My Sarasota Getaway | Hotel in Laurel

This is my favorite place to stay when I visit Nokomis and Venice. The suite I stayed in was clean and comfortable. Cindy and Dave are kind, helpful, and very welcoming. Thank you for the memories!

Most gracious and helpful staff. The AC unit in the room we booked was not operating optimally and they moved us to an upgraded room for no cost without even having to ask. Perfect old Florida motel experience. Not everyone's cup of tea, but perfectly met our needs.

It is not in Sarasota! It is about a 25 minute drive to Sarasota. However, the prices are much more reasonable than in Sarasota. It was relatively convenient for the local. Parking was a problem.

I want to start on a positive note with the Manager,Cindy, and her husband David were so nice and helpful? The bad part, is this place is disgusting! We had to shower with our shoes on, the couch was not a couch, it was a love seat that was stained. The TV didn’t work and the place was extremely small and outdated by 50 years! The pool was gross (nobody swam it the whole 10 days we stayed there). The furniture around the pool was all broken and rusted. We will NEVER be staying here again. The worst part about it all was , we were in the “Suite”. I can’t imagine what the other rooms were like!!

Seems like a hotels.com trend, but this hotel really goes by a different name...Nokomis Inn. Said they were overbooked, but I could have a "suite" with no AC. Considering the last-minute nature of this and the cool overnight temps, I stayed. The "suite" just meant more beat-up furnishings to enjoy. Parking is a nightmare. Somewhat of a residential place and far from a resort, unless it qualified during the Nixon administration.

The room that I had booked was unavailable.

This hotel has nothing to offer. There is a microwave, fridge, and a safe. Not even one cup for water or anything else. Very noisy, right next to the road. No desk to put your laptop on and I couldn't get hooked up to Wifi. Never again.!!

DO NOT STAY HERE my friend and I booked this before our cruise and almost left half way through the night due to how noisy it was. The person next to us is definitely living out of this place and it’s so dirty and unclean. The room we are in had a tv and WiFi that didn’t work - while they told us at check in and said it would be fixed within an hour it wasn’t. There is almost no parking. When we came back from dinner there were 3 sheriffs and an ambulance here. Dealing with an incident that happened down a few rooms from ours. Drug deals were happening last night, doors slamming, it was all very sketchy and we can hear everything because the walls are thin. The pictures do NOT match the current condition of the property.

We made a reservation with a King size bed. Upon check in, we were given a room with a Queen size bed. Front desk receptionist had no answer as to why and claimed there were no other rooms available. She said she would reach out to the manager. Every day we either stopped in for an update, or emailed the property requesting the same. For the entire duration, there was ZERO RESPONSE. The facility is run-down and needs significant updating. We can’t even say “you get what you pay for.” We DO NOT recommend!

Room was clean, comforter on the beds were dusty. Person living a couple doors down was running and raving up a motorcycle late at night. Woman living in room directly next door yelling all hours of the night at the 7 dogs living in the room.