Two Nights in February
DRCA D.R.I.V.E.N runs 10 to 12 February 2027 in Ballroom C-D at the Tampa Convention Center, 333 South Franklin Street. The City of Tampa calendar gives the window as Wednesday 6 p.m. to Friday noon. The organiser's agenda opens registration at 10 a.m. on Wednesday and closes with a 12:15 p.m. farewell on Friday.
Two nights cover the meeting, Wednesday and Thursday, with a Friday checkout. Both land midweek in a soft February window.
Fourteen Properties, No Code
The organiser's travel page carries one accommodation tool. Its opening line reads: To help streamline your stay in Tampa we have collected a list of recommended hotels here for you to book directly.
The tool publishes fifteen cards across fourteen properties. Aloft by Marriott Tampa Downtown appears twice, at 0.5 miles. No group code sits on the page. No cut-off date sits on the page. No negotiated rate sits on the page. Venue Connect is credited with the selection.
The Rates, Read 21 October 2026
Each card is headed BEST AVAILABLE ROOMS and lists room type beside a nightly figure for the default stay, 10 February to 12 February, one room and one guest.
Three properties sit 0.1 miles out. Tampa Marriott Water Street runs $534 to $542. Embassy Suites by Hilton Tampa Downtown Convention Center runs $546 to $557. JW Marriott Tampa Water Street runs $693 to $705.
Then 0.2 to 1 mile. The Westin Tampa Downtown Waterside is $639 at 0.2 miles. The Tampa EDITION is $852 to $865 at 0.4 miles. Aloft by Marriott Tampa Downtown is $527 at 0.5 miles. Hotel Flor Tampa Downtown is $361 to $428 at 0.8 miles. The Barrymore Hotel Tampa Riverwalk is $384 to $389 at 1 mile.
Hilton Tampa Downtown, 0.4 miles out, answers the search with No rooms available for these dates.
The Westshore cluster runs cheaper. The Westshore Grand is $173 to $187 at 4.2 miles. Renaissance Tampa International Plaza is $476 to $481 at 4.3 miles. Hotel Alba Tampa is $230 to $350 at 4.7 miles. Hyatt House Tampa Airport / Westshore is $363 at 4.8 miles. Sheraton Tampa Brandon Hotel is $697 to $703 at 8.1 miles.
The Spread Is the Ask
Two nights at the Embassy Suites cost $1,092. Two nights at the Westshore Grand cost $346. That is $746 for the same two nights in the same city, and $373 a night.
Each figure is the property's open rate for the window. None carries a code, a cut-off or a contract. A request for proposal therefore attacks a published number.
One Question to Ask First
Ask what the rate becomes at eight rooms. Then ask for the cancellation line, the deposit and whether the rate holds across two separate confirmations.
Embassy Suites lists a cooked-to-order breakfast and an evening reception on its card. The two Marriott cards list neither. Breakfast for eight is a real line in the comparison, and the cards publish enough to ask about it.
Two Distance Tables
The widget puts both Marriott Water Street properties and the Embassy Suites at 0.1 miles. The venue hotel page puts both Marriotts at 0.2 miles, gives Tampa Marriott Water Street at 700 South Florida Avenue and JW Marriott Tampa Water Street at 505 Water Street, and records the Embassy Suites sky bridge with no distance.
Carry both readings into a request and ask the property to confirm its own walking distance.
Parking, for the Drive-In Team
The convention centre garage at 141 East Brorein Street holds 454 spaces, 11 accessible spaces and 2 chargers, with a 6 foot 6 inch height limit. The event rate runs $5 to $50. The non-event rate is $3 an hour to an $18 daily maximum.
Pam Iorio at 301 Channelside Drive holds 790 spaces. Fort Brooke at 107 North Franklin Street holds 556. Both run the same event band.
What hotelhaggle Can Do Here
The seller of travel page, last updated 21 October 2026, states that hotelhaggle cannot process booking requests from residents of or for travel to Florida, Hawaii, Iowa or Washington, and that the restriction applies across all hotelhuddle properties.
A Tampa request goes to the property. The fourteen published rates are the starting sheet.
