Bellwether Beach Resort

4.0 star property

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Exterior
Terrace/patio
Penthouse | Premium bedding, pillowtop beds, in-room safe, desk
Nightclub
Penthouse | Living area | 42-inch flat-screen TV with cable channels, TV

Reviews

8.6 out of 10

Excellent

Popular amenities

  • 24/7 front desk
  • Bar
  • On private beach
  • Breakfast available
  • Laundry
  • Pool

Explore the area

Map
5250 Gulf Blvd, St. Pete Beach, FL, 33706
  • Dolphin Landings Charter Boat Center
    6 min walk
  • Splash Island Water Park
    7 min walk
  • Pass-a-Grille Beach
    9 min walk
  • Tampa, FL (TPA-Tampa Intl.)
    35 min drive

Room options

Classic Room (2 King Beds)

  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 King Beds

Classic Room, 1 King Bed, No VIew

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

Room, 1 King Bed (Boca Ciega Bay view)

  • City view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

Room, 1 King Bed, Oceanfront

  • Beach view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

Room, 1 King Bed, Partial Ocean View

  • Partial ocean view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

Suite, 1 King Bed, Oceanfront

  • Beach view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

Room, Partial Ocean View (2 King Beds)

  • Partial ocean view
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 King Beds

Room, 1 King Bed, Accessible

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

Penthouse

  • Water view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

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About this property

Bellwether Beach Resort

St. Pete Beach hotel steps from St. Petersburg - Clearwater Beaches
At Bellwether Beach Resort, spend the day on the private sand beach where you can enjoy volleyball. Then return for a meal at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants. Housekeeping is available on request.
Bellwether Beach Resort offers 156 accommodations with laptop-compatible safes and coffee/tea makers. Pillowtop beds feature premium bedding. 42-inch flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels.

Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, designer toiletries, and hair dryers. Business-friendly amenities include desks and desk chairs, as well as phones; free local calls are provided (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and ceiling fans. Housekeeping is provided on request.

Recreational amenities at the hotel include a private beach and an outdoor pool.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.

Simply walk outside to feel the sun on your face at the sand beach. Hit the beach and work on your tan in the sun loungers (chaise longues) or relax in the shade with complimentary cabanas and umbrellas.

Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. This beach hotel also offers an outdoor pool and a terrace.

Bellwether Beach Resort is a smoke-free property.

Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 8:00 AM and 11:00 AM.
Bellwether Beach Resort has 3 restaurants serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Languages

English, Spanish

Property amenities

Parking and transportation

  • Limited onsite parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available

Food and drink

  • Daily full breakfast available 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM for a fee: USD 8 to 25 per person
  • 3 restaurants
  • A bar/lounge
  • A coffee shop/cafe
  • A poolside bar
  • Coffee and tea in common areas

Things to do

  • Beach volleyball
  • Games
  • Outdoor pool
  • Personal motorized watercraft
  • Piano

Family friendly

  • Children's games
  • Mini-fridge
  • Outdoor pool

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • ATM
  • Luggage storage

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping (on request)
  • Multilingual staff
  • Porter/bellhop
  • Tour and ticket assistance
  • Wedding services

Business services

  • 24-hour business center
  • 9,000 square feet of conference space
  • Meeting rooms

Outdoors

  • Beach loungers
  • Beach towels
  • Beach umbrellas
  • Free beach cabanas
  • On a private beach
  • Outdoor furniture
  • Pool loungers
  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Assistive listening devices
  • Braille/raised signage
  • Elevator
  • Lever door handles
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible business center
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
  • Wheelchair-accessible pool
  • Wheelchair-accessible registration desk
  • Wheelchair-accessible restaurant

More

  • 12 floors
  • Ballroom
  • Banquet hall
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Blackout drapes
  • Pillowtop mattress
  • Premium bedding

Bathroom

  • Designer toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • 42-inch flat-screen TV with premium cable channels

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Mini-fridge

More

  • Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
  • Ceiling fan
  • Desk
  • Desk chair
  • Free local calls
  • Iron/ironing board
  • Laptop-compatible safe
  • Phone

Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age: 21

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Renovations and closures

This property is closed from October 18 2024 to December 13 2024 (dates subject to change).

