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An extended stay hotel at 950 Desoto Park Drive, about a mile from the State Capitol and two miles from Florida State University. Every suite is more than five hundred square feet, with a separate bedroom, a living room with a sleeper sofa and a kitchen with full size appliances and a coffee maker. There is a laundry, a fitness room and free wireless internet. Small pets are taken. Stays of a week or more get weekly housekeeping.
A hotel at 824 Railroad Avenue in Tallahassee. A hot breakfast buffet is included every morning, and there is an outdoor pool, a fitness center, a business center, meeting rooms and free wireless internet. Connecting rooms can be booked, and Hilton Honors members can use a digital key. Self parking is in an open lot with in and out privileges. Up to two dogs are taken; cats are not.
A hotel of one hundred and three rooms on four floors at 2003 Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee. There is a restaurant on site, an indoor heated saltwater pool open from early morning until ten at night, and a fitness room open around the clock with treadmills, bicycles, a rowing machine and free weights. Self parking is free, with one hundred and eighty-three spaces. There are three meeting rooms and a business center. Pets are not taken.
A hotel at 200 North Monroe Street in downtown Tallahassee, a short walk from the State Capitol and near Florida State and Florida A&M universities. There is an outdoor pool, a gym open around the clock, a bar serving cocktails, beer and pub food, and a lounge with billiards. Rooms have a forty-two inch television, a connectivity station and an oversized showerhead. Two pets a room are taken. Meeting space is available.
A hotel at 2814 Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee. A hot breakfast buffet is included every morning. There is a fitness center with cardio machines and weights, a lobby with a games area, free wireless internet and free self parking with in and out privileges. Connecting rooms can be booked and Hilton Honors members can use a digital key. Up to two dogs or cats are taken.
An all suite hotel at 1300 Executive Center Drive in Tallahassee, with easy reach of the Capitol complex, Florida State University and Florida A&M, and restaurants and offices within walking distance. Suites have free wireless internet, large work areas and plush bedding. A hot breakfast is included every morning. There is an outdoor pool, a fitness center open around the clock, on site self parking and meeting space. Only service dogs are taken.
An extended stay hotel at 600 West Gaines Street in Tallahassee, near Florida State University, Florida A&M and the State Capitol. Suites have a full kitchen and a separate living area. A full hot breakfast is served every morning. There is an outdoor pool, a fitness center, on site parking with one space to a suite, and more than four thousand two hundred square feet of event space. Pets up to eighty pounds are taken.
A hotel of one hundred and twenty rooms, fifty of them suites, at 1100 Railroad Avenue in Tallahassee, by the Railroad Square arts district and next to Florida State and Florida A&M, a short drive from the Capitol. Kitchen suites have a full refrigerator and a microwave; den rooms have no kitchen. Breakfast is included. There is a heated outdoor pool, a fitness room open around the clock, the H Bar and two thousand square feet of meeting space.
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