⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Retro Charm Meets Family Survival”
Took the fam to Universal Studios and needed a hotel that wouldn’t require selling a kidney. Enter: Ramada by Wyndham Burbank, found on Expedia like a hidden gem wrapped in 1980s stucco.
From the outside, it looks like it could’ve been the setting for a mildly unsettling crime drama. But once inside? Pleasant surprise! The room was clean, smelled nice (always a win), and the AC worked like it knew we had kids with us—blessed and highly favored.
The space was HUGE. I’m talking “the kids can run laps and still not touch a wall” huge. Only downside? The TV is basically there for decoration. No Netflix = two slightly feral children. And the Wi-Fi? Let’s just say it was mood-based. Sometimes it connected. Sometimes it looked at me like, “Try again, peasant.”
The pool was decent, which in dad-speak means “nobody cried and nothing weird floated by.”
Overall, for the price and the surprise of not regretting my life choices, I’d totally stay here again. Just maybe bring a hotspot and a tablet loaded with Bluey.