This was first time staying at the HRH. Molokai Gram and I shared a room on Club level. MG was able to reserve the room at a great rate because after her last trip she wrote the manager a funny letter about the good and bad things they encountered at the hotel. He wrote her back saying when she was going to return to give him a call so she did!!
Check in was very quick and they said it was no problem for each of us to pay for half of the room with a credit card.
Our room overlooked the pool area. It had a beautiful view of Universal and IOA. The only detraction was, in the evening, they turned on the pool area music, and you could hear it over the tv.
The room was very clean and house keeping did a terrific job.
I ordered milk and cookies for our Loews welcome gift. When we returned to our room Thursday evening we couldn't believe our eyes!!! In addition to m+c they brought a bottle of white wine and a large plate of crackers, cheese and fruit. That must have been some letter Molokai Gram wrote!
Everything was delicious.
The club level lounge was very nice with many tables and chairs. Families w/small children seemed to congregate in the tv room towards the back. MG noticed many of the tapes were Disney
. Soft drinks, tea and water were available from 7:30am-11pm. In the morning they had bagels, muffins, doughnuts, and cold cereal. For drinks they had coffee, oj and grapefruit juice.
In the evening they had a nice cuke and tomatoe salad, hot chicken on a stick with a dipping sauce, a veggie platter, crab dip, cheese cubes and bread. They also had cold beer and white/red wine.
I was impressed by how friendly the employees at the hotel were. Somebody was always saying hello to you! One of the club level employees was especially nice, she even addressed us by name whenever we saw her! Say hello to Zoe if you see her.
One of the biggest perks was the quick walk to Universal!If you take the path in back of the pool area it's only about a 5 min walk. But watch out for the gate, it's evil and hated me. I'm going to let MG post our gate stories. We never got a chance to use the pool but it was a huge area. The slide looked like it would've been alot of fun.
We only had one real problem during our stay. Donna's mom called to talked to her but the hotel said she wasn't there, even though she made the reservation. The front desk had us both registered but for some reason the telephone folks didn't, they only had my name. This may have happended because Donna had to changed the room when she first arrived. There was only 1 bed in the room and she had asked for 2. Her parents were very worried because they had dropped her off at the front of the hotel but did not go up to the room with her.
To be fair I know Robert Walker, another MG-con participant, had a few problems. There was not hot water when he checked in and his welcome gift hadn't been delivered on his check-in day. Hope he got it.
Sadly we had to check out Sunday morning, 2/10. It was very quick. Great employees! The bellboy out front grabbed a cab for us . This is the way to go for a return trip to the airport!! It only cost us $20@ ( total: $31.76 + tip). Only a few more $ than a shuttle and the taxis were very clean and the driver very nice. Best of all you could go when you wanted to!!
All in all a really wonderful stay.
Check in was very quick and they said it was no problem for each of us to pay for half of the room with a credit card.
Our room overlooked the pool area. It had a beautiful view of Universal and IOA. The only detraction was, in the evening, they turned on the pool area music, and you could hear it over the tv.
The room was very clean and house keeping did a terrific job.
I ordered milk and cookies for our Loews welcome gift. When we returned to our room Thursday evening we couldn't believe our eyes!!! In addition to m+c they brought a bottle of white wine and a large plate of crackers, cheese and fruit. That must have been some letter Molokai Gram wrote!
Everything was delicious.The club level lounge was very nice with many tables and chairs. Families w/small children seemed to congregate in the tv room towards the back. MG noticed many of the tapes were Disney
. Soft drinks, tea and water were available from 7:30am-11pm. In the morning they had bagels, muffins, doughnuts, and cold cereal. For drinks they had coffee, oj and grapefruit juice. In the evening they had a nice cuke and tomatoe salad, hot chicken on a stick with a dipping sauce, a veggie platter, crab dip, cheese cubes and bread. They also had cold beer and white/red wine.
I was impressed by how friendly the employees at the hotel were. Somebody was always saying hello to you! One of the club level employees was especially nice, she even addressed us by name whenever we saw her! Say hello to Zoe if you see her.
One of the biggest perks was the quick walk to Universal!If you take the path in back of the pool area it's only about a 5 min walk. But watch out for the gate, it's evil and hated me. I'm going to let MG post our gate stories. We never got a chance to use the pool but it was a huge area. The slide looked like it would've been alot of fun.
We only had one real problem during our stay. Donna's mom called to talked to her but the hotel said she wasn't there, even though she made the reservation. The front desk had us both registered but for some reason the telephone folks didn't, they only had my name. This may have happended because Donna had to changed the room when she first arrived. There was only 1 bed in the room and she had asked for 2. Her parents were very worried because they had dropped her off at the front of the hotel but did not go up to the room with her.
To be fair I know Robert Walker, another MG-con participant, had a few problems. There was not hot water when he checked in and his welcome gift hadn't been delivered on his check-in day. Hope he got it.
Sadly we had to check out Sunday morning, 2/10. It was very quick. Great employees! The bellboy out front grabbed a cab for us . This is the way to go for a return trip to the airport!! It only cost us $20@ ( total: $31.76 + tip). Only a few more $ than a shuttle and the taxis were very clean and the driver very nice. Best of all you could go when you wanted to!!
All in all a really wonderful stay.
) we'll be sure to try to make it during one of the get togethers. MIB has already offered to give us some MIB lessons... and for that reason alone I've got to get back down there... I wish they had that ride at Six Flags Great Adventure here in NJ!! 
I'm addicted!! 
