Hotel Plantation - Sunrise, Fort Lauderdale

The staff was helpful. I was dissapointed in the room.It was supposed to be the stylish queen, but there was nothing stylish about it. It was simple but clean. The bed seemed rather small,yet the staff insisted that it was a queen size. It felt more like a full. Room services only takes place on a daily basis by request and extra fees are added. The room was tidy and I liked the location. I won't stay here on another business trip. It is a great place to stay if you are there for shopping and want to save money on transportation and dining.The bed and pillows were very comfortable. I had a good night sleep.

While the room had been cleaned, it hadn't been cleaned especially thoroughly: for example, if whoever cleaned it had merely CLOSED the bathroom door to vacuum the part of the bedroom carpet behind it, they'd have spotted the paper trash of some kind left there by a previous guest; also, the toilet still had in it (what I hope was just) cigarette ash. Additionally, one of the chairs in the room had a huge cigarette hole on the seat, and behind that chair it looked like the carpet hadn't been vacuumed in years -- layers of dust, which I was made aware of when I moved the chair a little so as to see the TV better. Finally, though there was a small outdoor pool, using it wasn't all that pleasurable -- it wasn't heated (and yes, it can get cold ((relatively speaking, of course)) in Florida in the winter months) and on a couple of days the water was really too cold to swim in comfortably; it wasn't regularly cleaned, as evidenced by the leaves and other things floating in it; and, worst of all, apparently due to the fertilizer used on the plants immediately bordering the pool (which, along with a railing, were all that separated the pool from the cars in the parking lot on both sides), there was a horrible stench of, ahem, manure surrounding it, especially on my first day of arrival (either it wore off slightly as the week went on, or I got somewhat used to it), when it was so bad I swam one "lap" (it's a tiny pool) and fled because I couldn't stand the stench anymore. The biggest positive was that the rates were much better than those of surrounding hotels. Also, I found upon inquiring that guests could use the Bally's Total Fitness located about a five minute drive away.