The only full-service resort on Anna Maria Island has opened and tourism officials say it could be the last of its kind built on the 7-mile ... a Marriott family Autograph Collection Hotel, ...

The former Blue Water Beach Club motel on Anna Maria Island has been converted into a luxury lodging facility, one of several Sarasota-Manatee area hotels to undergo major renovations in recent ...

The Waterline Marina Resort & Beach Club opened on Nov. 29 on Anna Maria Island, part of the three-key chain west of Bradenton that includes Longboat and Siesta. Located on the eastern shore of ...

Court Zoller, owner of Anna Maria Island Inn, 2218 Gulf Drive N., Bradenton Beach, said red tide has been a “double whammy” for the hospitality industry.

With a large, oval-shaped pool near the hotel bar and rooms overlooking a marina or a nature preserve, the Compass is just a drawbridge away from Anna Maria Island. • Anna Maria Beach Resort .

Island visitors leave behind rowdy crowds, high-rise condos and Starbucks. ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. -- "Please be sweet and rinse your feet," hand-painted signs over troughs of water outside rooms ...