Happy New Year from Nick Hotel!!
This place is awesome for the kids! We are extremely happy!
I was worried about the food because of the reviews but we have thought it is good. We did do the character breakfast yesterday (New Year's Eve). It was $17 for adults and $10 for kids. It was fun. SpongeBob,Patrick, Fairly Odd parents, and Dora were there. Good interaction. The food was good. Lots of fruit, eggs, bacon, sausage, panckes, pancakes with chocolate chips, waffles, donuts, bagels, cereals, grits, fried potatoes, chocolate pudding, applesauce. They also cooked eggs, omelets. They cook the pancakes fresh also. I thought it was worth the money.
We had pizza hut which tasted like every other pizza hut! Salads from the sub and salad were fresh. Hot dogs and chicken fingers and fries were good from A&W. The only thing I didn't really like was the chicken sandwich from A&W. It tasted like a microwaved chicken patty. We ordered room service for dinner last night. It arrived in about 35 min. The sirloin strip steak was very good. It came with salad, vegis, baked potato. All very tasty. Cost $22. Chicken breast was also good. Cost $16. Chocolate cake was delicious according to dh and kids! It had the little chocolate drizzles on the plate also.
The hotel is very clean and surprizingly quiet in the rooms! We have a 3 bedroom which is wonderful! The kids' room is small and the bunk beds are not full size twin. They are smaller. There are only 2 small drawers. But the kids are happy. The kids love the pools and slides. There is also putt-putt, basketball, pingpong, shuffleboard. And of course the games! They do games at the pools several times a day. They pick some kids to participate. My ds got to do a trivia and my dd did a pass the pie. Neither have been pied or slimed though. They also have shows in the evening. They choose a couple of families per show between 3-4pm at the pool. We have not gotten picked or seen the show. We did see the SpongeBob Christmas show which was very good!
We did try the free bus transportation back from magic kingdom on the 30th. It took 40 minutes. It stopped at all other disney parks on the way here. Also you take the monorail to the bus area at mk. then walk to bus area. We didn't know but you find the number of the bus you want out in the parking lot and wait for your bus. (new to us!) If you use this free service be sure to be on time or early because the bus driver did not wait long at each stop. By the way, our taxi to MK was about 10-12 minutes. We took a taxi to Universal today and it was $25.
Let me know any questions you have and I'll try to answer! We will be here until next weekend!!
Jama
P.S. Even my 82 year old father is having a blast here!! Except he only wanted to ride the Mummy once!
) and were not going to rent a car as we are staying on side at WDW. My kids are huge Nick fans and I thought it would be neat to stay there for one night as a surprise at the end of our journey. How much would a cab be from Disney to Nick and does Nick have shuttles to the airport or is that a cab ride as well? 
The hotel is HUGE, so it can take some time to get from point a to point B, but all in all we have enjoyed our stay every time we have been there. The hotel staff has always been amazing and helpful and the pools are incredible! (And to think that was before they switched over to Nick!! 
