Ramada Plaza Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale

Most disgusting place I have ever stayed in my life. The "resort" was a filthy less than one star motel. Our room overlooked a rundown trailer park, there were homeless people sleeping in an abandon building 30 feet from the hotel and worst of all we woke up the second morning with bedbugs, the matter was handled by the front desk giving us a handful of quarters, dumping all of our clothes into one huge bag and told us to go the the laundry room and wash our clothes. The only reason we stayed was because we were on the cruise/time share SCAM. DO NOT GO TO THIS HOTEL OR FALL FOR THE FREE CRUISE SCAM!!

The first time we were here, we stayed in mid April. It was way too hot in the lobby. I complained that it was hot in the lobby. The guest service said that the airconditioner was on. But it was actually a lot cooler outside the hotel. Once we got into the hotel, the room temperature wasn't too bad. But gosh, this hotel reminds me of the movie "The Shining" with Jack Nicholson. It was way too old and it looks scary. If we did not pay for this hotel in advance, we would have asked for a refund. The carpet definitely needs to be replaced and a new fresh paint would make the hotel look a little bit presentable! Although I asked for extra hotels, and the room service came right up. I guess that's the only thing that's good for it. They also have a laundry service which made it convenient. It only took loading the dryer twice to dry my clothes and they don't have change machine. But we still were able to do our laundry. We've stayed in a hotel around this price range. But geeh, you better think twice before coming to this hotel. They have to pay me to stay at this hotel again!!

Like: We had only paid taxes and tip on our meals. Dislike: The automatic taxes and built in tip on a $47 meal that was worth $10 or less made us less happy. The area is dangerous. The room was dirty The room was moldy The workers were rude and lazy Entry level pay was too much for these people. Thank God there is now a health care system, so I can keep paying for them even after I left their dive.

This hotel is old and smelly. We also had a packaged deal with the cruise but this hotel was old, the free food vouchers were a joke. We refused to eat store bought processed food and purchase food on our own. The breakfast was ok, but lunch & dinner was very disappointing. The staff could not help give directions Thank God for GPS.

We stayed at this Ramada which was included in a cruise package. Think twice about that cruise package before you buy it. - The Ramada is far from the airport and the coast. - I imagined that the resort they included would be nice but this one is OLD. - The buffet food is all processed food. Though the servers are very nice. - The wireless internet has poor connection. - The carpets and paint are very old. - The place needs to be knocked down and rebuilt again. - Elevators don't work, stop at every floor. - Showers turn hot then cold then hot again. - Smelly. - Arcade games took our money and ran.

Ok so the people were nice but the place was DIRTY and the elevators were broke and we got stuck in one for a little while, my 5 year old daughter was terrified. The whole place stuck of mold we all ended up sick by the time we left. They also charged us a $5 per day fee that they didn't tell us about when we made the reservation.

THE HOTEL IS 2 TO 3 STAR HOTEL POOL WAS CLEAN IN GENERAL THE STAFF WERE GOOD I RECOMMEND THE PLACE FOR FAMILIES WITH LOW INCOME AND LOOKING FOR A FAMILY VACATION YOUNG PEOPLE MUST HAVE A CAR FOR THE PRICE ITS WORTH IT, PAY MORE AND GET BETTER ,THIS IS MY OPINION

Well The First person we talked to was very nice.But we didnt understand something about our vacation so we decided to go back into the welcome center and ask someone.So we talked to a man and he was very rude and we felt like telling him off.They changed our plans we were supposed to leave on wednesday to go on the cruise but we didnt we had to leave monday instead.But after all we had a great time.The hotel was great and the cruise was wonderful.The staff was very friendly and service was great.We had a good time.But we should have went back and told that man off.We just simply asked a question we had to drive 18 hours and then he gets smart with us over a simple question.

The employees were EXTREMELY rude here (ie: rolling of the eyes, interupting while customer is talking). We were put in a "non-smoking" room which smelled terribly of smoke. We were also told, as we were given our room key, that they were out of king rooms so my husband and I were put into a room with twin beds. The room and bathroom were dirty. The next day we were placed in a king room which was not much better. We were told by other guests while we stayed there that they were bitten by bugs while sleeping in bed and that mold was growing in their room.

The staff was rude especially the cleaning woman. She would clean our room and remove the towels but not replace them with fresh ones. When we asked for towels, she would just give us an attitude. We told her that we'd complain, and she replied "Go right ahead". We asked for towels, not a nasty attitude. Also, the cleaning woman did not replace our drinking glasses either, as evidenced by the one glass that we'd drunk tomato juice out of the previous day. When we showed her the dirty glass and requested a fresh one, she rinsed out the dirty one in the bathroom, dried it with a towel and handed it back to us. Unbelieveable!! The water was yellow as previous reviewers noted. Overall, the hotel seemed clean enough. The pool area was nice and the waitress at the breakfast buffet was very pleasant. We also had a problem when we realized upon arriving home that we'd left our digital camera in the safe in our room. It took 8 phone calls over a 5 hour span to get someone to finally help us. Whenever the hotel employee on the other end of the line couldn't help us, thet'd tell us to call back in a half hour. When we asked to speak to the manager, we were told that the manager doesn't have a telephone! Obviously it was just a litany of excuses to not help us. Fortunately, we were able to get our camera back only because we have some friends who were in Ft. Lauderdale. You get what you pay for. This hotel was $59 per night. But given the bad experiences we had, we'd never go back. I considered complaining to Ramada headquarters but it's their responsibility to manage their property.