This Clearwater Beach Hotel Has Aquarium-Inspired Guestrooms, Plant-Based Menu Options And Other New Amenities

Amid its place alongside Florida’s West Coast, the Wyndham Grand Clearwater Seaside has been altering up its scope of wellness and eating by its onsite choices.

Opened in 2017, this Wyndham Resorts & Resorts property near its namesake stretch of sand is marking its fifth yr by introducing plant-based meal servings and new well being and health choices.

“The property has continued to develop and obtain extra leisure enterprise; that’s been a extremely nice development to see,” stated Taylor Eckard, the resort’s advertising supervisor. “And we are also frequently making an attempt to raise the visitor expertise on the property.”

Households are amongst its visitors. In response to Eckard, the Wyndham Grand Clearwater Seaside allows them to expertise The Clearwater Marine Aquarium, which is lower than a mile away from the resort, in a singular manner. In 2017, the Wyndham property and the aquarium partnered in creating six aquatic themed rooms whose decor is impressed by the aquarium’s superstar resident, Winter the Dolphin, and different marine life.

Now doubled in quantity, the 12 rooms are geared towards households with 12 p.c from their bookings going to learn the aquarium. Amid a complete of 343 guestrooms, these “Winter & Buddies Room Bunks” comprise a bunk mattress, a king mattress and different room facilities. Photos of aquatic animals beautify the environment.

“And we encourage these visitors to go go to the aquarium and study extra about that vital group that is proper subsequent door to us,” stated Eckard.

Together with supporting the aquarium, Eckard famous that the Wyndham Grand Clearwater Seaside has carried out eco-friendly measures comparable to refillable water pitchers rather than plastic bottles at conferences. Friends are inspired to make use of espresso mugs as effectively.

With eating, plant-based menu choices can be found all through the resort’s F&B choices, comparable to at Dock’s Pool Bar & Grille and eSKPades, a grab-and-go foyer spot. Their essential restaurant, Ocean Hai, has a vegetarian menu alongside its breakfast, lunch and dinner servings.

Ocean Hai’s vegetarian menu begins with appetizers starting from edamame dumplings, to crispy tofu, to crispy Brussels sprouts. It then lists a Thai coconut soup and an Asian inexperienced salad. Entrees embrace a crispy tofu lo mein, a plant-based burger and stir fry greens.

Ocean Hai is underneath the helm of Head Chef Nana Darkwah, a Ghanaian-born chef who began his profession at a restaurant in Pennsylvania.

In 2012, Darkwah moved to Florida after accepting a cook dinner place at Caretta on the Gulf on the Sandpearl Resort in Clearwater Seaside. At this resort, by his work on the restaurant’s sushi bar, Darkwah launched new flavors and ideas.

Darkwah has been working on the Wyndham Grand Clearwater Seaside for about 5 years now. At Ocean Hai, Darkwah attracts upon his experiences with serving to his grandmother within the kitchen to regulate the restaurant’s Asian eating idea. He’s now introducing a fusion delicacies of African and Asian flavors to the restaurant’s menus.

“When he got here to us, he rapidly confirmed us his ardour for involving the visitor within the [dining] expertise and actually delivering one thing particular to the visitor,” stated Eckard.

Along with Ocean Hai, the resort’s Dock’s Pool Bar & Grille prepares small plates, salads, sandwiches and flatbreads amid its poolside setting. eSKPades serves espresso and different drinks from morning into mid-afternoon after which switches to cocktails within the night.

The addition of Recess drinks, a line of glowing waters infused with hemp and adaptogens, coincides with different wellness-related initiatives on the Wyndham Grand Clearwater Seaside. The resort has entered right into a partnership with 1Team Fitness, which is able to provide personal retreats and group health actions to visitors; there’s additionally a brand new Wellness Experience Package.