The check in process was ok- and that was the highlight. The woman who checked us in was efficient but flippant/short with us. Boards in the lobby area told us of improvement construction occurring in the hotel, which the woman didn't mention, nor did we see it on the website when booking. We did receive breakfast vouchers (as we had booked them with our room), but no mention as to service times.
We got to our room and noticed the walls were scratched, but chalked it up to being why renovations were occurring. The beds were standard. When it came time for a shower, things seemed normal until I finished and stepped out into a lake on the bathroom floor. My husband and I mopped it up with towels and when we left for dinner, mentioned it to the same lady at the front desk and she says "I'll tell engineering." And promptly turns around and goes to the back, no "our apologies" or "can I bring you more towels." No worries, we can get fresh towels tomorrow when housekeeping comes. Spoiler alert: we didn't.
The next morning we got up and were getting dressed when housekeeping knocked at 8 am. My husband requested them to give us about 10 minutes and we would be leaving for the day. The housekeeper responded "We leave at 1. You have to tell the front desk." No worries, but also that gives you 5 hours to return to us. We went down to breakfast, a buffet off the main lobby. There was a good selection of fruits, yogurt, juice and standard pastries as well as a "hot buffet." The food, from scrambled eggs to sausage to biscuits was ice cold. Each of the 3 mornings we ate here (we bought the breakfast as part of our room stay), the food was luke warm at best.
As we left, I stopped at the front desk and mentioned that we would like housekeeping. The young man said "no worries" and immediately radioed our room number to housekeeping. After a day out in the city, we came back to the room, exactly as we left it- no cleaning, nothing. I went back downstairs and explained, including the fact that we had used all towels to clean up the faulty shower. The woman who originally checked us in was there and she rolled her eyes at us and huffed off to get us 2 bath towels. No hand towels or wash clothes, no apologies, no polite interaction at all. Back in the room, we discovered that the shower was adjusted, but certainly not fixed and we made another trip for towels.
My husband mentioned "let's go relax in the hot tub," so we suited up and went downstairs. The hot tub area is now a planted garden- in the hotels' defense it doesn't advertise a hot tub, although typically the mention of a "pool and spa" suggests a hot tub. We turned to check out the pool and... it was disgusting. Various articles of clothing were strewn about, including children's underwear, plus used towels draped and thrown multiple places. The pool itself looked as though it might have been growing a bit of scum, like when pool water becomes stagnant. It also smelled pretty mildew-y. We left, but in hindsight I wish we had taken a picture because it was a wreck.
We never ended up with housekeeping (the second days' excuse was "you had the do not disturb sign out," which was not true because our room didn't even have one) and the staff was pretty unwelcoming. The room was dingy and we were mildly uncomfortable the whole time.
Ultimately, I regret spending 3 nights here. We have stayed at a Four Points hotel in Florida before with a great experience, but this one was miserable. We try our best to stay open minded, but the only redeeming part of this stay is that we were only 7 minutes from my brother in law's apartment and we were able to see him. I'm surprised and disappointed that Marriott would have such an inferior product as this hotel. read more