This article is sponsored by Comfort Inn and Suites. All opinions expressed are 100% my own.
Do you ever say to yourself “I Need a Vacation”?
After all the goings on and activity of the holidays, that’s exactly what I was saying. All of our holiday guests had gone home. The weather was cold and icy. We were all antsy to get out and do something. We decided to have a staycation and checked into a nearby hotel, the newly renovated Comfort Inn and Suites Quail Springs Oklahoma City, for a fun filled, 2 night, little family vacation.
You might be thinking a staycation is where you stay home and explore your city like a tourist. It can be, but my house doesn’t have a heated indoor swimming pool. The Comfort Inn we choose had one of those and was close to some of our favorite entertainment areas; Quail Springs Mall, The Main Event, Bricktown, and more. When it’s cold and wet outside, it’s fun to do something different. A short hotel stay was perfect for us. It included housekeeping, breakfast in bed (well after we brought it up from the breakfast bar), heated pool during the winter, and more.
2 Queen Bed Suite
I travel quite a lot and have stayed at numerous hotels and resorts throughout the country and abroad. I hadn’t stayed at a Comfort Inn in several years. I was pleasantly surprised with all of the recent upgrades and amenities they now offer . The company said they considered feedback from over 10,000 guests and franchisees in regards to their recent improvements. A few of the recent upgrades include:
• New contemporary bedding featuring 100% cotton sheets and coverlets
• New “Truly Yours” pillows in both soft and firm styles
• Free WiFi available throughout the hotel
• In-room refrigerators and microwaves
• Flat screen TVs
• Office style desk and chair in each room
• Free business centers
• Multi-device charging stations in each room
With a family of 5, it’s hard to find an affordable hotel room that can accommodate us and still provide the space we need. We stayed in a 2 queen bed suite with sleeper sofa at a very reasonable rate. The room could easily hold 6 people and had plenty of room for all of us to be comfortable.
Indoor Heated Pool – A big winner with the kids
The kids most enjoyed the heated pool. That one amenity was worth the price of the hotel alone during cold winter months. The kids loved playing in the pool. Often times, there were other kids there too for them to hang out with.
I like to eat real food even while on vacation. I was really happy to see that the hotel’s complimentary breakfast had several real food options. There was whole fresh fruit, yogurt, oatmeal, juice, and eggs. Since we were on a vacation, the kids indulged with Blueberry Waffles, Biscuits and Gravy, and Bagels with Cream Cheese. I hadn’t seen flavored waffles before on any hotel chain’s continental breakfast bar. The breakfast attendant said that this was the first hotel chain to offer them. The kids gave them two thumbs up!
When we were not in our hotel, we had a great time in Oklahoma City. We took in a movie at the AMC Quail Springs, played laser tag and arcade games at Main Event, did a little shopping, and ate at some wonderful local restaurants. After all those activities is was wonderful to come back to a quiet room and relax. We watched TV, played card games, and finally feel asleep in large, comfortable beds. Even the sleeper sofa was comfortable.
We had a great staycation with Comfort Inn and Suites. From the time we checked in to the time we checked out, the staff made our stay enjoyable. They were always courteous, pleasant to talk with, and offered to help whenever possible. At check in, I received a small welcome gift for being a Choice Privileges Points member. The hot chocolate mix was greatly appreciated as the weather was really cold and nasty outside. All in all, my stay was enjoyable and I would love to return to a Comfort Inn and Suites again whenever and wherever I decide to vacation next.
The next time you need a hotel for business or a vacation, you should check out Comfort Inn and Suites. They have all the amenities you need and could want at a reasonable rate.
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We already have a trip to the Outer Banks planned for June. 🙂 But I am also hoping for us to go on a couple of shorter trips to maybe Virginia wine country, Boston, or Gettysburg.
Anywhere…………I need a shake-up. I just love hotel sheets so they always make me happy. I love the idea of a stay-cation too. Sounds like a lot of fun……..and who doesn’t love swimming in the winter.
I want to go to Kansas City, to see my family.
I’d like to go to the east coast!
All I know is that I want to go some place with a beach.
I have a long list of weekend trip in mind! But my daughter wants to go to the American Girl Doll store in Charlotte, NC, and I’d love to hit up some of the museums there!
We want to go to Orlando, FL! 😀
I don’t have a certain place, I just want to have a vacation. Haven;t had one in 2 years.
I’d like to go to So. Carolina to visit family.
I would go and enjoy Virginia Beach! 🙂
Honestly anywhere would be nice! Just to get a way from a very busy house and work schedule sounds AMAZING
I really want to go where it is warm and scenic. I just want to sit back and relax in a setting that is tranquil!
