The Pearl Hotel

The Pearl Hotel sits at 63 Main St in Alys Beach. It is a twenty-minute walk from the Tampa Museum of Art.

Most hotels near the Tampa Riverwalk prioritize proximity to the city’s concrete grid, but the Pearl leans into its beachfront geography instead. While the waterfront parks are a twenty-five-minute walk away, the trade-off is a quiet perimeter that those hotels cannot replicate. Choosing this over a downtown anchor means sacrificing immediate access to the Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park for the sake of the coast. If your priority is the bustle of the riverfront, the trek back to this end of the beach will feel long; if you prefer the salt air to the sound of local transit, the extra distance is the entire point.