Hotels near FLL

I will be driving up from the keys sunday night,Feb 25 and need to find a place to sleeo that night. Need nothing fancy,in at 10:00 PM and out at 5:00 AM. Would like safe and clean room ( and I hope cheap also ).

Hotels near FLL

If you have ben scanning the forums of SE Fl, you have come to realize that the cost of the hotels tooms do not mesh with the quality.

It seems Lulu may have hit the nail on the head when she brought up the idea that the mega ships leaving both Fort LAud/Hollywood and Miami ports are using the hotels to put up some of their guests.....and there aren%26#39;t enough rooms.....so the operators have been raising rates.....a lot.

Remember, you are about two miles from the beaches of Fort LAud and Hollywood (more or less) even if you try for a beachfront hotel, but even those small mom %26amp; pops are charging more.

Some highly rated are:

Holiday Inn.....Sheraton Street

Days Inn on 29th Ave

La Quinta Inn on 26th Ave

Sleep Inn (Dania Beach) on 5th Ave (May have free shuttle)

Sheraton Dania (On Griffin Rd)

(THere is a motel 6 in Dania that is on Dania BEach Blvd just east of the Daina Fontron...but really rated bad...it costs a lot less....)

There are a lot of places of the Hollywood BEach that aren%26#39;t really out of your way, but many of these beachfront places may not have room for just one night:

If you didn%26#39;t, you also need to post this in the Ft LAuderdale forums, as well.

The Marriott Hollywood Resort is also pretty nice, with much easier access to the boardwalk, and the fun along the oceanfront. But the pool isn%26#39;t that great. Same here...look for deals via AAA %26amp; other groups.

I would not recommend any Ramada run hotel in this area.

Now, right on the Boardwalk, there is the Atlantic Sands. Very small amount of rooms, but the rooms are like small apartments. It is a top rated here on TA, and the folks that run it are very service orientated.

If you are familiar with timeshare, there are some OK units on the beach. One right next to the MArriott is the www.hollywoodsands.com

Another is the Hollywood Beach Tower, all one bed 2 bath sleep 6 units

I will list many of the places so you can check on some you might like:

South of Sheraton to about Garfield is quite built up, with many small (TIDE/SeaDowns complex)...and the Marriott Resort. (Next to the T/S called www.hollywoodsands.com )

There aren%26#39;t many restaurants on the B%26#39;Walk until you walk past Garfield (going S)...and they continue till about you pass the Ramada Hollywood BEach Resort. (NO NO NO)

Mom %26amp; Pop:

She can%26#39;t post this, but the Atlantic Sands (no pool,very cozy) has special pricing for military, reserve, other government workers (ie- teachers-retired). Very helpful with advise on TA.

www.atlanticsandsfl.com

Across the street is the Carribean Apt hotel resort (?) hotel used loosely here, also no pool....which has good pricing, and is on the beach. The pix was taken (it appears) from the roof of the Atlantic Sands :) Look carefully....this is what many of the Hollywood units will look like. THey were not built recently. (They may have been built before wall board, I would say the mold issue might be mute in many of the places. I assume the concrete block doesn%26#39;t grow mold. (However, if the place has carpeting, most do not) there might be a problem.

http://www.mycaribbeanresort.com/

Also check http://www.mantarayinn.com/

With a pool and one we have liked is the http://www.tideapartments.com/ The German management (also French Canadian) here runs the three complexes, Tide, Broganvilla (best value) and the Sea Downs. SSL rated.

Although it appears http://www.greenbriarbc.com/about.htm is still closed, they are putting people up in their completely redone (down to the wall board) units in their one %26amp; 2 bedroom condos. (La Playa). Very nice, beach sand is the front yard, as the Hollywood B%26#39;walk goes along the rear of this section of Hollywood ...called the Flowers Section

There are literally dozens more small places from the 1930s, 40s and 50s.....and Hollywood is still considered a blue collar beach...where else can you walk along the b%26#39;ealk and get a 16 inch Brooklyn Pizza (plain) with a pitcher of beer or soda for $17.00?. Ice cream cones for $1.40 (not at the Hagen Daz or Edies shops), a French Canadian twin lobster (Florida) for $15.99???

the Hotels:

Also, supposed to be completed (ha ha) is the Grand:

http://www.hollywoodgrande.com/ (Starwood possible management)

What is completed it the Westin Diplomat Beachfront Resort, on the old Diplomats property. It is also beach front, and IMO pretty expensive*

The Marriott took the Howard Johnson Hollywood Beachfront Hotel, and made it into an old English/ West Indies paradise:

TA members have reported finding very good deals at the Marriott Hollywood Beach Resort. Not so good deals at the Westin