Sandpearl Resort

We would recommend the Sandpearl to any couple looking to have the destination wedding of their dreams! Debbie Glancy was our amazing wedding event planner at the Sandpearl. Debbie made our wedding day perfect and most of all our planning was done over the phone and by email. She had the day entirely under control and we had nothing to worry about. My husband and I can not say enough wonderful things about the staff at the Sandpearl. They all made our guests feel welcomed and right at home. Our good friend Michael Wagner at the Sandpearl also did an outstanding job making our day so very special. We could not have done it without you!

1st Class all the way!! Everything was done to perfection. The hotel was the best. Several guests lost or left items in the hotel and they were ALL at their "Lost and Found" area. Amazing.

We just got married on Feb 27, 2011 at the Sandpearl Resort. We worked with Lora Lee and Michele and had an amazing experience. The entire staff at the resort were extremely helpful and accommodating. We planned our wedding from Wisconsin without ever seeing the resort or meeting with Michele or Lora Lee in person, which was a bit scary. Lora Lee was so great in getting back to us promptly and answering all of our million questions! When we finally got to the resort and met with everyone in person we couldn't believe how beautiful the resort was in person. It exceeded our expectations by far. We were also fortunate to be the only wedding at the Sandpearl that day so were provided with an upgraded outdoor cocktail hour on the lawn which was amazing for our Wisconsin guests! Michele and Lora Lee did an amazing Job setting up all of the decorations that we had for the ceremony. They were very detailed and communicated all changes with us. The Sandpearl staff goes above and beyond to make your wedding unbelievable. Two different staff members ran to CVS for us throughout our evening. This is something they did not need to do but they were happy to do it. From the hotel ambassador to the servers and bartender, the staff at the Sandpearl was fantastic. I recommend this venue to anyone looking to have an amazing and unforgettable wedding, for both you and your guests!

I was married on 10-10-10 at the Sandpearl Resort. I had Debbie as my catering manager and she was just amazing!! She made sure my day was everything I could have dreamed of and more!! The Sandpearl is the most beautiful Resort I have ever been to, not to mention how wonderful the staff is. Everyone at this resort will treat you as well as your guest like gold!! The resort is a perfect mix between elegance and destination. The views are breath taking and the decor is perfect. The food is one of a kind and your guests will be super impressed. I highly recommend the Sandpearl and ask for Debbie!!!!

The Sandpearl was amazing! They were so accomodating and even worked with us on price. We had an outdoor ceremony and an indoor reception, and they were so amazing to take care of details and take care of the wedding party. Upon arrival for a tour they offer you champange, from that point on I was hooked.

The Sandpearl Resort is on Clearwater Beach, Florida and is an awesome location for a wedding. The whole staff is very accommodating and service oriented - very friendly, too. Your guests will have a great time. This is a 4 star location, so while expensive, you get what you pay for. It was a great wedding experience except for the rain out on the beach. I wish I would have insisted on going out to the beach when the rain stopped because the back up location was a bust - we were suppose to be in a section of the ballroom with high ceilings and a beautifully draped window as the back up. Instead we ended up in a section of the ballroom that was a closed in box with no decor whatsoever. (Be sure your contract is specific and doesn't leave the ballroom choice up to the hotel). Since the beauty of the beach was suppose to be our backdrop, we did not have flowers, an archway, etc. My advice to you would be to plan to have something such as these items for a backdrop as part of your backup plan OR INSIST ON GETTING YOUR WAY! (which I did not, so I take some of the responsibility). All of this aside, the reception was wonderful. The dinner food was delicious and the pre-reception cocktail hour was raved about. Everyone said this was one of the best weddings they have been to. We highly recommend this place. I am sure it will be one of the top beach location choices, if it is not already. You will probably need to book early. The Catering Manager was a wonderful person to work with. We were so glad The Sandpearl found her as our first experience with their prior Catering Manager left a bad impression.

FABULOUS!!!

The best and classiest hotel in the area. I'm from NY and wanted something that was similar to the Ritz - the Sandpearl Resort was truly stunning, very professional and my guests raved and raved about it.

