hotel/villa near shabbos minyan in orlando

sky

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 10:25 am

We stayed for shabbos and stayed at:

Residence Inn By Marriott Orlando International Drive 3 Stars
800-754-6835
7975 Canada Ave
Orlando, FL 32819

We payed $ 89.00 a night.
It was during prime season

Total Charges for 2 nights $ 207.78

We booked it on Hotels.com.

We walked to the shabbos minyan from there. The kitchen was fantastic - It had everything!. If you will be there shabbos ask for a bottom floor so you can enter and exit through the patio door. we also had a room off the pool and was able to use when no one was there.
It is one big room so the kitchen, bedroom and living area were all together.

their check-in time was late and we wanted time to get ready for shabbos and they were very nice about us coming earlier. I think we checked-in about 11:00 on Friday with no extra cost.

When there is not a big crowd the minyan is at the rabbi's house:

Rabbi Konikov's house 6756 Tamarind Circle.
when we went the times were: You can e-mail for the times when you . They are very nice.
Mincha on friday is about 5:30 and Kabbalas Shabbos at 6:00.
Shacharis Shabbos morning is at 9:30.

Friday night dh drove before shabbos and walked back. After shabbos he took a taxi to pick up the car.
I walked with dh to shul on shabbos day and we hung around until mincha. It was a little bit of a walk but not too bad. I think it was one of the closer hotels.

On the chabad web site they do list Villas that are closer, but I think they are more money.

We setup an eruv chatzerus to walk to the minyan even thought they said we didn't need to. Dh wasn't comfortable that it was okay.

If there is a big crowd it is at the chabad house which I think is even closer.

I hope that helps.

sky

Mon, Jun 01 2009, 11:06 am

Also, they normally have a minyan but not always. Shabbos they didn't have a minyan until shemona esrai. And it was a very mixed group - so if your dh doesn't mind it shouldn't be a problem
Also, the mechitza there wasn't great. It was some bushes that you could clearly see between. So keep that in mind if you are going.