Rough experience. Smells old.Hot water in bathroom inconsistent.Blood on our quilt when we arrived.Room hasn’t been maintained very well as the pictures from the website are super outdated.Decor and furniture in the room dusty and broken.No coffee pot in room which sucked.We were here with a sold out wedding event and felt like we were crashing someone’s wedding.Reservations at Rosevelts were canceled due to wedding and we weren’t notified.The lady at the front desk with the dreads is the only reason this place gets any acknowledgment for a nice time. She was the only comfort we found here and she is amazing.History is cool in this place….but it smells like history. Needs a solid revamp.After reading some of the other reviews we decided to just make the best of it and not try and mess with talking to management as they don’t seem super willing to go above and beyond for repeat guests.NOT a $250 a night experience. Shower curtain in our room was legit from dollar tree with super cheap hooks. Not at all like the pictures on the website. Details matter and this place lets stuff slide. Stay at a name brand hotel and drive to the beach. NOT WORTH THE MONEY. Walk through the lobby, see the history, and buy some swag….maybe snag a post card… but don’t stay here.
Service: 3
ramiro garza
BEWARE: Check in was good, the room was as expected for something built in the late 1800's. Reason for the one ? stems from being accused of not returning both keys given to me during check in, and the lady at the front desk stating to me that she had COVID during the phone call charging me for a room key. After I asked her when she had COVID, she hesitated and said " but I've been cleared". Check in was on a Friday, BOTH keys returned into drop box at 4:50am Saturday morning. I didn't receive a call about the missing key until Sunday after the room had been cleaned Saturday, and occupied by other guests. To make matters worse the lady kept repeating they have cameras everywhere but didn't bother to check if keys were returned at the time stated. At the end of the call I was told why I was being difficult and that an invoice for the key had been sent to me already. If you are returning a key there in the drop box make sure to have video proof of some kind. Wanted to make this my go to when visiting Port A. for fishing trips but they lost my friends and my bussiness for a measly $25 key.
Jennifer Wind
Wonderful, service-hearted staff from the hotel to the restaurant. Jen at the front desk gave us a tour without hesitation so we could see more of the rooms. Really recommend the FDR suite for 2+ day stays. Great food! Beautiful rooms, and in great shape for the building’s age and for being in a beach town. You can tell the management and staff really care about the maintenance of everything.Food & drinks: Roosevelt’s was so good, and the photos on Google don’t do it justice. Wish I’d remembered to take photos, but it’s more of a cozy, rustic fine dining restaurant than as casual as it appeared to us on the photos. But the bar, 1886 next door, offers a limited version of Roosevelt’s menu, a more casual atmosphere and great drinks.
Service: 5
Kindred Spirit
Very historic place to visit and stay. Come see the wall display of tarpon scales and old pictures. There is a tarpon scale signed by Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. President), from when he visited and stayed at the Tarpon Inn. The lobby is open to the public visitation.Rooms: The rooms are cozy and nice.Nearby activities: The fishing and marina are just across the street, so you can easily get on a day fishing trip.Walkability: Central location that is walkable to all parts of Port Aransas. There is local city bus that can also help you get around town for $0.25 a trip.Food & drinks: Location is great, near local restaurants, and bars.Noteworthy details: Ok now here is a fun fact. The Tarpon Inn has a few ghost. If you are up for the experience, the clerks at the front desk will talk with you about them, and if available they can book you into one of there haunted rooms. Now not everybody has an ghost visit, but there is a great chance to have one.
Service: 5
Jim N.
