Aloft Fort Lauderdale Airport & Cruise Port

“A hop, skip and jump away from the airport”

On my final night of touring South Florida, I stayed at the Aloft Fort Lauderdale Airport. This is a mere five minutes away from the airport terminals. The room was actually decorated differently to any other Aloft I’ve ever stayed at. The colour scheme was not its usual turquoise orange and … lisää

On my final night of touring South Florida, I stayed at the Aloft Fort Lauderdale Airport. This is a mere five minutes away from the airport terminals. The room was actually decorated differently to any other Aloft I’ve ever stayed at. The colour scheme was not its usual turquoise orange and yellow but had more Floridian feel to it with turquoise, pink and white. From a branding perspective it was nice to see that the Aloft can spice things up a bit! The beds in the room were comfy and the bathroom was also spacious with some very quirky wallpaper of dinosaurs walking on a beach! On this occasion I wasn’t here long enough to enjoy the breakfast but like other Alofts the food offerings are particularly disappointing these days and I much prefer just to be able to grab something from the adjoining sundries shop rather than food items that are of no interest to me whatsoever. One point of frustration came with the car parking arrangements. The hotel wanted to charge $35 for an overnight stay. However, upon arriving at the hotel I initially / mistakenly pulled into the neighbouring Crowne Plaza hotel who told me their car park rate was just $20! I asked to park there instead of the Aloft but the agent on duty would not let me do so. This is ridiculous that hotel guests are completely ripped off by the Aloft when both properties use the same exact car park. Instead I parked in a neighbouring car park owned by a cigar store. Of course there is the threat that your car will be towed away, but as the shop did not open tonight until 10am and that I knew I'd be long gone before then, I decided it was worth the risk and thus save myself $35!

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“Great location to airport and cruise port”

We stayed here a year ago and had a very different experience. Like last year, we stayed here one night before a cruise. If your main goal is to get out of the airport, and onto a ship the next day, the location is perfect! The free airport hotel shuttle is great, very efficient! The hotel is f… lisää

We stayed here a year ago and had a very different experience. Like last year, we stayed here one night before a cruise. If your main goal is to get out of the airport, and onto a ship the next day, the location is perfect! The free airport hotel shuttle is great, very efficient! The hotel is fun, hip, modern. But this time, it seemed to be severely understaffed-that's the only explanation I can come up with, but honestly, maybe it's a management issue. There was a big storm this weekend so the hotel was fully booked with storm refugees unable to fly home due to closed airports up north. Is that an excuse for the lobby bathrooms to be disgusting? No. Sorry, it's not. The men's urinal was clogged, filled with urine. And the women's room, at least one of the toilets was clogged and you know what I'm talking about. Should the guests have to be the ones to tell the staff about this? No, no they shouldn't. Skip ahead to the rooftop pool - very nice! And the pool is heated - excellent! However, there were no towels! The pool was very popular, lots of guests, football game on at the very nice bar, all good!! But maintaining the supply of towels - is that too much to ask? No, no it isn't. Once, an attendant "restocked" the towels with literally - TWO towels! TWO. I thought, oh, maybe there are towels in the gym I can grab (a very nice gym, well equipped, with amazing views!), but no, only a huge stack of dirty towels in the towel bin - so for the gym users or the pool goers who really needed even a small gym towel, no towels for them either! Still, housekeeping in our room was excellent - super clean, the proper number of towels! Well appointed, very comfortable bed and linens! Love the design of the rooms! Very fun, lots of room, toilet in a water closet which is so convenient. However - there was no water pressure. Our room was on the 13th floor and the water coming out of the shower was a trickle. A trickle. The sink was also slow, but the shower was the worst. We were on a lower floor on our previous stay and I do not remember a problem with the water pressure. We do love the wall paper in the water closet, I know I wrote about this before. So whimsical! You have to spend time looking at all of the fun things going on in there, lol! Front desk staff was great! Personable, did a great job as the lobby was full of many storm refugees as I'd mentioned, and they kept things moving, storing people's luggage, getting luggage out of storage, and so on. This hotel has a lot of "good", so it does puzzle me about the horrible lobby bathrooms and the lack of towels. And they do need to do something about the water pressure.

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