Overview
Enjoy vibrant, retro-style with rooms and suites brilliantly designed for fun and affordability. Relax with a splash surrounded by amazing iconic architecture inspired by classic Florida beach resorts of the 1950s and 60s. Every day comes with fun for all ages with two massive pools, a winding river, a bowling alley (fees apply), an incredible food court and more. It’s got a dedicated walking path that teaks you straight to Universal Volcano Bay. Plus you’ll enjoy the exclusive theme park benefits of being a Universal Orlando hotel guest.
The hotels in Universal's Value Inns and Suites category are the fun, affordable option offering rooms as well as spacious suites with kitchenettes. With quick-service dining, self-service luggage, resort-style amenities, and exclusive theme park benefits, these hotels offer guests exactly what they need, including exclusive theme park benefits.
- Early Park Admission† to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™ or Universal Volcano Bay one hour before the park opens (valid theme park admission required. Select attractions).
- Complimentary shuttle buses to and from Universal Orlando theme parks and Universal CityWalk, plus walking paths to make getting around Universal Orlando Resort fast and easy
- Complimentary delivery of merchandise purchased throughout Universal Orlando Resort to your hotel
- Resort-wide charging privileges with your room key card
Check in
4 p.m.
Check out
11 a.m.
Rooms
2200
Inclusions
Rooms
- 2 queen beds
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 4 adults
- 2 queen beds
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 4 adults
- Maximum 3 children
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Coffee maker
- Hair dryer
- Housekeeping
- Iron/Ironing board
- Phone
- Safe
- TV
- Smoke free
- Mini-fridge
- 2 queen beds, and 1 sofa bed
- No more than 6 guests in the room
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 6 adults
- 2 queen beds, and 1 sofa bed
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 6 adults
- Maximum 5 children
- No more than 6 guests in the room
- Kitchenette
- Seating area
- Smoke-free
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Coffee maker
- Hair dryer
- Housekeeping
- Iron/Ironing board
- Phone
- Safe
- TV
- Smoke free
- Mini-fridge
- 2 queen beds, and 1 sofa bed
- No more than 6 guests in the room
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 6 adults
- 2 queen beds, and 1 sofa bed
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 6 adults
- Maximum 5 children
- No more than 6 guests in the room
- Kitchenette
- Seating area
- Smoke-free
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Coffee maker
- Hair dryer
- Housekeeping
- Iron/Ironing board
- Phone
- Safe
- TV
- Smoke free
- Mini-fridge
- 2 queen beds, and 1 sofa bed
- Pool view
- No more than 6 guests in the room
- 2 queen beds, and 1 sofa bed
- Pool view
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 6 adults
- Maximum 5 children
- No more than 6 guests in the room
- Kitchenette
- Seating area
- Smoke-free
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Coffee maker
- Hair dryer
- Housekeeping
- Iron/Ironing board
- Phone
- Safe
- TV
- Smoke free
- Mini-fridge
- 2 queen beds
- View of Universal Volcano Bay Water Theme Park
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- 2 queen beds
- View of Universal Volcano Bay Water Theme Park
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 4 adults
- Maximum 3 children
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Coffee maker
- Hair dryer
- Housekeeping
- Iron/Ironing board
- Phone
- Safe
- TV
- Smoke free
- Mini-fridge
Amenities
Swizzle Lounge
Jack Lanne
Front entrance
Courtyard pool
Waterfall
Lobby
Bowling
Bayliner Diner
Location
Reviews
TripAdvisor Traveler Rating
We love this hotel!
118charlottem on May 26, 2025
This was our second stay at Cabana Bay (April 2017 and May 2025) and we have loved both stays. I’m really surprised by the amount of recent negative reviews, we found our stay was brilliant. The hotel look...s great, has a fun theme, the atmosphere was so good every day. Every member of staff we encountered were friendly, polite, welcoming. We loved the pool area and lazy river, it was so relaxing. We used the diner for lots of snacks and we loved the onsite Starbucks. The walk to and from Citywalk/the parks is such a big perk, it’s a pretty walk and definitely beats sitting on a busy bus. We walked to and from the parks every single day with no issue. Our room was so comfortable, perfectly clean. I honestly don’t understand why everyone seems to be complaining about only having the rooms serviced every other day, this is well within reason and was exactly the same practice as our hotel at Disney the week before. If you are out having fun every day, how much housekeeping can your room possibly need! We said during our stay that we would never stay anywhere else at Universal but Cabana. We loved it so much.
Cabana Bay is ok. Worth considering but Universal needs to improve its standards.
LeGeorge702 (Pooley Bridge, United Kingdom) on May 24, 2025
The positives: The hotel is well placed with good access to Universal parks, especially Volcano Bay. There are 2 good sized pools, with plenty of facilities available, providing food and drinks, lots of l...oungers and towels available. The rooms are clean and sufficient for holidays in which parks are the focus. There is a fridge in the room, a good sized TV, and baths are available on request. The parks can be accessed by a lovely garden path walk, frequent buses, and a boat via Sapphire Falls nearby. The Luggage Service works especially well. The negatives from my recent stay: Standards in certainly areas are not as high as in past visits. Examples: The room is only serviced every other day. There are no individual shampoo or body wash bottles. Instead it’s a large bottle on the wall, which is completely impractical if you are in the bath as it is too high to reach. The Malt Shoppe was a far better option when it was opened for breakfast. Now it opens at 12:00. One of the smoothies is even called Morning Berry, but now you can’t buy it in the morning. That is genius, and clearly a decision by committee. The room was too hot as the air con was set too high. The room maid refused to assist in reducing the temperature, so I had to call reception who arranged for maintenance to fix the problem. Several days later the maid reset it to the higher level which once again ensured the room was too hot in a heatwave, and I had to rearrange for maintenance to attend to fix the problem. There are very few if any plastic cups near the Freestyle drinks machines, so it is impossible to get a cup of cold water when returning to the hotel at the end of the evening. The standard of security of the hotel has dropped since the first few years. Many of the gates that access the pool are not kept locked, and the gates which access the hotel from the car park and the garden path to Citywalk are left open. Some of the signs, especially around the bus pick up points are showing wear and tear, and not well maintained.
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