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| - Was here for a West Coast Swing dance competition over the 4th of July holiday weekend. http://www.gpsdc.com/July4thMenu.htm
We would only be able to afford it during the sweltering summer with the temperature hitting 116 degrees. $109 convention rate with 2, $5 off drink tix when you check in. Internet in rooms free. Free parking, paid by our convention, limited parking near the hotel rooms, but a large parking structure near the Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom. 30% off a la carte spa treatments. 15% onsite restaurants.
I had a 1pm spa treatment that they moved to 3:00pm on Friday, will go into details of the spa in a separate review. http://www.yelp.com/biz/hDMTdd4_YWcuSlWnVyMLkw#hrid:0hBSzjOpU8kZGfhe82VLbg
Checked in around 6:30pm on Friday and was helped immediately, no lines and the interior of the lobby was so nice and cool with its carved rock columns. My room was originally in bumf**k, the Golf View rooms, since my friends checked in on Thursday, they moved my rooms to the Paradise Wing, off of the main Paradise pool where our cabana and the water slide was located.
The hotel room in the Paradise Wing was average but must admit the bathtub is longer then the standard size. There is a mini bar fridge in the room and they will charge you $25 to have it emptied for your use for your own things. The carpets are a little worn and the bed was a little too soft for me, must have been the feather bed. AC was fine.
We rented a cabana for 3 days, around $200 each day, you get a bathroom, shower, table for 4, fridge, two covered chaise lounges near the pool. Free water and pitchers of ice. Misters. We brought our own snacks and kept them in our little ante room. They don't allow you to decorate your cabana, food service stops at 6pm and the cabana closes at 10pm but you have access to it. Well worth the rental in that heat and ours was right next to the steps, so very convenient to the pool. Ordered lunch one day, had the hamburger and teriyaki chicken salad, both were good, around $14 each. The staff is very busy, so you have to flag them down for service.
Friday night was smore making night at the large bonfire at the Squaw Creek Lawn, too hot for me but during the fall and winter, should be wonderful.
Saturday night at 8pm, they had a poolside movie where you can watch from inner tubes and floaties in the pool or lounges along the pool. They played Madagascar our night and it was great fun. Some complained of mosquitos but I didn't get bit until Sunday night at 2am at the pool, then I got around 8 bites.
Sunday day, near the pool was a fresh salsa making demo, so plenty and chips and salsa and cinnamon crispies to knosh on at the cabana.
The FLW ballroom was icy cold and the bathrooms were nearby and neat. And ample room with a 5000 sq. ft. dance floor, tables and seating for 1000 dancers from across the US, Canada, UK, New Zealand and Australia. Had a bit of a snafu on Sunday night, the hotel needed some of our ballroom, so were breaking down the ballroom floor while we were late night dancing but we all worked it nonetheless.
There isn't anything within walking distance so you need a car but a couple of miles away is a large mall with restaurants and a movie theater across the street. Around 20 minutes from the airport.
A couple of complaints are the distance of walking from the sleeping rooms to the FLR ballroom, overcharge on my bill and the mosquitos at night. The mosquitos are really bad, the hotel was telling people that they were spraying but with them watering all the lawns at night and the ponds, they were infested, even in the rooms. So take insect repellent. We would call the jutneys to take us from our hotel room to the ballroom and visa versa, so that was a nice work around. When I saw the cabana overcharge, they fixed it at the front desk.
The staff was friendly even though overworked and overwhelmed by all of us dancers there. The grounds are beautiful and lush and green. The food was pricey but good and the spa was great. A must go to if you can get a great hotel rate.
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