The Sandpearl is THE place to have your destination wedding. We were only able to visit Clearwater twice during our planning - on the first trip we selected the Sandpearl and on the second we did our tasting. Everything else was done over the phone and via email. Debbie was extremely responsive and made me confident that every last detail would be completed. The food was superb, we got so many complements on the food and the service. The captain of the team even made sure we got appetizers and drinks since we were away taking pictures during our cocktail hour. It was wonderful. Debbie Glancy and her team made all of our guests feel welcome and went above and beyond to make sure our wedding experience was exceptional. Without hesitation I would have my wedding here - you will not regret it!!

The most beautiful hotel/resort. The awesome setting made for the best wedding weekend ever! My only complaints are: the towel lady by the pool must have asked us if we were actually guests of the hotel a hundred times (apparently we were having too much fun), and the back up room we booked in case of rain (and it did rain) was not the room we ended up in. For a brand new resort they exceeded my expectations and my new husband and I plan on going there for a weekend every year for our anniversary- and our friends all plan on joining us! I couldn't not have picked a better place to get married!

We were married at the Sandpearl on January 14, 2012. Our coordinator Debbie Glancy was so great, and she worked with us for almost 2 years planning the wedding of our dreams! The venue itself is absolutely gorgeous. If you are looking for an incredible beach venue in the St. Pete/Clearwater area, this is the best of the best! Yes, the cost is on the expensive side, but you will not be disappointed on your wedding day! We loved the Sandpearl so much, we even postponed our wedding an extra year to be able to increase our budget.

The staff was amazing and managed to cover every detail. For all of you brides-to-be, you won't have that worrying feeling that something might not be done right, or you've forgotten something. It was wonderful to not feel that extra stress, and be able to completely enjoy our wedding! I felt like there was always a staff member cleaning or tidying up our reception area. We also loved our food! It was very flavorful and had alot of variety.

Our ceremony was held outdoors on the Gulf Lawn, and the reception was in the Hunter Ballroom. The ballroom itself is beautiful, yet neutral, so it is easy to incorporate your colors and decor. I would highly recommend this venue to anyone who is looking for that dream location on the beach!

Quick Suggestions:
If your budget is a concern, be flexible and consider the off-season months when they are not as busy.
Use their preferred vendor recommendations if possible! Most of them know each other and frequently work together, making the entire process go smoothly.
Get the boneless short ribs! They are sooooo good!

We had a wonderful...dare I say perfect....wedding at the Sandpearl. The contact person Tanya Clark was friendly, professional and responsive. We live out of state so this was a true 'destination' wedding for us with 95% of our 103 guest coming in from out of state as well. Tanya was great and did everything she could to make sure we had the best wedding possible. The Sandpearl is an exclusive but popular resort so if you are getting married during peak calendar time....be prepared for a very crowded hotel. Fortunately, our event was held 2 weeks after Easter so the spring break crowd had died down a bit. Tanya is a very busy person so she has limited contact with you until about 6 weeks prior to the event...but she is very responsive to email and phone calls. The 2 weeks prior to the event....she was in constant contact and was very clear and concise with her information. The day of the event she was always around with her clipboard and her smile keeping us on schedule. The entire staff at the Sandpearl was excellent. They atttended to my every need promptly and politely and always wanted to do more!! The resort is absolutely beautiful and if you want to get married on a beach....this is the place to go!

Michael at the Sandpearl was extremely helpful. Mark who also seems to be there all day and night was also very friendly. The entire staff was wonderful! I cant wait to stay there for our anniversary!!!! it was amazing there....

Beautiful resort! A little on the pricey side, but high in quality. This is a very classy, elegant, and even breathtaking venue. We had our ceremony on the beach and reception upstairs. Debbie Glancey went above and beyond to accomodate us. Food was superior! The only complaint was the excessive charges of the valet parking...it was a little overboard. Other than that, I must say my wedding was more than I could have ever dreamed or hoped for!

