caters to the economically and socially elite. Attire is designer trunk show. As far as dining, we enjoyed the formal Inn restaurant for dinner twice but the food is surprisingly unremarkable. Recommend to order steak so you won't be disappointed with chef's preparations. The Pink Elephant Restaurant however was very enjoyable, good food, great service! The Outlet at Inlet which was recommended for casual breakfast is okay not great. Thankfully there are also nearby restaurants which were very good including Mimi's, Temptations, Key Lime, Eagle Grill. Last but not least, many thanks to the Jamaican service staff who were extremely solicitous and polite and added some much appreciated lightheartedness to a stoic atmosphere.