Contact us All Departments Rooms with a queue A Beach Drive hotel lines up European sojourners with a combination of 1920s charm and modern conveniences. Mention development on Beach Drive, and luxury condominiums probably come to mind before Grayl's Lantern Lane Hotel. Owner Dale Grayl isn't concerned. Europeans refer to it as a boutique hotel, a small themed inn. It's a mixture of 1920s nostalgia and new millennium technology, including remote security cameras, data ports and management available by cell phones around the clock.
Laptop computers are available upon request.
The hotel has 16 occupied apartments in addition to the dozen rooms. The building was completed in 1924. Grayl claims it is the only consistently operating building in downtown St. Petersburg. In the 1920s, craftsmen stayed in the hotel while building the nearby Vinoy Park Hotel, he said. The luxury hotel now is the Renaissance Vinoy Resort.