Lake Tarpon Resort, Palm Harbor

I've stayed at Lake tarpon Resort multiple times now, and I really like it. The staff is friendly, the bed in comfortable, every room has a balcony, and it's easy to find parking. The water front view isn't very spectacular, but I don't stay there for the water. The restaurant downstairs is more of a bar than a restaurant, but the food is decent. It's near the sponge docks and only minutes away from the Gulf. I've never had an issue with anything seeming dirty, and you really just can't beat the rate for a single King bed room. I've stayed at bigger chain hotels before that were about the same quality, but $90 more per night. Overall, I really enjoy staying here, but don't expect a 4-star luxury hotel

The rooms are so clean and nice! Great fishing out back if you know how to do it right! Beautiful movie theatre right across the street! Spong docks only 5 minutes or so away. Sports bar restaurant has really great food and different specials every night, sometimes with live entertainment. All of the staff are very nice and helpful. Breakfast is free and has a very nice selection. Pool with spa right next to the water. Best value of any other places in this area. I come back every time I am here on business.

My boyfriend& I normally stay at another hotel for our weekend getaways,he had heard this one has changed alot from the years so i agreed to go there and try it,THE FRONT DESK WAS GREAT, THE BARTENDER NEEDS TO GO,if u want to bring in new people and MORE people than u need to really get a friendly staff in there,we stayed 3 nights first night she was so rude to alot of us NON LOCALS,(REGULARS),i thought it would be nice to stay at a hotel that had a bar/restaurant so we didnt have to even go anywhere,well we had to,and others did as well,other than her,that place was great and has changed from the years prior,so I do recomend staying there,but if you go to the bar and either sit there for 10 min being stared at by bartender without a hello or her rolling her eyes as you order,than go across to CODYS, they treat you right bar/food,

liked it all, really clean room and property . everyone from Cliff the gm to Dave the manager went out of there way to make it the best mini getaway ever. great water view clean room what else could you ask for and bargain price to boot

This place was great. We had a huge room with a king size bed, a loveseat, a desk, and a great view of the pool and lake. The pool is open 24 hours a day as long as there are no complaints. The pool is heated which isn't so great in the summer because then it's the same temp as the jacuzzi. Breakfast was not that great but can't really complain since it was free. I come to Tarpon Springs every 3 months but only get a room twice a year. I am staying here each time now. It was the cheapest room around and was great.

The exhaust fan in the bathroom sounded like a jet plane. The toilet was to far back under the counter which ran over it so the toilet lids would not stay up. The shower was wonderful. The motel will not change your bed sheets if you stay multiple nights no matter how many times you ask. It is part of their green policy to save on water and avoid polution. The paint on the chairs on the balcony comes off on your clothes. The view from our balcony was strait down a canal and you could see the lake about a mile away. I liked the view. Breakfast the first morning was great. Breakfast the second morning was horrible. It was 35 minutes before they took our order and 65 minutes before we got our food. The waffles are terriffic. Eggs, bacon and potatoes are ok. I was part of a large wedding party. When we got there we discovered they have only one cart to carry your clothes to the room. We all had the same opinion that this motel is in the last stages of use before it is renovated or closed. Many rooms have no view. Staff seems to feel the conditions are acceptable and they would be in a third world economy but this is America! Never again!

