This central Florida hotel features an outdoor pool and rooms with flat-screen TVs The property is within a 20-minute drive of the Splash Island Water Park Microwaves and refrigerators are standard in all Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites Bartow rooms The rooms also offer free Wi-Fi and a seating area The hotel provides a daily breakfast buffet with pancake bar After a meal guests can work in the business center or work out in the fitness center The Holiday Inn Express is within a 45-minute drive of Tampa The Lakeland Convention Center is 8 miles from the hotel