Originally Posted by
USirritated
FWIW, I have stayed at all 3 of the hotels at the Marriott Village by Little Lake Bryan, including the Fairfield Inn & Suites, the Springhill Suites, and the Courtyard Orlando Lake Buena Vista in the Marriott Village, and the location is tremendous, the values are usually quite high, and there are no resort fees or anything of that sort. I have had rates there as low as $72 per night, though that was about 4 years ago, single occupancy.
That's good, because if Fairfield Inns starting charging resort fees, I think Flyertalk would explode.
At a minimum, they'd need to rack a few more servers to handle the rant-fest.
$72 is about what I'd call "average" for a Fairfield Inn. When I was hotel-hopping in the TPA/MCO area for some HHonors bonuses, I did a Hampton Inn along the highway there for $49 - a real, eligible points-earning rate. During another Starwood stay-bonus promo, I did a Sheraton near MCO for around $60 on a weekend.
Only catch with that Hampton: 50% of the rooms faced the highway. Fortunately, HH Gold status was enough to keep me on the "good" side. The Sheraton was simply a depressing property in a cul-de-sac near nothing but a couple other hotels and a Bennigan's. Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on how you look at it), Marriott doesn't do many promos that incentivize hopping, so when we're there we're usually in an MVCI the whole time.