Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort Resort

I really enjoyed this property and would consider staying here again. However, we will utilize the fridge and microwave more and avoid the restaurants! The Hideaway bar and the Galaxy Bowl both have decent food and prices, but the Bayliner Diner was awful! It was way over priced for what you got. Powder eggs, heat and serve meat, and it was ridiculously priced. Pool areas were nice and very well managed by the lifeguards. Both the pool and lazy river area had bars and then one in the lobby. Again way over priced, but you could conveniently use your room key for charges! All in all this is a moderately priced hotel for the area and is the closest to Volcano Bay, which was just a little walk down to the park! There is a shuttle that runs like clockwork to and from the other parks and City Walk. This was a great trip and the hotel itself is totally worth it and would have gotten a perfect score except for the food choices! I highly recommend Cabana Bay Beach Resort!

to far of a walk from city

I am a professional travel agent and wanted to reacquaint myself with the Universal Studios Orlando Theme Park. It had been several years since my last visit and with the addition of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter I felt an update was needed. We decided we wanted to stay at one of the on-site properties so we chose Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort for our 4 night stay. Our room was located in Building 6 so it was a bit of a walk to the Food Court, Guest Services and Gift Shop. Upon arrival we were greeted by an extremely friendly staff and check in went very smoothly. Our room was well appointed and clean. There is an amazing view of the volcano at Volcano Bay when you select poolside rooms We had one issue in our rooms which were not shown to be prepaid, it was handled and corrected before we even arrived at the front desk. We opted not to allow charges to our room, to rather pay as we went in order to track our expenses more accurately. However, most locations accepted Apple Pay so you could still go card free. The one exception to that was the pool bar. I ordered a drink and was told they did not accept Apple Pay because they were not allowed to take anyone's property behind the bar. Apparently the credit card machine did not have long enough cables to reach the customer. The food court served very nice meals and offered a great selection at a fair price. The only issue we had with the resort itself was that the lifeguards seem quite young and did not really have control of the situation.