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Archway Inn at the Florida Mall – reviews, photos

8421 South Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32809
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Archway Inn at the Florida Mall
Ranked #240 of 336 hotels in Orlando
3.5 of 5 stars 11 Reviews
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Ottawa, ON Canada
2 reviews
Reviews in 2 cities Reviews in 2 cities
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
“Great time -- a dream for a shopper!”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 28 February 2007
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Wow -- this was a dream for a shopper for sure!

The Florida Hotel is attached to a huge mall ... what a great get-away for girlfriends!

I would go again in a heartbeat!

The hotel is clean and friendly staff make it wonderful!

The restaurant was great too!

My husband loved the flat screen TV ...!

Looking forward to going back to this hotel again!

Stayed February 2007
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Richmond Hill, ON
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8 reviews 8 reviews
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52 helpful votes 52 helpful votes
“It's cheap for a reason... Too scary & filthy to warrant a return visit.”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 6 July 2006

The old adage "you get what you pay for" definitely applies here. I travelled with my husband and 2 friends on a one-week package. We didn't think it would be too bad as the vacation package rated the hotel at 3 stars. I would hate to see what the 1 star hotels were like.

The hotel sign wasn't well lit, and was covered by some kind of cloth, from which you could tell it used to be a Best Western. There's certainly a good reason why Best Western dropped its name from this facility. The parking area was poorly lit, as was the walkway from the reception area to the room. The reception/front desk area was okay, but we noticed an unpleasant odor while we were checking in (turns out it was coming from their in house cafe).

We were not given adjacent rooms, as the king beds were on one side of the facility and the doubles were in another. No big deal. However, the room we received was next to the alleyway where the laundry machines were. On top of that, the lock on the door was damaged, and the safe had very prominent crow bar marks on it. Throughout the evening you could hear people talking in the alleyway and fidgeting with the machines. The walls were paper thin, leaving us with a sleepless first night, as there was a group of college guys next door cursing and laughing into the morning hours. At 3am, we finally asked the front desk to move us to another room.

In the morning, we noticed that two rooms down there was a broken window. We don't know what happened, but we weren't surprised. We met up with our friends who told us about how filthy the room was. The bathtub and toiled had mold stains, and there was a giant dust bunny under one of the benches. It was so large and disgusting, my friend thought it was a dead rat. Both of our rooms did not appear to have been vacuumed in ages.

The bottom line is that we felt the hotel was unsafe and filthy. It was unpleasant to even just shower and sleep in this facility. In retrospect, we should have spent the extra hundred bucks for a brand name hotel; or waited until Disney had a promotional sale.

  • Stayed April 2004
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 3 of 5 stars Service
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“You get what you pay for!”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 10 May 2004
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I think the hotel is upgrading. Room was clean and had a refri. no extra charge. Rooms are the cheapest around, but had strong musty smell. Landscaping needs work, etc. Outside soda machines broken, etc. If you can afford more go someplace else. However I would stay again because they are reasonable in price.

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“'Dump' 'Disgusting'”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 18 March 2004
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people found this review helpful

Very disgusting place, moldy smelling rooms, BUGS in 3 different rooms they offered us to stay in. Hang out joint for very rude and uncaring people. Would not recommend this place to STREET PEOPLE. DO NOT RUIN YOUR TRIP and stay in a dump.

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Kendall, Florida
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“Not Bad”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 16 March 2004
2
people found this review helpful

We were in Orlando for Disney. The room was perfect for sleep/shower and the occasional tv for cartoons. S. Orange Blossm Trail is a main road and you have easy acces to McDonald's, Arby's, Pondarosa, K-Mart, etc. The staff completely stayed out of our business which was great! I left a message one day if they could come by my room to clean up and when I returned the room was picked up, cleaned and no items were missing. It was raining that Valentine's weekend so we didn't use the pool, but I don't think we would of had enough energy;)

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Address: 8421 South Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32809
Price range (per night):* INR2,731 - 7,189

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