Cambria Hotel Orlando Near Universal Theme Parks

We booked this for its location to universal and the fact it provided transport to the park. On arrival we found that yes they did provide transport but only at one set time in the morning and one set time in the evening, neither of which suited us so we just got an uber which was cheap enough. The room was comfortable enough but wouldn’t say it was spotlessly clean, and some furnishing were stained. We didn’t plan on spending any time at the hotel so it didn’t matter too much. My biggest issue with the hotel was the smell. I love indian food, but the smell from the indian resteraunt in reception was overpowering and not what you’d expect in a hotel lobby. There was a place in reception you could buy breakfast but the smell from the resteraunt put us off. We couldn’t wait to get outside. We had previously stayed at a cambria in columbia which was fabulous so we thought we knew what we were getting with this chain, however we would not stay at this one again.

Social media and the website make it look a lot more upscale than it is. The rooftop bar had the tiles on the floor literally caving in. The rooms were pretty clean but extremely small with the view of bushes and the parking lot. Walls were thin so you could hear pretty much everything going on. The hotel was in close proximity to everything but the location was still a little run down. Overall, i'd say a 2.5/5 stars and that's honestly being generous. I stayed four night and they didn't even offer to come clean the room or give extra toiletries until Saturday and that's only because we asked. The pool had about maybe three-four lounge chairs around it. Other than that, it was very small and the rooftop area was very crowded and compact. It worked for the time being but I would not stay here again.

Pros-Great staff! Great location to Universal/Islands/Epic/Volcano shopping and dinning. Clean rooms. Cons- parking was terrible. You had to fight to get parking after dark because of the roof top bar and restaurant in main lobby.

I made a mistake on the date of the reservation and when I went personally to try and fix it. Nobody wanted to help me.