hotels

Im going to stay up there for a few days this year and and have not stayed in a Cedar point hotel in a long time so i was wondering what hotels are are the best to stay in does any one have any favorites. thank you for your help!!!!!!!!!

My favorite is breakers. I stay there for a week at a time and i love it. The only thing from my personal experience is do not get a twin section room. It only has a stand up shower and smells of mold. My air conditioner didn't work and i was there in August. They moved me to a breakers east room after i complained. All in all i love breakers.

I stayed in Hotel Breakers for the first time for a night with some of my friends during closing weekend. We were in the Bon Aire section, and it was alright. It's not bad if your looking for the cheapest rooms there. The hallways are like a half mile long it seems and I never knew there were so many rooms in that section.. and of coarse we were down at the end. But, the room was facing the lake so it was nice seeing the sunrise!

Go with the Breakers, its the hotel that is the closest to the beach and to 2 entrances (Magnum and Beach.)

I'm going to recommend Sandcastle Suites. The new renovation should be nice and I suggest you try it out.
*** Edited 12/14/2007 7:56:59 PM UTC by CPboy77***

The CP website describes the hotels and their ammenities quite well. Depending on your needs and budget, you should be able to find an accomodation right for you. Note that there are shuttles on the peninsula, but not to Castaway Bay and Breakers Express. The hotel rates compared to each other are indicative of the quality of the accomodations (ie cheaper is actually cheaper!). Regardless of the quality of the accomodations, you cannot beat staying at a CP resort for a few days, that's why they have a very low vacancy rate.

Do your homework, and you will find at least a decent room with a great location.

For $150 a night at Breakers I got a single king room that overlooked the pool and was right off the rotunda. Real nice room, but subpar bathrooms. But you had a lake view and it was a steller room.

Then there was the Bon-Air room which had no view as the air conditioner took up the entire window, but the bathrooms were strangely nicer in these rooms. This room was like $133 a night...

Then Castaway Bay...I paid something like $119 a night for a double queen I think room. I think this room would go for a lot more in the summer (it was october halloweekends), and we had our own patio with furniture, microwave, and really nice amenities. We didn't check the water park out.

I stayed at Comfort Inn which was the most uhh "family / college party hotel".

The pool area being unsupervised and with a tiki bar next to it at the Comfort Inn on 5909 Milan (like 12 feet from the pool next to it) makes it a drinkers paradise. The area was very busy and hopping. The rooms there were priced in the area of Breakers less expensive rooms.

Breakers is a nice hotel, but myself I find once I am staying on point...I don't like to leave it. So you find yourself eating on point more which is expensive, probably 30% more expensive then a regular T.G.I Fridays (@ Breakers), and then they have a pizza hut, krispy kreme donuts, kind of a thrift store, ice cream shop, multiple pools, the beach / board walk.

If I can do it all over again...I would stay at Breakers in a single king right off the rotunda for $150. This was the view we had...
http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/kicker15L7/?action=view&current=MOV02458.flv

Not bad.....if you walked one floor down you could go out to the balcony that is right above the pool and sun bathe, and etc.

I personally find my time at Cedar Point so rushed that I would like to just get in early (which is totally possible now with the 08 passes), and get out. The hotel is becoming less and less important as the "extras" aren't even that cool.

The pool closes something like an hour after the park, and the pool is a real great place to sit back and drink at after a long day of walking. Your hungry though so you eat, and you come to see the TGI Fridays that costs 30% more for every item including drinks has a 45 minute wait.

Famous Daves is awesome but once again if you make the "most of your day" at the park...when you come to eat at closing time its a huge wait.

If you find yourself being a person who takes a walk with your girl friend on a little romantic beach walk and want to make the trip as romantic as you can. Breakers....or Sandcastle (never stayed but its supposed to be suites....).

Breakers always gives you things to talk about too....like in the summer do they keep the doors at the main entrance open 24x7 and let the bugs in as well? Man doesn't the place feel haunted? Etc.....

Its all in what you value.

All I will say is since we were at the park as much as possible...we didn't get to enjoy breakers all that much. It rained once and holy moly did the indoor pools get packed / dirty quick.

I mean I can think of a lot of reasons not to stay at Breakers. But if I have the cash to spend + do want to stay on point then it is the place to go.

You will begin to hate driving the causeway and the 20 minute drive it seems like to just get to the soak city parking lot.

I wonder if any of the furniture from the Geauga Lake Hotel will be taken to their resorts. I can see it happening, especially with the SandCastle Suites being fixed up. Any ideas?

loneranger7281 said:
My favorite is breakers. I stay there for a week at a time and i love it. The only thing from my personal experience is do not get a twin section room. It only has a stand up shower and smells of mold. My air conditioner didn't work and i was there in August. They moved me to a breakers east room after i complained. All in all i love breakers.

That is all you need to read in this thread.

They stayed there for a week.

They loved it????? (did they? Read on....)

They didn't get the room they requested.

It had a Handicapped shower.

The room smelled completely of mold.

The air conditioner did NOT work. (August 2007)

They moved the guest to an appropriate room after complaining...

Sick if you ask me.................

I've worked in the hotel business for the past 8 years and that is unacceptable.

Kinzel....You need to KNOCK down the Unacceptable rooms and start over! We are FAR from 1989 hotel rooms DICK!!! Step into the 2007's. Laugh at me all you want, but it's true. Flame away!!!

Thank you for your help is there any hotels that view the park i am a big fan of that atmosphere?

Parts of Breakers view the park and part of Sandcastle views Magnum, also LighthousePoint has a great view of Mean Streak.

I am not a fan of any of CP hotels except for Castaway Bay.

Breakers is just too old, some aurgue that it is historic, but so are a lot of hotels that have been kept up way better. Not to mention high prices for not the best room. One thing I will say is that it is convenient, being able to walk from hotel to park is very nice.

Sandcastle is probably the biggest rip off they have. It is far from the park, does not have much to offer for the price. Yeah it is being renovated but have you seen it the last 2 years it really needs it. But it is right on the end of the pennisula and is quiet back there if that is what you want.

Camper Village is fun. There is a cool store there, my favorite outside of the park. Camping has to be your thing though.

Breakers Express is not worth it stay somewhere else that is cheaper it is just like every other hotel.

Castaway Bay is themed nicely and there is a water park that is much nicer then Soak City. I sugest this hotel. Or if you are looking for cheap, stay somewhere offsite just do your reseach beacuse some of these places are shady.

SoakCity2006 said:
Breakers is just too old.

Breakers Tower opened in 1999. I don't consider that being old.

^I was just about to say that. Obviously he forgot about the new section.
*** Edited 12/16/2007 12:12:51 AM UTC by CPboy77***

Right there is obviously the new sections. I was refering mainly to the lobby itself. That is where the guest get their first impression of the hotel. No AC or heat and if you work in there you know how bad it gets. Things just look bad, the sprinkler system has random pipes sprawling across everywhere. Really it looks like a dressed up version of Cedars Housing in many ways, Except of the smell. Ship Store needs to be remodeld the carpet inside is hidious, Boutique is pretty bad too. Island Accents looks great, but wait no one buys anything there because Cedar Point guests don't dress in Tommy Bahama. First impressions are a must and Breakers doesn't do it. Sorry.

For the past two years I have gone to the Sandcastle Suites and I haven't mind it much especially since theres a lot of space for me and my friends to play beer pong games. As a joke we call it the Sandasshole Suites because I'm not gonna lie its kind of a dump but hopefully the renovations will make a difference. Does anyone have any more info about the renovations because I haven't heard much at all.