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3.0 of 5
5859 American Way, Orlando, FL 32819 (Formerly Super 8 Orlando-International Drive)
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The Lord Inn Hotel
Ranked #245 of 336 hotels in Orlando
3.0 of 5 stars 101 Reviews
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What travellers say about this hotel
  • Pool bar(7)
  • Free shuttle(4)
  • Friendly and helpful(4)
  • Flat screen TV(4)
  • Car park(4)
  • Next morning(3)
  • Double beds(3)
  • Great location(3)
  • Not bad(3)
  • Very basic(3)
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Darlington, United Kingdom
1 review
“Extremely cheap hotel, excellent staff, clean room, comfy bed.”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 27 September 2011

Having stayed at this hotel a year ago and read some of the reviews on this site I'm not sure that they stayed at the same place, although the picture is right so it must be.

The staff were all very friendly and helpful, except maybe one young guy on reception. Even he wasn't rude, just clearly not thrilled to be working there. I always find that by being friendly and polite to staff in hotels/restaurants etc the service I get is better than others less polite experience. IMAGINE THAT! I realise that staff are paid to be there, but most of the time people are naturally nice if you're nice to them.

With the exception of the one guy the reception staff were all incredibly helpful and always took time to make sure that I understood their directions or whatever. The concierge/ticket guy was happy to chat for 30 mins or whatever while I waited for my partner to dry her hair after showering. The little shop on site was relatively well stocked and not terrible for price.

The room was clean, relatively large and the bed was very comfortable. I'm not sure what size 6 feet wide is, but that was the width of the bed. There was a table and two chairs provided to eat at when we ordered takeout, and the places that we tried which were in the book provided next to the telephone were excellent. The fridge is big and the microwave is useable. It was a pain the there was no kettle provided only a coffee machine, but then my partner and I are probably in the minority who prefer tea to coffee. There may have been the possibility of a kettle but I didn't ask for one, so can't comment on the availability of one. As it was I just bodged the coffee machine to give me hot water to make tea anyway, having bought tea bags at the shop in the lobby.

Breakfast was a mixture of sugar laden pastries or sugar laden cereal, with tea, coffe, apple juice and orange juice available too. After two days we decided to give it a miss and bought cereal, milk, disposable bowls and disposable cutlery from Walgreen's. It meant that we could avoid the crowd of people trying to get breakfast and take it easy in our room. While it's not ideal to do that the hotel was so cheap so it's not really terrible.

The pool was clean and provided a cool respite to the heat and humidity. It's not huge but doesn't need to be and it wasn't crowded. Orlando is more of a "doing things" holiday than a "sit by the pool" holiday anyway, so it really was only for lazy days after late nights.

The location was superb. It's less than 2 mins walk from the North end of International Drive. Within two minutes walk there is a Denny's, a 7eleven and a crazy golf where you can feed live baby alligators. Within 5 minutes walk there is a Wallgreen's, a SubWay (as in sandwiches and salads) and Wet n Wild. Stop #7 of the iRide trolley is within 2 minutes walk. Universal Studios is an easy 25 minute walk away. Obviously there is lots to do on IDrive itself and with the bus stop minutes away it's all easy to reach.

The concierge/ticket guy has tickets to all sorts of attractions. He deals tickets for Grey Line tours (Google: Gray Line Orlando and pre plan some days) and they have lots of good trips on offer. The local pickup for all of these tours is at the BACK of the Sheraton Four Points, not out the front as we were told. Make sure you wait out the back! This is again within two minutes walk of the hotel. He also has tickets to Disney/Universal etc at good rates.

All in all the hotel isn't perfect but it is SO cheap it would be harsh to judge it badly. I think with our package we ended up paying around £230/$350 for 14 nights bed and breakfast. Some places that would barely cover two nights. I can't imagine the places we looked at that cost 7 times as much being 7 times better. Going back to the first thing I wrote, I think some people want to pay next to nothing but expect the best. If you want the best you normally have to pay for it. A quick check shows that the Sheraton Four Points at the end of the road (which is stunning, by the way) costs around 10 times as much for the same stay. I don't imagine that it's 10 times better.

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  • Stayed September 2011, travelled as a couple
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 5 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 3 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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“Terrible Management the Hotel was bought by alltours america”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 27 July 2011
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I had a group and we checked in June and it was great the manager iwas great upon our stay they let the manager go and her friendly staff also. they were bought by a braizalian company and the management is terrible they treat youi as a number and not as a person. They had also changed the name from super 8 to the lord hotel what a name. The people at the front desk are very rude and not helpful. We have been going to the hotel for the last 7 years for 2 or 3 times a year and this has been the worst experience ever. We will take our group to another hotel we will not stay here again.

