Clearwater Beach Marriott Suites on Sand Key

It was amazing! The rooms were nice with the most beautiful view I've ever seen! Oh and did I mention a free dolphin show during sun rise and sun set when you have the room from the Bay. (I thought it was a joke at first as it is very advertised on boats and many other places but when it comes time to see them you never see the dolphins). The dolphins swimming at Bay is a must to see and guaranteed one will see it. I had seen it every day for my 5-day stay and it is a wonderful thing to see. The morning breakfast buffet was okay. The staff was amazing, very attentive and helpful. They have a trolly that takes you to clearwater beach and brings you back when you are done. I enjoyed that the hotel included resturants and cafes located inside the hotel. They have Starbucks inside the hotel that I used every morning and it was great! I never wanted to leave especially with the views of dolphins. Will definitely come back in the summer time when the weather is warmer as over the Christmas holidays the weather was a bit chilly (upper 60s/low 70s weather) but definitely warmer from Chicago weather.

1st day (Monday) of our stay the breakfast buffet was not good. There was little to choose from. Although the breakfast was included in our hotel stay, it didn't have a wide selection of what to choose from like the hotel we stayed in before called Embassy Suites by Hilton. Definitely waffles should be a part of their selection for breakfast (I think it's a standard in American breakfast, but it was weird to not see it in their menu and their breakfast was based on people who do not have any health problems. I think they should consider a menu if people are allergic to egg or lactose intolerant. If breakfast is not included in anyone's stay then it's expensive and the food by the pool was okay but the portions are small compared to Embassy Suites and what one pays for it. A downside is that if you have the complimentary breakfast included in the hotel price, they give you vouchers from each individual that you have booked it for. The downside to it is that the waiters do not collect the vouchers at the beginning of your breakfast and when they give you the bill (even though it's $0) they will call your room to come downstairs to give them the vouchers not to get charged for breakfast. That is ridiculous especially that one day they didn't ask or collect the vouchers and we didn't get charged twice yet the other time they didn't ask for it and gave us the check $0 and still called our room to bring down the vouchers. How is it fair to be charging $0 and then them calling you to the room to bring them the vouchers when they didn't ask for it? The Director of Operations should take a look into this issue, as they can check your room and see whether you have complimentary breakfast. What could definitely be better is cleaning up the cups, plates, forks/knives when eating breakfast or going to their resturant later in the day. When you look at those items (cups, knives, forks, plates, etc.