We dined at Roosevelt's this evening, our last night of an extended stay in Port A for Thanksgiving... I must admit I'm struggling with the star rating here, as some things were great, and others not so great. I decided on the 4-star rating because many of the deficiencies were in the side dishes, not main courses, and Bar 1886 was an awesome end to the evening...Out of the gate we decided to forego cocktails and get to vino ... a bottle of Honig Sauvignon Blanc was brought and served, temperature perfect ... very reasonably priced in this day and age! We initially paired that with the "Cheesy Garlic Shrimp" appetizer and the special of the day clam chowder. The chowder was OK, pretty salty for our palates. On the other hand, the cheesy shrimp dish was on point... delicious! Served with toasted bread, we were thinking it may have been better with tortilla chips! In any event, the cheesy shrimp was OMG good... order that! It was huge, so we only finished about one-half!Our entrees included the seared scallops and shrimp, and the chicken shrimp "Invotini." Both entrees were very good, the shrimp, scallops and chicken were cooked perfectly... YUM! The sides (as noted above) were a bit off... the scalloped potatoes were so heavy on the thyme as to be inedible. The mushroom risotto was salty (common theme), and the asparagus side was undercooked. So, entrees 5-star, sides 3-star.After dinner we adjourned to the 1886 Bar, which is part of the restaurant. We maybe should have started and finished the evening there? A way cool bar, great vibe, served great appetizers and awesome cocktails. Mostly locals there, great conversations about Port A, and what's good and bad!If we had started and finished there, the score may have been 5-star. A great couple of cocktails and a "key limon pie" martini finished the evening. Drinks were good, the dessert was OTC (off the charts)! Darn good!Highly recommend Roosevelt's, but consider stopping in (and maybe eating at) Bar 1886 ... good evening, good folks, good times!
Jerry R.
We gather with friends from Texas at Thanksgiving and we could be anywhere, Port Aransas was this year. A great choice was Roosevelt's. Why? Menu, atmosphere, and great service from Hailey and all the staff. Memorable and possibly a repeat visit.
Becky B.
We had a delicious decadent dinner here on a quiet Wednesday evening. We started with oysters Rockefeller, Roosevelt's style. Not as rich as regular ones, but that made them even better. Then we had crab cakes, lumpy crab and delicious, but just shy of outstanding. Charlie had founder, lightly crusted and dusted, served with linguine and rosemary bread. Perfect. I had the shrimp and scallop plate with risotto and cream spinach. We couldn't eat it all because the servings were generous and rich! But we saved room for a cream brûlée-it was also an abundant amount in a deep bowl and perfectly done. This meal was probably one of the best I've had in Port A over the last five years. Been to Tortuga, La Playa, Spaghetti Works, Virginia's all many times and now I think the extra $ is worth spending for a top notch meal. Kayla was our charming and personable waitress who did a fine job.
Hope A.
Always a wonderful experience at Roosevelt's. The food is consistently delicious. The waitstaff are pleasant and accommodating. Nice wine list. Prices are competitive to similar restaurants. Highly recommend.
Chris Guess
Prime location in Port Aransas, historical hotel, old rooms (it shows), and a haunted history in a Port town... what more could you ask for?!?... The long porch with rocking chairs is super relaxing!Walkability: It's centrally located in the heart of the island...Noteworthy details: It's haunted!!! ?
Service: 5
Matt Barker
Great spot to stay a weekend. Come for the Tarpon, stay for the Roosevelt.
We always enjoy Roosevelts and 1886 Bar.It's nice, pleasant, clean and fun. The menu is super and the bar menu is also nice.
Kenneth Merian
Great experience and wonderful staff, will be back!
Service: 5
Valerie Daniel
Wonderful and cozy place! We stayed in the FDR room and it was so spacious! Great place for events, as well. We hosted our daughter’s wedding here. Amy, the hotel manager, and her team did a fabulous job! The wedding was perfect and the venue is so charming!
Service: 5
Jay H.
Two things to know about the fanciest restaurant in Port A:Their bathrooms are located outside the main restaurant. They're nice,But you'll need to walk outside to get to them.2: Pretty sure the martinis are being made in another building and being brought to the main dining room. The first rule of martinis is that they have to be served so cold they hurt to drink, so this is a shame.The rest is all pretty normal, nice things. Good seafood. Honestly pretty solid food all around, exactly what I was expecting/hoping for.Great champagne deals.Service, even on Fourth of July Weekend, was awesome. Really great people working there.
Mark M.
