SaraHyland
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2009
FINALLY decided to stay at the Rodeway Inn Maingate just last Friday May 4th, 2012...so happy I did because it's my new favorite hotel. Right in the middle of everything, cost less than a meal in Disney World, and just as good as a Disneys all-star value resort which is like 4 times the cost.
We checked in late at night around 10 pm, which wasn't a problem at all and took about 2 minutes flat. The staff was really great and friendly , and there were some people in the lobby watching the news and on their laptops using thw wi-fi which made me feel at ease because I'd read previous reviews of this hotel in which they said the only guests who stayed here were crackheads and I assure you that is not one bit true. In fact, all the guests I had seen had disney shirts on and had small children.
So after checking in, we went into our room (5121) on the first floor (we had an empty space right in front of our room). The first thing I did was check for bugs bed bugs,sugar ants,roaches, everything I had read about in the rodeway inn reviews. In total I found 3 sugar ants 2 near the sink, one on the desk in between the two beds. If there were more than three it would have bothered me, but I occasionally everywhere I go so I was fine. No bed bugs, no roaches, nothing else. It was a little hard looking for them because although there was a total of 6 lights in the room, the lighting was still a bit dim. I did see a stain on the bathroom floor which I didnt know what it was, and another stain on one of the sheets which was grey like someones makeup had come off while sleeping, but after removing the sheet everything else was spotless. (I brought my own sheets and stuff just incase but i used those provided). I did have a big problem with the water pressure here, it sucked...but the bathroom was very clean besides that one stain on the floor, and the door locks looked rusty but worked fine. The tv was static-eeee which was fine because we were there just to sleep that night. After looking around and un packing we walked 5 minutes over to Old town fair which was to my surprise open until 2 am! It was great, lots of shops, restaurants , and rides. BUT back to the hotel review.
We wokeup the next morning at 7am because we had park hopper tickets and the parks opened at 9am that morning. We wokeup and didn't even want to get out of the bed because it was so comfy. I had read a lot about being able to hear toilets flush through the paper thin walls and kids screaming and lots of people waking up in the middle of the night because of noise but I didn't hear a single thing and im always the first one to wakeup because of noise. We slept perfectly fine. We stayed in a basic room with 2 double beds that included the a coffee maker and in room safe. It came out to $30 even after taxes for the night (i also used a triple a discount). The hotel offers a free breakfast (4 different juices, hot coffee, plain bagels, 5 different kinds of oat meal, oranges, and like little things of jelly,butter,cream cheese, and peanut butter. Not the most variety but it was free and the bagels and oatmeal were great. Plus free coffee is always a plus in my book.
Over all we had a great stay and would stay again! For 30 a night? and could stay 4 nights for the same price of one night at other hotels. I would rate this hotel 7 out of 10. My pros were, *location,*free breakfast,*free parking,*affordable prices,*late check in,and friendly staff. My cons were *terrible water pressure, *stains, *3 sugar ants , but my pros out weigh my cons by far. If you're going to diseny you must try staying here a night, you'll save lots of money, and its litterally 3 minutes from, the park which lets you sleep in a little and be there at rope drop! They also offer shuttles if you don't feel like driving
Hope this review helped, sorry for the blurry pictures!
We checked in late at night around 10 pm, which wasn't a problem at all and took about 2 minutes flat. The staff was really great and friendly , and there were some people in the lobby watching the news and on their laptops using thw wi-fi which made me feel at ease because I'd read previous reviews of this hotel in which they said the only guests who stayed here were crackheads and I assure you that is not one bit true. In fact, all the guests I had seen had disney shirts on and had small children.
So after checking in, we went into our room (5121) on the first floor (we had an empty space right in front of our room). The first thing I did was check for bugs bed bugs,sugar ants,roaches, everything I had read about in the rodeway inn reviews. In total I found 3 sugar ants 2 near the sink, one on the desk in between the two beds. If there were more than three it would have bothered me, but I occasionally everywhere I go so I was fine. No bed bugs, no roaches, nothing else. It was a little hard looking for them because although there was a total of 6 lights in the room, the lighting was still a bit dim. I did see a stain on the bathroom floor which I didnt know what it was, and another stain on one of the sheets which was grey like someones makeup had come off while sleeping, but after removing the sheet everything else was spotless. (I brought my own sheets and stuff just incase but i used those provided). I did have a big problem with the water pressure here, it sucked...but the bathroom was very clean besides that one stain on the floor, and the door locks looked rusty but worked fine. The tv was static-eeee which was fine because we were there just to sleep that night. After looking around and un packing we walked 5 minutes over to Old town fair which was to my surprise open until 2 am! It was great, lots of shops, restaurants , and rides. BUT back to the hotel review.
We wokeup the next morning at 7am because we had park hopper tickets and the parks opened at 9am that morning. We wokeup and didn't even want to get out of the bed because it was so comfy. I had read a lot about being able to hear toilets flush through the paper thin walls and kids screaming and lots of people waking up in the middle of the night because of noise but I didn't hear a single thing and im always the first one to wakeup because of noise. We slept perfectly fine. We stayed in a basic room with 2 double beds that included the a coffee maker and in room safe. It came out to $30 even after taxes for the night (i also used a triple a discount). The hotel offers a free breakfast (4 different juices, hot coffee, plain bagels, 5 different kinds of oat meal, oranges, and like little things of jelly,butter,cream cheese, and peanut butter. Not the most variety but it was free and the bagels and oatmeal were great. Plus free coffee is always a plus in my book.
Over all we had a great stay and would stay again! For 30 a night? and could stay 4 nights for the same price of one night at other hotels. I would rate this hotel 7 out of 10. My pros were, *location,*free breakfast,*free parking,*affordable prices,*late check in,and friendly staff. My cons were *terrible water pressure, *stains, *3 sugar ants , but my pros out weigh my cons by far. If you're going to diseny you must try staying here a night, you'll save lots of money, and its litterally 3 minutes from, the park which lets you sleep in a little and be there at rope drop! They also offer shuttles if you don't feel like driving
Hope this review helped, sorry for the blurry pictures!
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