The Alfond Inn

Beautiful hotel with amazing service. Located in the heart of Winter-park with everything you need in walking distance. Make sure when you valet you ask for Garrett. He is the best in the business!!

The property is 2 blocks away from Park Ave which has the best shopping and dining in Orlando. You can walk everywhere. If you live in Orlando you shop and dine on Park Ave. The property is absolutely stunning. The rooms are fantastic and the restaurants and bar are great. We sat outside in the courtyard for drinks and enjoyed the evening this time. I lived in Orlando for 25 years and now live in West Palm Beach. When go up for UCF games this is where we stay.

The Alfond Inn is a wonderful property with well appointed rooms and a friendly, helpful staff. The location in Winter Park is ideal.

I came in to meet friends for drinks and dinner on Friday night. It is a beautiful hotel lobby bar in a gorgeous hotel. I had checked out the menu online - and was excited. The food menu is fantastic. We (Me plus 3 others) enjoyed the delicious chicken and dumpling soup, corn bread, Lamb, Wagu Short Rib, etc. All very tasty, plate presentation was excellent. But the BAR PORTION of the experience was not nearly up to par... It took us ( 4) about 7-8 minutes just to get perfunctory eye contact. (Two bartenders walked by us without even looking up - and it was not all that busy). Finally, a slim and petite female bartender (Indian descent?) greeted us and took our order. The menu had 3-4 vodka drinks ( which seems like a lot - for an 8-10 drink menu). They didn't have a single bourbon cocktail on the menu - again, strange for a hotel lobby bar in the fall. She didn't suggest anything - or describe anything. My date had a delicious Apple spice cocktail - the rum/cognac cranberry cocktail was terrible. One of the them was returned, the other - was left alone after two sips ( no one wanted to be difficult. FWIW, two of my guests are in the Food & Beverage industry - but aren't excessively picky. We go out to enjoy, not to find flaw). We were at the bar for 90 minutes, enjoying the food and our reunion - but were struck by the lack of attentiveness and engagement from the bar staff. They almost only spoke to each other - not guests - and our engagements with them were perfunctory and almost monosyllabic. Our bartender looked VERY stiff when shaking a cocktail - almost as if she hadn't done it before ( she was pleasant, though - and seemed to be doing a lot more work than the other bar staff). The other bartenders seemed to never look up at guests - and there was no passion, engagement, warmth expressed. No style or flair in creating, shaking, stirring of cocktails. The other drinks we sampled were fairly bland - and the presentation wasn't all that inspiring or visually appealing ( except the Apple Spice Vodka one previously mentioned). Anyhow , it was surprising at how MEH the bar portion of our night was. This is a 4 Star hotel - and you'd think the bar game and talent and warmth of the bar staff- would match the food experience, and the visual beauty of the hotel. It definitely didn't. I just moved to Winter Park - and there are some GREAT bars here. You'd think the hotel would want to keep guests at THEIR bar - giving them a great experience. And while the food is excellent - the BEVERAGE portion of F&B was - at best - as the kids say "67" - but closer to 6.

This hotel is very nice, clean, and staff is excellent. The rooms are a great size and comfortable. The food was also amazing, great variety and quality.