Hotwire Hotel: help to i.d. Orlando 4*

[ace]

I am looking at the week of 12/25 --12/31. Hotwire has a 4* in Miami Lakes offered at $84. It appears to be a match amenity-wise for Don Shula's Hotel (restaurant, pool, fitness center, spa, golf, tennis, business center). Under Hotwire "packages" it offers Don Shula's as a 4* choice with these same amenities. The $84 looks like a good deal as other sources have it priced from $105 to $159 for the same dates.

Any opinions out there as to whether this is indeed Don Shula's?

[thereuare]

Certainly looks like a match, and i don't think that you're going to get much closer on an opaque purchase without seeing the actual name of the hotel.

There is always some risk in buying an opaque product, as there could alwasy be another hotel in the zone with the same exact star rating and amenties... so there are never any guarantees.

Let us know what you decide to do and how it works out. Please use this HOTWIRE link to begin your purchase if you go with the above.

[ufjoe21]

If hotwire doesn't workout then, try priceline 3*, I believe I saw someone post they have this hotel somewhere on the web a year ago.

It was a long time ago, I don't remember where I saw it sorry.

[ace]

I need help to identify the following:

Disney- Champions Gate area

4*

amenities listed as:

resort, restaurant, fitness center, spa, h.s. internet, golf, business center

It looks a little like Gaylord Palms but has no childrens program or pool listed as an amenity.

Hotwire is showing at $125 for December 28, one night.

Thanks

[ace]

I checked under packages and Hotwire is offering the Omni Championsgate, which has all these amenities plus a couple more. Do they sometimes enhance the amenities in the packages area?

[thereuare]

Please follow-up your Las Vegas and Miami threads with whatever you ended up doing for those stays (one of which seems to overlap with the above).... we'll then have a look at the Orlando property above.

Thanks.

[ace]

After a little research, we decided against Don Shula's. Seems a lot of folks have been disappointed by the rundown rooms.

Thanks for the reminder to follow up.

[thereuare]

Can't really gain much insight on this property... sometimes the amenities differ from the hotel product to the packages product, but this is much more the exception than the rule.

It is likely that this property has more amenities than area listed (for what reason they would do so i'm not sure), as there is no pool icon listed, and i can't think of any 4* hotel in Florida that would not have a pool... especially once classified as a 'resort'.