Hotwire Hotel: need orlando ideas for 6/2 -6/9

We are going to be doing the last tow nights of our florida vacation in Orlando and I am looking for ideas on favorite properties that people have stayed at that I can look at targeting off of hotwire.

Our first three nights are in Orlando booked conventionally at the Holiday in Orange Lake resort in a 2 bedroom condo (booked conventionally at a GREAT rate) then were in Melbourne for the weekend and then back in Orlando for Sunday and Monday night.

Its my wife and I and our 25 yr old daughter and her 8 yr old son.

We are probably going to do Disney on the first part of the trip so it would not be esscential to stay near Disney but were not opposed to it either. So any favs in the Orlando area we should try and target? We'd like the facilities to be nice for the kid to enjoy and be able to burn up some energy maybe nice pools.

thanks in advance.

We are going to be doing the last tow nights of our florida vacation in Orlando and I am looking for ideas on favorite properties that people have stayed at that I can look at targeting off of HOTWIRE.

HOTWIRE only shows one hotel at each star level per zone, so it can be a futile exercise to find the hotel you want an then hope it appears. I think a better approach is to search HOTWIRE and then try to identify the hotels which are offered and determine if any of them are suitable/meet your needs... better to analyze what's offered than to hope for a hotel which may never appear.

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Well I need to edit to say 6-7 6-9

Its only for the last two days of our stay I'm looking.

I don't know if I'd call it a futile exercise. Many out here have experience and from their good experience (or otherwise) I might be able learn something or look for a particular set of amenities based on another users recommendation of a property

Were looking at hotiwre and keeping our minds open to booking conventionally if the right offer or price comes up. Also Connsidering bidding priceline in the resort category since but I have to do a little more research on tripadvisor to see if any are just so so properties.

I was just polling to see if any favorites of people who frequent the board or might have won in this area or properties of value or quality to look for in particular. (57 come up on hotwire)

I don't know if I'd call it a futile exercise. Many out here have experience and from their good experience (or otherwise) I might be able learn something or look for a particular set of amenities based on another users recommendation of a property

The point is that you can't "make" a hotel appear, so rather than research all the hotels and look for that one to appear, a better approach is to see what is offered and then identify those... since you know, at the moment, they're available for purchase.

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I was able to get a 3.5* in the Disney area (Royal Plaza) for $55 for Sunday, 5/31. It is off of exit 68 and very close to Disney. I think it is actually a Disney hotel. I had not heard of it before I bid (and won). Good Luck on your efforts.

JaxJaguar,

Can you please share the details of your Royal Plaza win with the board as a NEW TOPIC so that the information can help others and so that your win can appear in the Priceline and Hotwire Calendar of Wins.

Also, please follow-up your previous Priceline Daytona Beach thread with whatever you ended up doing for that stay.

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Thanks.

for follow up we did not use PRICELINE or HOTWIRE for the last two days of our stay as with conventional booking we wer offered a very attractive rate and it had the amenities we wanted.

Thanks for your help

Thanks for the follow-up and closing this thread with your ultimate decision.

Yellowdog.

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