Advice for clean cheap hotel for 1 night before WDW check in

[TIGGERSMOM]

We are driving to WDW from MA and I am trying to plan ahead. We check in to BCV on 5/1 but we may up end arriving late the night before.

So I am looking for a clean(has to clean) room near property that is not too exorbitant. Any advice?

Thanks in advance guys.

 

[Thmacs]

I would bid for a room on Priceline. You can easilyy get a 2*-3* hotel in the $25-$35 range. Check out www.biddingfortravel.com. it has all the information you need to bid wisely and lists of all the hotels in the Disney vicinity that come up frequantly on Priceline. If Priceline makes you nervous, checkout Hotelkingdom.com, another site with very low rates. Good luck.

 

[Pat_Elliott]

I've used two, the Howard Johnsons Maingate East (about $40) and the Magic Castle ($25, includes a continental breakfast). Both are clean if nothing else. Amentities are zero, but when you just need a place to stay, what the heck as long as it has no history of marine biology crawling in the beds. The HJ, as obvious by the price, is a better selection (a little further back from the road, plenty of pool area as versus minimal at MC).

That said, I agree with Thmacs. Since I "got educated" on Priceline via biddingfortravel.com, I've stopped hunting for low-priced hotels in Orlando. Even the most unsavory choice at 2.5* for the area is less expensive. And right now, you can score a really decent hotel (Renisaince or Sheraton Safari have been coming up a lot) for $35. Can't beat that. Only one note: once you're bid is accepted, you bought it.

Pat

 

[sandyneck]

Hi, just a word of advice that I found out on our recent trip. I also needed a "budget hotel" for one night. We were just going to sleep there so I figured it wouldn't matter. The problem I found was that the other people staying at the "budget hotel" were not there to sleep, but to party. This has happened to me twice now, so I am thinking it is more the norm than not. The hotel was nice and clean, but the people staying there were loud and obnoxious. This type of hotel is more likely to be filled with high school and college kids. I wished I had spent another $50.00 and had a good night rest. If you do stay somewhere cheap, maybe if the hotel is in a quiet section of town you would have better luck. Ours was on international drive near Universal. Have fun!

 

[disneysteve]

We've stayed several times at the EconoLodge Maingate Hawaiin on 192 just off of I-4. I think the last time we paid $23.95/nite. Its clean, close and doesn't seem to attract the rowdy crowd.

Steve