Sapphire Falls Resort, Orlando
Expert reviews
“The Modern Caribbean-inspired Sapphire Falls is clean and understated. It’s also my favorite of Universal’s moderate options because the service is strong, parking is sheltered, the price is never too crazy, and you can take ferries or walks to the parks.”
Featured as Frommer’s Exceptional Choice in Orlando.
“A recent addition to the Universal Orlando hotel family. It is close to the theme parks but still provides a serene Caribbean-style getaway, set around a lagoon and waterfalls, with tempting dining and a unique rum bar.”
What guests liked
- Top location
- Comfortable beds
- Parking
- Swimming pool
- Free Wifi
All you need to know
What better way to take in the world-famous theme park scene than staying at one of the biggest? Sapphire Falls Resort is on-site accommodation at Universal Studios. This is a luxurious and fun place to stay so you can still have easy access to the huge theme park right there.
Staying here will transport you into the tropics and to an area of relaxation, fun, and peace. Who would not want the jungle experience (kind of) while enjoying Florida? With gorgeous architecture, plenty of palm trees, and water features all about, you feel like you are in an oasis of fun.
One interesting feature of this hotel is the number of rooms. There are literally 1000 rooms on site. For some, this may be far too much and bring too much foot traffic. For others, this means that there are top-class amenities to take advantage of. So, depending on your preferences, this could be a pro or a con.
On that same note, there are a number of great suites available to stay in. This upgrades your stay and puts you in a great position to enjoy your time at Universal. Although it will cost extra, it will be worth it.
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Location
Recent guest reviews
17 September 2024
Great stay with lots of memories made.
Great resort with nice pool, comfy rooms, clean facilities, and use of water taxi.
I wish I was told how to get to the water taxi when I checked in.
5 September 2024
Perfect
The facilities and connection to Universal Studios
Nothing
1 September 2024
very goos for 2 days for eady park entery
very good hotel with great location and very high level facilities - a fitness room, wide pool and easy parking/ the family room is too small narrow the water taxi - This was the main reason we got the hotel - but it wasn't much accsable in rush hours. ONLY 2 boats going and returning with great amount of people trying to get back ay 22:00 end time of parks. more than an hour waiting at the pier (in rainy weather) .
The fitness room, wide pool and easy parking. nice restaurants easy walking by foot to Volcano Bay nice quiet rooms
28 August 2024
My stay was amazing and wish I had stayed longer
Beautiful property. Access to the boat was amazing. Staff very friendly and helpful. The pool and hot tub is gorgeous
Nothing
24 August 2024
Amazing and family friendly
The staff is attentive and polite. The facilities are clean and beautiful. The only issue was the laundry machines. They are outdated and in need of maintenance
The laundry room
22 August 2024
Exceptional
Right by the parks.
Extra costs for the car parking
19 August 2024
Fabulous
The restaurants food variety and quality needs improvement, they are missing the italian and mediterranean options.
18 August 2024
Exceptional
Practically perfect in every way!
More choice of fruit in the shop
17 August 2024
Fun
The pool was great. Great location for universal and restaurants.
Room could be slightly bigger. Sit on bit musty
17 August 2024
Great family stay.
Super clean and close to universal
Nothing
14 August 2024
Exceptional
very nice hotel and perfect location for Universal y
5 August 2024
Exceptional
The customer service, the installations, the food selection at the restaurant, the amazing room
4 August 2024
Fantastic! The pool was great and staffed with numerous life guards
Gorgeous resort and staff super friendly. Great location to parks and city walk.
Nothing
26 July 2024
You should improve your training system with your restaurant and bars workers. How to treat the guests equally.
Pool area
Restaurant menu
26 July 2024
Overall stay was great.
The hotel is very accessible to Universal. The water taxi is a new and exciting experience for my family. The hotel is very clean, love their pool area. They start cleaning our room early in the morning.overall experience was good.
There was one time when the water taxi can’t transport hotel guests because of the weather so we had to take the bus and it took forever for us to be picked up.
25 July 2024
Very nice stay!
We loved the pool and the convenience to get to the parks! Room was good.
The laundry machines ate our quarters and there was no microwave to heat up our leftovers.
22 July 2024
Exceptional
Location, staff, cleanliness
17 July 2024
Excellent location highly recommended
The location was excellent water taxi to universal from hotel takes 5mins. The restaurant was excellent we particularly enjoyed the buffet breakfast has such a good choice of food. Room was very nice and staff were friendly and helpful.
Nothing
13 July 2024
Great holiday
The closeness to universal, modern, clean. The water taxis are good too.
Having to pay for parking when you are a guest, it’s quite expensive.
13 July 2024
Absolutely amazing
The staff were so helpful and friendly, the hotel was clean and 10 minutes walk from the theme parks or you could take a water taxi. The whole experience was amazing and I would thoroughly recommend the hotel.
Nothing.
11 July 2024
Exceptional
Outstanding resort
Absolutely nothing everything was wonderful
9 July 2024
Exceptional
Pool and breakfast bar
Small room No express passes
8 July 2024
Exceptional
This is not the first time we have stayed at the hotel. I like everything very much, the staff, the cleanliness of the rooms, the boat to the parks is very comfortable with children especially
We couldn't get to breakfast. I had to wait more than 30 minutes, although there were many empty seats
8 July 2024
Great Universal property close to parks.
Great friendly and helpful staff. Great property.
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
- - Coffee house on site
General
- - Room service
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Facilities for disabled guests
- - Family rooms
- - Lift
- - Safety deposit box
- - Car hire
- - Heating
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
- - Designated smoking area
- - Vending machine (drinks)
- - Vending machine (snacks)
- - Minimarket on site
Business facilities
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - Business centre (additional charge)
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Express check-in/check-out
- - Currency exchange
- - Luggage storage
- - ATM/cash machine on site
- - Concierge service
- - Lockers
Activities
- - Fitness centre
- - Games room
- - Table tennis
- - Hot tub/Jacuzzi
- - Steam room
- - Fitness
- - Fitness/spa locker rooms
- - Movie nights
- - Bingo
Outdoors
- - Garden
- - Terrace
- - Outdoor pool
- - Sun terrace
- - Outdoor pool (all year)
- - Outdoor furniture
- - Outdoor fireplace
Cleaning services
- - Laundry (additional charge)
- - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- - Daily housekeeping
Pool and wellness
- - Water slide
- - Heated pool
- - Pool bar
- - Shallow end
- - Sun loungers or beach chairs
- - Swimming pool
- - Swimming Pool
Parking
- - Parking garage
- - Electric vehicle charging station
- - Accessible parking
Miscellaneous
- - 24-hour security
- - Key card access
- - Smoke alarms
- - Delivered food is securely covered
24 September 2024
Wonderful hotel! Would visit it again!
I loved the pool area especially the slide! The room was clean and comfortable. The hotel location was in the middle of everything at Univeral. Great staff!
Order a microwave for the room which was delivered broken. Took another hour to get a working one then they did not remove it from the room when asked. A bag of trash sat outside our room for 2 days before we reported it to the manager for removal.