HotelChatter - Orlando

Inside The Theme Park Rock Hotel

markj — 2011-10-20T16:30:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/hard_rock_orlando_view.jpg"> Here's why <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hard+Rock+Hotel+Orlando/local/1201">Hard Rock Orlando</a> is a great home base for a visit to Universal Orlando: The vibe is "cool parents", at least that is what we liked to tell ourselves while we were on the grounds. The giant pool, complete with sand and water slide is such a hit with kids it may be hard to drag them away from the pool and get them to the parks, so save the pool for an end of day activity. Real rock music, not "Kid's Place Live", permeates the lobby and the common spaces, as it does at all Hard Rock's, however, as expected, this property is far more family friendly than some of the other

Mickey Mouse Will Live It Up at The Four Seasons Disney World

juliana — 2011-09-14T10:30:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/fourseasons_disneyworld.jpg" class="top"> The mouse has a new fancy house--<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/four seasons hotels">The Four Seasons</a>.The <a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-09-13/the-daily-disney/os-four-seasons-disney-world-20110913_1_bonnet-creek-walt-disney-world-finalizes-deal">Orlando Sentinel</a> reports that the luxury hotel chain has just finalized a deal to build a 444-room Four Seasons resort down in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The hotel will feature a rooftop restaurant with views of the Magic Kingdom as well as a lazy river inside its pool scene and guest access to the Disney Osprey Ridge golf course.The hotel will also include up to 90 Four Seasons residences and about 40 Four Seasons time-share units. As for the guestrooms, there's not much info on that yet but you know how Four Seasons likes to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/8/26/124657/543/hotels/The_Four_Seasons_Seattle_Has_Apparently_Been_Transplanted_to_Baltimore">stick with what they know.</a>Construction will

The Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek is Dying to Just Dance (3) With You

HotelHopper — 2011-07-28T09:40:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/93695/justdance3.jpg" class="top"> If you and your dancing shoes are going to celebrate National Dance Day on July 30, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/HILTON+ORLANDO+BONNET+CREEK/local/4640">Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek</a> will have you boogieing in no time. The hotel is the only public venue to offer you a chance to get down in "Just Dance 3," before the video game hits the stores in October. And boy are they excited about it. We must have gotten 20 emails from them about this. Anyways with Just Dance 3 in the house, you will be able to work it on the floor like JLo in "Just Dance-offs" led by pro gamers and emcees. More competitive dancers can show off their footwork in individual contests. The winner doesn't

Having an 'Undercover Boss' Still Didn't Help the Econolodge in Orlando

juliana — 2011-04-22T09:58:11-05:00

Fortunately, this story has a happy ending but it doesn't change the fact that a 16-month old girl slipped and fell from the balcony of the Econolodge in Orlando, one of the biggest Econolodges in the world and also the same miserable property that got poor marks during the Undercover Boss episode back in September.

Miraculously, the toddler was saved by a British tourist who noticed the baby hanging from the fourth-floor railing and ran to catch her before she hit the ground. The girl hit a third-floor railing on the way down but didn't even suffer a bruise or scratch and was even described as happy afterward.

Disney's Animation Resort to Open in Spring 2012 with 'Finding Nemo' Suites

juliana — 2010-12-17T16:06:29-05:00

Expect some Nemo sheets!

It seems that there can never be too many hotels at Disney World and the more thematic these hotels can get, the better.

Which is why Walt Disney World is planning its first family-suites hotel that will be centered around the animated Disney movies everyone knows and loves. It will be called Disney's Art of Animation Resort and yes, expect to find Nemo here, as well as Ariel and Simba.

The 2,000-room hotel will open in May 2012 with 866 standard rooms but also 1,120 of these family suites which can fit up to six people.