Ramada Hollywood Downtown

This is for the location. The hotel has completely changed its elevators are hot and not serviced I refused to get on because if it broke you would not survive you’d die from heat. The pool was nice and fun and well maintained but they no longer have a bar area with drinks, there were no vending machines on the floor, the rooms are OK but seems like the bed and mattresses are different very cheap, the soap and toiletries are direct (cheap) the floors in the halls are carpet which have to be molded. It was nice to see one of the same staff there we have been going twice a year for a good 8 years at least. This time everything was different from last summer: maybe new management you can tell it’s not the same.

Clean and nice. The location is really good sinse have many places to eat and drink around. Also if with car– very close to Fort Lauderdale and South beach– So had a pleasant vacation.

I got married in Hollywood, I had planned to drive up to Orlando that night and one of my friends offered me a night in a nice hotel.
We arrived at 11:30 pm, in suit and wedding gown, surprise surprise the b##ch at the counter told us she will not be able to check us in because the person that paid for the hotel was not there to check us in, even though our names showed up on the
reservation. I was made aware by the security guard that I could have asked for a picture of the front and back of my friends credit card and his ID but the b##ch did not want to give me that choice. While we waited an hour for my friend to arrive (12 am already, day of my wedding) the b##ch (sorry I refer to her as this but you will understand a couple of seconds) kept asking us questions, like «So do you remember the day you met?», «how was the cake?» and a bunch of other questions. Yada Yada, when my friend finally arrived (about 1 am maybe?) he obviously was very upset, when he was complaining to the troll all she did was cut him off very rudely saying «All I want to do is get this lovely couple to their room as fast as possible». After that was over, finally got the key and for another surprise a piece of paper that I had to take down and put in my car. After the trip to the garage we walked to our room, which amazingly was on the last floor, in the complete opposite corner. The red hallways reminded us of Motels in horror movies, completely horrible, totally unmaintained. When we got to our «suite» upon opening we got slapped with a horrible smell of mold (almost as bad as the receptionist’s vile attitude). The carpet looked grimy and the light switch did not work, you had to go to the bed to actually turn on the lamps (probably a good thing as you wouldn’t be able to see the room properly). Entering the shower was equally as disgusting, black mold in the grout (took pictures) and the drainage did not work properly. The toilet paper was as rough as sandpaper by the way. Now let’s talk about breakfast. In the daytime the place looked even worse, almost every 5 feet there is a bucket full of sand for cigarettes, not kidding. The breakfast consisted of overcooked omelettes and bread, had the option of yogurt and cereal and a couple of juices. Don’t pay any attention to the pictures of this MOTEL, they are deceiving and completely touched up, not realistic at all. For the record, we stayed here on 2÷19÷2016 if any staff pays attention to this and wishes to contest.

This is the worst hotel. If you stay here and like it, then most likely you grew up in a barn! Good luck!!! Haha

This place is a complete dump. The rooms smell overwhelmingly of mildew, the sink backed up and people were up at all hours of the night. I wouldn’t stay here again if you payed me.

Went for a quick getaway, good deal on
. No valet, but parking is $ 5.25 a night, the garage is awkward and small but does the job. The hotel itself is outdoor, and there’s only 6 floors. The room was a double bed suite. The only outlet that worked in the entire room was the one that connects the microwave which also doesn’t work properly. The beds are fairly small for being a full and they are very stiff. The bathroom is tiny. Found dirty socks & leftover Doritos under the bed. The tv is a decent size and they provide good cable. Free wifi. The rooms section of this hotel looks like an upgraded version of a motel. If you’re looking for a cheap deal to just be away it’s not terrible but this is not by any means a resort or anything fancy. The location is great, you are right on the boulevard with lots of restaurants which is convenient. I would not come back here. The staff is great. This place needs to seriously be updated and cleaned.

