stayed two wks here in july as part of our honeymoon.
staff were friendly, room was more than adequate..kitchen, bathroom, seperate bathroom-sink in the main room. two tv's, massive fridge..all good.had to pay for the safe which annoyed me, it was only $1:50 a day however...but i always wondered how they knew i used it...chambermaid maybe.

breakfast was a great to begin with, but novitily soon wore off as u need to be down very early..p.s its unreal how much sweet stuff the americans eat at breakfast!!

hotel is behind bahama breeze, which is a tasty place to eat.
if visiting florida get a rented car, a real must.
shop in walmart, its about two miles up the road, and stock your massive fridge with coke and beer and water.
visit all the parks and water parks, go in the eve when the wains(children)). went to bush garens a day, it was great, poorly signposted though.
all in all id visit orlando every year if i could and id stay at this hotel again.

We booked this hotel through a package from Travel City Direct and were absolutely blown away. Located on International Drive (closer to Wonderworks than the Convention Centre) it's a bit back from the road and nice and quiet. If you're looking for it on Google Maps Street View you won't see it (this worried me before I went) - the best thing to do is find Howl At The Moon on International Drive - 8700 or so. It's just behind there.

The rooms - one main living room with a kitchenette (the fridge was huge!), a seperate bedroom and a bathroom - were clean, spacious and always well looked after. The maid even stopped completely redressing my bed every day after I left her a note asking not to.

The hotel pool is very small and is surrounded on all sides by the tall (at least four stories) hotel block so if you want to sunbathe there you'll need to move around the sides. Truth be told though the Homewood Suites' pool - and every other pool in Orlando - cannot compete with Disney's waterparks so I haven't marked it down for this.

The hotel serves breakfast from 7 till 10 (at 10 they are still putting fresh food out) and this is nice if you don't want to go out to the Ponderosa, Golden Corral or any of the other places. The staff are really polite and friendly - we didn't encounter anyone having a bad day on our entire stay.

We had a great stay at the hotel and would definitely say it deserves its spot on the top 10 hotels in Orlando.

Great service, clean room, friendly staff, affordable stay, convenient location.

*Getting there
The hotel is not exactly on the I-drive. It’s hidden behind the Denny’s and you may miss the entrance if you’re not paying close attention. Look for the sign of “Homewood/Hyatt” on I-Drive beside Denny’s.

*Welcome dinner (free)
Served on weekdays. Corn chips & pretzels, salad, soup and daily menu such as mac’n cheese, spaghetti with meat sauce, baked potatoes, chilli mac, chicken alfredo etc. Includes wine, beer & various soft drinks. Foods were decent except for the wine.

*Breakfast (free)
Served between 7am to 10am. I highly recommend you to go between 7am and 8am as it gets very crowded after that. Breakfast sausages, scrambled eggs(plain & w/salsa), French toast sticks (every other day), potatoes, make-your-own waffles (3 machines), fruits, yogurt, bagels, English muffins, different kinds of donuts, toast (raisin, white & brown bread), various soft drinks, coffee & teas.

*Laundry facility
Bring enough quarters as the front desk doesn’t have enough sometimes. The number of machine are limited (3 washers and 3 dryers) so plan ahead. Detergents and dryer sheets are on site.

*Shops near by
Grocery stores and Walgreen very close by. Lots of restaurants on I-Drive.

*I-Drive
Not pedestrian friendly. Cross walks with no pedestrian lights so basically you have to run across.

*Internet
There are 2 computers in the room. Some sites are blocked for safety reason so you may not be able to stay connected with your friends on Facebook etc. We could not purchase advance tickets from Disney’s site because of the connection. Also the encoding system was not fully installed so you can’t read certain language (i.e. Asian language). Otherwise, they are fairly reliable computers.

I would have given this hotel a great review, great location, great staff, however some of the staff obviously over friendly as they helped themselves to my husbands credit card and had a lovely spending spree. We asked several times for a key to the room safe but were told they were on order so we left the wallet hidden in a drawer with his credit card in it but no cash (stupid us). We only discovered at the airport before we boarded our flight home that is was missing as we had not used it. As soon as we arrived back in the Uk we phoned the hotel and reported it to an under manager. We never heard back from them until I emailed the manager who did reply and told me to await a phone call which I'm still waiting on. Apart from that we had a lovely time and would have had no complaints with the hotel, very clean. Lovely toiletries, comfy beds. The pool is shaded as has been mentioned in other reviews but if you are only going for a dip and not to bothered about sunbathing it does the job. This hotel is in a great location on the nicer end of I Drive with plenty resturants nearby.
If you are heading to Aquatica from here in the height of season I would recommend taking the shuttle and not your car as there was a terrible problem trying to turn left across the road into the car park and could take AGES.