Suites At Old Town

Some things never change!

Some things never change!
When I was 11 years old, my cheapskate hitshead of a father took my mother and me to this hotel in November 1976, it was to be a once in a lifetime trip to Disney World.
The hotel claimed to have a free shuttle from the airport to the hotel and vice versa, this turned out to be a fabrication! Ended up we paid for a shuttle from the airport to the hotel.
For the sake of historical accuracy, it should be noted that in 1976, the hotel was in the middle of nowhere. This HAS changed over the past 30+ years! The complex in 1976 consisted of a Days Inn hotel with a cafeteria (still there folks), a restaurant (now a gift shop) and another restaurant next door (now a t-shirt shop).
We checked into our room (near the pool which people had mistaken for a urinal or so it smelt) and surprise, surprise it was a dump! The mattresses were lumpy, the lights were either dim or not working, the TV did not function properly, the bathroom stank and there were not enough hangers or pillows (never did get any of these from the house cleaner).
Next day out, we had breakfast in the cafeteria, it was cheap, quick and tasted like garbage, even my father chose to eat elsewhere after our experience there.
We asked the “inbred cracker” of a “receptionist” at the front desk about the free shuttle to Disney, she dismissively told us the free shuttle from the hotel “ran ever 15 minutes of so”, after waiting 45 minutes my mother had the foresight to speak to the manager and was told to look at the schedule on the bulletin board. The “free” shuttle cost a few dollars each passenger and ran only a few times in the morning and a few times in the evening. While there was a taxi at the front door of the hotel, “old hitshead” was either too cheap or stupid to spring for one (when one thinks that it cost $6 dollars for three people to ride to Disney, a taxi could not have been much more).

Unique Quality: After an additional wait of an hour, during which time the “receptionist” got a well-deserved tongue-lashing from my mother, the bus finally arrived. Then as now, it is still a good 15-minute trip to Disney (depending on the theme park).
In another attempt to save money “old hitshead” decided to eat in the two hotel restaurants, the detached restaurant served crappy tasting food at a slow pace and the attached restaurant served half-way descent food at a snail’s pace. I am hesitant to say the waitresses in these restaurant looked and acted like “crack wh*res“, as crack did not exist in 1976 but I think you the reader get my point.
Some of you out there in cyberspace may be saying, well you sound like a spoiled brat and yes you might be right but the experiences at this hotel were certainly lifelong memories. Dad, if you can read this from beyond the grave, this was a textbook example of your passive-aggressive tendencies and another prime example of how your money saving schemes came back to haunt us.
Folks! The moral of the story is stay elsewhere and spend a little extra money on that once in a lifetime trip!
Take care and good luck!
Feel free to use the swimming pool as a toilet, everybodyelse does!!