I really enjoyed my stay at this hotel.
Breakfast consisted of eggs, bagels, fruit, cereal, coffee, or juice in a common breakfast room. The eggs were prepared in a different manner each morning. One of the ladies (older Cuban lady I believe) was really nice to us every morning when we went in to eat always greeting us with a smile.
The rooms seemed to be well kept and clean. I brought a forensic light with me from work and did not see any nasty things on the covers and they didn’t smell dirty. The bathroom could have used some forensic attention as there were stains there that were not mine. Could have been the chemicals used to clean with but I don’t know and since I wasn’t doing anything extensive in there I was satisfied with what I found.
The pool was enjoyable for the for me and the girls… not so much for the wife. There were two water falls in the pool and a chair lift for the disabled to use for getting in and out of the pool. I tried using the lift to put the daughter in the pool but I couldn’t figure out how to make it work. While in the pool, a young good looking Russian girl took off her top and pulled her bikini bottoms up into the thong position while sun bathing. Odd as it was, the only two people who objected was the girls boyfriend and my wife. She eventually told her boyfriend to let her alone… I love women’s rights and the concept of empowering women! Eventually her boyfriend did go over (man pig) and put her top back on her.
The internet is free but compared to what we have at home is slow! I did find one washing machine and dryer on the 4^th floor. I would have used it but didn’t want to have to wait outside while the hot air of the air conditioner blew on me for my clothes. other washer (s) and dryer (s) was listed on the 5^th floor but I decided to pack up my dirty clothes and wash them when I got home.
**The front of this hotel will exit on Hollywood Boulevard where there are restaurants and other shopping areas.
**Pay for the parking garage because on the weekends there are clubs in the area and parking may be difficult.

What can I say about this place I felt at home. everyone in this hotel was amazingly friendly and helpful. This place is located in the middle of every place you would like to visit and has a trolley for $ 1.00 that will take you practically anywhere in the area.
I would like to thank Mr. Keith and Eli for their attentiveness in making sure that I get the best service ever. The décor for Halloween was amazingly at this beautiful hotel.
I am very picky when it comes to my room, and let me say that I had NO complaints on my stay or the room. EVERYTHING WAS AMAZING, Keep up the great work guys.
I will see you in December…

I give this one star only because I had a refurbished room. Other wise it would not rate even one star. First, they have breakfast included, except they have bums off the street filling up plates and eating everything that the hotel guests pay for — and you wonder why hotels rates are high. Second — they have a back entrance above local bars — the door is never locked so anyone and they do, enter the hotel all day and night. They sit by the pool, bring their drinks and smoke dope right by the pool and the gazebo areas.

After researching hotel reviews for the Hollywood area I settled upon this location. My stay was thankfully only for one night.
Honestly, it came down to the price. But, next time I think if it were the case I may pay a little extra for a better stay.
The best part about this entire hotel is the location. At least for me it was nice to be within walking distance of so many bars and restaurants and not have to worry about driving.
The exterior looks really nice but that changes as soon as your enter.
The interior seemed like the poorly designed set of a cheesy horror movie. I don’t know. That’s the best comparison I can come up with. Haha. Very odd décor.
The room was outdated and not very comfortable, especially with the «old fashioned» air conditioning unit. Carpeting all throughout the room and exterior hallways felt weird — possibly from humidity. The bathroom light flickered frequently when powered on. Room overall just felt dirty. And the uncomfortable pillows seem to carry over from Ramada to Ramada.
The complimentary breakfast was just «okay,» in my opinion.
Parking in the attached garage does come with a price. And it is very, very cramped.

The hotel is in a great location that’s why we stayed there. The staff is extremely rude, and very unhelpful. The restaurant is awful but luckily there are great ones within walking distant. I can not say enough how offended I was with the staff.

The only good thing about this place was the location and the outdoor seating. Everything else was beyond disgusting. I would rather stay at a clean motel than this outdated, smelly, musky, and horribly decorated hotel. Carpets were old and had stains all over. Uncomfortable bed and pillows. Furnitures were almost falling apart, and let’s not even get to the bathroom. Now, some people may have had a slightly better experience due to updated rooms. So, I guess they have updated some rooms, but not all. Therefore, the pictures of the rooms on their main website is a bit deceiving. Save your money, stay somewhere else unless you like squeaks while you sleep, and seating by the pool with free breakfast outweighs everything else.

