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Save some money by booking here and buy more legos! Ashli at the front desk is awesome! Very friendly and helpful. The rooms were as you’d expect for this price, but clean and safe. I was pleasantly surprised with the room fridge’s size and that there was a microwave. We typically stay at the Legoland hotel, but decided to give this place a try because the rates were crazy this weekend for their brick or treat event. We were very pleased we did, and the money we saved can now go to buying more Lego sets. _

Worst hotel in winter haven Worst place ever. Wouldn’t even recommend to a homeless person. On a business trip. The rooms are filthy. The have constant problems with the hot water. One day it took 4 hours for them to fix the hot water and I needed to go to work. Front desk staff are disrespectful. You hardly get rooms service and they half ass clean the room if they do come. Floors are disgusting. Shower filled with dirt and hair. Molding on the bathroom ceilings. Ants a bug crawling around door. I knows it’s a cheap hotel but come on this is ridiculous. Health department needs to close this place down asap. Loud window unit ac. You can hear right through the walls. Don’t come here ever. Spend a little extra to go to a nicer place.

What the what Confusing?? Two different hotels as one big hotel. Bad room disgusting bathroom. Bad cable & remote for the TV No free continental breakfast. I will not stay here ever again. I do not recommend staying here

Worst employee ever Person named Jean th at works there has the worst behavior I’ve ever seen. This women has the audacity to yell at my kid! We’re on vacation ! She must be so miserable. My kid didn’t do anything, they were laughing and giggling !

Best chance to pay for the worst a hotel has to offer! If you are looking for a bargain and a chance to expose your family to the seamier side of life and boosts their immune systems with exposure to years of build up grime then this is the hotel for you! The photographer for this hotel needs a bonus! They manage to highlight the best this hotel doesn't have to offer. Check in is a breeze if you have 20 or so minutes to kill while they manually enter your credit card information. Jean will gladly answer any questions you have in terse sentences all the while conveying how she'd really rather you stayed somewhere else. Meanwhile your children can relax on the hotel couches that offer plenty of large pillows with greasy head stains on them, giving you time to make a note to stop at the closest Dollar General and pick up some NIX just in case. Jean will helpfully imply that if you would like to find your car with all your tires on it in the morning you should really park at the front of the hotel and carry all your luggage through the building and around to your room on the other side. But that this access will be denied after 10PM at night, because that is when they lock down the main hotel. Who stays out later than that on vacation anyways? You can always wander around on the dark side of the hotel to get to your room. You'll know you are in the right location when you see the rooms with the doorknobs broken off. To help clear up confusion you need to know that the Econolodge, built as many 1960s Florida hotel were, is in a U-shape around a large pool. All room access is through the outside. 40 or so years ago an ingenious architect decided to tacking a 4 story Quality Inn to one end of the Econolodge. If you are lucky enough to get a Econolodge pool side room on the 1st floor in order to transport your luggage to your room via cart you must first take the elevator to the 3rd floor of the Quality Inn. Go through a plain door stating only "No re-entry without key card". That puts you on second floor of the Econolodge outdoors. You then wander down a hallway to hopefully find another elevator that will take you back down to the first floor of Econolodge that is actually 1 level above the pool. This is great if your kids like to push the elevator buttons, and you need to exercise after a long car ride. You will eventually end up on a long outdoor walkway that has access to the rooms. Each room has a door, large window and an AC unit that face the outdoor walkway. If you are lucky like us, your key card won't actually open your room door or get you access back into the main building so you won't ever have to find out what the inside of the room looks like. That gives you and your family plenty of time to observe the other guests. Some of which are tired families like yours and local business men and women who appear to be on a first name basis with the local law enforcement. During that time you can also observe the loud AC window units that should drown out the sounds of the late night pool partiers and other business transactions taking place. As you stand there and question your life choices, you'll also have a chance to notice that the curtains to your room don't fully close. Perfect for those that like to spice things up on vacation with a little bit of exhibitionism. At this point we decided to stretch our legs again, and take the long way around and bypass the elevators, in part motivated by our key card not opening the main door by the elevators. There we found that if we waited 10 minutes or so Jean was back. When we explained our key card didn't unlock our door, Jean helpfully replied, "Why not?" She then happily charged us more to begrudgingly cancel our Econolodge room and "upgrade" our stay to the Quality Inn side of the hotel. This gave us a chance to learn that breakfast IS free with a stay at Quality Inn, but not free with a stay at Econolodge. After a delightful 20 minute delay we were able to again hop on the indoor elevator and head to our room on the 4th floor. Protip angle your luggage cart carefully to be able to fully get it on the elevator and still close the door. It looks like it won't fit, but it will if you can maneuver it just right! After only an hour since entering the parking lot we were finally able to access a room. A helpful tip for room 458 is to put your shoulder against the door while jiggling the door handle violently up and down. The good news is the AC blows very cold from a wall vent. This will not change no matter how high you adjust the thermostat. The hospital quality linens and bedspread will keep you nice and cool all night long and huddled against your loved ones in order to survive. The locked door to the adjoining room has a nice gap underneath it allowing you to know when the neighbors get in at 11:30 at night. If you roll up a towel you can block most of the light, but not the sound. The bathroom is vintage in it's 1980's decor. It's best if you stand between the counter and the toilet in order to close the door. Bonus the water gets hot and cold and hot again a lot quicker if the rooms around you will flush their toilets while you are showering. This adds to the close feel you get to enjoy with guests in the rooms around you. Breakfast is in the 2nd floor dining room. The food was standard but good and the staff that managed it very friendly. It stormed heavily overnight and sadly some of the beautiful old plaster was danglingly from the ceiling outside the dining room. Thankfully staff had carefully placed a large cart in the middle of the walkway outside the elevatorto collect the water and most of the debris. The dining room gives you the opportunity to see what the hotel was like in it's glory days. If you squint your eyes it helps to hide the large stains on the upholstered dining chairs and carpet, as you imagine how beautiful everything once was. Checkout is a lot faster than check in. As I'm sure like us you will be in a hurry to get out of there. My husband said it best when he stated that is the most money he has ever spent for the worst hotel. If you can't afford any better or you absolutely have to be across the road from Legoland entrance then this is the hotel for you.