Always great service and a changing menu that never disappoints. Great wine choices and attentive staff. It's one of my stops the three or four trips a year to Port A.
Rough experience. Smells old.Hot water in bathroom inconsistent.Blood on our quilt when we arrived.Room hasn’t been maintained very well as the pictures from the website are super outdated.Decor and furniture in the room dusty and broken.No coffee pot in room which sucked.We were here with a sold out wedding event and felt like we were crashing someone’s wedding.Reservations at Rosevelts were canceled due to wedding and we weren’t notified.The lady at the front desk with the dreads is the only reason this place gets any acknowledgment for a nice time. She was the only comfort we found here and she is amazing.History is cool in this place….but it smells like history. Needs a solid revamp.After reading some of the other reviews we decided to just make the best of it and not try and mess with talking to management as they don’t seem super willing to go above and beyond for repeat guests.NOT a $250 a night experience. Shower curtain in our room was legit from dollar tree with super cheap hooks. Not at all like the pictures on the website. Details matter and this place lets stuff slide. Stay at a name brand hotel and drive to the beach. NOT WORTH THE MONEY. Walk through the lobby, see the history, and buy some swag….maybe snag a post card… but don’t stay here.
Service: 3
BEWARE: Check in was good, the room was as expected for something built in the late 1800's. Reason for the one ? stems from being accused of not returning both keys given to me during check in, and the lady at the front desk stating to me that she had COVID during the phone call charging me for a room key. After I asked her when she had COVID, she hesitated and said " but I've been cleared". Check in was on a Friday, BOTH keys returned into drop box at 4:50am Saturday morning. I didn't receive a call about the missing key until Sunday after the room had been cleaned Saturday, and occupied by other guests. To make matters worse the lady kept repeating they have cameras everywhere but didn't bother to check if keys were returned at the time stated. At the end of the call I was told why I was being difficult and that an invoice for the key had been sent to me already. If you are returning a key there in the drop box make sure to have video proof of some kind. Wanted to make this my go to when visiting Port A. for fishing trips but they lost my friends and my bussiness for a measly $25 key.
Wonderful, service-hearted staff from the hotel to the restaurant. Jen at the front desk gave us a tour without hesitation so we could see more of the rooms. Really recommend the FDR suite for 2+ day stays. Great food! Beautiful rooms, and in great shape for the building’s age and for being in a beach town. You can tell the management and staff really care about the maintenance of everything.Food & drinks: Roosevelt’s was so good, and the photos on Google don’t do it justice. Wish I’d remembered to take photos, but it’s more of a cozy, rustic fine dining restaurant than as casual as it appeared to us on the photos. But the bar, 1886 next door, offers a limited version of Roosevelt’s menu, a more casual atmosphere and great drinks.
Service: 5
Very historic place to visit and stay. Come see the wall display of tarpon scales and old pictures. There is a tarpon scale signed by Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. President), from when he visited and stayed at the Tarpon Inn. The lobby is open to the public visitation.Rooms: The rooms are cozy and nice.Nearby activities: The fishing and marina are just across the street, so you can easily get on a day fishing trip.Walkability: Central location that is walkable to all parts of Port Aransas. There is local city bus that can also help you get around town for $0.25 a trip.Food & drinks: Location is great, near local restaurants, and bars.Noteworthy details: Ok now here is a fun fact. The Tarpon Inn has a few ghost. If you are up for the experience, the clerks at the front desk will talk with you about them, and if available they can book you into one of there haunted rooms. Now not everybody has an ghost visit, but there is a great chance to have one.
