Avalon Waterfront Inns Beach Resort

For those of you who have asked, I’m afraid that I can’t find any photos to post. I must have deleted them from my phone because they were just too nasty-​looking. Sorry!

UPDATE — My friends got robbed in the middle of the night the last night of the stay. I had left and stayed near the airport and thank god I did. Their phones, laptops and wallets were all stolen.
I also saw somewhere in these reviews that another woman was robbed. I honestly think it is the management/​staff. Filthy and white trash.

If I could give a –5 I would! This place was Absolutely disgusting!!! I could NOT believe they even allow people to stay there. I can’t believe people would choose to work there!!! The pictures on Unilocal show exactly what the rooms look like! I couldn’t stay long enough to take pictures! PLEASE DO NOT stay here! I called orbitz to get my money back and of course the hotel says «our system is down». That’s been the case all along!!!

The only complaint about this place is a girl named jenni. She has a huge attitude. She needs to get fired. #FireJenni

What was I thinking staying here???
I was thinking I was willing to sacrifice luxury for location and would not be bothered by it’s vintage motel charm. It would be fun I thought, just like in the movies… But you’re sacrificing a lot more staying here.
Where do I begin, the bad experience here is unreal, To begin… it’s so dirty and funky, I couldn’t breath… I kept sneazing… The beautiful water front view was tainted by streaky and dusty old windows… The Bed and Bathroom literally smelled like urine *vomits* I ended up sleeping on the sofa* When I went down to complain about the sheets… The maid got very clolse to my face saying she doesn’t change sheets everyday, she was kinda scary… To top it off, she kept berging into my suite *while I was naked* without a knock… The doors weren’t even working to my walking level balcony, and the bottom lock to the front door… So you can imagine I slept terrified intruders would be able to enter. &#!% *HELP! Get me out of here!*
To top it all off, a few items were missing from my suite… Including my gold bangle from Dubai… Great, I lost thousands on that note alone trying to save bucks. I didn’t bother, I was enjoying the beach and decided to move to a different location. Lesson learned, don’t stay at dingy suites anymore. Not worth it at all… Oh what a horrid experience. Never again!!! This property is under contract to be bought by The Four seasons to be residential starting at 1.2 Mil… Obviously the location is a hit, but not worth the sacrifice of staying in a run down motel… My first and last time!

THE WORST EXPERIENCE EVER
Can’t find motel huge Four Season sign blocking front and side of motel and front desk. 12 inch dirt path under trees Jenny at front desk yelling at customer on phone then yelled at me. Nasty mean unpleasant. Room wet towels tub barely drains sink doesn’t drain walls and doors dirty and with chunks no blankets sheets provided only. Door with 4busted locks new lock barely locks. Joint room doors with nails no locks. Human poop in lot.
called Jenny she told them shed send blankets and towels to room. Never did lied refused to send them. Rose nice in am changing my room. Rose was gone Jenny said No I’m not changing your room. Refused to call manager.
emailed manager no response. I am a retired front desk clerk now an RN. Came here for 51^st bday and breast cancer surgery recovery. UNEXCEPTABLE TREATMENT AND FACILITY

Wish I could give 0 stars.
Room extremely dirty, room smelled like mold, I was having a hard time breathing there. The carpet was full of holes, doors had holes on them, furniture damaged, everything was awful! Tried to complain about it but all they did was to give us keys to a room next to our that was even worse. Super over priced, ended up finding much better hotels for the same price at West Palm Beach. I strongly recommend not to waste your money there, don’t know how a place like this can legally operate as a hotel, honestly!

We check in, saw the rooms, check out. Agree with all the bad reviews, the dirtiest hotel we ever saw, including bed bugs. They gave us our money back, moved to a very clean nice hotel. p

If I could give a zero, I would. Sat there waiting for the desk clerk to decide she wanted to come do her job and earned a parking ticket for the effort. Then she had the audacity to charge me 44.00 for the privilege to park there. Took one look at the room. (239) and walked right back out. Black mold everywhere. Tin foil in the light fixtures and beds that looked like the sheets haven’t been changed in months. Only saving thing was that there was no argument when I called the next morning and demanded a refund. (we booked for 4 days) I think the refund wasn’t a hassle because the manager knew it was coming and I was fully prepared to take them to court. This disgusting hovel was reported to the Broward county Sherriffs department and the Florida health department. Save your money and save yourself the hassle. Thier website and reviews are fraudulent.

This was by far the worst hotel experience I have ever had. My room was disgusting! It was filthy and smelled like bleach. The first room they put us in the bathroom door wouldn’t even close. We went to the front desk to change rooms and they put us in «the other» building. It was dark and kind of creepy and when I opened the door there were no beds! Just bed frames. The front desk person was rude and acted like she was doing us a favor putting us back in the original room. Ultimately we chose not to stay there for fear of what might crawl on us at night. Do not stay here! I will post pictures of my room.

