Wndham Palace hotel

[poet123]

We are from the UK and I cannot get rates yet for next july does anyone have an email address that I can use????
Also can you use ent rate at this hotel?

 

[stacy6552]

I don't know about the rates, but you couldn't pay us enough to go back there.

 

[poet123]

Please tell me why?
We wanted to do this on the last night of our trip after returning from the gulf coast as it is near DTD virgin check in and has ARTHURS which I have heard good things about.

 

[barbnbrian]

I agree with Stacy 6552 - we would not go back to the Wyndham Palace. I'd sure like to compare notes with you Stacy and hear your experience. Here's ours . . .

Won Wyndham Palace on Priceline, 2 rooms for $63 per nite each, 4 nights, 8/26 - 8/30. Checked in late on 8/26 . Tried to get them to waive the resort fee ($10 per night, per room), on at least one of the rooms. Wouldn't waive it. Inquired what the "resort fee" covered and was told newspapers (don't care to read their local news, I'm from CT and on vacation), in room coffee/tea (my kids in room #2 don't drink coffee/tea or read the newspaper), spa line bath products (soap, shampoo & condition, with a fancy name, nothing great), most hotels do provide shampoo, conditioner & soap, use of the recreation island and towels at the pool (should be offering towels at the pool anyway), read something about fruit at the pool (never found this), use of the business center (owned by Pitney Bowes, and they charge you for internet use and to print off pages. I went down at 7:00 a.m. on day I was checking out and wanted to go online to check-in on my airline and print off boarding passes and was under the impression it was free to do this since I paid the resort fee.

But it gets even better - when we opened the door to room #1, we were overwhelmed by a mold smell in the room. After sniffing around we found the smell coming from the air conditioning vent on the wall above the bed. I stood on the bed and breathed in the moldy air and could actually see stuff (mold/dust?) on the walls of the vent box. Called the front desk and requested to be moved to another room. They moved us down the hall, but now we were at the opposite end of the hallway from room #2 where my son & brother-in-law were staying. Room #2 also had a funny smell, but not as bad as our first room. Requested they move room #2 closer to our new room so son would be next door or closer than he was and they did move them 4 doors away from our new room.

Both our new rooms were right near the elevators and the hallway in front of the elevators had marble floors which meant we could hear everyones heals tapping quite loud as they walked to the elevator. Hallway was noisy with echos.


Blankets on bed were fraying and ripped, sheets were clean but had old stains on them that probably wouldn't come out in the wash. And the one strange thing was that every morning my son woke up with numerous bug bites either on a leg/foot/elbow or arm, bites that weren't there during the day or before he went to bed. My answer to him was maybe he let a mosquito in the room when he opened the patio door at night? Funny thing though, my brother-in-law did not get bit at all.

I'm not a very hard person to please. I've stayed at All Stars and Port Orleans resorts but the Wyndham Palace is suppose to be a "Resort" level, above a 4* and I was not happy with it at all.

Other than issues with the Wyndham, our trip was great and we had a lot of fun. I did like being able to walk across the street to DTD and we did go there to pick up Disney buses to some of their resorts to look around and eat dinner. We took the bus from the Wyndham once to Blizzard Beach and it took forever.

Any other questions, please feel free to ask.

 

[CarolA]

I have stayed there on Priceline several times and would not hesitate to go back. I usually get either Hilton on Wyndam on Priceline. The location and pool are much nicer at the Wyndam, but the rooms are probably a little nicer at the Hilton. I would stay at either of them over one of the Disney Values (but maybe not the Mods)

They won't waive the resort fee, but neither will the Swan/Dolphin or Hilton. Priceline clearly states that resort fees are your responsiblity and you need to keep that in mind when bidding on hotels in Disney.

My rooms have always been clean and everything worked. My only complaint is that they never seem well staffed at check in. There are never more then one or two people at the counter even when big groups are checking in.

The pool area is very nice and my rooms were clean with good furnishings. I do know that they have been renovating and I am not sure when the poster stayed there.
(And NO Stacy, I don't work for the Wyndam. I am giving an honest impression of my visit YMMMV)

 

[yecats]

I have to agree with Carol A. I have had good stays there. Last November was the first time that I had stayed there in a bit and it was because I decided to extend my fairytale package by 2 exta days. I also bid on priceline and won one day at Wyndham and one day at Hilton DTD. I do think that the recreation island area is better at Wyndham than pool area is at the Hilton. Even though I had won the bid on priceline for Wyndham, upon checkin I was bumped up to a mini-suite on the 5th floor. The consession was that I didn't get a balcony but a view of the front entrance/parking lot. Anyway, room was in good shape and couldn't complain about anything (no must, smells, noise, etc). Easy walk to DTD and buses to parks. I do know that some people have complained about stays there as they have been placed in some rooms (I think mostly in the other buildings surrounding recreation island ) and that a lot of those rooms need renovation.

From my experience, I do know that for the price I paid I wouldn't hesitate to stay there in the future if I couldn't get a code for on property.

 

[vandalengr]

I stayed there in June of this year, and really have no complaints. Everything was fine in my room, and the pool area is one of the nicer ones. Add to that being able to walk acros the street to Downtown Disney, I will most likely go back again.

 

[Kitster]

I stayed there one night in Dec 2003 and other than the looooooong walk from the non-valet parking lot, I have no complaints about the hotel. I was upgraded (?) to a 1 bedroom suite on the recreation island, even though I booked thru Priceline, and the room was beautiful !!!

Come to think of it, I did have one minor suggestion for the resort.....maps for getting to your room would be nice. No-one could tell me how to get to Recreation Island