Mark H. Bickel | Naples Daily News
The reviews are in and once again Inn at Pelican Bay in Naples has something to deservedly brag about.
The Inn at Pelican Bay announced in a press release it has once again been recognized by Tripadvisor with a 2025 Travelers’ Choice Award, placing it in the top 10% of hotels worldwide.
This honor is based on consistently stellar reviews from millions of travelers around the globe.
What to know: Inn at Pelican Bay and Tripadvisor
- This marks the fourth consecutive year the Inn at Pelican Bay has received top honors from Tripadvisor.
- In 2022, the hotel earned its first Travelers’ Choice Award.
- It received the honors again in 2023, and in 2024, it was elevated to the elite Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best list. That distinction named the Inn at Pelican Bay the No. 1 hotel in Naples, the No. 1 hotel in Florida, No. 25 in the United States, and among the top 1% of hotels worldwide.
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Laura Layden | Naples Daily News
The highly anticipated Four Seasons Resort in Naples is taking reservations.
Years in the making, the resort, part of a larger mixed-use luxury development, known as the Naples Beach Club, will debut in October.
Four Seasons announced the opening of reservations via a press release June 17.
While the release did not include an official opening date, the resort’s website shows the first-available booking date as Oct. 20, with limited options, or restrictions. After that date, rooms are marked as unavailable until Nov. 24 (with limited availability, until December).
The Four Seasons is replacing the former Naples Beach Hotel, off Gulf Shore Boulevard North. The Watkins family owned and operated the hotel for 75 years, through three generations, before selling the property for redevelopment in 2021.
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Robyn George | Naples Daily News
For decades, it sat quietly, shrouded in mystery and virtually invisible to passersby.
Just steps off Old 41 Road in the heart of Bonita Springs, Shangri-La Springs might as well have been miles away, secluded behind its growing wall of green.
“I’ve been here most of my entire life and always knew it was there,” said Maikol Henriquez, executive director of Bonita Springs Historical Society. “It had gates up and I’d look over and wonder what it was. There was a certain aura around it. It was very mysterious, but not in a negative way.”
But slowly, things began to change. After being closed for two decades, the property was opened to the public in 2015, grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting included.
Then, last October, the wall separating the property from the eyes of the world was removed.
“When I gave the OK to take it down, it was a much bigger deal than I thought,” general manager Lee Bellamy said laughing. “It wasn’t even a wall really. There was a chain link fence and a humongous hedge row had grown unattended for 25 to 30 years.”
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J. Kyle Foster | Naples Daily News
After months of conversations and arguments about an entryway befitting Naples and a five-star beach resort, the city’s Design Review Board has approved site and landscaping plans for the porte-cochere at the Naples Beach Club on Gulf Shore Boulevard.
The beach club, a Four Seasons resort, is under construction on the beach facing the Gulf of Mexico. Its 216-luxury rooms are replacing the 319-room Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club, which stood on the site since 1946.
City manager tasked with decision on entry covering
City Council put the fate of the “porte cochere” in the hands of City Manager Jay Boodheshwar in January after members failed to come to consensus on a design during that meeting – and that was after considering three proposals in three months from Beach Club architect Hart Howerton. Council members couldn’t decide on whether to allow the developer to build the driveway cover because the designs all required encroachment on setbacks, which are minimum distances required around a building set forth in the city’s Land Use Ordinance.
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Phil Fernandez | Naples Daily News
What’s rising, with a planned autumn opening, is The Perry Hotel Naples, a 160-room hotel along the Cocohatchee River that will feature the rooftop Tigress Restaurant & Bar.
The lodge is the second for The Perry, a boutique hotel brand that launched in 2017 in Key West, where developer FOD Capital is based.
What will the new Tigress Restaurant feature in Collier County, Florida?
The rooftop full-service 75-seat venue will serve Asian-fusion cuisine with dry-aged meats, chops and steaks. The property also includes a boardwalk that meanders from the pool deck to a riverfront pier with an eight-slip marina and a dock from which water sports, fishing trips, and dolphin and sunset cruises can depart, according to Mike Raymond, FOD’s CEO.
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