I want to go to Myrtle Beach, SC
I would love to take my kids to disney world.
I would like to go to Hawaii =)
I would love to go to Montreal on vacation this year.
We are planning on going to Disney! I can’t wait!!!
We want to go to Florida
The beach! Any beach would do! I want to feel the sand, and hear the waves.
Anywhere! I will go to the next city over! LOL
We would love to go to San Antonio, TX this summer.
Machu Picchu would be my first choice of vacation destination (I can dream, can’t I?)
The beach. Any beach is fine!!!
I would like to go to VA beach.
Houston is the place!
I want to go to Orlando for some fun!!
I’d like to go to Sanibel Island, Florida.
I’d love to go visit family in Florida!
I want to go to Estes Park.
I think a family vacation to Las Vegas would be a blast for my family.
KEY WEST FOR ME !
Vancouver!
Would love to go to the Gatlinburg area for a fun family getaway!
I want to go to gulf shores
Anywhere near the beach is good for me.
I would like to go to Hawaii.
I want to visit my son and his family in Miami,before he gets deployed to Korea (Army)
I want to go to Montana!
id love to go to orlando and take the grandkids to disney
I want to go to Hawaii
I am thankful for any getaway away from home and work!
I want to go anywhere 🙂 Up the East Coast, Texas, Out West, Disney…I’d be happy to go anywhere!!
We want to do some local travel this year–we recently moved to the mid-west and I have a lot to explore,
We want to go to Disney World this year.
I would like to take a week and drive along the Oregon coast this summer.
I want to go on vacation to Colorado to visit my brother.
I want to go on vacation to Hot Springs Arkansas, also I added an m to my twitter name… I follow with Jammie79 on twitter.
Fly me to the moon! Well maybe just Jupiter! That is Jupiter, Fl.
I really want to go to Austraila this year but anywhere will work.
I love to travel anywhere in Texas, but the main place I want to go is Oahu, Hawaii!
NYC or Austin TX
I want to go to TEXAS!!
I would like to go on vacation anywhere! I’m not picky 🙂
I really want to visit New York City this year! See the sites, enjoy some food, and shop!
Where do you want to go on vacation this year?
florida when im lucky..
I would love to go to the Carribean but more realistically I would love just a weekend away anywhere with my husband! Maybe Vermont or Maine!
I’d like to visit Branson MO
I’d love to visit Ireland!
I have wanted to take my grandsons to Baltimore Inner Harbor for a while now. It isn’t that far away and with a two night stay we could do all the things that I wanted to do. The boys would love all the wonderful things to see and do in Baltimore.
I want to go to the mountains.
I want to go to San Diego. It’s my favorite place to visit!
I am kind of vacationed out from last year but if I had the chance, I would like to maybe spend a weekend in DC or Boston or somewhere like that, that is somewhat near and that we haven’t been to before or haven’t been to in a long time.
I want to go to Cape Cod. Thanks!
I’d love to go to Florida to visit a couple of wonderful friends I haven’t seen in over 15 years; also it’s the same place where I lived for six years. It would also allow me to go to the beach since it is the Fernandina Beach/Amelia Island area. The ocean brings so much peace and comfort to me!~ Just the sound of the waves brings great peace and God knows I need a good dose of that!
San Francisco bay area
We love going to the Jersey Shore and have been talking about taking a long vacation there this year.
im hoping to go to Austtralia
Las Vegas, Mount Rushmore, the wine country anywhere – they all sound good to me.
The Pacific Northwest would be great!
I want to visit Asheville, NC
The only vacation we will be taking is to the World Series for softball. My daughter will be playing in it. I’m pretty sure the location has changed so I can’t remember now if it’s in VA or SC. Thank you!
We need to go to Los Angeles.
Sonoma, CA
i want to go to china
Florida
Just went to Texas and loved it! Would love to go to another area there!
I would want to go to south florida.
We love Comfort Suites and Inns. We stayed there a lot on a fall trip to Sedona.
I would love to go anywhere! Perhaps the most likely place will be to Virginia Beach to visit my best friend, who’s moving there next weekend!
NYC
I want to go to Hawaii
Maui, HI
would love to win for my family! thanks for a chance!
want to see family in Florida!!
I want to go to Holland!
I would love to go anywhere… anywhere at all!
Would like to travel to the Northeast. It’s the area I haven’t been to.
Been trying to get to the California Wine country forever! Hope this is the year.
I really want to go to Disney – but really any trip with my family sounds amazing right now, we need time to get away and relax!
