Amenities and Dining at the Holiday Inn Orlando, Disney Springs Resort Area
By Dave Shute
(For the first page of this review of the Holiday Inn Orlando, see this.)
AMENITIES AND DINING AT THE HOLIDAY INN ORLANDO
The Holiday Inn Orlando in the Disney Springs Resort Area has both valet and self-parking.
If you are driving, you will park in the port cochere until you have completed check-in.
Also in this area at the front of the resort is the bus stop.
Details on transportation to the theme parks from the Disney Springs Resort Area hotels are here.
The lobby is just inside–with guest services on the left, and a small seating area on the right.
Around the corner is a couple of desks for airline check in and such, and next to it is a Hertz counter.
Nearby you’ll find a Disney gift shop.
More from the gift shop.
Around the corner is this gym.
Just beyond the lobby you’ll find this bar, which also serves lunch and dinner, and is right next to the pool.
In addition to the indoor seating, the bar has pool-side seats. (I cover the pool at the Holiday Inn Orlando in detail here.)
At the corner of the bar you’ll find this mini-shop with drinks and snacks, supplementing the Disney gift shop.
Back inside, most rooms at the Holiday Inn Orlando are in a tower with an atrium. The elevator bank is in the back corner of this area, and you walk around the dining room to get to it.
The dining room is open for breakfast and dinner. Dinner traffic is pretty light, so I actually ate in the bar.
The menu–I had the burger, and it was fine.
Breakfast is an at-first-glance expensive buffet….
…but kids 11 and under eat free. Note the asterisk–parents need to be eating too, and paying full price. All the details to the asterisk–which strike me as reasonable– are here.
I’ve also seen a lot of deals for the Holiday inn Orlando fly by that offer free breakfast for everyone.
The breakfast itself is fine but undistinguished. There’s fresh Mickey waffles and an omelet station…
…fresh fruit…
…eggs, potatoes, and, not shown, french toast and pancakes…
…breakfast meats, and the usual cereals, pastries, and such.
The Holiday Inn Orlando in the Disney Springs Resort Area has all the basic amenities you’d expect from a hotel its size. Dining is undistinguished except by convenience–but there’s a ton of great options in nearby Disney Springs, whose nearest part is about a third of a mile away, and which is served by buses beginning in the late afternoon.
THE POOL AT THE HOLIDAY INN ORLANDO
This review continues here.
MORE ON THE HOLIDAY INN ORLANDO
- Summary and overview
- Photo tour of a standard tower room
- Photo tour of a pool view room
- Dining and amenities
- The pool
OTHER KEY PAGES FOR WHERE TO STAY AT DISNEY WORLD
- Where to stay–the Basics
- Where first-timers should stay
- Reviews of all the Disney World resorts, based on my 160+ stays in them
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