Just because i gave it three stars doesn’t mean i won’t come back. First off the front of the building and the lobby needs a face lift, the colors are a huge distraction. The Parking is Horrible, this place has so much potential. My fist time here was around labor and they wanted $ 150 for one night which was ridiculous to me. Despite the outer appearance the king room i requested was good and to my surprise it was spacious. The breakfast is nasty but great if you’re a bird. smh

It needs attention yes; is an old hotel; but I have been there many times and the staff is super nice, specially (front desk, and cleaning lady’s) I love the new pool and location.

Not to expensive but they do not tell you there is an extra fee to park. Pool is nice. Free breakfast is just so so. Feel like we got overcharged at the poolside tiki bar, $ 24 for 2 small mixed drinks. Beds were comfortable. We basically just stayed here to sleep so I would definitely recommend for that.

It is a total shit hole in need of remodeling. It was safe enough, but such a dump. The staff were nice, and it has parking, but the lot felt really unsafe to me.

I’m so torn about writing this review.
One easy star awarded for location, which is pretty amazeballs for the area, right smack in the middle of cute, historic, charming downtown Hollywood, surrounded by all the clubs and restaurants and shops and galleries, within walking distance of pretty much everything cool in town, and 5 minutes by car from the beach and the cutie cute little boardwalk thereupon. (I heard you can take the downtown trolley to the beach for a buck but didn’t investigate that.) If you stay here, you’ll be 15-​ish minutes from Ft. Lauderdale and half an hour or so from Miami. You can’t do much better than that.
A less enthusiastic but still pretty solid half star awarded for the super kitschy-​weird décor, if you’re into that (which I am). I wouldn’t know very well how to describe it — it’s some funky combo of art deco and tiki bar and, uh, acid trip, better left to photos than an attempt at verbal description; and the other half of a star for the price, which for the location is pretty damn fair.
And then… There’s everything else.
The rooms are a’ight, nothing to write home about, but not worthy of complaint, either. They’re clean and comfortable enough, though certainly nothing fancy. I stayed in two different doubles in my time there and they were very… OK. They all seem to have fridges and safes and microwaves, if you use that sort of thing.
The parking garage, which though delightfully cheap for hotel parking at around five bucks when I stayed, is absolutely treacherous. Every single time I pulled in or out I was positively trippin’ that I was going to smack the crap out of someone’s car or a wall. Many were the 22-​point turns I made in that bad boy, sweating bullets all the while. Parking here is a pretty stressful experience.
Saving the worst for last, we have the customer service. I have stayed in — tens? maybe even a hundred or more — hotels and motels in my day and this is by far the WORST service I have EVER received. It was entirely in a class by itself. The managers in particular, when asked to address issues the regular desk agents had already rudely dismissed, were so insanely argumentative and rude it was hard to believe. And it wasn’t just to me (and I’m SUPER nice, by the way). I saw the general manager literally throw their body over the desk to sputter angrily in a guest’s face over something the guest was asking for. They were just… asking for something. And the response was downright violent.
Another time I heard a different person at the desk literally screaming at a guest.
I mean, WHAT?
And when my plans changed and I called to request keeping my room for an additional night, the person I spoke with said, basically, «tough sh1t,» that they had to keep rooms open for new reservations, therefore an established guest was SOL. Then when I was polite and deferential (though incredulous) in my response, I was told snidely that «maybe you should just stay somewhere else.» I mean… You can ask anyone. I am the NICEST, sweetest, most pleasant customer you would ever want to have. If I ever need anything, I am downright apologetic. I sweep up after my kids in restaurants and I tip 40%. I was not rude and I did nothing to warrant this outrageous behavior. And I’m sure the other people I observed being abused didn’t either.
So let’s dock them a star for that, which honestly is still pretty dang generous.
Because at the end of the day, how you’re treated counts for almost everything. And others, I would advise to book a stay here only if they are happy to be abused and possibly have their room given away. So, you know… probably not.
(FYI, my husband is sitting here as I write this, thinking I am being WAY to generous, so bear that in mind.)
Oh yeah, and the wifi suuuuuucks.