Service: 5
We dined at Roosevelt's this evening, our last night of an extended stay in Port A for Thanksgiving... I must admit I'm struggling with the star rating here, as some things were great, and others not so great. I decided on the 4-star rating because many of the deficiencies were in the side dishes, not main courses, and Bar 1886 was an awesome end to the evening...Out of the gate we decided to forego cocktails and get to vino ... a bottle of Honig Sauvignon Blanc was brought and served, temperature perfect ... very reasonably priced in this day and age! We initially paired that with the "Cheesy Garlic Shrimp" appetizer and the special of the day clam chowder. The chowder was OK, pretty salty for our palates. On the other hand, the cheesy shrimp dish was on point... delicious! Served with toasted bread, we were thinking it may have been better with tortilla chips! In any event, the cheesy shrimp was OMG good... order that! It was huge, so we only finished about one-half!Our entrees included the seared scallops and shrimp, and the chicken shrimp "Invotini." Both entrees were very good, the shrimp, scallops and chicken were cooked perfectly... YUM! The sides (as noted above) were a bit off... the scalloped potatoes were so heavy on the thyme as to be inedible. The mushroom risotto was salty (common theme), and the asparagus side was undercooked. So, entrees 5-star, sides 3-star.After dinner we adjourned to the 1886 Bar, which is part of the restaurant. We maybe should have started and finished the evening there? A way cool bar, great vibe, served great appetizers and awesome cocktails. Mostly locals there, great conversations about Port A, and what's good and bad!If we had started and finished there, the score may have been 5-star. A great couple of cocktails and a "key limon pie" martini finished the evening. Drinks were good, the dessert was OTC (off the charts)! Darn good!Highly recommend Roosevelt's, but consider stopping in (and maybe eating at) Bar 1886 ... good evening, good folks, good times!
We gather with friends from Texas at Thanksgiving and we could be anywhere, Port Aransas was this year. A great choice was Roosevelt's. Why? Menu, atmosphere, and great service from Hailey and all the staff. Memorable and possibly a repeat visit.
We had a delicious decadent dinner here on a quiet Wednesday evening. We started with oysters Rockefeller, Roosevelt's style. Not as rich as regular ones, but that made them even better. Then we had crab cakes, lumpy crab and delicious, but just shy of outstanding. Charlie had founder, lightly crusted and dusted, served with linguine and rosemary bread. Perfect. I had the shrimp and scallop plate with risotto and cream spinach. We couldn't eat it all because the servings were generous and rich! But we saved room for a cream brûlée-it was also an abundant amount in a deep bowl and perfectly done. This meal was probably one of the best I've had in Port A over the last five years. Been to Tortuga, La Playa, Spaghetti Works, Virginia's all many times and now I think the extra $ is worth spending for a top notch meal. Kayla was our charming and personable waitress who did a fine job.
Always a wonderful experience at Roosevelt's. The food is consistently delicious. The waitstaff are pleasant and accommodating. Nice wine list. Prices are competitive to similar restaurants. Highly recommend.
Prime location in Port Aransas, historical hotel, old rooms (it shows), and a haunted history in a Port town... what more could you ask for?!?... The long porch with rocking chairs is super relaxing!Walkability: It's centrally located in the heart of the island...Noteworthy details: It's haunted!!! ?
Service: 5
Great spot to stay a weekend. Come for the Tarpon, stay for the Roosevelt.
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We always enjoy Roosevelts and 1886 Bar.It's nice, pleasant, clean and fun. The menu is super and the bar menu is also nice.
Great experience and wonderful staff, will be back!
Service: 5
Wonderful and cozy place! We stayed in the FDR room and it was so spacious! Great place for events, as well. We hosted our daughter’s wedding here. Amy, the hotel manager, and her team did a fabulous job! The wedding was perfect and the venue is so charming!
Service: 5
Two things to know about the fanciest restaurant in Port A:Their bathrooms are located outside the main restaurant. They're nice,But you'll need to walk outside to get to them.2: Pretty sure the martinis are being made in another building and being brought to the main dining room. The first rule of martinis is that they have to be served so cold they hurt to drink, so this is a shame.The rest is all pretty normal, nice things. Good seafood. Honestly pretty solid food all around, exactly what I was expecting/hoping for.Great champagne deals.Service, even on Fourth of July Weekend, was awesome. Really great people working there.
Always great service and a changing menu that never disappoints. Great wine choices and attentive staff. It's one of my stops the three or four trips a year to Port A.