BOB Hotels Tallahassee Wins 2026 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Award
We have some news worth sharing: BOB Hotels Tallahassee won a 2026 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Award.
The award goes to properties that rank in the top 10% of hotels worldwide, based on the reviews travelers posted throughout 2025. There's no application and no panel of judges touring the lobby. It comes down to what guests wrote after they stayed here. That's exactly why it means so much to us.
What the numbers look like
As of this writing, BOB Hotels Tallahassee holds a 4.7 out of 5 rating on TripAdvisor across 545 reviews, and sits at #1 of 65 hotels in Tallahassee. Service is our highest-scored category at 4.9, with rooms, cleanliness, value, and location each at 4.8.
The trajectory is what we're proudest of. In August 2025 we sat at 4.5 stars with 193 reviews, ranked #2 in the city. Less than a year later: 4.7 stars, 545 reviews, #1. We opened with an unusual pitch, boutique on a budget, and the reviews suggest the pitch landed.
What guests actually said
Awards are abstract. Reviews are not. A few things came up again and again in 2025:
The beds. We put luxury mattresses and pillows in every room, and guests notice. "My room was comfortable, spacious and clean" is a sentence we've now read in more variations than we can count.
The small stuff. One solo traveler called out the door blockers we include in rooms, a detail most hotels skip. Self check-in, smart TVs with your own streaming logins, fast Wi-Fi. None of it is flashy. All of it gets mentioned.
The coffee. Our café pours locally roasted coffee, and the lobby pot runs 24 hours. Breakfast (waffles, bagels, fruit) is free, and pizza comes out of the café in the evening. Several reviewers seemed surprised a budget-friendly hotel does any of this. We take that as a compliment.
The part where we say thank you
If you stayed with us in 2025 and left a review, this award is yours as much as ours. 545 people took five minutes out of their trip to write about a hotel. That's the entire mechanism behind this award, and we don't take it for granted.
Thank you to our team, too. A 4.9 service score doesn't come from mattresses or smart TVs. It comes from the people at the front desk and behind the café counter who treat every guest the way other hotels treat their suite bookings.
Come see for yourself
If you haven't stayed with us yet, the top 10% of hotels worldwide now includes one where the room rate won't wreck your travel budget. We're minutes from FSU, FAMU, the Capitol, and downtown Tallahassee, right off I-10.
Book direct at thebobhotels.com for the best rate. And if you've stayed with us before, leave us a review — apparently they add up.
