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Avalon Waterfront Inns Beach Resort
521 Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
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Just Perfect!!!

Avalon Waterfront Inns Beach Resort

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5 of 5 stars
KYParrothead 3 contributions
Georgetown, Kentucky
Mar 19, 2006
8/9 found this review helpful

This is a great place to stay in Fort Lauderdale. We stayed here March 12-14 post cruise. The cab from the cruise port was $18.50. We had a great time here. Great location across the street from the beach. The friendliest, most helpful staff I have ever seen. The water taxi has gone up to $10.00 for an all day pass and you can catch it just a few blocks up from the hotel near a restaurant called Casablanca. We ate lunch there after the taxi ride and the grouper was delicious and they had excellent service.

You can catch a bus (#11 and cost is $1.00 per person) across the street and go to a Winn Dixie for groceries for the room. The bus drivers were very friendly and helpful.

Nice continental breakfast with juice, tea, coffee, bagles, fruit and danish. Very warm pool, lots of comfortable seating. You can check out beach towels in the office. The room was not fancy but very adequate. We had a microwave, fridge, coffee pot, hair dryer, tv, in room safe and a comfortable bed with extra pillows.

If you are standing in front of the hotel looking at the ocean go to your right for restaurants and Los Olas Riverwalk. It was a pretty long walk but we walked to the Quarterdeck one evening and had a delicious meal. It was a nice walk with lots of restaurants and shops along the way. We got a cab back to the hotel and it was about $5.00.

If you go to your left there are a few restaurants and some souvenir shops and right next door was a bar where people were getting cases of beer for $16.00 and bags of ice for $1.00.

I would love to stay here again, it was just perfect!!

  • My ratings for this hotel
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 5 of 5 stars Service
  • Date of stay March 2006
  • Member since April 15, 2004
  • I recommend this hotel for Young singles, An amazing honeymoon, Older travelers, Families with young children, Families with teenagers, Tourists
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Old style beach hotel

Avalon Waterfront Inns Beach Resort

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4 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
Seattle, WA
Mar 14, 2006
3/3 found this review helpful

My wife and I had a very nice, spacious efficiency when we stayed here for a family wedding. After growing up in Fort Lauderdale, I expected an "old style" beach hotel, which is what this is -- a vanishing breed. We were very pleased with the accomodations and got what we anticipated. If you prefer modern, air-tight accomodations, this is not for you. Moreover, this hotel is not a place to stay if you plan on hanging out at their pool most of the time -- but if you like waking up to the ocean and coming back to the hotel in between (or after) excursions, it's a great deal.

  • My ratings for this hotel
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 3 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 3 of 5 stars Service
  • Date of stay February 2006
  • Member since March 14, 2006
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As long as you dont mind DIRTY bathrooms

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2 of 5 stars
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Maryland
Mar 8, 2006
3/3 found this review helpful

The room didnt look anything like the pictures. The bathroom was BAD! Mold all in the grout. The shower curtin was pink and black. The curtain rod was rusty. There was stuff spilled down the wall in the bathroom and black finger prints on the bathroom door and door frame. The lamp shades were dusty and the floor didnt look like they had a vacume. There was also a gap around the whole door into our room. I can say the sheets and towels were clean. The front desk people were very nice and helpful. I guess the only complaint we had was with the clwaning staff. They did come back and clean again and gave us a new shower curtain. Unfortunatly it looked the same when they were done. So if you stay here I would sugest you bring some clorox. If you dont plan on spending a lot of time in your room its not a bad place to stay.

  • My ratings for this hotel
    • 2 of 5 stars Value
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 3 of 5 stars Service
  • Date of stay March 2006
  • Member since March 08, 2006
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Fine for the money

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2 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
Westmont Illinois
Jan 25, 2006
1/1 found this review helpful

Nice for the money.Location is fine, you can walk to most places or take the bus up an down the beach.The smaller hotels along this part of the beach are all older or closing.The small bugs that some complain about are not a big problem but they are in every place you go down there.They do own several building in back of the main hotel,I would try to stay up front in main building by beach.Would stay again if price was right.

  • My ratings for this hotel
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
  • Date of stay December 2005
  • Member since January 25, 2006
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Do not stay at this hotel!!

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1 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
Dec 29, 2005 | Trip type: Business
3/3 found this review helpful

This hotel was horrible. I stayed there for a business trip and it was nasty! I only stayed there one night and complained to expedia, so they reserved another room for us at the Hilton in Sunrise, FL.
My hotel room had 4 pieces of plywood boarded up in the room. The shower did not work. My power went out in the hotel room and it took the maintenance man an hour to fix the electricity.

DO NOT STAY HERE. IT WAS HORRIBLE.

  • My ratings for this hotel
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
  • Date of stay December 2005
  • Member since March 08, 2005
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521 Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304