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Quality Suites Maingate East

Family Name: Grace T and Family

Resort: Quality Suites Maingate East

Date Of Stay: Feb. 11-19th, 2003

Type Of Resort: Off Site

Room Sleeps : 6

Please Rate The Following On A Scale From 1-10 (10 being the best):

Theming: N/A Basic tropical setting.
Room Size: 9
Amenities: 8
Quality: 7
Cleanliness: 8 Housekeeping was better on some days than on others.
Transportation: 4
Recreation: N/A

Over All Rating: Fair, only because of the noise and inadequate breakfast.

Don't Miss: Pool Bar serves free beer, wine and soda from 4-6:00 p.m. Get there early, it gets crowded, as does the hot tub.

Room Location Suggestion: All rooms are set up the same. Pool view off entrance balcony, and parking lot view off bedroom.

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Comments: This resort is a good value if you need cooking facilities, and are planning on staying offsite. Our room had one 4 Qt pot with lid, and one 9 inch skillet. No can opener, sharp knives or other utensils, except silverware. Room had 6 plates,bowls, and juice size glasses. Coffee cups were syrofoam, and replaced daily. We picked up, needed utensils at Walmart, located just West on 192. Hotel provided coffee packets each day for the 4 cup coffeemaker, and dishwasher detergent for the dishwasher. Housekeeping ran the dishwasher each day for us, if we left any dirty dishes from breakfast. No toaster in room, only a two burner stove top, and microwave.

Free breakfst is crowded, and consists of cold cereal, plain oatmeal packets, toast, english muffins, and assorted flavored muffins. A juice machine had cranberry, apple and orange juice. Paper plates and cups were provided, but a tray needs to be brought down from your room if you want to take your food back there. 3 of 7 days we found oranges, but they were going fast.

There are two full beds in a separate bedroom area, with locking door, and a full size pullout sofa in the livingroom. Sleeper sofa mattress was not the most comfortable, but fine for kids. Bedroom had very good matresses (semifirm, I believe). Bathroom is off Kitchen area, and you must exit back bedroom to use it. Two nice size T.Vs, and Disney resort channel also in rooms.

This Hotel was pretty noisy, and the pool bar played music late in the evenings. The kids seemed to be making noise til at least midnight every night at the pool, as well as running all over the hotel. It sounded like thunder as they continually ran by our door, well past 10-11 pm each night. Not a good choice if you are a light sleeper. Noise could be heard from 192 as well. Elavators were slow, because the kids would push all the buttons, making them stop on all floors.

Provided bus transportation was just O.K. Busses picked up at 7:30 6:30, 10:30 am and 12:20 pm. Drops at TTC. Returns were too soon after fireworks to make easily. Pickups were in parking lots of each park roughly starting at 3:30 pm, and every few hours after. If you missed a bus, you could use Disney transportation to catch one at another park, but, after a full day of walking in the parks, this is hard to do.

If you have your own car, and get back to the hotel late, it might hard to find a place to park. Additional parking in the rear, but not well lit, and made us nervous not being able to see the car from the room windows.

Overall, If I were in town for Diney only, I would not choose this hotel, unless I had my own car, and didn't mind driving. This trip I needed a location on 192 and sleeping for 6, as well as cooking facilities. This hotel served that purpose well.