For the Price it was a decent place to stay. We payed $ 59.00 and the other places are well over $ 100.00. No air conditioning just a swamp cooler. If you walk south down the beach there is a lot of places to eat, shop and go dancing. If you don’t have high expectations, basic room, furniture you could find at a thrift shop. There was a bar at the hotel in front of us that caused a bit of noise. We would stay there again.

I booked this hotel through
. When you book a room at this hotel on their web-​site they don’t specify that the room is going to be located at one of the other buildings behind the main hotel, and that is what happened to us. We booked a hotel room for the main building, not for the building behind this hotel. On top of that, the receptionist was very very rude, never made eye contact with us, and every time we asked her something she stayed quiet and started talking to other people that were in the same room. After a while she would answer the questions we asked as if we were an afterthought. The Hotel also tried to keep the deposit we made for the hotel room. We told them that in this country you have money extorted for something you didn’t use, wear, eat etc. When we found out that the hotel was going to give us a room behind the main hotel building we told them that we didn’t want to stay, and we asked for the deposit back. They completely refused to give us our money back. We almost called the police. We made a complaint with the office manager, some Indian young woman (I don’t mean to stereotype, but In case you guys decide to go there, so you can recognized her) Anyway, she favored her employee over her customers. If any of you go to Unilocal (something that we didn’t do before booking a room at this hotel) you are going to see ALL the BAD reviews this hotel has. Next time you are going to book something somewhere make sure to read the reviews, it is always helpful when booking a room outside of your main city and especially at this hotel.
This hotel is very dirty, mold smell everywhere you go. In order for this hotel to improve bad reviews management and staff needs to change IMMEDIATELY. Neither the staff or the manager knows how to manage a business. The pictures shown on their web-​side is completely false that’s why I say is FALSE ADVERTISEMENT and they should be sue for that. DON’T for any reason book a room at this HORRIBLE place. Not even a third world country has this type of hotels.

I had hopes for this place, unfortunately it let me down, I wish I could give 0 stars.
My boyfriend and I came here for the weekend while we took a 2 week vacation, and this was the worst part of our entire trip. We stayed one night, and then left. The «front desk» was so rude and couldn’t even say «how are you»? We felt very uncomfortable at how rude we were treated. We went into the room and was astonished at how filthy it was. There were stains on the chair, the floor, we didn’t even want to sit on the bed.
We were up all night thinking someone was going to break in because that is how flimsy the doors were. Needless to say, we did not get an ounce of sleep because every noise we heard made us paranoid. I would not recommend anyone staying here, this place should either be remolded, hire all new staff, or shut down.
This was a disappointment.

Gross and highly unprofessional! If you just need a place to crash and dont want to enjoy the place youre staying at, its fine. Otherwise, avoid and shell out a little more cash for a place that doesnt make you squirm just to look at it

Bed Bugs. Crime. Falling Ceilings. Broken Locks. This is the nastiest place I have ever been too. My boyfriend was bitten by so many bed bugs I had to call the Public Health Department. They should be shut down. We were robbed in the middle of the night by a stranger while we were sleeping! The door of the motel didn’t lock and they have no security. I was surprised at how incompetent management were when I told them about the bed bugs they replied, well the cruise ships bring them in all the time. Wow. I would never recommend this place to a soul. Its completely disgusting and you will regret staying here. There are too many nice places around — keep going.

Oh Dear Lord … where to start?
We wanted to go Ft Lauderdale for one night to visit some family that was staying at the W hotel. Eventually we couldn’t afford those prices so we started looking for an affordable hotel.
This hotel was charging about $ 100 a night and it was close to where we wanted to go so … we booked it.
From the outside it doesn’t look that bad but as soon as you walked in to the «office» it looked like nobody gave a rats ass about this place. We were hoping the rooms weren’t like that.
We got to our room in Building B on the 3^rd floor … damn!!!
The door looked like it had been beaten up. And up top you could see an old window air conditioner hanging from a whole in the wall. The door didn’t even close right so we had to struggle to make sure we were safe leaving our things in the room.
Inside, the walls looked like they have had some repairs and had been patched but they didn’t even bother painting them back. The mini fridge was old and Highly Rusty, the tv was small and old and don’t make me talk about the furniture in general with all the stains and scratches.
The bathroom was clean but looked dirty because of the rusted facilities; And the window didn’t even close at all … it was totally bent and cracked open.
It seems to me that they probably have some friend that multitasks with the cleaning and maintenance of this place because if that were to be a company I would’ve sued them a long time ago.
Thank God it was only one night and we didn’t get to experience the pool or the common areas.
The only good thing is that the beach is right across the hotel and the night life is a couple blocks away.
Don’t pay this price if you’re better off staying at a Motel 6.

