Avanti Resort

The location is great! Close to many restaurants and attractions. The common areas are nice, including the pool area and the pool bar/grill. If you want a nice-ish room, do NOT stay here! I checked into a king suite to find it very old, basic, and not clean. I figured, it was cheap, so I got what I paid for. Then I hardly slept the first night because the ac unit and the - dehumidifier unit? - both were super loud. The second night, I tried to go to bed a little early, but the bathroom ceiling over the shower started leaking, A LOT. I tried calling the front dest, but the one person staffing couldn't handle the volume. I went to the desk to speak with them personally. They sent their engineer, who didn't or couldn't do anything about it. The leaking had stopped and I asked them to come back in the am. The ceiling is soft, I could poke a hole in it with my hand if I wanted to - but I didn't. I guess it's a matter of time until it crashes in on someone when they shower? My point in all this is, this place may have had a facelift, but the structure is not renovated. It's a dump. Every time I was near the front desk, the manager was trying to appease upset guests. It was always a complaint about their room. If the deal looks too good to be true, it is! Read less

We stayed here for 2 nights prior to a cruise. This is a value hotel and that is what you get. The room was smaller with basic furniture and the bathroom needed updating. However with that said the pool area is beautiful and you can’t beat the location on International Drive. The room was clean. If you are planning a stay with limited time in the room for a few days I would recommend it, if you plan to spend a lot of time in the hotel room then I would recommend you increase your budget and stay elsewhere. For the money this hotel met our standards...but remember it isn’t a 5 star hotel. Read less

TLDR: First room smelled of cigarette smoke, second room of bleach, and my issues have not been resolved in about 2 hours. Currently typing this from outside my room, past midnight, because the manager hasn't shown up and I'm trying to air out the room. I arrived at the Avanti lobby at about 10:30 pm. There was a surprisingly long line to check in, and I should have known something was wrong with this place by the number of people who came in, asking to see the manager because something was wrong with their room... one woman was obviously distressed about the smell of her bathroom, another couple was distraught because the property had run out of cribs for their baby. At around 11:15 I got to my room, only to open the door and get overwhelmed by the smell of cigarette smoke. It was bad... I started getting a headache about 2 minutes in. I called the front desk and the man who answered said I must be mistaken because every room at Avanti is non-smoking. He also said they had no rooms to transfer me to, and said I had to wait for someone from housekeeping to come verify the smell before he would even look for alternative rooms for me. I waited for about 35 minutes. The smell was so bad, I had to wait outside my room - it was now approaching midnight after a long day of travel. The housekeeper finally came, walked 2 steps into the room and agreed, this room was uninhabitable and certainly had been smoked in. I got back on the phone with the front desk and within minutes was taken to another room. Unfortunately this new room smelled overwhelmingly of bleach/chlorine. The housekeeping woman was so kind and got her cleaning supplies to wash down the floors to minimize the powerful smell. I got on the phone again, asking to speak with the manager because this whole evening was absolutely terrible. He hasn't shown up, nearly 40 minutes later. I'm currently sitting outside my room, waiting for the manager while the bleach smell airs out - it's been almost 2 hours since I first walked into the lobby and I have yet to unpack. Read less

Upon arrival we found that the room looked completely different from the pictures we looked at while booking. The front desk was extremely slow for check in and check out. 3 out of 5 nights we didn’t have enough towels in the room and every time the room was cleaned we seem to loose pillows from the beds. Rooms were very run down and beds were uncomfortable. The only plus was the pool and bar and restaurant. Pool area was nice and clean and the restaurant had decent food at a fair price each morning before we left for Disney World. Read less