Hilton Grand Vacations Club on International Drive, Orlando

This hotel is located on International drive, a great location because it is very close to all the nearby parks, a mall and some resturants.

appearance
This hotel is in the style of a tuscany hotel the outside is painted in various yellows and oranges, to make it look like you could be somewhere in Italy. There are about 9/10 buildings to make up the whole hotel. about 6 or 7 of these are the blocks of rooms. Each has approx ...
...big hotel it is very hard to get lost, but because it was split up it is very, very hard to get lost. Also they signpost everything well.

Rooms
In a room there is a small kitchen area with everything from a sink to a fridge/freezer to a microwave oven. Also there is a sitting area with a sofa and a chair also there is a dining area. The bedroom has a double bed and in the room there is a jacuzzi then a huge bathroom with a ... more

This hotel is located on International drive, a great location because it is very close to all the nearby parks, a mall and some resturants.

appearance
This hotel is in the style of a tuscany hotel the outside is painted in various yellows and oranges, to make it look like you could be somewhere in Italy. There are about 9/10 buildings to make up the whole hotel. about 6 or 7 of these are the blocks of rooms. Each has approx 6 floors. I liked it like this because in a big hotel it is very hard to get lost, but because it was split up it is very, very hard to get lost. Also they signpost everything well.

Rooms
In a room there is a small kitchen area with everything from a sink to a fridge/freezer to a microwave oven. Also there is a sitting area with a sofa and a chair also there is a dining area. The bedroom has a double bed and in the room there is a jacuzzi then a huge bathroom with a walk in shower and twin sinks and obviously a toilet. This is one of the nicest bathrooms I have ever seen! I loved the shower so much!
Okay so that was a apartment, but if you are going as (like we did) a family of four you can get a studio that is joined to the apartment. In the studio there is also a fridge/freezer with a sink. The bathroom isn't as big as the apartment but is nice just the same. There is one double bed and a tv opposite the bed. And there is a chair and table.
Rooms are very bright and spacious you don't feel at all enclosed off from the world. In the apartment there is a door that leads out from the sitting area onto a balcony, on the balony there is a table and it is great to sit and eat a light dinner in the flordian sunshine!
What is also great about the apartment is that there is a washer and tumbledryer so you don't have to worry about going to a room with everybody else and cleaning your stuff. And there is also plates, bowls, glasses, cuterly in the kitchen.

Checking in
When you enter the hotel you have to go through the entrance in your car and you go through like a littlle security booth were you say you've come to sign in. Then you pull around to the first building were you check in, luckily it doesn't take very long and the people down there are always really nice and cheery (I reckon the sun must do that to you). This is where they tell you what building you will stay in and then you just jump back in your car and follow the circuit around til you get to your building.

Facilities
I think this place is truely great and one of the reasons was it had a great pool area. There are plenty of sun loungers and seats for people to sit / lay on and they are all in sunshine for most of the day, also they have a great view of the pool. So if you had children you could keep an eye on them without having to get into the pool with them.
there are two pools as well, the main one is very big but all are quite shallow (deepest part is 4ft I think) this is because there are no lifeguards. In the main pool this is a shack where you can rent pool toys, buy drinks, suncream and any other pool thing that you can imagine. Opposite this there is a bar that serves alcoholic beverages that I never tried but my mum had a strawberry daqeri and it comes in cool plastic glasses that you get to keep (we still have it, it's sitting in the cupboard right now). Also there is a kids play area just outside this pool, which I never got to try :(, and also the other side of this there is another area for kids that has fountains ect, which I did try, and enjoyed :D.

There is a gym there that has weights and treadmills and everything in between, I never tried it because I thought at the time whats the point of being on holiday and exercising?!?! But my dad told me it was nice and cool in there.

There is also a deli/shop that sells breakfasts and lunches which are very yummy. They do stuff like wraps, muffins and cookies. Also they brew starbucks coffee and to my great pleasure they sold ben and jerrys ice cream :D. Althought the food in there was nice it was a bit pricy but if you were going to have a lazy day around the pool it is better than going out.

Close to the deli there was a room that had pool tables and tables with draughts and chess. My brother spent a lot of his time in there getting better at pool also it makes a great retreat from the hot midday flordia sun.

And for you lazy people that don't want to go out in the evenings there is an onsite pizza hut which could be ordered and delieved to your room.

Staff
I found that the staff were very friendly and were really nice to us kids which I liked. They all seemed to like there jobs and weren't putting on them really annoying false smiles.

Stuff for kids?
There were loads of activites for kids especially during the day, they often ran competitions by the pool like jumping in the pool comps which was fun, because everybody got prizes. And they also did special deals like build-your-own-sundae for $2 which everybody (not just kids) enjoyed.

Stuff nearby?
Well you have all of disney, seaworld and Universal at your fingertips and also just over the street you have the premium outlet malls where I like to spend my time :D, it's a great place to buy designers cheap. Also there is a lot of restuarants close like Bahama Breeze, Perkins, Chevys and others. Plus if your on the run there is a MC D's pretty close.

I would highly recommend this place because it is on of the nicest hotels I've been to also there is so much to keep you occupied on and off site. And it is right in the heart of orlando.  

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