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Inside The Theme Park Rock Hotel

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 5800 Universal Blvd [map], Orlando, FL, United States, 32819
October 20, 2011 at 4:30 PM | by | Comment (1)

Here's why Hard Rock Orlando 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 Hard Rocks. Aside from the pool, kids will also be treated to magic tricks at dinner (Thursday nights) if you eat at Kitchen, the on site restaurant. Oh, and most important? Your room key serves as an express pass at the parks allowing you to avoid the lines -- sweet.

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

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 14100 Bonnet Creek Resort Lane, Orlando, [map], Orlando, FL, United States, 32821
July 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM | by | Comments (0)

If you and your dancing shoes are going to celebrate National Dance Day on July 30, the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek 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 just get bragging rights; prizes include copies of "Just Dance," "Just Dance Kids," "Just Dance 2" and the recently released "Just Dance Summer Party."

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Kate Middleton's Tiara and Engagement Ring Now Available To Eat

April 27, 2011 at 1:12 PM | by | Comment (1)

With only two days left until the big day the Royal Wedding hotel events are getting sillier. Yesterday we brought you the Premier Inn's package which offers guests the chance to sleep with the couple and today it's the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin hotel who have announced the sweetest package yet.

The two-time world champion pastry chef Laurent Branlard has created exact replicas of some of the Royal Jewelery, only made from sugar. The pieces include Princess Diana’s royal tiara and the sapphire engagement ring Wills gave to Kate. We're not sure what the tiara is resting on but that yellow face looks kind of freaky!

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

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 8738 International Drive [map], Orlando, FL, United States, 32819
April 22, 2011 at 9:58 AM | by | Comments (0)

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.

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Only 2 Days Left to Win a 3-Night Stay at the Holiday Inn Club Vacations in Orlando

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 8505 W. Irlo Broson Memorial Highway [map], Kissimmee, FL, United States, 34747
December 13, 2010 at 9:25 AM | by | Comments (3)

Have the holiday crowds at the mall started to wear you down? Are you sick of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You?" Are you gagging at the site of another holiday fruitcake? If so, it sounds like you could use a vacation from the holidays. Good thing, we've got a cure for you right here. And it doesn't involve chugging eggnog.

HotelChatter has partnered up with the InterContinental Hotel Group to offer one lucky winner an awesome vacation. Imagine getting this under your Christmas tree this year:

A three-night stay at the Holiday Inn Club Vacations at Orange Lake, located next to the Walt Disney World Parks and Animal Kingdom. All guest rooms at this resort come with either two queen beds or a king bed, a fully-equipped kitchenette and a pull-out sofa. Plus you'll have access to the resort's 12-acre waterpark with a tropical lazy river, 10 pools and an 80-acre lake with water sports.

But that's not all! Your three-night stay voucher will come in this cute Vera Bradley carry-on bag stuffed with decorative cosmetic bags, a travel pillow, headphones and a $25 Visa gift card.

Here's how to enter:

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You Can Look But You Can't Sit on the Lap of This Life-Sized Chocolate Santa

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 1200 Epcot Resorts Blvd [map], Lake Buena Vista, FL, United States, 32830
December 10, 2010 at 4:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

So we've been profiling the wonderful, wild and wacky holiday hotel decorations and we think that this holiday display at the Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin Hotel is all three. That's because they've just unveiled a 1,200-pound life-sized CHOCOLATE Santa Claus accompanied by an armchair, fireplace and Christmas tree, all made out of chocolate!

The sculpture is the creation of the hotel's executive pastry chef and only two-time world champion pastry chef, Laurent Branlard. Here are some stats on the work that went into this:

· Man Hours: 300 hours
· Dark Chocolate: 880 lbs.
· Milk Chocolate: 132 lbs.
· White Chocolate: 154 lbs.
· Cocoa Butter: 120 lbs.

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Just in Time for Christmas, Win 3 Nights at The Holiday Inn Club Vacations Resort in Orlando

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 8505 W. Irlo Broson Memorial Highway [map], Kissimmee, FL, United States, 34747
December 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM | by | Comments (55)

THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you for all your submissions and Orlando vacation plans! We will notify the winner shortly.

