Howard Johnson Plaza

Needs improvement...

The desk clerks were not the most hospitable people. They appeared to be inconvenienced when I asked questions. One even growled at my daughter. I requested a nonsmoking floor and although I was told it was, it wasn't. Which made it very difficult to sleep at night due to the permeation of smoke into our room. I informed the desk clerk about the smoking and she said she would send someone up; she never did. I also informed her that I would be making a complaint regarding the smoking she said ok. No apology nothing! The menu was limited and the service although friendly and informative was slow. ( Not a big deal). My daughter is a freshmen at UT and uses the shuttle to and from the school. of which she says is usually running late and being only two shuttles they are jammed packed with students, that is if she can even get on. I believe they should work out a better plan with the school to ensure the safety of these students. The location was good close fairly close to the campus, the airport, multiple restaurants and stores. I feel the price was fair. I may have felt differently if it wasn't for the heavy smell of cigarette smoke. The maid service was good. They were both friendly and helpful.

Nice Hotel

It was newly renonvated but still needs some work. Such as there were 3 elevators but only one worked at a time. Elevator was extremely slow and I sometimes waited between 5 to 8 minutes for the elevator to get up to my floor, the 8th floor. Rooms were real comfortable and clean.

Pleasantly surprised

I found the quality of the hotel to be surprising. The rooms could use a little updating, but ok for the price. The entire hotel staff (front dest, shuttle drivers, restaurant & bartenders) were all extremely nice.

Waste of an Outstanding Location..

We stayed here last weekend..The location was perfect for us seeing a show at TBPAC which is in the same parking lot..so for location I give the hotel a 10..I just cannot believe they spent all that money to redo the lobby and the rest of the hotel is a dump..The elevators were SO shaky and only 1 of the 3 worked..The halls were like old dorm rooms..no pictures..dirty carpet..NO appeal..just cement walls..Neither Room key worked..went down 3 times..finally got into a foul smelling, musty room..The decor was nice...the bathroom was disgusting..only 1 towel..the tub/shower did not work and was covered in scum with cracks everywhere..There were opened ketchup packets by the air conditioner and other garbage by the window..the tv did not have any batteries in the remote and the sound did not work..the kicker was in the room is a big sign saying join us for our complimentary breakfast!! so we did.. it was cheap..some bagels..yogurt..the usual..they did have a hot egg and sausage bin..nothing special..after we got our plate I saw the table next to us getting a check..so we called the waitress overto find out what for..she told us that our hotel does not participate in the free breakfast and it was 10.95 pp..for a smalol table of crappy food...what a rip off!! I would only reccomend this hotel for ppl seeing a show at the TBPAC bc the convenience was so worth it even though the hotel was a dump it was ok for just 1 night.

Outstanding Hotel",

I was peasantly surprised at how nice this hotel was.

Great room for the money

Great price. King bed had two double box springs instead of a king box. Bathroom was slightly dirty. On three separate occasions cleaning attendants just walked into the room without knocking and even when do not disturb sign was displayed.

Good room for the price

All in all I was fairly satisfied with my stay. My biggest concern was the cleanliness of the bathroom. There were hairs left in both the sink & the bathtub. I feel the cleaning crew could use a little more training in that area. The staff were very friendly & over all I had a good night's rest!

Just like home

The room was very comfortable, just like home. And, just like home the tv remote was disfunctional...you had to bang it just the right way to get it to work. The room was great and so were the hotle amenities but they we not advertised very well so you had to sort of seek them out. The walk to the convention center was a bit far, especially in the Florida heat, but a shuttle was availible at certain times. Again, if you didn't mind doing a bit of detective work it was great.

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Clean hotel

If you are going to the proforming arts center its a great stay! I onthe other hand was there on business and need acess to the internet. Their conection was slow and unsucured, not good for business! But if you are just in town on vacation its a great place it was clean and the staff was nice!

Good Location. Pleasant Stay.

Good location. Downtown. Very easy access to highway (I-275), and airport. Wireless internet in rooms is unreliable, good luck if you need to work on s.th important!

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Not Worth It!

The Howard Johnson's in downtown Tampa was not very comfortable as it is because there was no room service or gift shop or "real" snack shop. The shower was disgusting and the shower head mechanism was haning out of the wall. I will never stay there again.