Extended Stay America – Orlando – Maitland – Summit Tower Blvd

It was the worst hotel I ever stays in, worst than third world hotels, in Afghanistan it was even better than this disaster, everything is broken and if it is working it is very noisy and filthy

This was the only hotel available in the Maitland area last night and it was a disaster.
The room smelled like bleach which would assume it was clean but I felt dirt all over and resorted to sleeping in my sweats and socks for fear of bed bugs.
Base boards and wall sockets were missing which may mean they were renovating but no mention was made or indicated that his was so.
Will not stay in one of these hotels again.

Just listen to all the reviews. I wish I had. Priceline for the first time has steered me wrong for the first time. I checked out after my first night. I just couldn’t.

Do yourself a huge favor by staying somewhere else that has coffee service in your room, soap and shampoo for when you shower. And, someone that actually is at front desk and answers the phone. Rooms look like they are left over from 70’s and they need to be upgraded.
Next time I am here on business will definitely go somewhere else.

I’ve stayed in cheap motels better than this dump. Super8, Motel 6, Knights Inn etc. I’ll save the long sob story and sum up in bullets:
Pros:
Staff wasn’t rude
beds were clean
Cons:
Two rooms smell like mold, the third smelled like mothballs (changed rooms twice)
Bathrooms were all gross — tub had dirt and/​or crap stains on it
stains all over couches
floor in first room was gross and sticky
Continental breakfast is terriawful. Cheap packaged muffins is about all they have
cheap walls — can hear all the families everywhere and yes, lots of families which is understandable considering the location.

Not for «Extended» Stays
Nice for overnight stop, but business travelers and «extended stayers» should avoid. I stayed for a month, cheap but my own private corner of purgatory.
Pros:
1 Fairly clean, very little mold
2 No roaches or vermin
3 Hot water quick &plentiful
4 Staff distant but not totally unhelpful
Cons:
1 Depressingly dated & worn décor. Think of the ghastly green color schemes that should have died in the 70s
2 Generous use of compact fluorescent light bulbs –after flipping the switch they take a couple of seconds to come on & then give a weak glow that makes you yearn for an old-​fashioned Edison-​invented, cheerily bright incandescent bulb. As a rule these particular bulbs were dim and flickered annoyingly.
3 Curtains either open or room-​blackening closed; no gauzy layer that allows light into the room yet maintains privacy
4 1 wing backs up to Maitland Blvd, a major 6-​lane thoroughfare that is busy at all hours with a traffic light at 1 corner of the hotel. If you are one of the unlucky 25% of the guests placed here you will be treated to an all-​night symphony of the piercing wailings of emergency vehicles, the roar of semi-​trucks accelerating from full stop at the light, and (most annoying) a constant parade of motorcycles whose childish riders are strangely proud of the high-​pitched whine of their sans muffler, rice-​burning two cycle engines and are compelled to wind them up to as many RPMs as possible before shifting, just to repeat the process all over again.
5 After a series of late-​night arrivals in the room above mine, I asked to be moved to the top floor overlooking the parking lot. I was told that management didn’t like it when they put long-​term guests up there
6 Maid service is once per week, which leaves up to 4 towels & 2 tiny bars of soap (a varying number were left each visit). That means at least one trip per week to the front desk to exchange towels for new ones and get more soap.
7. Towels were threadbare but adequate (barely).
8 Toilet paper is thin but dual ply; quality is better than sandpaper & at least a little superior newspaper
9 Tiny kitchenette with refrigerator placed just 12′ from bed, which makes strange & various rattling & humming noises all night long
10 Top shelf of bedside unit had quarter-​inch thick layer of dust up (maid must be pretty short)
11 There is no dresser, so you won’t have drawers in which to stash your socks and unmentionable.
12 To use tiny sink area you wedge yourself between hair dryer protruding from wall on one side & clothes hanging in the open-​faced closet which intrude from the other
13 Ad says «generous work space». Yes, if you are a Lilliputian
14 «Generous work space» doubles as kitchenette/​dining table; be prepared to pick up your work if you plan on preparing and enjoying a meal
15 The «free wi-​fi» is free only after you pay connection fee and is capped at 500 KBPS. You will be able to access email but forget streaming anything
16 Added cost to upgrade your internet connection: $ 3 for 1 day of 2 MBPS, $ 15 for week of 2 MBPS, and $ 30 for a whole month of 2 MBPS. I refused for two reasons: first, I hate to be up-​sold and second, 2 MBPS is insultingly slow. Buy a hotspot from Virgin Mobile before paying for 2 MBPS
17 When internet goes down for entire hotel, they ask you to call customer support
18 It rains frequently in Florida. They have Satellite TV. Guess what happens to a Satellite TV signal during a Florida downpour.
19 The genius that put up the bowed shower curtain had the moronic idea of angling the bow downward so that the shower curtain naturally travels downward during your shower & ends up at the low point (in middle of rod) resulting in a wet floor and commode. I used large binder clips to fix
20 Speaking of commode, it flushes fine — if you hold the handle down during the entire flushing process.
21 «Continental breakfast» consists of passable albeit weak coffee, muffins, yogurt, bagels, and a pasty substance that possibly was once jelly
Never again.