Needs a thorough cleaning. Very dusty in the rooms and dirty elevator floors but definitely has potential. Great, comfy beds. The hotel Microwave needs cleaning. Housekeeping was prompt with towel requests. Beautiful pool. Just clean the hotel properly. Light fixtures and the back of bedside tables should not be covered in dust. I would return but with my own cleaning supplies.
Booked this for a girls weekend, the cost is what brought us there. Then we read the reviews from here after we booked. We were absolutely nervous, but here is an honest review. We stayed in room 433...IT'S NOT THAT BAD. At least our room wasn't.
We got in around 11AM, they wouldn't let us check in early, so we hung by the pool. The pool was freezing cold, so we didn't go it, and they only have 6, very worn down, loungers. We were fortunate to get one every day. The pool and hot tub also seemed to have sand at the bottom. We did sit in the hot tub a couple of times, it was a little dirty. The hotel is absolutely dated, the staff seemed to be friendly. We didn't eat on site, our room appeared clean, including the bathroom.
We would absolutely stay here again.
Within walking distance was an iHop, a First Watch, Dunkin Donuts, 7-11, a burger place, a souvenir shop and some other shops/restaurants. about 2.5/3 miles down the road was an entertainment district with all sorts of bars and restaurants.
You have to be realistic with what you expect with what you are paying. We found absolutely nothing gross about our say, no bugs, clean bathrooms, overall a decent stay.
Yes, it’s cheap, it’s cheap for a reason. Pool and hot tub are not as pictured, landscaping is terrible, the floors smell like rotten fish, everything in the room is breaking or is broken. lamps falling off the wall etc. Worst of all, the window wasn’t even installed flush, leaving an inch wide gap that the wind would absolutely howl through when it thunder-stormed. If you’re gonna stay here. expect a rough time.
The scenario was one of those good pictures on the website bad experience up front, even while looking for "deals" as these travel sites suggest, you would think the hotels they send you to would not be disgusting. Paying less should not mean you are less of a person to leave in squalor.
I am sure this hotel was purchased but someone in the early 2000's, and left to its own devices, as there no upgrades past 2005 on anything hardware wise (TV, exercise room, vending machines, etc). The external building is weather beaten and needs a new coat of paint, roof damage, dead palm trees, and overgrown lawn areas. Lets just say take pictures at another location, or at an angle like they do in their pictures. The parking lot always had this same guy in this 1976 Corvette who looked like he was frozen in a timeloop with the hotel, all the way down to the cutoff jean shorts. Internally, the place smelled of mold, and did not have central air, so you were sweating before you even got to your room. I saw the AC house units littering the inside and said that is a bad sign. The room was also a disappointment, literal rust around the drain in the tub, the carpet looked like it was dyed from filth and was gritty to the touch. I think the only reason I enjoyed the pool area ( which is why I gave it 2 out of 5) is due to the fact no-one was really staying at the hotel and I had my run of the hot tub and the pool at all times, so that is a win for them. Even though there were palm tree run off all over the area and the sculptures had so much lime on them they should have came with a Corona. Their system had an outage half way through the second day, where no-one's keycards worked in the entire hotel (this should be capitalized) and we had to bide our time for an hour after a full day at Universal. Just be weary of the hotel, if you are saving money to go, go ahead and stay there, but if you have the funds to go to another establishment, (right across the street by the look of it) and are trying to be frugal, dont, or you will get what you asked for.
The outside of the building looked very ugly and outdated, a lot of stains on the outside walls. The reception /main hall smells awful, smells like the carpets are never cleaned. The pool looks dirty and the floor feels like a sandpaper rubbing on your feet. They gave us a room with a malfunctioning air conditioning and it was very warm inside, the refrigerator never worked properly, they changed our room the air conditioning was better, the refrigerator same deal. Room service came only once in our whole stay. The carpets and sheets in the room are badly stained. The rooms looked like the hotel froze in the 80’s. The tv are outdated. The hair dryer stoped working. The only positive thing I can say about the hotel is the service the employees gave us , but is a very bad hotel to stay at. Don’t book there.