Still trying to come up with a holiday gift idea that will wow someone special in your life? Or are you making it all about you this year? Either way, HotelChatter has partnered up with the InterContinental Hotel Group to offer one lucky winner an awesome vacation. Imagine getting this under your Christmas tree this year:

A three-night stay at the Holiday Inn Club Vacations at Orange Lake, located next to the Walt Disney World Parks and Animal Kingdom. All guest rooms at this resort come with either two queen beds or a king bed, a fully-equipped kitchenette and a pull-out sofa. Plus you'll have access to the resort's 12-acre waterpark with a tropical lazy river, 10 pools and an 80-acre lake with water sports.

But that's not all! You're three-night stay voucher will come in this cute Vera Bradley carry-on bag stuffed with decorative cosmetic bags, a travel pillow, headphones and a $25 Visa gift card.

Here's how to enter:

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Napa Comes To Orlando To Make Business Travel More Bearable

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 9801 International Drive [map], Orlando, FL, United States, 32819
September 17, 2010 at 8:52 AM | by | Comment (1)

The next time the boss sends you to a convention in Orlando, just think: you're really going to Napa. Kind of. You can at least drink yourself into thinking so if you hit up the Peabody Orlando hotel's new Napa Valley-themed restaurant and bar called, um ... Napa.

You may be familiar with this hotel if you've ever set foot in the gargantuan Orange County Convention Center, right across the street. It's one of the few Forbes Four-Star, AAA Four Diamond hotels in Orlando, and it's about to unveil a $450 million expansion next Thursday.

We're thinking that this bar--and another new lounge at the hotel called Rocks--may just be the best thing to hit Orlando since Britney. (Who, incidentally, might like the hotel's new pool cabanas.)

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A Tale of Two Pools at Loews Portofino Bay

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 5601 Universal Blvd [map], Orlando, FL, United States, 32819
July 30, 2010 at 3:02 PM | by | Comments (0)

Stay at a hotel in a city, and you've got very little chance of hopping into a pool. Stay in a hotel in a vacation destination in Florida however, and you not only are almost guaranteed a pool, but typically you've got your choice of pools.

This is the case at Universal Studios' Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, which sports both an "adult" pool and a "family pool." The latter is where we found all the action when we visited the hotel for a few days recently, and yet no one was at all interested in the quieter, more refined adult pool.

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When Your Hotel Isn't Just Near the Airport; It Is the Airport

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 9300 Airport Boulevard [map], Orlando, FL, United States, 32827
July 26, 2010 at 2:21 PM | by | Comments (0)

You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.

What's the last thing you want to do when you've scored a nice balcony room at an airport hotel in Florida? Perhaps watch the lines of airport security and hear the hubbub of door alarms and various other airport noises would rank towards the top, but this is exactly what'll happen when you stay at the Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport. The hotel is not merely near the airport or next to the airport; it's in and around the airport.

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Our New Obsessions: Hotels with Their Own Boats

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 5601 Universal Boulevard [map], Orlando, FL, United States, 32819
July 1, 2010 at 3:56 PM | by | Comments (0)


Yea, we totally snapped this photo and the best moment between storm and sunset

You may arrive to your hotel by limo, taxi, subway or even helicopter, but nothing beats the romance of gliding up to a magnificent hotel by boat. Naturally, when you think of hotel boats, your thoughts first turn to Venice's gondolas and the Hotel Danieli or the tender out to the W Maldives, but we found something a little bit closer to home.

As part of the attempt to inject Universal Studios' Loews Portofino Bay Hotel with all the charms of Italy, the hotel boasts its own water taxi for direct transport over the Universal CityWalk area, which you don't need to have a ticket to the amusement park to enter. Okay okay, so the other two Universal Hotels—Loews Royal Pacific and The Hard Rock—also have this, but only the Portofino actually tries to make it look like you're off the Italian Riviera. Oh yea, and it's free.

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5 Hotels Where Kids Can Sleep with Their Favorite Character

June 30, 2010 at 3:01 PM | by | Comment (1)

When you bring Junior to a hotel, why put him up in some boring beige room? Win the best-parent-ever award by staying a colorful SpongeBob or Dr. Seuss suite that'll also score him lots of swag. We scoured around the most kid-friendly hotels to find the ones with the coolest rooms.

After the jump, choose your own hotel adventure based on your kid's favorite character.

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