Red Lion Hotel Orlando Lake Buena Vista South invites you to enjoy a relaxing getaway in the middle of the most magical place on earth.
A great choice among Lake Buena Vista hotels, our centrally-located hotel near area theme parks like Disney World® features 410 beautifully appointed modern hotel rooms with Cascadia bath amenities. Relax the day away and float along our lazy river, tantalize your taste buds with homemade tortillas from our Mexican restaurant, and explore popular Orlando attractions nearby during your stay.
We provide all the comforts and essentials you'll need for a convenient trip, including free Wi-Fi, a fitness center, and more. You can also purchase theme park and attractions tickets in our lobby, and our friendly staff can offer recommendations on the best dining, shopping, and sights to see. Plus, take advantage of our free shuttle to Disney World.
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A great choice among Lake Buena Vista hotels, our centrally-located hotel near area theme parks like Disney World® features 410 beautifully appointed modern hotel rooms with Cascadia bath amenities. Relax the day away and float along our lazy river, tantalize your taste buds with homemade tortillas from our Mexican restaurant, and explore popular Orlando attractions nearby during your stay.
We provide all the comforts and essentials you'll need for a convenient trip, including free Wi-Fi, a fitness center, and more. You can also purchase theme park and attractions tickets in our lobby, and our friendly staff can offer recommendations on the best dining, shopping, and sights to see. Plus, take advantage of our free shuttle to Disney World.
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00:00For this video, I'm going to be taking you on a hotel room tour of the Red Lion Hotel
00:05Lake Buena Vista South, located in Kissimmee, Florida.
00:35Let's go!
01:06I was recently vacationing in Central Florida again, and recently I've been kind of focusing
01:11on staying at hotels that actually have water parks.
01:16Now I'm not really sure if the Red Lion actually hits that threshold, but it comes pretty close.
01:20They have both a lazy river and a water slide.
01:24And this is the only hotel you're going to find in Central Florida that has those things,
01:29with a room rate under $100 a night.
01:31They basically undercut the Flamingo Water Park Resort by about $25-$30 per night.
01:38But they have a much better water slide tower over at that particular park.
01:42The lazy rivers at both the Flamingo and this Red Lion are pretty much equivalent.
01:48Now this Red Lion is typically more expensive than some of the other nice budget hotel offerings.
01:55You can typically stay at a Rosen Inn on International Drive for about $65-$75 a night.
02:02This Red Lion is going to run you more like $85-$95 a night, depending on the season.
02:08During the peak season, the room rate of the Red Lion here will exceed $100 a night.
02:13Just depends on what time of year you stay in here.
02:15Now the first thing that I will point out about this particular hotel is the rooms are
02:20meticulous.
02:21The sheets were very clean, the beds were very comfortable, a ridiculous amount of pillows,
02:27definitely a lot of towels to support an entire family staying here.
02:32Now at this room rate, you would generally expect just a continental breakfast included
02:37with the room.
02:39Continentals are ok, usually coffee and orange juice, a couple bagels, and some Raisin Bran
02:47basic stuff.
02:48But here you get a full breakfast buffet.
02:52Scrambled eggs, home fries, sausage, and bacon, as well as a waffle maker, coffee, tea, and
03:01orange juice.
03:03This is a full breakfast buffet.
03:05You get tickets for two people when you do the double occupancy room.
03:11You can purchase the breakfast buffet for $14.99 each for any additional guests.
03:17It is a restaurant attached to the front of the hotel, but let's face it, I didn't
03:23think they were really bringing in too many customers.
03:26It's all pretty much people who are staying at the hotel that eat at this restaurant.
03:30There is a second restaurant and bar in the back building of this hotel called the Oasis,
03:36and they've got hamburgers and drinks back there.
03:39So I mean all the alcohol is in the back of the hotel.
03:43The restaurant in the front of the hotel is mostly for the breakfast buffet in the morning.
03:47One oversight that I kind of noticed here at the Red Lion though is for a family hotel,
03:52almost all of them have an arcade.
