We stayed here two nights here before boarding a Norwegian Cruise (NCL). It is located very close to the airport along with several other major hotels. The staff was cheerful and friendly, except perhaps at the reception desk. The front desk was efficient and sufficiently friendly. However, they did not seem overly cheerful. This is likely due to all the conferences going on. There are a lot of meeting rooms and conferences seem to be a major source of their business. They also provide pre-trip rooms for NCL. I just felt that the casual guest might get a bit lost in all the activities going on.

It is a Holiday Inn, but below the standard of a typical Holiday Inn. Our room was fine and roomy: queen-size bed and a sofa. The shower was difficult to turn on (a little sign warned one of this). There was no refrigerator, microwave, or safe. There was a game controller on the TV, but upon inspection behind the dresser I discovered that the cord had been cut. Also behind the dresser were a lot of cobwebs, a penny, and a nickel.

The hotel was not very clean. At breakfast, the floor of the open-space restaurant was littered with crumbs, etc., from the night before. Also, I was told that the hotel had purchased vacuum cleaners that didn't work all that well.

Breakfast was not included. Available meals in the hotel were typical Holiday Inn fare and reasonably priced. We were without a car so we were somewhat marooned. There are restaurants nearby (e.g., Denny's across the street) but walking around the area is dicey due to the heavy traffic (not uncommon in Florida).

All in all, we were happy with our stay there, but we are not fussy. I would rate the hotel with 3 1/2 stars

I've been staying here for work 3-4 nights a week for the last couple months. All of the hotel staff I have encountered have been excellent. Especially the shuttle drivers and bar staff. The rooms are nice. Every room I've stayed in has had a refrigerator and microwave as well as a comfy bed. It's a good place to stay if you have interests close to the airport or an early morning flight to catch. If you're sensitive to noise you may want to stay somewhere further from the airport. The noise never bothered me personally although it could be a problem for a light sleeper. All of the hotels in this area are going to be subject to the jet noise. It's seemed to me if your room is on the side of the building facing the pool it's a bit quieter. This would also depend on how Air Traffic Control is routing inbound and outbound aircraft and which runways are in use. The hotel also has a pool, hot tub, and fitness center that are decent. The in-house bar and restaurant are pretty good as well. The dinner and lunch food isn't too terribly pricey. Beer and wine selection is so so. Breakfast is steep for what you get. $8 for continental breakfast is a little crazy in my opinion.

There are several restaurants within walking distance as well. They're mostly chain restaurants (Hooters, Fridays, Sonny's, Denny's, Tony Roma's, and Chili's are really close). Eastern Pearl Chinese Cuisine is across the street and pretty good. Ask someone at the hotel for a 10% off card. If you're staying for any extended period of time or need to go to a store besides a gas station there is a Walgreen's about a mile north on Semoran Blvd. Follow the sidewalk, you won't miss it. There is also a little convenience store next to the Eastern Pearl but you'll be paying tourist prices for everything. Walgreen's is worth the walk. If you need gas avoid the two gas stations nearby on Semoran. They will rip you off upwards of $5-$6 a gallon for gas. The hotel shuttle leaves on the hour and half hour to the airport and 15 and 45 past the hour to local businesses.

All in all a good place to stay. I wouldn't stay here for vacation but if I had a flight to catch or am working in the area again I'll definitely be back.

We recently stayed here the night before our flight out of the Orlando airport and generally liked the room, location and the front desk employees. It was very easy to get to the airport as the hotel is only about a mile from the airport. Our room was clean and the people at the front desk were very helpful. One of them left the front desk to help me print my boarding passes in the nearby business center.

For some reason I thought the room came with a free breakfast so was disappointed when they only had a sit down buffet that you had to pay for. Since I had to buy breakfast at the airport my $99 room was not as good a deal as I originally thought.

My only real complaint was that I could hear airplane noise in the early morning hours. The room could have been sound proofed better.

Stayed at the HI Select and was in a room with some comestic issues.

Room had water damage and bathroom celing needs to be redone, water closet under toilet needs to be scraped and painted and tiles in the tub are did not match, porr workman ship on the maintenance department.

Toilet keeps running, reported to FD and was not repaired during the 1 night stay. Wasted water until I shut off the value under the toilet. So much for water conservation that this hotel claims to participate in.

Heater cover fell off in the middle of the night and no light over the door. Poor inspection on the maintenance and housekeeping departments.

Where is the Prevention maintence or rooms checks on the rooms before guest check into the rooms.

Case goods (furniture is damaged)

Carpets and furniture were dirty.