Holiday Inn Sarasota-Lido Beach-@The Beach

Overall:

"The beach was beautiful & the hotel provided chairs & towels." — source Orbitz

"We would definitely spend a short stay there again." — source Hotels.com

"We enjoyed the hotel, the beach and the overall location was great." — source Travelocity

"I would definatly recommend this hotel to all of my friends and family." — source Expedia

"This is a great hotel great veiw of the gulf." — source Orbitz

Clean:

"We only stayed there one night but it seemed to be very clean." — source Orbitz

"The hotel is not new, but it's clean, neat, and above all, in the right place to visit many attractions, thus the higher cost." — source Hotels.com

"The beach was clean and beautiful,lots of shells, dolphins jumping, manates in the water way behind the hotel." — source Travelocity

"The room I had, sight unseen was clean, needed maintenance." — source Expedia

"Our Room was clean and nicely decortated." — source Orbitz

Service:

"By the time this was all taken care of I missed the cutoff for ordering from room service. I will give credit to room service because they made accomodations to make me a salad in a pinch and were very friendly." — source Travelocity

"We checked in and barley understood the clerk, The food was horrible and the service was wrse and nobody would do anything about it." — source Travelocity

"Also, according to the Holiday Inn website, they have shuttling service, which they do not." — source Expedia

"Room service is very expensive, especially for a Holiday Inn." — source Expedia

"Wonderful view of the gulf and with the shuttle service i didnt have to do anything, everything was in walking distance." — source Travelocity

Location:

"While we were here, we visited the area beaches and shopped at St." — source Orbitz

"However the hotel had a great location, right by the beach and shops." — source Hotels.com

"Located only a few blocks from St." — source Travelocity

"Just about the only good thing about this hotel is the location on the beach." — source Expedia

"I originally chose this hotel because I had been to Sarasota before and envied the location of the hotel. After staying here I would go back again and again because of the location, friendliness of the staff and ease of hotel." — source Travelocity

Value:

"Overall it's pretty good for the price." — source Hotels.com

"Nothing fancy, but comfortable in all respects in a great location and I got a great price as a Travel agency package." — source Travelocity

"This is tolerable at a lower budget hotel, but considering the price paid per night, terribly annoying." — source Travelocity

Room:

"The room was nice." — source Hotels.com

"The Hotel Staff @night were the worst anyone could find anywhere, not helpful at all, and very rude, the hotel also had an awful odor the first two days even the room we were in and the elevator stunk." — source Travelocity