I booked hotel reservations for Saturday, July 12^th — Tuesday, July 15 through
at the Ramada Downtown Hollywood, Florida. I knew this was not the nicest hotel but it was close to my event and got fairly good reviews so I decided to go ahead and give it a try. The reservation was booked through Southwest and it was prepaid.
I arrived at the hotel and it was not very nice, however if initially appeared «okay» or not scary. The corridors we outside, carpeted and smelled like human urine, mildew and cigarette smoke and there was trash everywhere. There was a washer/​dryer right outside my door and the use of the washer/​dryer along with the pool and tiki bar made the room unbearably noisy. All these factors made the hotel pretty awful but the worst part was when two unidentified men entered my room in the middle of the night by using a card key issued by the desk. I was in the bathroom, half dressed and getting ready for bed. They come right in and said; «is this room XXX», «we are booked in this room. I was so shocked I just asked them to leave and proceded to use the security chain on the door along with a chair under the handle. The next day I went to the lobby numerous times to speak to the manager and finally just left my cell number with the front desk clerk and decided to check out. I felt unsafe in the room and especially after the front desk gave someone else a key. I work for the in a high security job and even though this was not a business trip, I had my laptop, identification and my badge in my room. Of course I also had my clothing and belongings too. I felt I could not chance leaving these things as the room was not secure and I couldn’t drag my belongings with me every time I went some place. There was a small safe in the room but it had no instructions and it was not large enough to store all my valuables. Besides, if strangers are coming into my room in the night with a card key, what would make me think these safes are secure?
The whole experience was terrible, from the check-​in to the garage parking to the room that was outdated and in poor repair but the worst thing was that someone entered my room because the desk gave them a key.
It was by far the worst hotel experience I’ve ever had. I had to disrupt my trip and move to other accommodations and I booked online and the room was prepaid. I was never offered and sort of discount when I spoke to the front desk, only an offer of another room. Because of the lack of security and the old and dirty conditions I declined. Under the circumstances I believe whoever is in charge should give me a full refund.

The first room — toilet did not flush (yes, I held the handle down). The second — completely flooded. The third, fine though we couldn’t really notice any «upgrade» besides having a couch. Did we get a price reduction? Or perhaps free ($ 5.25) parking? Nope. Decent location and I suppose we got what we paid for. And to their defense — Ft Lauderdale apparently had record breaking rain the night before (5″).

My hotel room was free, so I can’t complain too much. For a motel, this place was ok. The hotel did tell us they were out of towels, so one of our guys found the linen closet and took some extras, just in case. The room didn’t smell, was adequately clean, and contained a fridge & microwave. The sink was outside of the bathroom, but the bathroom portion didn’t have a fan. So, if you’re brushing your teeth at the sink, you can hear everything your roommate’s doing in the bathroom. There was also an in-​room safe (which is nice, considering there wasn’t at the Courtyard Marriott in Torrance).
The reason why you’d want this hotel is if you plan on hanging out in the historic downtown part of Hollywood, FL. We were with the American Outlaws (supporters of the US Men’s National Team) last weekend for the USA vs. Honduras game. The Ramada rents out offices connected at the back of the hotel, which lead right into the downtown strip. Our bar was just a quick stumble across the street, so the location was ideal.
I never ate the continental breakfast or utilized the parking garage. Am I a fan of Ramada Inns? Not really, since being a motel, you can hear people talking loudly as they’re walking by or waiting for someone. Am I a fan of this motel being simply a place to sleep with a convenient location? Yes.