travel42 Hotel Review: The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota

The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Located on 11 downtown acres abutting Sarasota Bay, across a picturesque marina from the stylish Hyatt, Glazer Children's Museum and the Performing Arts Center, this top-ranked hotel sits in the catbird seat here on Florida's central gulf coast.

The idea for this place came from local John Ringling of circus fame, who had abandoned the construction of a Ritz-Carlton during hard times in the 1920s. The stately architecture borrows from the Italian design of...