Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa

We've stayed at the resort multiple times and we usually have a good time. While it’s not a cheap hotel, it’s competitive/cheaper than pretty much all of the other hotels along the beach and the location can’t be beat. The service is really good/the workers are friendly/helpful. With that being said... There are some things that we wish were a little different. I included this as feedback after our stay, but thought I'd post it here too to hopefully get more eyes on it.

1. I know this is a big ask, but we wish that the resort had a hot tub - during these cooler months of the year (like during our trip) it would have been especially nice to be able to go back and forth between it and the pool.
2. Speaking of which, during the winter we wish the pool was just a bit warmer and that it was heated consistently - I know it costs money to heat it, and more money to heat it more, but it would have made the pool more usable for us and everyone else. Some people just dealt with it but it would have been nice to not have to embrace our inner polar bear.
3. We were at the hotel during a 4 day period that included Christmas Day. While there were some decorations inside of the hotel (mostly in the lobby, a little down by the bellhop), we wish there had been some decorations out by the pool (wouldn't have to be all of the palm trees, but some at least would have been nice) and maybe some decorations on each floor... Because it helps make it still feel like Christmas even though you're at a hotel! Otherwise, Christmas Day just becomes another day at the beach which, while being at the beach is great, we wanted our daughter to also feel like Christmas was actually happening.
4. Tommy's Tiki closes really early? There might be staffing/other factors at play that I'm not aware of, but it would be nice if it stayed open later (10/11) so there was something later-evening to do. Other hotels (like the Hilton Garden Inn in St. Pete Beach have their beach-bar open much later and it's really nice.
5. I'm not sure if it can be done or if it's against city rules since it's on the beach, but it would be nice if the chairs/tables for Tommy's Tiki were actually on all-weather planking so your chairs didn't sink so far down in the sand.
6. Our daughter likes to do the crafts, but they constantly seem like they're running out of materials for them. For something that happens on a daily/weekly basis it seems like there should just be piles of materials for it sitting in a supply closet that gets refreshed on a regular basis.
7. Most aspects of what we get for the resort fee don't do anything for us, and I can't imagine that they get utilized by most guests - it would be nice to see some different things get included in that mix. I'm talking about things like the bike rentals, morning yoga, 1 hour non-motorized water sports, the photo shoot with 1 print and the 10% off spa merchandise.
8. Something to consider when it’s time to renovate/refresh various rooms... We wish that the hotel rooms had 0% carpet - the carpet that is there, especially in the closets, when combined with the general humidity of being by the beach and the water dripping off of guests makes the rooms smell a little bit musty. We deal with it, but if they were just tiled/some other sort of waterproof flooring then the rooms would be easier to get clean and smell better.
9. We use the fitness room every day when we stay, and I think it would be useful for them to swap out some of the equipment that doesn't get used very much (such as the leg and arm machines on the ocean side of the room) with something that would get used more. It's really limiting that there's only one set of dumbbells and one bench, as it seems to be really common that there are guys that want to lift with them and you really can't have multiple people lifting at once with the current set of equipment - another bench or two and another set of dumbbells would make it much better. It would also be nice if the fitness room had been kept cooler - it got warm in there at times.