Hotwire Hotel: 2.5* Orlando (Sea World - I-Drive South) Ramada Convention Center I-Drive

[jorober5]

I just booked a 2.5* Orlando I-Drive Seaworld for $53/night from March 9-11. It turned out to be the Ramada Convention Center I-Drive. Reviews on Tripadvisor are not great. We'll give it a try :)

[AaronJB]

Congrats on your success. :)

Nice deal for this Ramada property and hope the hotel turns out to be better than expectations.

Can you confirm the amenities that were showing with this listing? This information is available under the trip information in your HOTWIRE account (click "my account" in the upper corner of HOTWIRE.)

Thank you for sharing your win and please use the site's PRICELINE or HOTWIRE links to start your purchases and searches.

Enjoy your stay.

[jorober5]

2.5-star Hotel in SeaWorld - I-drive South

This Hotel features the following amenities:

Free Parking

Free Breakfast

Pool(s)

Property offers at least one pool area; hours and dates of operation may be seasonal.

Laundry Facilities (self-service)

High-Speed Internet Access

Guestrooms are equipped with high-speed Internet access; an extra charge may apply.

[thereuare]

I believe there may have been more amenities than you listed aboev, which would not have been seen unless you clicked the 'See all' link during the check-out process.

Can you please add a reply to this thread confirming the full list of amenities associated with this property... you can still view this information by going to HOTWIRE and clicking the MY ACCOUNT link near the top right of their home page.

I believe this may be the complete list:

Free Parking

Complimentary Breakfast

Fitness

Pool

Business

Laundry

Hi-Speed Internet

Please use the PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin your travel purchases.

Thanks!

[jorober5]

After I log in to Hotwire and click on trip details, the list I pasted above is what pops up in the "Amenities Pop Up". Should I be looking somewhere different? Sorry to be a newb but trying to contribute....

[thereuare]

It sounds like you're in the right place if it is a new window that opens with the amenities... as opposed to a 'rollover' box that appears on your screen in the same window. I'm assuming at the bottom of the list of the amenities that you posted there is no 'See all' link.

Just to explain why i'm questioning the difference... if you search HOTWIRE for 3/9-3/11 and click on the $53/nite offer for the 2.5* hotel in this zone (presumably the same hotel you purchased a few days earlier). After clicking the SHOW ME button with the price in it, on the ensuing page under the amenities shown click the 'See all amenities' link... form there you'll see all SEVEN of the amenities i posted above (vs. the FIVE you listed in your post)

It is possible that HOTWIRE showed a limited number of the complete set of amenities when you purchased (as your list of amenities is simply a sub-set of the longer list of amenities that i had posted), but i'm just trying to confirm if that is indeed the case, since HOTWIRE has been making it less intuitive to see the complete list of amenities associated with a purchase.

Thanks for your follow-up (and interest in helping :) )

[jorober5]

It was definitely in the pop up window.

A quick review: I can see why this hotel has lukewarm reviews on Tripadvisor. It was "OK". Older furnishings (for example a CRT Trinitron TV that was state of the art about 13 years ago), and was mostly clean. It just felt a little older and in need of some TLC. There was a continental breakfast that was about what I expected. I'm not upset that we stayed there, but feel we basically got what we paid for, not necessarily a "deal"...

Finally, there was a $4 a night "resort fee" which seems odd at a place of this caliber. When I asked what I got for the $4, they replied that it was for wireless access and the breakfast. I suppose $4 for the two of those isn't too bad, but it didn't seem to "fit" with type of place it was.

[thereuare]

Glad to hear it at least served its purpose and wasn't a total flop.

Thanks for the re-cap.