This hotel was a little tricky to find due to one way roads. However in our driving around, we found a parking lot around the corner for $5 flat rate (no matter how long the stay) as opposed to $20/night parking at hotel. Fantastic! The location of this hotel is ideal, we were there for a concert and this was a 5 minute walk. There wasn't much else around though, the one shopping area at the cruise port was a disappointment (although it was neat to see the cruise ship so close up). We walked around for quite a while and didn't find anything of interest to do.
The room we got was great, we had a nice view of the harbour. The bed was super comfortable but very high. The bathroom was fine. The restaurant was expensive so we did not eat there. There is a Starbucks and a sports bar just down the road in front of the arena. The sports bar was great (Champions).
All in all, a nice hotel and a great location if you can get it for a decent price and eat elsewhere!

The rooms have updated furniture but the walls, elevators and other parts of the hotel need to be updated. Everything cost you money here. Wifi, parking, the business room, everything you want will clost extra.

My wife and I stayed at the hotel because it was convenient to the Tampa Bay Times Forum for a Lightning Game. It was a maximum 10 minute walk in a very nice neighbourhood.

Our first experience was a very nice valet employee who took our car and directed to to a very nice front desk receptionist. Our check-in was very quick.

Our room was very nice with the typical Westin style - nice bathroom and very comfortable king-size bed. Our view was the canal and we watched a coupld of cruise ships depart and many rowing teams practicing.

There is some minor work going on there right now which did wake us up fairly early the next morning. We were warned in advance of this and it wasn't a huge inconvenience.

Overall a good experience and wold stay there again if lucky enought to be in Tampa again in the near future.

A superb location for an hotel that is now looking tired in places and generally showing its age. It clearly needs some refurbishment to continue to justify its four star status. No atmosphere in bar but Jacksons is close by and is a much better watering hole.
Thought it was great at under $100 using the Hotwire mystery 4 star price but would have felt different if I had paid anything like the rack rate (and downgraded to 2 or 3 stars if that had have been the case). Have had the odd dud with Hotwire but they are generally good and a downtown 4 star a under $100 could only be a win win.
Staff merit a mention as all we met were very helpful and obliging. King bed was very comfortable too.