I booked this hotel thinking it was a "waterfront" property. If your idea of waterfront is a mud puddle dock area that is blocked in with cement, weeds and moss you will be happy. There is no way to enjoy the "water" unless you are in the pool. It has maybe six boats and absolutely no view of any "lake". The room felt like I was crashing at a friends basement. Musty. Dank. We felt unsafe. Our toilet seat would not stay up, which made for an interesting experience trying to use the bathroom. It was literally built under a counter top so that you had to hold the lid up the whole time. It was terribly dirty. Even though we had several people, we asked to move to a king room just to get off the ground floor because we did not like the giant sliding glass door. There was a semi truck parked out back with lots of odds and inns from construction projects. The room was dingy. I was scared to even get into the covers. We were awarded the "reduced" rate of 100 bucks a night for this, and were asked to pay for a cot. I would rather have slept in the car. This property is NOT what they advertise it to be. I went on priceline to try to get a Clearwater waterfront hotel. I got stuck with this thing on a highway surrounded by aging urban sprawl, and about a 30 minute drive from any tourist stuff. WATCH out for cops too. We left with an undeserved 240 dollar ticket because the sharks around there prey on out of staters. I kept wondering why Best Western would allow their name on such a place. Did they not inspect the property? I thought that was a good brand? IF it weren't for the mud puddle lake, this place would be a sleazy truck stop style dive at best. It just feels like a depressing mom and pop place you would see in the movies. horror movies. They do offer breakfast if you are willing to wait a long time as it is served in the restaurant. Clearly the restaurant staff does not care about serving the hotel guests--they seated us in a hidden dark corner instead of letting us eat outside, they neglected the table, they only have three options, and seemed annoyed that we were there. I think they hope that most people will just leave and not take them up on the breakfast. When it came, it was a long the lines of Denny's food. Very unusual for a continental breakfast. I get the impression that someone bought this place with hopes of fixing it up. They started fixing it themselves and found it to be too hard and they ran out of money. They bathroom in the lobby is great. But that's where the progess stopped. You can tell a do it yourselfer tried to paint the place. It's falling apart. The problem is that they are trying to compete with luxury hotels and be a Hilton when they are, at best, an old Motel 6. They obviously have money problems, and I don't want to hurt them. But, they are trying to be something they are not and they misrepresent themselves. They should cater to the economy minded passers by. This motel should have a flashing light out front and a banner that says 39 dollars per night. I recommend that they offer a 2 night discount and give the rooms for about 50 bucks for two nights. That way, they would fill the place up. It is a place to stay, the rooms do have a balcony, and there is some water, a pool, an iffy restaurant and a weight room. But they should cut the breakfast song and dance, stop trying to be a premium property, stop trying to charge over a hundred bucks a night for a truck stop style place, and maybe they would get some business. This is just not a good location--one of the worst I have ever stayed in. I was so embarrassed that I had to drag my family there for a night. Looking back, I should have just forfeited the hundred bucks to priceline and booked another place.

This was my worst nightmare come true. Driving up it looked pretty nice. They did not have a "deluxe view" with 2 DBL beds as I had confirmed through Priceline and tried to stick 4 adults in one king bed! We showed our confirmation for two double beds and the arrogant jerk at the front desk (Dimitris) basically said we can stick you in another room with no view. Hardly what I wanted for my elderly parents who are handicapped, but we had no choice. We took the room. After returning to the hotel the next day, we arrived to see that the AC/Heating unit was off, the bed spreads were removed and our refriderator was gone, we called the front desk. Apparently they were moving us AGAIN to another room. Our options were to a) check out and find something else or b) take yet another lousy room (still paying for the deluxe view) and pack up my elderly parents. The hotel staff were rude, arrogant and could use some lessons in compassion. We hated everything about this hotel! Looks are deceiving people. We ended up calling Best Western in Clearwater Beach and we not only received COMPASSION after hearing our problem with this hotel, we also received a GREAT RATE for Ocean View. If you have a choice, got to the Best Western in Clearwater Beach. Chris at the front desk was TOP QUALIFTY and a real asset to the Best Western name!

Being that I travel 80% of the time for my company, I thought that the Best Western In Palm Harbor would be as nice as the other Best Western's that I have stayed in. Talk about not being true. The room smelled like it has never been cleaned or maybe what I smelled was the black mold growning in the room. Well after seeing the black mold I had the front desk clerk change my room. By this time, it was late and I was tired. The new room was not much better. Now in the afternoon before leaving I thought that I would try the new restaurant being that I was hungry and did not want to drive anywhere. Talk about another disapointment. The wait staff acted like they either did not know what they were doing or they were board from standing around doing nothing. I think that there were only 10 people in the restaurant at lunch time. it took 2 1/2 hrs just to get my order. Even then the order was not right. The meal was comped, but I will never eat nor stay at that location again. I feel sorry for anyone who does

I stayed at the best western for 1 week and we had 2 rooms. It was not in a very good location, because highway 19 was always busy and noisy. The rooms had a bad musty/moldy smell and to get rid of it you had to turn the air up so high that the rooms got cold. They advertised continental breakfast, restaurant, and exercise room. The restaurant and the exercise room were closed and the continental breakfast was lousy. The pool was pretty nice, but kind of small. Their wasn't a microwave anywhere in the hotel, and only one of the rooms had a fridge. I think it would be fine for one night, but not the best vacation hotel.