Loved, LOVED, LOVED the venue and the ceremony and food was great. The only downfall, the hotel had our credit card on file and there were charges that were not approved and it took MONTHS to a credit back and weeks to get a response. I was very, very disappointed. The charges were in the hundreds too. :(

The Sandpearl was the perfect venue for our wedding - 4 diamond resort so you definitely won't get a deal but it was WELL worth it. Incredible views, we were treated so well, everyone said it was the best wedding they had been to in years!

i did cupcakes in a cupcake tree stand and it looked awesome! small guest list so didn't need a big wedding cake. chose flavors of cupcakes I love(carrot and coconut) and frosted them with shades of yellows and greens. Tasted good and very nice idea for beach wedding made great pics

Everything I could have dreamed of, until I found out that the location had 5 other weddings planned for that weekend too.

The Sandpearl Resort is a beautiful venue to have your wedding at! I highly recommend having your wedding there if you are looking for a beautiful resort get a way. However, you definitely need to put your foot down when it comes to getting things the way you would like them. We had a little bit of a rough start when booking with them. Throughout the process we had to basically demand certain things because it was not how "they usually do it". All in all, in the end, everything was perfect and they accommodated a huge last minute decision to have our ceremony outdoors during a break in the storm that was hitting. Overall, after all was said and done, the venue looked beautiful, the staff was great, and we are happy we made the decision to hold our wedding at the Sandpearl.

Basically with the Sandpearl you are paying for the location. There truly is not another location like it in the Tampa Bay area on the Gulf. My husband and I are frequent guests (just living down the street) and know the wonderful staff throughout the hotel well. If you book your wedding here, be prepared to have little help when it comes to logistics, vendors, menu design etc. You're on your own with minimal support or advice. They actually encourage you to solicit the help of a coordinator b/c they are so hands off. We had a lot of bumps along with way regarding cost, menu design, cocktail and reception logistics and flexibility on all of the above. We found out the week of the wedding that another small wedding was booked in the conference room next to our room and the common space in which our bar and cocktail tables would be would need to be shared. After much dissatisfaction voiced to the Mgr and Dir of Sales, nothing changed which ultimately resulted in wedding crashers at our bar and lines for both the women and mens restrooms. For a venue that stated they "were not a wedding factor and did not plan on being one" they sure surprised me with 3 brides running around that day with weddings functioning on top of each other. Also be prepared that although the food at the Sandpearl is exceptional and Chef is great, when produced in mass bulk the quality definitely goes down. The elements we chose to serve our guests were not the same as what we usually get in the dinningroom. Also, during cocktail hour, we paid for an extra attendant to serve martini's at a so called martini bar but what really happened was one bartender making the martinis at the regular bar. I had requested two bars to be set up in addition to the martini bar but based on our headcount, only one bar could be set up. That with a lack of martini bartender resulted in a long line for awhile after the ceremony was over. But overall, we had an amazing wedding in an amazing location. This was a destination wedding for most all of our guest and we are still receiving compliments on how wonderful it was. By far the location was great, just wish the logistics of it all could have gone more smoothly with more flexibility.

We cannot believe the transformation of the Sandpearl, from after we booked it to now (months before our wedding). They promised us everything we wanted before signing and Tanya was wonderful to deal with! Unfortunately, they have a new catering director who is quite difficult to deal with. She is condescending, rude, very disorganized, and it's difficult to follow what she is talking about. It is like day and night, and we couldn't be more disappointed with the Sandpearl.

We have been so excited to get married there and are finding out that we are being nickeled and dimed for everything! The cost is estimated to be three times what we were promised. I would highly discourage you to look elsewhere before booking a wedding here. Although the facilities are beautiful, the stress in planning a wedding there is not something I'd wish upon anyone. You are paying a large amount of money to get quality service, which definitely is not the case at the Sandpearl.

I am beyond disappointed upon realizing that the Sandpearl is nothing like I thought it would be. A lot of that has to do with how difficult their catering manager, Michele, has been. I certainly hope they can realize that and make this process better for brides. For now, in 2011, BEWARE.

Beautiful beach venue, great ceremony options and nice reception rooms.