Sarasota is considered as the cultural mecca of the southeast and boasts the #1 beach in the USA! 5 live theater venues, opera, symphony, ballet all in residence during high season! Then there's the Sarasota film festival, the wine fest, the guerrilla theater festival, the global arts festival, season of sculpture on the bay, power boat races and so much more!

Watersports abound and instructors are available for wind-surfing, water-skiing, jet skis, sailing, scuba and boating. Don't forget to bring your pail and shovel and maybe you'll compete in the annual siesta key sand sculpting festival! Or bring your sidewalk chalk and enter the chalk festival!

Express your inner fashionista when you visit st. Armand's circle with it's many boutiques and fine dining. Don't forget to relax and enjoy the people watching, from every corner of the globe while you relish an ice cream from one of the 4 vendors on the circle.

Downtown Sarasota and the bay front feature art galleries, fine jewelry, gorgeous Persian rugs, bridal boutiques and consignment stores. The gourmand will be in heaven at our primo restaurants original to Sarasota and featuring Italian, Moroccan, Mexican, Indian, Greek and good old American menus!

There are little jewels of neighborhoods scattered throughout town: find towels court for your inner artist and enjoy lunch as though in Provence, burns court features an art cinema, more original great restaurants, little shops, gulf gate has microbreweries, European restaurants and shops with authentic goods, a real German metzgerai and more for the adventurous palate!