Holiday Inn Nikki Bird

[Mickey Mom]

Has anyone ever stayed at the Holiday Inn Nikki Bird? Just wondering if it is a nice place and if anyone has any comments on the place. Thanks

 

[DrCool]

I stayed their last January.

It was fine for what we needed it for. It isn't the most modern hotel or fancy or anything like that. The three swimming pools were nice and the staff was some of the friendliest I have ever encountered at a hotel. The location is great and the restaurants are decent as well.

 

[BarryHom]

I stayed here a few years ago. It wasn't too bad. My room had a fridge and a microwave. The carpet was kind of old and ugly, but the room was a standard, clean hotel room.

 

[TreeOfLife]

Hated the Nikky Bird... AAA showed us pictures of the big HI and I was shocked to find a motel instead! Their free transportation to the parks is pathetic at best.
And what the heck was the Nikki bird? We never saw anything resembling a character there, only some woman in a clown costume painting faces and shaping balloons into whatchamacallits in the mornings, for a tip of course...
For a few bucks more, we could have stayed in a value resort.

 

[DrCool]

This is Nikki Bird

 

[TreeOfLife]

Gee, took a four night stay booked in a dreadful package (for the first time, of course) and three years later, I finally see what the Nikki bird looks like...

 

[ppd14]

We have not stayed there but we love the restaurant ANGELS inside the HI. It is a Prime Rib, Crab Legs and Lobster tail plus 40-50 items --buffet- usually with coupon (from guidebooks) you can eat your fill for around 21. per adult. In walking out to the car I noticed empty rooms and the curtains were open. These rooms looked really dated. (as of last visit 10/01) The food has been good each time we went. Go to earlybird special for dinner- long waits are typical during dinner rush.

 

[TreeOfLife]

Restaurant? It was a diner when we stayed there!
The place is not a hotel, but a motel

 

[ppd14]

Tree of Live,
Unless there is another Nikki Bird Resort. -I am referring to the HI, Nikki Bird on 192 at Reedy Creek drive. It is about two miles west of World Hwy on 192. There is a diner but behind that is also a restaurant called Angels - It is a buffet. It was still there about 5 months ago.

 

[TreeOfLife]

We stayed there by mistake, years ago. The eatery was called Angel's Diner.

We had a free dinner with our stay and it was typical diner food. Don't know if anything has changed but the building was more of a motel, although advertised as a HI hotel.

A AAA travel agent showed us the picture of the larger HI hotel across the street instead. My heart sunk when I saw where Mears dropped us off!
And then there were the free transportation buses... We arrived at 12:40 PM, The bus to MK left at 12:00 and we had to wait until 4:30 PM for the next sardine can trip...

 

[Ecdubfan]

We stayed 2 nights at the Nikki Bird 2 years ago following a few days at All Star Sports. The property was essentially a classic Holiday Inn Motel set-up. ANgels was definitely more than a diner. Compared to the All-stars, it was cheaper by $27, the rooms were about 25% bigger, and we had a microwave and 2 mini-fridges in our room. The staff was above average. Very friendly and accomodating. The pools were nice, although we did not use them much. The place was fairly clean.

However...it was DEFINITELY a classic Holiday Inn motel. It was nothing like the newer express and family inn concepts.

 

[Shadow8]

We spent a week at the Nikki Bird. I can't remember if all of it was, but
the part we were in was a motel. It was 2 floors and had doors to the outside.

I think we ended up there because there were 5 of us, and not a lot of
budget hotels would allow 5.

We enjoyed our stay. If I remember right it had a small refrigerator and
a microwave.

The restaurant had a really good made to order breakfast. It wasn't included in
the room, but it was very cheap. Possibly the kids ate free with the adults.

I know we had breakfast there every morning.

We aren't in our rooms much when we go to Orlando so it was great for us.

 

[dougsmom98]

We were just there from 12/27-1/3. It is your average motel, but we really enjoyed our stay. It is the closest off site hotel to Disney. You will take a right out of the parking lot and then take your first right onto World Drive. It is less than .25 miles to the turn. We didn't spend a ton of time in our room since we were at the parks most of the day. The rooms had a good sized mini fridge, small microwave, coffee maker with complimentary coffee, sugar and nondairy creamer each day, a hair dryer, ironing board and iron. We had the kidsuite, which was nice in some ways but also kind of cramped. My mother and four other people stayed in a standard room and they had plenty of room. For $10/night you can get a "roll away" bed. We thought it would end up being a small cot but it was a twin bed on wheels. It was as nice as any other bed in the room. There is a diner on site that serves burgers, fries, sandwhiches and other diner food as well as Pizza Hut pizza. There is also a restaurant on site that serves seafood as others have posted. Kids eat free with a paying adult at the restuarants. We got room service from the diner several times but we never made it to the buffet. One morning I went down to the restaurant to get take out for breakfast. They didn't do regular take out, but had a breakfast buffet for $6.99. They allow you to take out from the buffet and will give you a large styrofoam take out container and then a smaller one for pasteries. I filled my containers to the brim with eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, pancakes, fruit and pasteries and that was enough to feed my husband and me as well as our three small toddlers. My mother went down to the lounge one night with her group and had a nice evening. If you are concerned with staying at a place that looks really nice or has beautiful rooms perhaps this is not the place for you, but if you don't mind staying at a place that looks like a motel, has clean rooms and all the ammenities that I have mentioned, then you might want to consider the Nikki Bird. I was a nervous wreck after I read some posts this time last year but I knew I wasn't expecting the Ritz and I wasn't disappointed with my choice. I got a rate of $69/night for a kidsuite and $59/night for the standard room. This was $40-$50 cheaper than the rates at the All Stars for that week, and I had the fridge and microwave in the room as well as five people. I signed up for the Priority Club (it's free) on the Holiday Inn website to get those rates. The woman at the desk couldn't believe that I got those rate for the week of New Years. She even had to check with her manager. Luckily I had my confirmation printed out. So, you may want to check into the priority club rates, as well as AAA rate when you call.