Tween Waters Island Resort & Spa

We stayed as a family of 4 for a week in an ocean view suite with a kitchenette and separate bedroom. Beautiful room, perfect view. “Coconut” building facing the sunset/gulf side. Pool is beautiful, huge! Clean! Seriously a beautiful pool that was always the perfect temperature. The pool bar had good drinks and food, plus an attentive staff. The coffee bar with lattes and baked goods is perfection for relaxing in the morning after the sunrise on the sound. and we spent half of our time there. I wish they had later pool hours. In the winter months, “dawn to dusk” means the pool is closed far too early. We were disappointed that we couldn’t swim later, until at least 8. The biggest issue by far was the TOWELS at the pool! They make you get them from a machine, which often doesn’t work. (We had to hunt for help on 3 separate days.) They won’t give you towels without using the machine. They claim that they are microchipped and will charge you $25 for non-return of these pathetic towels that look 20 years old and threadbare already!!! This is NOT the action of a luxury resort. The day we checked out, we had the same issue with the broken towel machine and had to hunt towels down for 30 minutes. Later, we were freshly showered after loading up our luggage, hurrying for the airport and checking out. They told us to go back to our room, find those towels, and return to the pool or face the $25 charges!!! I’m appalled by this! The maids can’t return pool towels that we had to beg and chase people for??? They were unapologetic. They really really really keep tabs on the junky pool towels, even though you have to chase down an unwilling hotel employee to find them in the first place. I’ve never in my life been told at even a cheap hotel to “go find your pool towels.” If we look elsewhere next time, it will be because of this interaction. So rude!!! Construction did occur and was expected. The island is repairing. We don’t fault them this one bit. They keep it respectfully quiet and stay out of your way. We did lose hot water for a bit, but they turned it back on quickly. The spa was a wonderful treat. My little girls even got manicures, which was a highlight of the trip for them. They have people there to set up beach chairs and umbrellas for you, which is nice! The restaurants on site, especially Shipyard, are great. The shipyard shrimp was so good we had it 3x. They also have a steakhouse and fine dinning restaurant on site. There is a little marina on the sound side where you can borrow kayaks and bikes for free! We saw many dolphins over here too. They even have a few beach items, like boogie boards, that you can borrow. A lady there, (she had short blonde hair,) told my kids they could pick a fancy, special sea shell from the ones the employees left! They appreciated that so much!! This truly is the best set of islands to come to for shells! It’s the little things that matter, but also add up when you’re traveling with your family. A seashel

This is a peaceful and beautiful resort that has it all. Gulf beach, Intercoastal waterway, three on-site restaurants, water rentals, beach chair and umbrella set-up, and 2 beautiful pools. This can be a vacation in itself or a base of operations for exploring Captiva and Sanibel Islands.

Loved every minute I was there! The beach just across the street is so easy. The sunsets were amazing! This resort and all its amenities are all you need. A great escape for all ages. We even brought our dogs! 🌴😎🏝️🐶🐶 The restaurants are all amazing and you should head down to Andy Rosse Lane for additional options.

We visited Tween Waters as my daughter selected there for her wedding venue. Many of our wedding party and guests also stayed at the resort. Can't possibly say enough great things about Tween! From the room, to the restaurants, pool and beach it all was really quite perfect. The staff at Tween was amazing, all made us feel special and appreciated. We had a fabulous stay!

Pros: Great location just across the street from the beach. Great view from some rooms. Our room was spacious and bathroom had good storage. Cons: expensive. Very low water pressure. Air Conditioner barely kept up with May heat and humidity. No place to wash sand off your feet when you come in from the beach.

Once again Tween Waters didn’t disappoint. Out 24th year going and this time for our daughter’s wedding which was magical! Shout out to Marissa for personally handling all of our family and friend’s reservations! Also thanks to Tony for picking up the tab at the Crowsnest for the newlyweds (they said it was fantastic!!) and to Marissa, Doug and Michelle for the goodies and gifts that were sent to their room! For years our friends and some family couldn’t understand why we chose Captiva and specifically Tweens year after year. We were thrilled to have them as our guests for the wedding and they too have fallen in love with Captiva! Until next time we will be Captiva dreaming!

Stayed here for two nights in order to check out Captiva. We came here for dinner before, and thought it wasn’t that nice, but we were wrong. The place grows on you the longer you are here. It’s nice to not have to jump in your car to eat somewhere, and to have a decent pool nearby. Cons - not really any, parking can be tough, but you’ll find a spot. Pool bar staff didn’t seem real friendly. Need more lounge chairs around pool. Need to get rid of hot tubs and maybe put some corn hold games or whatever there Pros - great location, variety of restaurants, room was nice and large, very nice beach across street, umbrellas and chairs for $25, pool large and clean, Captiva town restaurants a mile away

Let me start this review by stating that this was our second trip to Sanibel / Captiva. Our first visit occurred in March 2022 to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We stayed at the West Wind Inn in Sanibel. We fell in love with Sanibel / Captiva and the West Wind Inn that we booked a return trip to the West Wind Inn for December 2022. Obviously due to Hurricane Ian, that trip did not occur. So how does someone celebrate a new decade beginning birthday? You book a birthday vacation to the sister resort of the West Wind Inn in Captiva, Tweens Water resort. We booked a King Bay Suite overlooking the marina and bay. We spent a considerable amount of time on the screened in balcony overlooking the bay and Mangroves. The room was spacious and in great condition. Every staff member we met including the staff by the pool, restaurants and front desk were friendly and very helpful. On our arrival, we had trouble locating our building, a helpful staff member drove his golf cart to our building as we followed in our car. We loved the pool area with the two pools. We spent three days at the adult Serenity pool. Including two days renting one of the pool cabanas. We loved the pool service allowing for easy drink and food orders from the oasis pool bar and food service. We ate both dinner and breakfast at the Shipyard and dinner at the Old Captiva house. All meals were delicious and the staffs were friendly and outstanding. We also did takeout Pizza from Captiva Crust one night. Again, the Pizza was outstanding. We had such a great time at Tweens Water, we booked a return trip for the same week in March in 2025. We can’t wait to return next year.