Hollywood Beach Flamingo

We spent 2 night at Flamingo Hollywood Beach Hotel before a 7 day cruise. I will start with the positives. It is a very easy and wonderful location. The area is absolutely beautiful and VERY close to the beach. The obvious spots of the room were clean not overly clean but clean.The staff was very friendly and helpful. The bed was very comfortable and was the cleansed thing in the room. The price was great but that is also the beginning of the negatives. The first thing we noticed was that you cannot check in at the hotel. This company owns many hotels in the area and you check in and out at one location several streets away from where you stay. The only way that we knew that was a sign on the building. They only have 4 or 5 spots for check in and they were all filled. While the staff is very nice and helpful they can only do what they can do. There was only one person at the check in/out desk both times we were there. The check in area was packed both times. Checking in after a long day of travel and having to drive around waiting for a spot and then having to wait in the area of 30 minutes isn't ideal. Check out was even worse. I parked in a no parking spot and hoped that I would not be ticketed. Check out took about 40 minutes because I arrived to check out 30 minutes before checkout time. It took 45ish minutes to get to the agent and 30 seconds to check out. We were tired when we arrived so once we did our bed bug check we went right to sleep. When we woke up the next morning we noticed that the spots that weren't so obvious were not clean and the ceiling in the bathroom had a 6" diameter black mold spot. The walls around the light switches were very gross and there were many things broken. Both my wife and I use CPAPS and thank goodness we brought extension cords because there wasn't very many plugs in the room and none of those were close to the beds. My wife plugged the cord into one plug and could hear electrical crackling. It is also a good thing that the area is nice and seems very safe because the doors were in horrible shape. The locks were not tight and were moving around when you would open and close the door. I am positive with a tug someone could have gotten in the room. I am very thankful that we were only going to be there 2 nights and that we would be gone most of the time sightseeing before our cruise.

This hotel is horrible. Priceline gives it 3.5 stars. It's more like a 1 star at most. Our room was dirty, decrepit, smelled horrible, and simply awful. They post in room no refunds whatsoever. That's because once everyone walked in they would want to walk right back out. Priceline called and they refused to refund the money (and Priceline wouldn't help either....that's another story.) They offered another room...no thanks. Wanted another hotel!! Please, please, stay away from this hotel. The owner should be ashamed! Buyer beware!

HORRIBLE, PESTAL attention and attitude of the staff at the reception, has no safety deposit box, smells bad, they attend reluctantly, I will NEVER return to that horrible place. Don't dump your money, don't stay there. The minimarket prices are very high, the water bottle a steal.