Stayed at this hotel for Mother's Day weekend with friends to go to Disney. We usually stay at the Marriott Grande Lakes, but friends wanted to stay here. Great location, across from Downtown Disney. Check in was quick and easy. Wonderful warm cookies on arrival. We went to the pool for the afternoon. Food service was good at the pool. Was pleasantly surprised at size of room. Small sink ( no soap ) ,microwave and refrigerator. The living area in my opinion was bigger then what the photos show. A stale odor to the room was the only negative aspect as well as the toilet being a little outdated. All in all a good experience at the Doubletree. Bus service to Disney was a plus....

I travel al l of the time for work, and this place was not up to any standards that I find necessary.

What to beware of

1. NO wireless internet access in your room. You must hook-up to an ethernet cable and pay $9.95 a day. You can get wireless in the lobby if you want to lug your laptop there and have everyone able to see what you are doing.
2. No coffee table in your living room. Just put your drinks on the floor I guess.
3. No pool towels that you could actually use to dry yourself, just threadbare oversized dish towels.
4. A n A/C system that blows directly on your bed. You can not adjust the louvers.
5. A coffee maker that uses those single serving packets so that even if you bring your own coffee you can not use it in that coffee maker.
6. No other complimentary coffee, donuts drinks or anything in the hotel.
7. No plates or cups or silverware.
8. Tiny microwave, no other cooking options.
9. A swimming pool that must be heated to at least 100 degrees. Really it is so hot it is more like a sauna.
10. Ants all over the swimming pool deck.
11. Oh yeah, ants in our room, they came and sprayed the kitchen, but I found them in the bedroom.
12. Great warm cookies
13. a 4PM check in time. Never heard of such a thing, which meant for our arrival day, we had to leave everything in the car when we went to Disney. ( We arrived at 3PM and no room was ready).
15. While you can have folks sleep in the living room pull out couch, they must go through the bedroom to use the bathroom.
16. We took the shuttle to Disney and it took 15 minutes to get there...it took over 1 hour for the return trip!!! No traffic, just some round about route. Oh and the 9PM shuttle did not come until 9:25PM.
17. The staff was pleasant.

With all of the options in Disney, I would certainly pass this one by.

We just returned from a 8-night stay at this hotel with our family of four (2 kids, 10 and 12) and would highly recommend it. The property is beautifully maintained, service was excellent and friendly, and it's in a great location--right near highway 4, so you can get around town easily. Pool: very nice, heated, beautifully landscaped. (Be aware that the food and drinks served from the poolside restaurant are expensive. The sign says you can't bring your own beverages to the pool, but we did, anyway.) We ate in the restaurant only for breakfast. Our orignial plan had been to buy groceries and eat breakfast in our room, but when we checked in we were given a choice of free wifi, extra points on our Hilton rewards card, or daily vouchers for 2 free adult breakfasts (the cold buffet only). We chose the breakfasts. They were very nice, but ended up costing us more than we expected. The kids' cold breakfast buffet was $6 each, then add the tip and our daily breakfast bill was $17--not horrible, but more expensive than we had planned on. Be aware that if you want to eat in your room, the suites have a half-size frig and a microwave, but no toaster., no cutlery, no paper products, tiny sink and trash baskets, etc. no dishes, etc. Also, be aware that the grocery store directly across the intersection at Buena Vista (I think it was called Goodings, or something like that...?) is priced for the tourist trade: way, way beyond sky-high prices ($!0 for a case of water, for example). If you have a car, you're better off searching out a store a few miles away. The store inside the hotel has mostly snacky stuff--also very expensive. Our kids went down to the game room but were disapponted to find that the games cost about $1 each to play. I suppose this kind of pricing is standard in a tourist-driven town. Overall, the hotel was super, and we would stay here again.

We just returned from our Disney vacation and I have to share our great experience at this hotel. The front desk and concierge workers were very helpful and friendly. The pool was fantastic--water was very warm and pool was quite large. Often times, we had it to ourselves. We ate at the pool bar one evening--delicious food! It was so nice not to have to find a restaurant after a full day at the parks.

Housekeeping staff did an excellent job of keeping things clean and fully stocked. Our reservations included complimentary breakfast for 4. Unfortunately, we had 5 people. The morning breakfast was delicious. We only used the "cold breakfast" as there was an upgrade charge to include hot items. There was plenty available without paying the additional upgrade fee.

Disney transportation was well worth it--nice to not have to pay the $11 parking fee. It took about 20 minutes to get to the parks. One day one bus was "out of order" which added some drive time--this was our only negative experience. The drivers really tried to accomodate quickly by putting us all on another bus.

We saw none of the construction mentioned in earlier reviews--all was updated and fresh.

I would highly recommend this hotel for a Disney vacation!