Off Site with Great Pool

[chezdion]

We are staying at the HR for the last 4 nights of our 9 night vacation in March.
We would like to stay at a nice hotel with a good pool with at least a water slide. We will not have a car, but want to be in good location to SeaWorld and Aquatica. We will be using Hotel shuttles and cabs if needed.
It will cost about 200/night for CoCo key family suite so that is our budget. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[IdesOmarch]

I can probably help you because my main criteria in hotel selection is an awesome pool. Me personally I go off if the pool has a waterfall, so these suggestions are hotels with waterfalls at the pools, all very nice hotels, and I do not know locations, other than in the Orlando area, but you can mapquest all of them. Here they are:

Caribe Royale Orlando (Huge pool with waterfall)
Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress (also great pool with Waterfall) both around 160 a night when I checked last.

 

[damo]

the Nick hotel seems to get raves about the pool but I haven't heard raves about any other part of it.

 

[IdesOmarch]

For the Nick, never been, but I hear the big draw is the characters, Sponge Bob, Dora etc., for the kids, obviously a great hotel for the small ones, probably not so much for older kids or adults. But I hear it gets rave reviews from that perspective (kids love it.)

 

[chezdion]

Thanks for everyones input. Both of those hotels seem closer to Disney than Seaworld area. I'll let you know what we come up with.
P.S. the Nick hotel has too many negative reviews....not about the pool but the rooms seem a bit sketchy....

 

[3sweetpeas]

We are staying on property for 7 days and off for 4 days. I have been researching resorts off site with good pools with a slide for months. What I have found and booked is Orange Lake Resort. We got an EXCELLENT rate at $120 for a 2 bedroom villa. Haven't been there but know someone who has and she said it is great. Also Regal Palms Resort has a great pool it seems. The Fountains has 2 slides and we have stayed there in a 2 bedroom condo and it was great. Probably could tell you more. Hope that helps!

 

[polkadotminnie]

Hilton Bonnet Creek has a fabulaous pool. It is a little closer to Disney though.

 

[mh1973]

We are going to do a Universal trip instead of Disney this summer. We would probably spend 2-3 days at Universal then would like to do Discovery Cove. Would it be best to stay on site at Universal for 2 days then change hotels? We would want a resort with a great pool wherever we change to, close to Sea World. For those who have done this before, any tips? Or would it be best to just stay at the Universal hotel the whole week? I am thinking we will stay at RP.

Sorry, didn't mean to post this on this thread, meant to make a new thread.

 

[chezdion]

We have booked a 2 bedroom condo at The Fountains resort. It was less than 200 per nightwith taxes and resort fees...... It has gotten great reviews here in the DIS so we are hopefull that we will enjoy it as everyone else has. We have decide to rent a car while we are staying there so we don't have to use the trolley. We will give the car back when after we check into the HRH.

 

[braddillman]

The Fountains has 1 large pool and 1 huge pool. They both have 2 in-ground hot tubs and poolside bars with food (though their open hours seems short and unpredictable to me). The large pool is indoor-outdoor which is nice if it rains. The huge pool has two nice water slides and a zero-entry kiddie area with squirt guns and dumper buckets.