A $25 ticket and a Sunday that ends at 8 p.m.
The Tampa Tattoo Arts Festival runs 20 to 22 November 2026 at 333 S Franklin Street. A single day costs $25, the three-day pass costs $50, and children under 12 enter free. The organiser enforces a $100 minimum per tattoo, and a tattoo client must be 18 or older with photo identification.
Friday runs 2:00pm to 11:00pm, Saturday 11:00am to 11:00pm and Sunday 11:00am to 8:00pm. Sunday carries nine hours of floor.
The Sunday contests
Contest signup sits at the booth by the entertainment stage and closes 15 minutes before judging. Entry costs $10, and Tattoo of the Day is judged on work started and finished that day.
Sunday judging begins at 5:00pm with Original Flash, Best Painting, the size classes, Sleeve, Japanese, Anime, Cover Up and Overall. The 7:00pm round awards Tattoo of the Day in colour and black and grey, plus Best in Show. Friday carries one round at 10:00pm. Saturday carries two, at 5:00pm and 10:00pm.
What a downtown day room covers
dayuse.com listed 13 priced Tampa cards on 20 October 2026. Three of them sit in or near downtown, and each window is shorter than the Sunday floor.
Westin Tampa Waterside, 0.3 miles from the venue on the venue's hotel list: $129 for 10:00am to 4:00pm, $138 with booking fees, against a $330 nightly rate.
Aloft Tampa Downtown, 0.6 miles: $109 for 10:00am to 4:00pm, $116 with fees, against $250.
Hotel Flor Tampa Downtown: $139 for 10:00am to 5:00pm, $148 with fees, against $240.
The 5:00pm end meets the first Sunday judging block and misses the 7:00pm round. The two 4:00pm windows miss both blocks.
Four Points by Sheraton Suites Tampa Airport Westshore runs 1:00pm to 9:00pm at $105, or $112 with fees. That window covers the 7:00pm round and the 8:00pm close.
Priced against $25 at the door
The Aloft card at $116 with fees is 4.6 times a $25 Sunday ticket. The Hotel Flor card at $148 is 5.9 times. The Four Points card at $112 is 4.5 times, and it is the only one of the four that stays open to the close.
Two adults and two children under 12 pay $50 at the door, because the children enter free. The room price does not move with party size.
The two show hotels
The show page lists The Westin Tampa Waterside at 725 S Harbour Island Boulevard and Hyatt Place Tampa Downtown at 325 N Florida Avenue. The venue lists those two at 0.3 miles and 0.5 miles. The organiser publishes no nightly rate for either property, and a second night carries that property's own price.
Parking on a show day
The organiser page prints the Convention Center garage at $2 for the first hour, $3 for each hour after and a $15 daily maximum, subject to flat event rates during special events. The venue's own table prints an event rate of $5.00 to $50.00, and a non-event rate of $3 an hour with an $18 daily maximum. Both readings sit on published pages, and the event row applies on a show day.
Florida and the booking route
hotelslots.org lists Florida among four states whose booking requests it cannot process, with Hawaii, Iowa and Washington, on a page dated 20 October 2026. The platform states that the guest pays the hotel directly and that it charges no booking fee.
The order to run
Buy the ticket first. The $25 Sunday price and the 11:00am open fix the plan. Then the room. Choose it on the window, which ends at 4:00pm or 5:00pm on the downtown cards. Then the walk, which runs 0.3 to 0.6 miles on the venue's list.
