I love all-suites hotels. You don’t need a special upgrade or media credentials to get a great room with plenty of space. You know when you check in that every room is going to be a suite. I was excited when my girlfriend gave my husband and I a gift certificate for a free night at the new all-suites hotel in Pittsburgh.

Cambria Suites is attached via parking garage to the new CONSOL Energy Center (home to the Pittsburgh Penguins), which I’m sure makes it convenient for anyone coming into town for a hockey game. It is not conveniently located near any other major Pittsburgh attraction and is just outside the downtown district and away from major bus routes. Here for a game or have a rental car? You’ll be fine.

Location issues aside, Cambria Suites is a beautiful hotel that lived up to my expectations as an all-suites property. Our king standard room included a large living area, plenty of space to work (which I happily ignored), and the most important feature of any hotel room: ample outlets for charging electronics.

The bed was comfortable, too.

The bathroom gave me pause. The modern design featured a shower with no shower curtain or sliding door. Half the shower was enclosed with a glass wall and the other half, the part farthest from the shower head, was open. Another design oddity included having the faucet for the shower on the wall opposite the shower head, eliminating the early morning cold water screams. While that design decision was brilliant, I’d love to hear the logic behind an open shower stall in a hotel bathroom.

Photo: Cambria Suites

When vacationing on Treasure Island in St. Petersburg, Florida, there are more than enough resort properties on the Gulf of Mexico from which to chose for your family vacation. Finding the best package deal for your family vacation on the Gulf isn’t a challenge, but finding a good hotel special with the amenities like those offered at The Bilmar Beach Resort are hard to come by.

Playground on the beach at Bilmar Beach Resort, St Petersburg, FL

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It’s pretty much a kid’s dream vacation: Staying at Nick Hotel and spending the day at SeaWorld & Aquatica.

Meet Spongebob at Nick Hotel in Orlando, FL!

Right now, Nick Hotel in Orlando is offering a package deal as a preferred hotel of SeaWorld Adventure Parks. It’s one of the best discount hotel and amusement park packages I’ve ever seen in the Orlando area.

Book two nights at Nick Hotel, get one night free, PLUS get unlimited access to SeaWorld AND Aquatica during your stay. PLUS for a limited time, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is included in the package.

Packages are available for most nights through December 31, 2010 starting at just $620 for a family of four. Calculate it out, and that comes to just $52/night/person. When you calculate the cost of the hotel, the access to Nick Hotel’s on-site water park, unlimited access to SeaWorld, Aquatica, AND Busch Gardens, it’s the best vacation opportunity I’ve seen in a LONG time for any family with young children.

As someone who has stayed at Nick Hotel, visited SeaWorld, and splashed at Aquatica, I can assure you and your kids that this is a deal NOT to be missed.

SeaWorld Orlando
7007 SeaWorld Drive
Orlando, FL 32821

Nickelodeon Suites Resort – Orlando, Florida
14500 Continental Gateway, Orlando, Florida 32821

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Nick Hotel in Orlando, Florida, is the perfect destination for a family with young children ages 4-13 years old. If you fall outside of this demographic, please do yourself and your sanity a favor, and don’t go. That said, if you do have children ages 4-13 years old who have even the slightest inkling of who is any character on any Nickelodeon show, make your reservation today.

Nick Hotel, Orlando, Florida

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