The Sun Tower Motel has a beautiful location. It's right among all the enormous high-rise condo buildings along the beach, and right next door to the amazing Pelican Grand hotel. The views from our balcony were just beautiful, especially when the sun rose over the Atlantic! My husband and I loved taking our nightly walks on the beach every night. For the price, we were happy with that aspect of the hotel. Also our room was nice, clean, etc.

However, everything else was average to way sub-par. When we arrived about a half-hour after check-in time began, we were told that our room wasn't ready yet. We waited for nearly an hour, and finally they had *a* room available, just not the one they had intended for us. We had wanted a king bed and ended up with two queens. The hotel wasn't full that night, so it made me wonder why they didn't clean the rooms that they knew would be occupied that night.

But that wasn't too bad - we were still happy. Until we saw green-looking water come out of our bathroom faucet. I should say *spray* out of our faucet. Water literally went everywhere when we turned on the sink. We didn't want to drink green water, so we went downstairs to the Coke machine - and it was broken! Plus, the ice machine was also broken, and that's where I got really mad. I mean, the ice machine?? So we had to order room service to get a soda with ice. Totally unnecessary.

Also, the Sun Tower website promises you free wireless internet, and a hair dryer in every room. This was not the case in either situation. I had no hair dryer to use (good thing I brought my own!), and there was no internet access in our room. That's just false advertising, since my husband and I take internet access into consideration when choosing our hotel.

Plus, the front desk was only open for a few hours each day, so we never got the chance to talk to anyone about the broken machinery and the lack of internet!

The Sun Tower is the sister property of the Pelican Grand hotel, and it's clearly the less-favored sibling. Everyone spends more of their time on the guests staying at the more expensive and luxurious Pelican Grand. So, while you also get to go next door to the fancy hotel and use their amenities, be prepared to feel a bit second-rate.

We stayed at the Suntower for two nights pre-cruise a few weeks ago (March 2008). We bid on the rooms online and got a great rate of $114 per night. We were given a suite and two other regular rooms.
We loved it!
It's an older hotel directly on the beach with full access and connected by a short walkway to the new Pelican Grande Hotel.
Our rooms were very clean. The suite had two complete rooms with a separate dining area and a kitchen (full-size frig, microwave, sink, counters, cupboards, dishes, but not stove). The bathrooms in both rooms had a tub with a shower in it. The regular rooms had a mini frig and a microwave.
The balconies were not very deep but plenty wide.
The Pelican Grande (where we spent hours) has a beautiful pool and an excellent relaxing and scenic Lazy River Pool. On the weekends they set up a bbq at the pool. For $10 you can get the best fresh grilled mahi-mahi, ribs, and burgers. One order is enough for two people. The food is mouth-watering! They also have an excellent ice cream shop, a gazebo on top of the hotel (very scenic), rocking chairs and rattan furniture on a never-ending porch overlooking the ocean, a beautiful glassed in bar overlooking the ocean with free popcorn, a game room, a grand piano, and a marvelous lobby. They also serve an excellent room service dinner (to the Sun Tower too) and they have a restaurant on-site which serves an excellent Sunday buffet.
The Sun Tower also has a pool which is VERY warm and nine feet deep. It's seldom used and surrounded by lovely tropical vegetation. We used this pool every day.
The Sun Tower rooms are done in a soft pink with a deep turquoise carpet. Again, the rooms are older but HUGE!!!! And what a view!

The only downfall is there's nothing really in walking distance. We had a rental car but really never used it except once to drive to Las Olas to go shopping and to the grocery store for food. Parking is a mandatory $16 a day but it's free in-and-out concierge service.

Speaking of service, the staff was remarkably nice.

We'll stay here again. For the price, the view is incredible! I'll take a comfortable, clean older hotel directly on the beach any day.

I hope the Sun Tower remains forever.

Very nice motel on the beach with a heated pool, clean, spacious room, friendly employees. The check in was slow, maid service was slow, there was a $10.00 charge to access the internet on the tv in the room and a mandatory 16.00 charge to valet the car.

I wanted to love this hotel - I really did. It is indeed right on the beach, “on the sand” as they say. EVERY room faces the ocean with particularly stunning views from the rooms on the upper floors. The pools of the Pelican next door are great.

There are a few issues however:

One is internet connectivity or lack thereof. This may not matter much to you if you’re strictly on vacation and can completely unplug but if you need to monitor work email or check websites every now and then to keep on top of things you are out of luck at the Sun Tower. The Sun Tower’s website promises: “Complimentary in-room Internet access” but this is simply untrue. When I was unable to detect a wireless signal I approached the front desk to inquire about how to connect and I was told that their complimentary in-room internet access consisted of dial-up. Pressed further they revealed they didn’t really even offer that. Basically the deal is you can access your own dial-up AOL account (assuming you have one) from the phone in the room and they won’t charge you extra for it. In short, they offer free local calls not internet access. This is misleading to say the least and it presented a very big problem for me as there was some business I had to attend to. Management refused to even acknowledge that they were mis-advertising their amenities and the only alternative they offered me was to sit in their noisy lobby (which does offer wireless access). Were it not for the fact that I had pre-paid for my room I would have left immediately.

The second issue is that there is nothing else near (walk-able) this hotel. No restaurants, bars or shops. Plan on driving around a lot or else eating at the on-site restaurant.

The Sun Tower did not really fit my needs and I will not be going back but I can see how a vacationing family might like it.