we have stayed at the Island Inn every Thanksgiving week for the last 6 years-and will continue to go back. We drive to the grocery store and stock up on food for the week. You can cook it in your room, as long as there is no oven required, burners and a microwave only, but you can use the gas grills. Its not the most exciting place but great for us beings were pretty mellow. The staff has always been nice and accomodating. Highly recommended.

This was our second attempt to stay at the Island Inn as it is very close to family that live near by. We thought we just got a bad room the last time (very dated). Knowing the rooms were indivdually owned we gave it another try. This time it was worse! The room was fair and the pool area could use a refacing but our biggest problem was that they messed up our reservation and would make no attempt to fix it. I am not the type of person to ever complain but let alone right a bad review but there was not excuse for anyone to be treated the way we were on vacation. We do love Treasure island, the views were wonderful, we just will not be back to the Island Inn.

Our 8 day stay in March was our 3rd time with the Island Inn and, again, we were delighted with it. The staff at the front desk are friendly and helpful, the rooms (we stay in a beach front room) are clean and nicely furnished, and the beach is huge and rarely has more than 20 to 50 people on it! This is the "quieter" part of Treasure Island in that there are not high rise hotels surrounding the Island Inn; a 10-15 minute beach walk in either direction will take you to busy areas - if you crave busyness. While there are a few categories of rooms available, we've always booked one of the beach front ones w/ either 2 double beds or 1 king size bed. The kitchenette is good for preparing breakfast (which we would eat on our private balcony each morning), lunch (ditto on the balcony...), and for keeping snacks and drinks at hand. We were so exhausted our first night there that we ordered take out food that we re-heated in the micro-wave and then, yes, dined on the balcony. This is not a multiple star resort - you are on your own for all of your needs. However, it is perfect if all that you want/need is a gorgeous beach, comfortable and clean accommodations, an efficient cleaning staff, and helpful front desk folks.

We checked into the Island Inn the day after we got into Treasure Island. Our first night was spent in a hotel down the road that was a dump (the Jefferson). The staff at the Island Inn is very friendly and the room we rented was great (205)! It was recently updated with new cupboards, tile floors, and decorated very nicely. It was clean and comfortable. The beach/view were wonderful and there's a great tikki bar in the back, too! I would definitely go back to this hotel. We had a great time and hated to leave.