Has Anyone Ever Stayed at the DAYS INN Lake Buena Vista?

[brunette8706]

I looked on hotwire but it would not let your know exactly what hotel you would be staying in. Hotwire only gives you prices in various areas, right? Unless I'm doing something wrong. How did you find Double Tree club?

thanks for your help.

brunette

 

[brunette8706]

Cool, I'll check that out too!

You all have been so helpful and NICE!

Thanks!!!

Brunette

 

[RC Fan]

Hello!

I used Betterbidding.com to identify the hotel.

3.5* DoubleTree Club Orlando - Lake Buena Vista
Amenities: Restaurant, Fitness, Business, Laundry
(for a brief period of time only showed Restaurant icon).

However, I just checked your dates and it is coming up at $56/night. Sorry, I guess that wasn't much help.

What about Comfort Inn LBV? It also gets decent reviews.

 

[crazelion]

Check www.hotelkingdom.com you should found plenty of hotels in your price range. Plus hotelkingdom will tell you exactly which hotel your is looking at.

 

[brunette8706]

Thanks Crazelion!

 

[pjd02176]

I stayed there about 8 years ago. It was fine, but it may have slid since my visit.

One drawback: The shuttle bus to Disney. Luckily, Days Inn was (at that time) one of the first stops so you could get on and get a seat. But then we stopped at a dozen other hotels in the same area before heading to the parks. By the last hotel stop people were pracitcially hanging out the windows we were so jam packed! The shuttle only had a couple of pick-ups in the AM and a few return runs in the PM. they may have changed their shuttle since then, but at the low prices they offer, probably not. We found it easier to walk to Downtown Disney and take a Disney bus to a park from there after breakfast at DD. Not a good plan for large families.

One plus: It is pracitcally adjacent to the Goodings plaza and lots of food and shopping options (taco bell, red lobster, mcdonalds, TGIFridays, not sure what else)

priceline or hotwire are decent bets if you check sites like betterbidding and have a ballpark idea of what you may get and aren't too picky.

good luck!

 

[RC Fan]

Hi pjd02176!

How long of a walk was it to DTD from Days Inn?

 

[pjd02176]

If memory serves it was about a little under a mile or about 15 minutes.

Keep in mind it was without kids, strollers, large bags, etc. that many families need to see the parks.

It was just myself and one other person and we were both in our twenties.

It was also nice becuase it was a good way to plan out day as we walked with early morning enthusiasm! We would usually wrap the day at Pleasure Island then take a cab back to the Days Inn.

 

[RC Fan]

Thanks very much for the info! The walk sounds very do-able.

 

[pjd02176]

I just went to the hotel website and they don't list a distance to Downtown Disney, but they did have a mapquest calculator.

I punched in driving directions to the Hilton at Lake Buena Vista (a hotel right across from Downtown Disney).

It said it would be 1.07 miles to drive. So it was just over a mile.

- Phil

 

[JLTraveling]

Ewwww....Days Inn. Have not stayed at that particular one, but after two horrible experiences at Days Inns in different parts of the country, will never ever stay with them again. Both times the room was moldy-smelling and dirty, the whole place was run down, the staff had rotten attitudes...at one we refused to even get between the sheets, the place was so gross. Unfortunately, when you're just passing through for one night, and it's 2 am, and every other hotel in a 30 mile radius is booked solid, sometimes you just can't do anything about it.

Check rates for the Best Western at DTD. More than once we've been at the parks for the day and decided to stay over, and walked into a AAA rate around $35 there...for $50 we got a balcony from which we could see the MK fireworks.