One of the the worst… and scariest experience in my life. Pretty much every single review that is below mine happened to me and my girlfriend. Drove 4 hours from Tampa and arrived at 10:30 at night only to be greeted by one of the most miserable, unfriendly, and rudest «beings» on the face of this Earth. She didn’t say hi or even look or acknowledge us when we checked in. The hotel and rooms are Not even close to what the website shows you. Absolute fraud and gross misrepresentation
Was led to the back of the property which was not lit and felt like we were about to enter into the Bates Motel. Once we muscled the front door opened, we were immediately smacked with the pungent stench of musk, b.o., and mildew. But what made it even scarier is that the light switch didn’t turn on any lights — making us feel like once we did turn on the lights we would find a dead rodent or worse — a body. The paint and stucco throughout the whole room was peeling and had water damage. The room was unbearably hot with the window unit on top of the door way blowing lukewarm air. The chairs had stains all over them and the beds reeked of god knows what. The «kitchen» was straight from the early 70’s but not in a retro way but a camping style oven and old appliances that looked like the last time they were cleaned was… in the 70’s
The tv picked up 3 to maybe 4 stations but with snow and bad reception to add to that enjoyment. No clock in the room. Could only shudder and cringe to think about the bed bugs and diseases we would have picked up by sleeping on those death beds. And it looked like prostitution might be prevalent in these hotel rooms.
Obviously we weren’t going to stay there even though we knew it was very late and had no where else to go or money to spend. Ms. Personality at the front desk couldn’t care less about our situation, was extremely rude, condescending, and refused to return our money. All she could say when we told her about the room and our situation was «I don’t own this place, call the manager in the morning» — nice.
An absolute horrible situation and hotel. I am completely flabbergasted that this place is still in business and is — and will — continue to rip people off. CAUTION: if you value your life and money do NOT stay here.

checked in — saw the condition of the rooms and left. Had been here 5 years ago — when it was rundown but passable beachfront. The GM on the telephone told me about upgrades and improvements but the opposite is what has happened. here is a quick list:
*air-​conditioners that looked like they were surrounded by black mold, along with several of the doorways.
*The hot water heater was in the room and the wall behind it had corroded pipes and the heater itself looked like something had dripped down it and no one wiped it off.
*One of my main concerns was the overwhelming smell of bleach when I walked into the room which was strong enough that it burned my nose with my first breath in. This was to cover up the damp musty — or worse mold smells
*The ceiling appeared to be water damaged and was damp to touch, with concern that it could fall on someone.
*There was paint peeling off bathroom walls (which on it’s own would not have been a big deal.)
*There was a chair with splashes of something all across the top — what it was we were not sure.
*someone had vomited on the railing outside and no one had cleaned it
*the kitchen in another room looked like someone moved out and never cleaned the kitchen First we though someone died there — but the only crime scene tape was wrapped around one of the poolside lounges.
Do like we did and run away

0 stars!!! absolutely disgusting!!! fraudulent definetely! the «rooms» are in the back buildings not what you see on the website. There was mold in the kitchen and bathroom. Our neighbors had blood on their beds. No lights or outlets. Window AC units. I don’t recommend this place at all. They tried to give us a new room in the main building which wasn’t any better. The manger tried to get us to pay for the first night deposit/​cancelation policy and we said we are not paying that, and had to threaten contacting the health department before getting our money back.
I would highly recommend B Ocean which is were we all ended up staying. They were very understand and accommodating with amazingly clean rooms. The views were breathtaking and have discounts.

I booked a hotel reservation online for a Suite with a beach view right on their website only to be down graded to a King size bed on the first floor.
Over the phone, the GM called me a few hours after waiting for a room to be available indicating that the hotel was overbooked and we would receive another room. I was fine with it since we would get charged less than booked (from $ 188 to $ 145).
Once we got back to the hotel to check in, we were given a room in the very back of the hotel on the first floor. The room smelled like no one has stayed in it for some time. The window across the bed near the kitchen did not have blinds. The bed didn’t have fitted sheets, just sheets overlapping each other. We went back to complain and ask for another room with blinds, only to be told that the window is ‘Frosted’ hence no one can look into. They mentioned that there were no other rooms available. That’s it, no other help from the receptionist and the GM.
They are lucky that Ft. Lauderdale was booked with no openings in any other hotels. I would not come back to this hotel nor recommend it. STAY AWAY!