Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
I don't know why people complained about the MCO hotel. The hotel was clean, in a safe area, and it was located near everything you could possibly want via the city trolley. The timing of the trolley was reasonable and I believe it was free. And of course, the free hotel cookies !!!
Newport News, not so much. My room had boogers on the wall, and the mold growing in the wall paper was an added touch. The closet doors were off the hinges and stacked up against the wall. The chair in the room was torn in multiple places, and had many prominent bodily stains (edited to keep a PG rating). The hotel's restaurant (and that's an insult to call it a restaurant), served the worst breakfast bar and food I've ever had from a hotel.
But it gets better. Within reasonable walking distance, you have a steakhouse (which wasn't recommended that we go there by the hotel staff) that opens after 6pm, a pancake house, and a gas station. The pancake house owner says to me as I walk in, "you must be a Delta MD88 pilot?" "Yes, I am, how did you know that?" "Because NOBODY walks down this road but you guys." You don't even have fast food options available. Everything else requires a car because of the distance and/or the sidewalks end.
The insult to injury is that the ride to the hotel takes a minimum of 20 minutes; yet, there are malls, shopping, entertainment, good hotels, every restaurant you would want located ONE exit away from the airport. Go figure.
All of that is true. ^^^^^
The other side of the interstate at PHF is full of everything you could want on an overnight. It's an absolute mistake to go to Williamsburg and now most of the overnights I see are only 15 hours or so and they're still going up there. That's worth complaining about and I'm glad I had somewhere else to go.
The other side of I64 on Jefferson Ave is the Patrick Henry mall, which I believe is where AirTran and ASA overnight, and surrounding it is a courtyard by marriot, residence inn, cheeseburger in paradise, cracker barrel, waffle house, bally’s fitness, Carabbas, Applebees, melting pot, outback, cheddars, chic-fil-a, buffalo wild wings, best buy, Costco, taco bell, TGI Fridays, Bed Bath & Beyond, McDonalds, Target, KFC…
just start complaining about Williamsburg and start demanding the Patrick Henry Mall. "1, 2, 3, 4...If we have to overnight at Patrick Henry Field (PHF) then we must overnight at Patrick Henry Mall!"
As to MCO, I wish I had known about the trolley a long time ago. That'd totally changed my perspective on that hotel. I heard it was cheap and you got to nicer stuff. I also got my first new room there not long ago and that was so much nicer than the previous rooms. Although the water just stinks. Why does the water stink so bad in Florida?!?
Originally Posted by
bluejuice71
I don't think this is correct. I believe you can turn down a GS for any reason. You are under no obligation to accept one. White slips are a different story though.
What slow said...