Holiday Inn Express & Suites Bradenton East-Lakewood Ranch, an IHG Hotel

Great for family. We love the extra space in the suite.

Hotel under major construction do not go. Hotels.com won’t refund. Unbelievable. Left as unsafe for my small children, screws all over pool. Cardboard in hallways. Lights not working.

The hotel was clean, staff were nice and getting around the hotel was easy. Breakfast was good. We were visiting family nearby so we didn’t spend that much time at the hotel besides sleeping. Only issue was when we came back to the hotel at night there was always people hanging out in the parking lot that didn’t seem like they were guests. Just made it a bit uncomfortable when arriving back to hotel. No major issue though. Overall it was a good stay.

We relocated form out of state. our movers failed to bring our things in a time. We needed a place to stay for about a week. This Holiday Inn was wonderful. We got a 2 room suite. We were very comfortable with our 4 children. The circumstances were less than ideal, but the conditions were great and the staff was fantastic. The hot tub was helpful, and the breakfast was greats. They always had fresh to coffee ready too. The staff treated us better than family. Just super nice people. Chick filet is just west of the hotel about 1 minute inn a car, and Walmart is just across the street.

I stayed at an Even hotel a few weeks prior for a very similar price and the two hotels don’t compare. Even was better in every way. For example, Even had amenities like different fruity types of free, ice cold water in the lobby. Holiday Inn Express had $2 bottles of water. HIE didn’t have usb ports in the room, which would seem like a normal amenity these days. When we arrived at HIE, the parking lot was completely empty (and it never got busy at all during our stay). We asked for a larger room and the indifferent front desk clerk said there was nothing available. Another front desk clerk spent most of his time in the parking lot on his cell phone. Another seemed to be driving down the road. We saw on two occasions that he’d come flying back up to the hotel in his car when guests were at the front desk and he’d run in to assist. Seemed weird. We were traveling with kids so we stayed here for the free breakfast but it was pretty awful. My son poured an in-date milk into his cereal and it was curdled. Breads and pastries were stale. Eggs were very runny. Also, the pool looked like it had never been cleaned. I had to scoop out all the leaves and trash. When we checked out the clerk seemed miserable and wasn’t pleasant. The only thing that was a positive was the cleaning staff. They did a good job.