December 14, 2007, 11:32P
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¤t=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.