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  • Stayed July 2011, travelled on business
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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8 helpful votes 8 helpful votes
“great location shame about the staff,”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 18 May 2011
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super 8 formally blue palm resort international drive
weve been to orlando 6 times stayed on international drive everytime, this was our first stay at blue palm, it was clean and tidy right next to wal green 2 - 3 minutes away from resturants and shops, great location, when we stayed the hotel was in the middle of changing its name over and making some amendments to the hotel one of which was the pool bar, which was closed for our entire stay this did not bother us as we were hardly there and only went down to the pool once whilst there, the water was bitter cold, (could do with a heated pool for the colder months) our problem was that we booked a bed and breakfast holiday and with the pool bar being closed thats where the breakfasts were served, this did not cause a problem whilst we were there as we just went to local restaurant for breakfast but when we return to the uk we sent a letter to hays travel who we booked through, to request a refund for the bed and breakfast part of our holiday, hays had to contact blue palm resort to comfirm this and the cheeky gits said we lied and the pool bar was open for our entire stay, why why why would we lie and go through the trouble of writing a letter to our travel providers, the sign on the pool bar door even said closed for refunishement, even though we wouldnt of got that much back that just wasnt the point, we had a really good holiday my advice to anyone who wants to make a complaint have the evidance to back it up, take pictures with proof of dates, etc.
also when reading about this hotel before we went we were told that there wer safes in each room, but as the hotel was changing names the hotel had takien the safes out of the rooms and put small ones for costumers behind reception,nice to be told this before our trip we didnt find out until the morning after our first nights stay. other than that the hotel was fine rooms were clean fridges and microwaves in each room big new tvs with plenty of channels, not that we were there much to watch tv, 15 minutes from disney, 5 minutes from universal, walking distance from wet and wild and 5 minutes from sea world, florida mall ten minutes drive, we had a fanatsic time, but it did get cold, yes britain cold, so pack coats hats scarfs and gloves, because there not cheap over there, we had two really hot days chistmas day which we choose to do a water park (blizzard beach which was empty which was great cos we got to go on all the rides over and over again) be warned try to avoid magic kingdom on christmas day, new years eve as it was closed at 9.30am due to being full we knew this before we went thank god, christmas was a great time to spend here with our family once in a life time experience, but i will never stay at the blue palm hotel again out of principal,

  • Stayed December 2010, travelled with family
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 3 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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“Stayed here a while ago but what a bargain!”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 25 April 2011

My boyfriend and I actually stayed here from the day after Boxing day in 2008 for 3 weeks and left 3 weeks later. Back then hotel was really run down, however the facilities in the room were still really good, flat screen TV, free wifi, fridge, microwave, safe, hairdryer etc and the total cost we paid for it was £15 a night!!! We also had free coffee and doughnuts in the morning and a fee shuttle service to all the disney parks, seaworld and bush gardens. We walked to Universal as it is literally 15 minutes down the road. Right down the end of the road the I-Ride stopped and you could get the two of them from there so I feel the best thing about this hotel is the location. I am not sure what it is like now but for the price we paid it was brilliant!!

  • Stayed December 2010, travelled as a couple
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 3 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 3 of 5 stars Service
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Glasgow, United Kingdom
1 review
1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
“Great Hotel for the Budget Traveller”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 7 April 2011
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person found this review helpful

My boyfriend and I have just returned from a two week stay at this hotel and have to say we were very pleased with our time spent there.
This is a budget hotel, if you are looking to save your cash for the shops then I would highly recommend it,yes the rooms could be doing with a bit of decorating and there were a few repairs needed in the laundry room, 1 washing machine working and 1 dryer but we never found this to be a big problem.
In the rooms there are new Plasma TV's installed and free Microwave and Fridge's to use, a lot of budget hotels do charge extra for this,there were two double beds and plenty of room.
The staff were very friendly and helpful, on our last day the manager let us keep our room on for a late check out free of charge which was very kind, I could not fault them. Cleaning was done every day and the staff again very friendly
The safety deposit boxes are kept at reception where there is 24Hrs Staffing, the reception also locks its doors at night and there are video camera's installed with the screen showing at reception, we felt very safe during our stay,
A continental breakfast was included from 6am till 9am, with cereal, bagels, pastries, tea, coffee and juice available which was ideal for grabbing a quick bite to eat before hitting the parks,
All in all I would definetly recommend this hotel for your stay

  • Stayed April 2011, travelled as a couple
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 3 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 5 of 5 stars Service
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  • Travelodge International Drive
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Address: 5859 American Way, Orlando, FL 32819 (Formerly Super 8 Orlando-International Drive)
Price range (per night):* INR3,121 - 3,121

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