My fiancé and I stayed here (Orange beach) for a few days on our vacation. We also stayed at another Hampton inn prior, on same trip, in Sarasota. The Orange beach location wasn’t near as nice as Sarasota. When we arrived, we were surprised with a $15/day parking, which was not listed in their listing. So that wasn’t welcoming.
The parking deck was nice, there are two doors to enter the hotel on the 3rd floor with your room key. One of the doors, the card reader didn’t work, so we had to use the other. Getting out to the parking deck from the inside, you have to press a green button to release the door. This always took several tries. I’m honestly surprised this passes fire inspection, because it doesn’t work very well. A lot of the times someone would just leave the door open which is also a safety issue.
The room was clean, but smelled of mildew. not a lot of room. We had a two queen bed with balcony overlooking the beach. Not a cheap room. Sarasota was a king bed room, and had a ton of room. Orange beach not so much. I didn’t like that there was a hotel door separating the neighboring room. But that’s not a big deal I guess. The AC didn’t work very well. It wasn’t much more than 85 out so it’s not like it’s the middle of summer. It was either humid in the room, or freezing. At one point the door knob fell off the patio door when I closed it. The bathroom was okay, dated, but clean and decent.
