Doubletree Beach Resort Tampa Bay/North Redington Beach

Excellent Service, Outstanding Beachfront location

by A TripAdvisor Member

The just returned from spending two nights at the Hilton Tampa Bay/North Redington Beach Resort. The hotel has an outstanding location on the beach. The service provided by the front desk and restaurant staff was excellent. The restaurant staff was very willing to meet unique requests of our family. The location is in quiet area and the beach area was not too crowded during the time of our visit. Related to this, there is a limited supply non-fine dining eating and other businesses in the area near the hotel. There is a good supply of grocery and drug store/photo finishing shopping as well as fast food establishments within a 10 minute drive. We rented a cabana and felt it made the time on the beach more pleasant.

This location is good for families. We combined a stay at this hotel with a trip to Walt Disney World and Cocoa Beach. Access from this location to the Tampa Airport was very good. We would stay at this property again.

Everything you need for a great beach vacation.

by A TripAdvisor Member

The Hilton at North Redington Beach offers everything you need for a great beach vacation. The resturant was excellent, with inside or outside seating and a great view of the Gulf. My wife and I enjoyed getting up early and having breakfest outside in the morning. With the view and the nice breeze, we could have stayed there for hours. The Tiki bar was a nice touch and a welcome sight after a long walk on the beach. The hotel was in tip top shape and the service was excellent. The beach was in great shape and the water was clear, with no seaweed. The hotel is close to everything, but not too close. I highly recommend this hotel.

Our Adopted Beach House

by A TripAdvisor Member

Just returned from three nights at the Hilton. This is probably our sixth or seventh stay since 2001. We've tried a couple of other places on both coasts, and this property is still our benchmark for our family weekend beach fixes. It's really close to the gulf and the pool, food, room, service are all at or above Hilton standards. We also feel the Redington area is the nicest of all the communities on the Pinellas coast in terms of activities, restaurants, scale, as it exhibits none of the high density, tacky beach slum ambiance of Clearwater, Treasure Island, etc. Almost everytime we go exploring in the car, we find ourselves wishing we never left North Redington.

I guess a Goldilocks analogy suits our love for the Hilton perfectly, it's not too big, not too small, not too casual, not too swanky, not too adult, not too family, not too prenentious, it's just right.

While the food never dissapoints, we always try to work in dinner at the nearby Lobster Pot...pricey, but always a meal we'll talk about for days afterwards.

North Redington, Florida

by al_mary

"North Redington - Great Beach Area"

North Redington Beach is a town in Pinellas County, in the
Tampa - Saint Petersburg metro area.

North Redington Beach is a small town nestled on the central
Gulf Coast of Florida in Pinellas County between the Gulf of Mexico
and Boca Ciega Bay. This colorful community fronts both the Gulf
and the Intracoastal Waterway and has an eclectic mix of shops,
restaurants, hotels and motels. A soft, white sandy beach slopes
gently into the Gulf of Mexico, making it very safe for swimming for
both children and adults.

One of the biggest attractions to North Redington Beach is that
visitors have all the amenities of a much larger city, yet without
the crowds, noise and traffic. There are six beach accesses on
the Gulf side with 28 miles of shoreline, perfect for swimming,
shelling, building sandcastles, sunning, strolling at sunset, or
relaxing with a good book.

The town of North Redington Beach has two playground areas
for children, and two tennis courts available for public use.
Deep-sea fishing, casino cruises, dolphin watching nature tours
and snorkeling is also available in the area.

The nearby Pinellas Trail offers a 34-mile challenge for hiking,
biking, jogging or walking. (Motorized vehicles are prohibited and
pets must be walked along the trail on a leash.) If golf is your game,
the Redington Beach area has 34 beautiful golf courses to challenge
you. If you enjoy pro sports, nearby Tampa Bay is home to the Tampa Bay
Devil Rays and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

As for Redington Beach, it is now three towns, with Redington Beach
extending from 155th Avenue to 164th Avenue; North Redington from
164th Avenue to 173rd Avenue; and Redington Shores from 174th Avenue
to 183rd Avenue.

The original Redington Beach remains basically the same type of beach
Charles Redington intended "A classier residential area," said newspaper
stories, with chiefly private homes. Its 1,700 residents, a number that does
not vary much, have fought through the years to keep it that way.

The temperature is mild, the central West Coast of Florida in the
Clearwater/St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay area enjoys a semi tropical
climate with warm Gulf breezes and plenty of sunshine. Frequent
thunderstorms, short in duration, dominate the summertime weather
patterns, where humidity usually hovers near the 100 percent mark.

Even with these frequent summer storms, however, this area of the
state enjoys the most days of sunshine per year - with an average of
361. June through September are the wettest months, with the rest
of the year being pretty dry by comparison. The most pleasant weather
is found during the winter months between November and March when
the humidity becomes more bearable and winds from the Bay and
Gulf keep temperatures moderate.