Which Tampa Bay Hotels Sell a Pool or Beach Day Pass
By SuddenStay Editorial · October 7, 2026
Photo: amanderson2, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr
If you live in Tampa, or you've booked a motel where the pool sits between the parking lot and the ice machine, you can still spend an afternoon at a resort pool. Plenty of hotels around the bay sell one by the day, and a few on the beach will sell you their sand.
On 6 October 2026 we read the websites of 62 Tampa Bay hotels, and their ResortPass listings where they had one. Twenty-six will sell a non-guest a day, and nineteen of those sell only through ResortPass. That 26 counts both TradeWinds resorts, which share one pass, and Hotel Tampa Riverwalk, whose pool is shut until December. Most of the rest never say either way. Every ResortPass price below is a "from" price on the day we read it, so treat it as a floor.
The Don CeSar and Plaza Beach
The Don CeSar sells a Resort Day Pass when the hotel isn't too full. Its FAQ prints no price. It sends you to The Don Club on (727) 360-1883, or to ResortPass, which lists the pass from $99 for adults and $45 for children 3 to 12, covering both heated pools and the private beach. Parking is $28 a day to self-park or $38 for valet, plus tax, so two adults who drive over start at $226 before tax. A spa booking won't get you to the pool either: Spa Oceana says its services "DO NOT include access to the hotel pools."
Plaza Beach Hotel sells the cheapest day we found. Its FAQ welcomes visitors for $10 per person per day and never says what the $10 buys. On ResortPass, a Day Pass from $25 covers the heated pool and the beach, and a Private Beach Pass from $5 leaves out the pool and bans bringing your own umbrella or chair. Wear a hat.
The Marriott day-pass site, and one cabana
Four Marriott hotels sell pool days on Marriott's own day-pass site. The Tampa EDITION charged $75 per adult there for its rooftop, $91.88 once taxes and fees went on, and ResortPass lists the same pass from $80. The portal offered only Monday to Thursday dates. Day guests must be 18 or over, and they get the pool from 11am to 6pm.
JW Marriott Tampa Water Street sells its two sixth-floor pools to adults on weekdays, without the spa. Marriott's site and ResortPass priced its pass differently on the same day, so check both. Its cabanas ran $200 early in the week and $325 on a Friday before tax, and the hotel adds a 20% gratuity. Tampa Marriott Water Street was the only one of the four with weekend dates on Marriott's site, though the two sites disagreed on every price it shows. Tampa Airport Marriott sits inside the main terminal, and its pass, from $55, includes luggage storage, so you can swim between flights.
The Vinoy in downtown St. Pete sells no pass, only a Private Cabana on its main pool: $300 by default and $550 for Saturday 17 October, with an 18% service charge on food and drink. Its offers page invites "both travelers and locals" to its poolside cabanas, but the booking page never says who may book, so ring 727-894-1000 before you pay.
Sold through ResortPass
None of these has a checkout of its own. You buy from ResortPass, and its terms decide any refund.
The Beachcomber's Beach Pass, from $50 for two, gets you two reserved chairs under an umbrella until 5pm and parking for one car. The pool takes a Day Pass, from $65 for anyone 16 and over.
Island Grand and RumFish Beach share one TradeWinds pass: 9 pools across both resorts and the High Tide Slide. It starts at $69 a head, and children 3 to 17 pay the adult price, so two adults with two children should take the Family Pass, from $190, which is $86 less. The resort's policy page says both are "for the exclusive use of our guests" and sells no pass of its own. A day room is from $175 for two, and the resort adds its mandatory resort fee plus tax when you check in.
Beach House Suites, the Don CeSar's sister up the beach, sells a pass from $55, though it doesn't get you into the Don. A pass to Hilton Garden Inn St. Pete Beach's pool costs from $30. Its VIP Pool Cabana is listed from $100 for five, but the food and drink minimum is $100 Monday to Thursday and $200 Friday to Sunday.
Of the seven Clearwater Beach hotels we checked, only Wyndham Grand Clearwater Beach plainly sells a day, from $25 on ResortPass, while its own spa page says the pool is for registered guests and spa members. The pool closes for renovation from early November until early January. The BOTE Lounge on the Beach stays open through it, from $300 for up to six with a server.
Hotel Haya in Ybor City says on its own pool page that non-guests get in through ResortPass, from $20 for adults. In downtown Tampa, an Embassy Suites pass also costs from $20 and children are welcome. A Le Méridien pass costs from $25, and nobody under 21 gets in. Hotel Tampa Riverwalk is still selling passes while its pool is closed for renovation through 30 November. Skip it.
Downtown St. Pete has three on ResortPass. AC Hotel sells its sixth-floor infinity pool from $25 and Moxy its heated rooftop from $35. Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront is from $35 and strictly 21 and over, and Hilton's own page lists $25 parking for up to six hours.
Westshore is where parking stops costing extra: five of the seven hotels there on ResortPass include it, and only the Westin and Tampa Airport Marriott charge. Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay's Oystercatchers pass, from $40 for adults, includes a private beach on the bay. A daybed for two by that pool starts at $75. Hilton Tampa Airport Westshore is from $30 for adults only, and the Renaissance at International Plaza from $50 with valet included. DoubleTree Rocky Point is from $30, though its listing gives both 18 and 21 as the minimum age. The Westin Tampa Bay has a beach too, from $20 for anyone 21 and over, but Dayuse's page for it says the pool is closed through 31 October.
Sandpearl and three others say no
Sandpearl limits its pool and beach to "registered guests of the resort." Its lagoon pool is second in our Gulf Coast pool list, and a room is the only way to swim in it. Its sister Opal Sands says the same about its pool. Bon-Aire says "the pool area is for registered guests only" and offers no visitor parking. Island's End at Pass-a-Grille says its insurer allows registered guests only.
Hotels that never say
Twenty-three hotels say nothing about non-guests, and a few of them may not have a pool. Hilton Clearwater Beach advertises private cabanas on the sand and never says who can rent them. We found no day sold at any of the four Treasure Island hotels we checked. The Hollander invites locals to its free events, and those included pool parties until 14 June 2026. No pool party is listed after that.
Four more are too murky to call. Palm Pavilion Inn shows beach umbrella and cabana rentals at $25 for two hours or $30 all day, and never says whether non-guests can rent them. Bayview Plaza shares Plaza Beach's FAQ, with the same $10 visitor line and nothing more on what it buys. Sand Pebble has no working website we could find, and the Westshore Grand appears only as a day-room listing on Dayuse.
Five hotels, Hotel Flor among them, have no pool to sell.
Which one to book
We'd book the Beachcomber's Beach Pass for two. With children, TradeWinds is the better day: the Family Pass saves $86 on four single passes, and the slide comes with it.
Count the parking before you compare tickets. Embassy Suites downtown is $5 cheaper than Hotel Alba at the door and $25 dearer once you've paid its $30 valet, because Alba lets you self-park free.
We've made the same list for Miami and Orlando. To stay the night instead, compare St. Pete Beach hotels.
