Best Boutique Hotels in Tampa
Tampa's boutique scene has grown fastest where the city has grown fastest — the Channel District, Hyde Park, and Ybor City all have independent properties worth choosing.
Tampa has changed more than almost any American city in the past decade. The downtown waterfront, the Channel District, Ybor City's historic cigar-factory blocks, and Hyde Park's Victorian streetscapes have all developed boutique hotel options that reflect the city's genuine — rather than manufactured — character.
Downtown & Channel District
The Epicurean Hotel in the Hyde Park Village is Tampa's most distinctive boutique property — a culinary-focused hotel with a cooking school, a chef's tasting room, and rooms designed for guests who came for the food scene. Aloft Tampa Downtown in the Channel District has the Riverwalk access that makes Tampa's resurgent waterfront walkable.
Ybor City
Ybor City is Tampa's most architecturally rich neighbourhood — the former Cuban and Spanish cigar-manufacturing district, with Moorish Revival buildings, Spanish tile rooftops, and the most interesting restaurant scene in the city. Several boutique and hotel properties in converted factory buildings make it the best base for the traveller who wants Tampa rather than a resort.
Hyde Park & Bayshore
Hyde Park is the neighbourhood that most resembles the affluent residential areas of older American cities — wide streets, Victorian houses, a village retail strip. The Hotel Haya in Ybor City is a newer property that has quickly become the boutique benchmark for the area, with a restaurant focused on the neighbourhood's Latin heritage.
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