The Peabody Orlando is a first class convention center. Comfortable, well appointed rooms. Good variety of restaurant options both in hotel and short walk away. Excellent conference facilities able to easily handle groups up to 7-8,000. Lots of restrooms!

Make sure to experience the march of the Peabody ducks. Each day at 11am four mallard ducks arrive on their private elevator from their penthouse apartment at the Peabody and process down a red carpet to their private fountain in the hotel atrium. At 5pm they exit the same way they arrived to great fanfare. Great fun for everyone!

The bottom line: The Peabody Orlando is a great place to attend a conference, or to use as a central hub for vacationing in Orlando. Many great restaurant options in easy walking distance from hotel. Disney about 15 minutes away. Universal and Seaworld 5 minutes away. Lots of other entertainment options in area. Highly recommended!

The only reason to stay at the Peabody is for a conference, and that is if you are not paying for it.

THE GOOD

The hotel is clean and looks pretty. The guest room is spacious and the bed is comfortable. The bathroom has plenty of space to move around in, good counter-space, and the shower head is modern with great pressure. The best thing about this hotel is there is a t.v. built into the mirror in the bathroom (which most Four Seasons or nice hotels do these days); the gym has a lot of equipment (but is only open till 9:30pm for some reason); and the pool is large and looks nice. I also appreciated the bathroom scale, and the space in the bathroom.

The staff at the bell stand, housekeeping, gym, room service, and restaurants were friendly and helpful. Especially housekeeping and the bell stand. Not impressed with the front desk or spa staff, who act as if they are doing you a favor, or the phone operators.

THE BAD

There is a reason that 80% of the comments mention the prices in the hotel, so take it to heart.
I have literally traveled all over the world and am used to all levels of hotel service from 3 to 5 stars, 4/5 diamonds, etc. I can honestly say I have never experienced the price gouging that goes on at the Peabody Orlando. $17.99 for a single disposable razor in the gift shop? $6 for a glass of orange juice the size of a teabag? I will not even discuss the room service prices, but if you order from them expect an average of $50 a person minimum for the most basic items.

Keeping in mind I was not on a budget so I was one of the lucky ones….the prices in the entire hotel are still not only ridiculous, they are insulting. Outside of a few cute ducks in the lobby, there is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, to distinguish this hotel from any other decent clean hotel in the area or the world.

For the prices, I expect a lot more. I.e.> Even cheaper hotels have small bottled water in the gym, not just a fountain, flat screen TV’s that swivel, a nice mini-bar already stocked, tea maker in room, thick not thin robes, slippers, etc. While they have items I expect in any higher end hotel (hair dryer, iPod radio,safe) they are missing all the main ticket items and smaller touches that might justify/explain their high price points.

I have no clue why this hotel is ranked so high, but I presume it is from people that do not travel a lot, are used to cheap hotels and easily impressed, or just thought the ducks were that cute. (and I admit they were adorable)

This would not be my first choice of hotels. I don't mind paying high prices, but then I expect to be impressed.

I stayed at the Peabody Orlando earlier this month while on vacation with my mother. The hotel impressed us from the start - from the staff who helped us with our bags to the reception personnel who checked us in.

Although we stayed in the most basic room type, I would still describe it as palatial. Our room was extremely spacious with 2 huge queen beds, which were very comfortable. Everything is in place to make for a memorable stay. We had a room on the 20th floor of the new tower and the view was incredible. Among the things we could see from our room was one of the hotel pools.

I went swimming one very cool morning and was delighted to discover that the pool was heated. The pool in the new tower is not the best for swimming laps due to its shape. So a pool assistant advised me to try out the pool in the older tower, which I did this and I would recommend this pool if you don't just want to splash around.

The Peabody is located on International Drive, which has a lot of restaurants and shops, including Pointe Orlando (a medium-sized shopping centre with mostly restaurants, a few shops and a cinema). The hotel is also fairly centrally-located from many of the major theme parks.

The hotel is huge and one could get lost there (we were confused on our first morning on how to find a restaurant for breakfast). However, the staff were warm and personable and the hotel had some interesting traditions, like the walking of the ducks, which we observed one morning.

The one but was the cost of the hotel food, which I found to be extremely expensive. This might or might not be a problem for some of the guests. However, if you would like to save some money on meals for tourist activities, you can check out restaurants in the neighbourhood.

Unlike many other hotel chains, there are only 3 Peabody hotels in the entire world: in Orlando, Memphis and Little Rock. The Peabody is a wonderful base from which to visit any of the Orlando theme parks. However, it is also an experience in itself and worth staying at for a getaway with your family or by yourself.

We stayed 11/19 to 11/25 on the 17th floor overlooking the pool area. Room was clean, and most of our stay was relaxing. There were a few items that were not as good as last year's visit to this Peabody. We have stayed at several hotels in the area for the past several Thanksgiving weeks and switched to the Peabody last year because of a reputation for service. This year, I was disappointed that twice housekeeping walked into our room unexpectedly and once when the "do not disturb" placard was displayed. We spend each Thanksgiving in a cabana watching football and enjoying a pool, so first thing we booked our cabana with the pool staff and requested one of the two cabanas away from the kid splash area and were told that this would not be a problem. Thanksgiving morning we were shown to a different cabana directly in front of the splash zone, so my husband inquired and was told "guess someone had it before you" while the worker just walked away. We accepted this answer and still had a good day by the pool. However, one of the two cabanas that we requested was not even used that day, so I don't understand why our request was not honored. The pool staff brought us ice but never gave us cups for our beverages, so we ended up ordering from the pool bar in order to get cups. I sent an email through the "contact us" on the Peabody website so that I didn't upset a friend with whom we were sharing the cabana. That was on Thanksgiving, and I have not received any response from anyone. These experiences seemed to go against the level of service we had last year and that we had heard was the Peabody reputation.
We had wonderful service and food from room service, the diner, the pool bar, and the Capriccio Grill. Each time we needed a taxi, the valets were quick to bring one around, and the concierge kindly printed our boarding passes for our flight home. Also, we purchased attraction tickets from the desk at the Peabody and they were a little cheaper and saved us time in line. Overall, a good stay, but I am not sure if I will automatically choose the Peabody next year.