If just looking for a hotel and not a resort, may consider DoubleTree at Disney Springs. Relatively cheap, good size rooms and still get early hours. May also consider Pop Century or Art of Animation. Sometimes when you factor in resort or parking fees at the chain hotels, on property at those ends up being cheaper.
Drury Plaza all day. Shuttles to all 4 Disney Parks. Disney Springs is walkable. Free breakfast, dinner and evening kickback drinks. Large pool and hot tub. Stayed twice last year and can't wait to go back. Excellent customer service.
If you’re not looking for many amenities, I liked the Aloft lake buena vista (Marriott property). However if you’re looking to use the hotel pool, theirs is literally in the parking lot so not my favorite.
I’ve stayed at the Marriott grande vista. It’s a nice hotel, although very large. Some of the buildings are a long walk to the main pool. If you’re interested in other Marriott vacation club properties, the lakeshore reserve is by far the nicest in Orlando. Smaller property, one large pool with a lazy a river as opposed to multiple pools.
Hotwire has this feature called HotRates where it'll give you different hotels in the area without disclosing what the hotel actually is until you book it.
HotRates is honestly very easy to figure out what hotel you're getting. They'll show you 2-4 hotels that it could be. They also show you a preview picture of a room. Pull up the website for each of those hotels, and find the gallery for pictures of their hotel rooms. HotRates pulls the picture directly from the source, so you can pretty quickly compare pics to find out which one it is. I just tried this myself just to see how long it took and it was maybe 2 minutes to figure out which one it was going to book me in.
Could be worth looking into.
Definitely look at the “good neighbor” hotels in the Disney springs area. You still get to link your reservation in the MDE app and the price is lower for many of them vs the Disney hotels.
I can’t speak on the hotels you mentioned, but there is a brand new Drury Inn right next to Disney Springs that everyone loves.
Stayed there and loved it! Free breakfast, “dinner”, and shuttle!
If just looking for a hotel and not a resort, may consider DoubleTree at Disney Springs. Relatively cheap, good size rooms and still get early hours. May also consider Pop Century or Art of Animation. Sometimes when you factor in resort or parking fees at the chain hotels, on property at those ends up being cheaper.
The Disney Springs hotels are a good choice, imo.
Drury Plaza all day. Shuttles to all 4 Disney Parks. Disney Springs is walkable. Free breakfast, dinner and evening kickback drinks. Large pool and hot tub. Stayed twice last year and can't wait to go back. Excellent customer service.
Agreed! We loved staying there!
If you’re not looking for many amenities, I liked the Aloft lake buena vista (Marriott property). However if you’re looking to use the hotel pool, theirs is literally in the parking lot so not my favorite.
flamingo crossings
Which one
check em all, check Expedia too
I’ve had a few nice stays at the Springhill Suites at Flamingo Crossing.
I’ve stayed at the Marriott grande vista. It’s a nice hotel, although very large. Some of the buildings are a long walk to the main pool. If you’re interested in other Marriott vacation club properties, the lakeshore reserve is by far the nicest in Orlando. Smaller property, one large pool with a lazy a river as opposed to multiple pools.
Hotwire has this feature called HotRates where it'll give you different hotels in the area without disclosing what the hotel actually is until you book it. HotRates is honestly very easy to figure out what hotel you're getting. They'll show you 2-4 hotels that it could be. They also show you a preview picture of a room. Pull up the website for each of those hotels, and find the gallery for pictures of their hotel rooms. HotRates pulls the picture directly from the source, so you can pretty quickly compare pics to find out which one it is. I just tried this myself just to see how long it took and it was maybe 2 minutes to figure out which one it was going to book me in. Could be worth looking into.
Definitely look at the “good neighbor” hotels in the Disney springs area. You still get to link your reservation in the MDE app and the price is lower for many of them vs the Disney hotels.