travel42 Hotel Review: Sirata Beach Resort

Sirata Beach Resort travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Located on the beach near its closest competitors—the more stately Grand Plaza Beach Resort and Conference Center and larger, livelier, TradeWinds Island Grand—this hotel has its own fans, many of whom are holdouts from this hotel's days under TradeWinds Resorts flag.

Sirata is a long-standing motel-style beach resort originally started by the wealthy Nichols family of Tampa many decades ago. In the 1970s the family sold it to a large company who ran it f...