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed (service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees)

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Children up to the age of 17 years can stay for free if using existing beds when occupying the parent or guardian's room
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • Resort fee: USD 50.85 per accommodation, per night
The resort fee includes:
  • Beach access
  • Beach loungers
  • Beach towels
  • Housekeeping
  • In-room bottled water
  • In-room coffee
  • In-room safe
  • Internet access
  • Parking
  • Phone calls
  • Pool access
  • Self parking

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

Optional extras

  • Fee for full breakfast: approximately USD 8 to 25 per person

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property; the policies listed are provided by the property

Bellwether Beach Resort Reviews

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 911 out of 1623 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 386 out of 1623 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 163 out of 1623 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 94 out of 1623 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 69 out of 1623 reviews" "

8.6/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.2/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Vanessa matias

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Matt

Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Chelsea Elaine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Kelly

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Nice beach location. Not very centrally located so renting a car would have been helpful to avoid racking Uber charges up. Room was clean and loved that it’s a short walk to the beach and a cabana is included. Drinks and food are over priced for the quality of them. 90 dollars for 4 Pina coladas is a bit absurd to me. Also make sure to have snacks in the room because everything classes by 10 food wise. So late night snacking is a fail. Staff was very accommodating. I would stay again just would rent a car, get snacks and avoid the drink prices.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Jenny

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Great experience except elevator outages.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Dave

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent location to the beach and Gulf Blvd. Central to many places to visit. A very pleasant stay worth every moment.
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

tania

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Staff is amazing
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Vanessa

Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Elevator was down
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Thomas, Fort Irwin

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The elevators weren’t working so everyone had to use the service elevator or stairs but it wasn’t terrible. The hotel was great. The rooftop bar was awesome with the DJ. Bongo’s restaurant on the beach is really cool and the food was delicious. We enjoyed room service for dinner when there was a brief rain shower. The beach in front of the Bellwether is amazing! Staff was friendly and the room was really comfortable. Will definitely return and hope the elevators are working by then.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Daniel

Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Emina

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Everything was perfect!!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Milagros Santos

Traveled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Elevator not working. Have to use employee elevator and they are very rude. Was a terrible experience for us. I spoke with front desk and management but they don’t care.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Karen

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Surprising
Surprisingly, I really liked the hotel. The unfortunate experience of having their elevators broken is what brought my rating down. I understand things may be broken, but the hotel shouldv'e compensated in other ways. Waiting 20 minutes for a service elevator while the maintence men rode up and down is unacceptable. And yes, we did speak to the front desk (manager wasn't available).
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Catalina

Traveled with partner
The hotel is decent, the beach is beautiful. The beach bar has decent food and good cocktails. The hotel seems a bit in disrepair, their elevators were down leaving a full hotel only with a smelly and just not kept up service elevator to use for guests and team members trying to manage. Front staff at night wasn’t very friendly. The last 2 times I’ve stayed here it was nice, however, after this stay, I am not sure I want to return.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Deborah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The elevators were out of order at the resort. Had to use the service elevator.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Raphael

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Looks can be deceiving. The hotel is overrated
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Adam

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Phenominal visit!!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Andrew, Collierville

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Rebecca

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Maria

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The room was very clean and comfortable bed, nice view.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Lenka

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Elevator didn’t work, hotel pool had issues they had to close down. I would not recommend!!
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Marlon, Alexandria

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The elevators were broken for our entire 1 week stay, we had to share the freight elevator with the staff and they were not the most well behaved and polite personnel, a lot of them use profanity riding the elevator with us and we had kids with us. The pool was under repair, we couldn't use the pool for 4 days out of our 7 day stay; the hotel gave us a $100.00 credit per room for our entire stay, but when you pay $4,000.00 for 2 rooms getting $200.00 dollars credit for our inconvenience is sort of an insult! We will never stay here again.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2024

4/10 Poor

William

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
beware the resort fees!! plus the fire alarm evacuation. Door to room would not close unless you slammed it. elevator out of service.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ashley

Traveled with family and small children, Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Our family enjoyed our stay and will be returning. The elevator being down was inconvenient but believe once repaired hotel is 5 stars. Loved the cabana and beautiful beach access!
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2024

4/10 Poor

Julie

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The main lifts were out of action therefore the service lift was used which seemed unsafe, the wait for the lift was in access of 10 minutes at times, Pool area closed for refurbishment, use of neighbouring hotel was offer, challenged by staff who said we shouldn’t be using their facilities (wristband worn).,,
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024