Hi friends, it's Jacqueline at Pixie Dust PhD. The first couple nights of our vacation Adam and
I are staying at the Doubletree across from the entrance of Universal; so we are going to do a
quick room tour. We're in room 1840--so that is on the 18th floor in the south tower. This room
tour is going to feature a room that's a little bit lived in; I didn't do any tidying up, and we
didn't do it right when we checked in. Frankly, I find those to be a little bit more helpful so
you can visualize how your things will fit in the room too. All right, great. So first up, you know,
we're at the door. Pretty standard. I will say the door is quite thick; it's very heavy, which is a
little bit of an annoyance going in and out, but I do think it is helping to dampen the noise.
We did come back to take a midday nap, and I hardly noticed any noise. For the most part,
it's a very quiet hotel. After you enter, directly to the left is the bathroom. It's pretty standard.
Nothing to write home about. But the counter space is very large, which is nice. There is
only one sink. They definitely could have fit two in here, but it is nice to have all this counter
space. You can see all of our things sprawled out--still plenty of space. Then you have a
nice big mirror. There is no little makeup mirror or anything like that, if that's
something that you're interested in. A little piece of artwork. They have this green motif
going on throughout the hotel. And then a shower/tub combo. Nothing too extraordinary there.
I will say that the tub is raised; like when you step into it you have to step up, and then
when you come out of it you have to step down. It's a little bit weird. And when you're in it,
like I can touch the ceiling, and I’m not--I’m not particularly a tall person.
So just a little quirk to be aware of. Behind the bathroom door is this little pseudo linen closet.
This is where all the clean towels are, as well as extra toilet paper and a hair dryer. We booked
a standard room with a single king bed. At the time we booked it, after all the taxes and fees,
it was about 85 dollars a night. Self-parking is an additional $23 per night, so all in you
can come in under $110 a night. Of course you're not directly on Universal property by any means,
but you are actually closer to Universal than some of the cheaper on property hotels. But coming in
at under $110 per night I think it's a pretty good deal. Okay let's look at the rest of the room.
Exiting the bathroom, here is the main part of the room. It's not like a Doubletree suite where
you have a separate living area and bedroom. It is still a large-ish room though. To your right you
have a full-length mirror, which is really nice. And then if we keep moving right we have a closet;
so this is a fairly generously sized closet. You get ten hangers:
five have the pant hooks, five do not. This is where your safe is, a place to store your luggage,
ironing board, iron, and this shelf. It's definitely a good amount of space in this
closet. You could probably store your luggage here, we just did not because we are lazy.
So then you have your bed. Adam is stretching right now. On either side you've got side tables;
so all of them--both of them have one USB outlet and then two normal outlets. On this side,
of course, one of these outlets is being used for the clock. And then you have these reading lights,
which the power is secretly back here--took me a minute to figure that out. The bedside tables
themselves don't have drawers, just these empty spaces, but definitely handy for putting things.
And then even though this is a king-sized bed, so it's quite large, because the room is so
large you still have quite a lot of space. So between the bed and the closet plenty of space,
and on the other side--same bedside table--between the bed
and this lounger chair a good amount of space. So you do have this green lounge chair; we're
obviously just using it to store our luggage, but that's a nice option for you if you want that.
There's another small side table, where they gave us our ice container and some disposable cups. You
could easily move this around if you want. Then we have this huge window. From our room exactly
there's not a view or anything--we didn't pay for a view. There's the parking lot, you can see
the pool down there, but no theme park view. But yeah, it's a nice big window. You can feel
the heat radiating from it, which is pretty nuts. It's a very big contrast from the AC temperature
inside the room. And then you have two sets of curtains. There's these nice blackout curtains
on the inner, and then these decorative curtains on the outer. And the blackout curtains do work
very well. Like I said, we took a midday nap and the light was not a problem at all.
Finally, you have some more floor space. So I just put my luggage down here. And then this
large combination desk slash tv stand slash dresser slash cabinet for the mini fridge.
So the safe is in the closet, so this is a mini fridge. It does have the world's little you know
tiniest freezer slot that's basically worthless, but it's good for some waters. We have some cokes,
Lacroix, and those--that's a piece of leftover cake from last night.
And then you have four drawers here. These are all
nicely sized; they fit quite a lot. We're just storing our some of our clothes in here for now.
Decently large TV; I don't--I’m very bad at guessing, I don't know what the dimensions are.
But it does come with cable, which is awesome. So we've been watching football and soccer and late
night TV while we are hanging out in the room. And then just a huge amount of space to put your stuff
on, which we have done judiciously. This desk lamp has a couple of outlets built into it. This one
is the coffee machine though, so if you want to have coffee this came plugged in when we got
into the room. I then just plugged in one of our units that has even more spaces to plug things in.
And then your desk area, which for me is, you know, where I’m putting my park bag basically.
And another mirror! So there still is no mirror where you could like easily lean in to do your makeup,
but there is this mirror and then there's that full-length mirror
as well as the mirror in the bathroom. So that's a good amount of mirror space if you ask me.
You've got your king bed; it's really comfy. No complaints from Adam and I, right?
--Right. --There are only four pillows, but they are oversized; also very comfortable. And then again
you have this green motif artwork above. That was our short but sweet room tour of a standard
king room on the 18th floor in the south tower of the Doubletree by Hilton near the entrance
to Universal. For the rate we paid I think it is a great price. We'll probably have another video
where Adam and I talk about pros and cons later, but so far we're very happy with the room. If
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let me know where you normally stay when you come to Universal. Do you pay up to stay on property at
one of those closer, you know, deluxe hotels where you can easily walk or take a boat into City Walk?
Do you stay on property, but at one of the value resorts? Or do you stay off
property like we are and save some money, but end up walking a little bit further?
I can't wait to hear from you. We can also always chat outside of YouTube over on Twitter and
Instagram @PixieDustPhD. We are just finishing up our midday break after showering, taking a nap,
freshening up. We're about to head out to the park, so I will see you all later! I hope the
rest of your day is absolutely magical, and we'll see you real soon at Pixie Dust PhD!