Guest services provide excellent attention and dining is a pleasurable experience al fresco near the tiny Key West style center pool, around which guest rooms can be found, no two alike. Rooms are elegant and furniture is dark wood and regal. What a grand place.

The Cabaret at La Te Da is locally famous, and has been around for a long time. Local celebrities have performed here for years, on and off, and it is considered a source of pride to have performed at the Sunday afternoon Tea Dance each week.

The name La Te Da has nothing to to with the Cabaret acts, however, for which the hotel and bar are famous. According to literature available at the front desk, the name stands for “La Terraza de Marti”. Jose Marti was a Cuban revolutionary in the late 1800s. He gave speeches from the balcony of 1125 Duval Street, which is the present location and same building as the hotel and bar we know as La Te Da.

They don’t usually crank up the speed at first, our friend had to actually take 3 rides before he got to a speed that threw him off.