Sarasota Florida Hotels and Travel Guide

If you step past the beaches, the white sand luxury, (though heave knows why you'd want to) and look past the magnificent red glow of the sunset or the sauna warm waters of the gulf, there exists a world of arts, music, culture and color that is waiting for your discovery in Sarasota.

The perfect place for a romantic dinner for two, films, gourmet dining and luxury hotels, Sarasota has a whole other world aside from the beaches to open up for you.

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• Holiday Inn Lakewood Ranch – Voted #1 Holiday Inn in North America and in the Top Ten for six years in a row, this Sarasota boutique hotel features outstanding upscale amenities and unparalleled service. It is one of the first Florida hotel to be designated as a Florida Green Lodging Property in 2006. Holiday Inn features tastefully decorated, well-appointed guestrooms and suites and an entirely non-smoking property. Enjoy close proximity to beautiful Lake Osprey, shopping, dining, golf, museums, hiking, water sports, and so much more. Holiday Inn Lakewood Ranch is ideal for a Florida getaway or Sarasota business trip.

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Sarasota Florida Travel Guide

Situated in the heart of Sarasota County on the southwest coast of Florida, Sarasota encompasses many small barrier islands as well as the mainland aspects of Florida, which are called keys.

Two of these magnificent keys, Lido Key and Siesta Key, are world renowned for the perfection and the high quality of the powdery white sand that lays glistening on the beaches.

Sarasota, however, as we said earlier, is so much more than sand and surf, but is also a center of culture, education and elegance.

Home to the fabulous Sarasota Ballet, as well as, for the music buff, the Sarasota Opera, and La Musica. The Florida Studio Theatre, the Sarasota Players, the Banyan Theater Company, and a plethora of other musical, dance, artistic, and theatrical companies and buildings await your discovery in Sarasota.

The city also plays host to the annual Sarasota Film Festival, which attracts many of the most innovative independent films from around the world, and is said to be the largest of the Florida film festivals that take place today.

Not only culture, but also ecology and learning take place in Sarasota, including the Marine rescue, the Mote Marine Laboratory, which is not only rescue, but research as well as aquarium, and the G Wiz museum, a museum of science, as well as, for the outdoors enthusiast, your steps will carry you to the Sarasota Jungle Gardens, which hosts many sites that are of interest to the historian, and the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, which will delight the plant and flower enthusiast.

Sarasota is truly one city which has something for everyone. Take the time to pay a visit to Sarasota.