03:54Every Rosen Inn has one, the Flamingo Waterpark Resort had one, Coco Key has a massive one.
03:59So that seems like one thing that they're overlooking.
04:03I guess they're assuming your family is going to bring their tablet or play games on their
04:09cell phone or something, but just about every other hotel in Orlando has an arcade.
04:14So I did notice that this one lacked one.
04:17This hotel has a pretty decent exercise room, although this is the first time I ever saw
04:21one with an old school scale from a doctor's office.
04:25So never seen a fitness center having one of those before, but it was cool, it was something
04:30different.
04:31I always see something different at pretty much every hotel I've ever stayed at.
04:36Another unusual choice that I noticed at the Red Lion, they don't have cable TV.
04:40No satellite TV.
04:41There's no premium channels on any of the TVs here.
04:45They have about 28 channels.
04:46A couple of them are like an internal DVR hotel information channels, and then they've
04:51got the antenna channels for Orlando.
04:56You'll see Channel 2, WESH, and Channel 6, and Channel 9, WFTV I think.
05:05They don't actually have any HBOs or Cinemaxs.
05:09If you're planning to watch some movies on cable TV, you're not going to find them here
05:16at the Red Lion.
05:17So the pool area here is pretty nice.
05:20They've got a conventional swimming pool on the one side of the restroom building, and
05:26then on the other side of the restroom building, there's a lazy river and a small water slide.
05:31Now I've already posted POV videos of both the water slide and the lazy river, so if
05:35you want to see the size and scale of them, you can basically click on the links below.
05:40There's also an on-site gift shop located at the Red Lion.
05:43It's just behind the lobby, and you know, it's a place you can go in there for the typical
05:49souvenirs from Florida, t-shirts, magnets, keychains, that kind of stuff, as well as
05:55some snacks that are kind of overpriced.
05:58I mean the t-shirts are pretty reasonably priced.
06:00Most of them were like $19.99, which is a fair price compared to what you'd spend at a theme park.
06:06Now the exercise room and the business center are both open 24 hours a day.
06:11Although they are locked, you will need your hotel keycard to get inside them.
06:15The swimming pool itself is open from 6am in the morning to 11pm at night, and the lazy
06:20river doesn't open until noon, and during the summertime it closes at 7pm.
06:25I believe it closes earlier in the spring and the fall, so that is a seasonally operated
06:32attraction, so the hours will vary.
06:36As for the basketball and tennis courts, those are open from 6am to 9pm.
06:40So this hotel has 410 hotel rooms, so it's a pretty big facility.
06:44I stayed here on a Thursday.
06:46It was a weekday and it was very quiet and slow.
06:48I think I was the only person on the entire floor, and it was really nice.
06:52I've now stayed at about a dozen hotels on Highway 192, otherwise known as Erlo-Bronson
06:57Memorial Highway, and I would say that this is definitely among the nicest ones I've stayed.
07:03The Ramada Gateway is almost as nice as the Red Lion.
07:07You could probably stay at the Ramada just a hair cheaper, but obviously they don't have
07:11a lazy river or a water slide at the Ramada, so you are getting a newer, nicer hotel too
07:17in the Red Lion compared to the Ramada.
07:19This is definitely light years better than, say, the Cerro Lago or the Magic Key resorts
07:24on 192.
07:26Those are probably the bottom of the barrel, at least from my point of view.
07:30So what's my bottom line for the Red Lion, Lake Buena Vista South?
07:33I would give this, on a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the best, probably about an 8, maybe
07:40even an 8.5.
07:42It is just really clean, nice, new, and modern, and was a great value in the $80 price range
07:50for the nightly rate.
07:53And when you factor in the two breakfast buffets that were included in the price, which sell
08:00for $15 a pop, that puts this nightly rate more like $50 a night for the hotel room itself.
08:08So if you're planning to stay in Kissimmee, I would definitely recommend the Red Lion
08:11Hotel.
08:13It's one of the nicest properties that I've stayed at so far on Highway 192.
08:17Thanks for joining me on this tour of the Red Lion Hotel.
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