Quality Inn for HHN

[Troiandan]

Since I didn't want to be driving during HHN opening weekend , I booked a room at Quality Inn on I-Drive. The room is supposed to include a fridge and microwave, charging $130 for two nights. Is anyone familiar with this motel? I know there are a lot of good places on I-Drive, but I also understand a handful of them are problematic. Just want to make sure I don't have anything to be scared of - outside of HHN, that is.

 

[Lou Holtz]

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Re...Suites_Universal_Studios-Orlando_Florida.html

Be sure to report back which is scarier!

 

[snchpnz]

Ive stayed there and I don't remember it so I guess it wasn't bad or good. LOL! I've stayed at some REALLY SCARY cheap motels in Orlando and trust me, Ill never forget those. The only reason I remember staying at this place is because of that big balcony on top and the cheap Christmas lights they have wrapped around it. I usually just stay 1 night when I go to Orlando and all I use the room for is sleep and for me it was fine I guess.

 

[Troiandan]

This sounds helpful, thanks so much. It doesn't have to be pretty, I just wanted it to be safe, and reasonably clean. As long as I don't get mugged by people or cockroaches, I'm good.

Thanks all!

 

[snchpnz]

You know, I just noticed you said Quality Inn on "I-drive" but the Quality Inn I was talking about is the one in the link on the second post. That one is on Windhover Drive off Kirkman Road.

I now googled the Quality Inn on Idrive and to my surprise I've actually stayed there and I REMEMBER it!!! Overall it didn't leave a very good first impression but the stay was not bad.

So here's what I remember. There's a security guard in the front gate who checks your reservation when you first come in to make sure you are staying there. I still don't know if that is a good thing or just a bad sign. The place is BIG. You have to drive all the way to the back to get to the lobby. The lobby looks better than the rooms, its kinda busy and there's a store inside. I think we bought sodas or trailmix or something. The room I remember was somewhere in the middle on the entrance side of the parking lot. We parked right in front of our room and there were people in the rooms next to ours with their doors open. I think there was a fat shirtless man standing at one of the doorways or something. Everyone looked like tourist just hanging out so I wasn't scared. We go into the room and it looked like a picture out of the 70's/early 80's. You know how the old color pictures have hues of yellow and orange? Well, yeah, the room looked like that in person. It was big but it looked old and seemed kinda... yellow. LOL The air conditioner didn't get the room as cold as I like it (I like feeling like I am in a freezer) but we weren't hot or anything. I don't remember much more. Nothing eventful happened. There weren't any roaches or dirty sheets or anything like that. It just looked ugly. On a scale of 1 to 10 I give it a 5

Ive stayed at worst places. Usually on 192. I've had roaches crawl on me at night. Rooms that look like scenes out of horror movies where someone is going to break in and kill you at night. Places where there are groups of guys outside just hanging around late at night. Places with broken toilets that wouldn't flush and showers that had no water pressure, water temperature that changed constantly while you showered, dirty sheets, etc. Any typical hotel horror story you can think of I've probably experienced it. So yeah, the quality Inn on I-drive did not have the nicest room but other than that it was NOT one of the worst. I did check the sheets anyway just to be sure.

 

[Troiandan]

Thanks for the update. I think it will be fine - I really just want a place where I can take a short cab ride after the night is over, rather than drive. And a cab back home costs almost as much as the room - twice as much if I take a cab down as well instead of the Lynx bus. I probably won't use it much other than sleeping and heating up a little breakfast or late night snack. At under $50 a night, it starts to get into potentially unsafe places.

Thanks for the feedback!