We stayed for a family vacation about two weeks ago, in the presidential suite #519. It was just renovated recently this year, and it was really nice. Three king bedrooms, 2 have full bathrooms, one bedroom with double beds, and one common full bathroom. Pull out queen sofa. Two dining room tables, one with six chairs, one with four. Nice big balcony with five chairs facing the boardwalk & the ocean. The beds were comfortable, they don't give you enough towels so make sure you ask for more. As far as the cooking utensils, you get three pots and 2 lids, and one small frying pan (one or 2 eggs). There's a coffee maker but you have to bring your own filters. Plenty of cabinet space for your food. We are a family of 10 so we brought over $400 worth of food and drinks and were able to put everything away. I would suggest going to the dollar store and picking up coffee filters, dishwashing tablets, dishwashing detergent, a new sponge, paper towels, a hand towel, Windex, Lysol wipes, clips for the chips, aluminum foil, and extra cooking utensils if you are planning on cooking like we did. Also, put everything in the dishwasher and run it before you use any of it. Our stuff was a little dirty. The air conditioner in my room was great, the rest of the suite was not. For some reason it didn't seem to get colder than 78°, luckily the weather outside was only about 85. But at night it was very warm to sleep. We came back to the hotel one day to find some type of machine in the hallway because the maintenance guy said that the air conditioner was a block of ice inside. Even after the ice melted the air conditioner still did not work right. My daughter and her boyfriend slept on the pull out bed and said it was pretty comfortable. You can see the mattress was néw. I saw in one of the reviews, if you were not happy with the mattress they will replace it. I did a few loads of laundry on the first floor, make sure you bring quarters, laundry detergent and fabric sheets. Each wash and dry is $2 dollars each and the loader is very small. It worked for what I needed.
The indoor pool is clearly for kids, it's less to be desired. It's great if you have nothing to do on a rainy day, or if you have kids 10 and under. From what I was told most of the machines in the game room were off or broken. We didn't try the restaurant. It's a great location, only an eight minute walk to the first pier and the tram leaves you right at the door. Usually we stay in the crest, (Port Royal, Aqua Beach, Royal Hawaiian, Adventurer) but because this room became available and there were so many of us, and instead of getting two rooms, we gave this a shot. I stayed here years ago in a regular room and it was OK but that was over 10 years ago. It's a lot shorter walk to the beach. I was not able to bring the beach chairs from home due to lack of room, and did not see anyone renting them. It could've been too early in the season, as this was mid June. Sundeck is cute, outdoor pool was warm but you can tell It needed some TLC. Parts of the pool were cracking off. The pool is directly in front of some of the ocean front rooms, so there really is no privacy if you stay on the same floor in front of the pool. There's only two elevators, You take the one from the parking garage up to your floor, it wasn't too bad, about a 5 minute wait sometimes. if you look to the left of the elevator, which we found out after our stay, they do have the luggage carts available, they are just hidden behind the wall. Otherwise you have to go inside on the second floor. We needed an extra parking pass, and because the hotel was not that full they gave it to us with no problem. Comes with 2, So we had three in total. One thing I do not understand, that room is a four bedroom suite, yet they say the price is only for six people on Friday and Saturday and eight people Sunday through Thursday. Why would the price be for six people if you have four bedrooms? And each night in June was an extra $15 a person. We were already paying $500 a night. To me the extra person is only needed if you're going in the water park because they give you a wristband and they know how many people are in your suite. Other than that they don't check you. Internet was less to be desired, so if you have a hotspot use it. The weather looked iffy, so one of our kids bought their PlayStation and was able to hook it up and get on the Wi-Fi, and the other one brought their Xbox and it would not hook up at all after two hours and 2 different TVs, so we put that one on the hotspot. Overall it was a very nice stay, and we would definitely do it again. read more