This is, without a doubt, absolutely the WORST hotel that I have ever stayed at on a Disney trip, and that can get pretty nasty.

The PARKSIDE INN AND SUITES.

The room stunk, period. Smell was unbearable. Reeked of cigarettes and mold.

The fixtures were ancient and broken. The bathroom was moldy and sickening, with broken tiles and rotten gunk in the window sills.

There were cockroaches.

Some of the other guests were loud and obnoxious, and the front desk refused to do anything about it. It also appeared that there were a couple of families that had taken up residence there.

The door to our room had been kicked in before.

The "Continental Breakfast" consisted of stale, ancient individually wrapped lil' debbie snacky-cakes of some sort, and coffee that tasted like lukewarm dirtwater. It was tastefully served in the pool maintenance room.

There was gang activity on the streets at night when we were getting back from the parks. The walk is long, and along very dark streets. I saw several packs of young gang-bangers, and they were not looking to do good deeds. Several of the last gang tore fronds off of palm plants and were whacking cars with them as they walked along. Not good. Not good at all.

The homeless people that were asking for money the second we got out of our room was bad. I do feel for them, I really do. But it was insanity. And when there was finally a schizophrenic transvestite standing outside the hotel on the corner talking to him/herself in a very, very loud voice, I just got incredibly annoyed and terrified at the same time.

The walk is looooooooooooooooong to get to the parks. Don't believe their lies that it's "directly behind DCA". That is just an out-and-out lie. Period. And as I stated earlier, the homeless and the schizophrenic transvestite were there during the DAY. At night, you are literally looking all around you as you find your way back along dark, scary streets with no cops around and tons of people who would gladly do something bad to you just to entertain themselves.

All of this may seem bad. But wait, there's more.

On our last night there, we woke up at the crack of dawn to the sounds of a woman's bloodcurdling scream outside of our room. I got up and went out to see what in the heck was going on, and some woman was fighting with a guy in the parking lot. Two police cars showed up with sirens blaring and lights blazing, and broke up the fight, then cuffed the guy, who sat shirtless on the curb as the police interviewed the woman.

Luckily, our transportation showed up shortly thereafter and we scooted.

DO NOT STAY AT THE PARKSIDE INN AND SUITES. If you do, you are putting your family's lives at risk.

We stayed here five nights and were quite comfortable. Yes, some of the furnishings are older, but that is to be expected for the price. The TV, fridge and microwave all worked fine. If price is a concern this place is not all that bad as the other reviews seem to make it.

On April 17 2007 we check in and as soon as i waled in the the room i new i made a mistake. the walls were brown, the floors had iron burns and they were very sticky it was gross!
The ceiling had cracks and water stains on them.the bathrooms smelled like mold bad. the next day it rained and the ceiling was leaking i called the front desk and I ad vise them of what was going on in the room and they offered me my money back for that dayy, but they knew there were no more avaiable rooms any where so i had stay thier because i had already booked and made my reservations. should af net that the price was to good to be true. I will never in a millions years recommend this hotel to anyone.

when we got to our room, air did not work, paint chipping off walls, tv knobs missing. everything dirty and outdated,