The Texas coast to relax.
I’d love to vacation in Florida this year. Any of the southern beaches would be fantastic! 🙂
I dream of having a couple of days to attend my son’s wedding in June this summer in New York and get a chance to sleep in a soft comfy Comfort Inn bed <3
I’d love to go to Europe for vacation!
I would love to go to the napa valley and taste some wine 🙂
We should be in a new state by the time my husband’s vacation comes around so I’d like to explore there.
I would love to visit New Orleans this year! For the deep history, the food, the jazz!! Thanks!
I want to go to Southern Cali!
I’d love to go to Portland, Oregon. 🙂
Would really love to go to Hawaii or Alaska!
hawaii
I would like to go and visit my Dad in S.E. Arkansas.
I’d like to go to Virginia.
Heading to Pittsburgh in three days!
I want to go to NYC and see the sites and a show
i want to go to Memphis, TN.
I would really like to go to Airzone, or any place warm. This would be great for a staycation though.
I would love to take my daughter and nephew to Disney.
We are planning our summer vacation to Denver
I would really love to take my 6 year old to Disneyland. 🙂
We stayed at Comfort Inn in Louisville and it was great! Planning a road trip this fall so fingers crossed! We could use this!
Anaheim to take my wife and kids to Disneyland.
I’d like to go to Las Vegas. I’ve been dying to go there since I was a teenager.
I’d love to go to Galveston somewhere on the water.
I want to go on vacation to San Francisco and see the a take a boat ride in the bay!
We would love to do a mini getaway to San Diego and take our munchkin to Legoland! 🙂
Going to San Fransicso
i want to go to orlando
We really want to go to Bermuda this year
I want to go to Hawaii
We travel for a living, so vacations are likely to be a short distance weekend getaway.
Thank you for the giveaway. I would be happy taking a vacation/staycation anywhere, but we hope to save enough for Disney this year! Wahoo!
We would really like to go to Baton Rouge, LA to visit family
I’m planning on taking the kids to the beach for the first time this summer. They are so excited for the trip.
Orlando, as always
to san antonio
Going to Colonial Williamsburg would be fun!
I would like to go to San Diego, California this year and lay on the beach all day.
I would love to go to Seaside, FL.
I want to go to Orlando, Florida for the 4th time.
I really want to visit Tampa. Or Seattle. Maybe Charleston or Savannah. Soooo many options!
last year was sucha hard year, we just need ANY new change of scenery….
I would love one in North Mississippi! Thanks for a chance !!
I would love to visit Las Vegas.
I would love to go to the Grand Canyon!!
it would be nice to get away
I plan to go to Saratoga Springs NY
I’d love to go on another cruise.
I want to go to some place arm right now.
Anywhere that I can get away with my Fiance & my two year old son. I work six days a week, and am struggling, but always keeping a great attitude. I could really use a day or two off. Thank you!
I’m thinking warm thoughts this January…a trip to Hawaii or Orlando maybe.
I’d love to go to Florida and maybe include North Carolina, where my brother in law lives with his family.
The West Coast.
I would really like to take my little girl to Disneyland This Year .
Ft. Lauderdale Fl. Anywhere warm will do though!
We’d love to go to Hawaii, but I’d be grateful for a couple nights in Boise, Idaho just my husband and I before our second child is born.
I want to go to texas this year
I would love to go to Florida
I Want To Go To Miami This Year.
The oregon coast would be amazing
I would love to to sunny California to visit my relatives. maybe Disney land.
We are looking to go to Niagara Falls this summer on the US side to celebrate our one year anniversary!
Id love to go to San Diego, CA
South Carolina to see my brother!!!
I would love to go to Florida and to Washington, DC.
I would love to visit the Florida panhandle for a few days on the beach with my family!
To vist my son he lives in a single bedroom apartment could use a nice room and Comfort Inn is a great place to stay.
weston , WV
I would like to go anywhere!! We are actually in the early stages of planning a Disney world trip
Williamsburg VA
I want to take the kids to Disney then road trip back home while visiting other cities and attractions
Hershey PA
I’d love to go the mountains in NC or Gatlinburg.
KEY WEST
I want to go to Austin.
I want to go to Myrtle Beach SC
San Francisco, Ca
We want to go to Florida this year for vacation.
We have been wanting to visit Mt. Rushmore for a long time. It would be nice to make that happen this year.
Smoky Mountains for us please.
I would love to spend a couple of days on the beach with my family.
I’m thinking of Florida or a cruise… 🙂
a beach, especially hawaii
I want to go to Mexico but will probably got to Vegas instead.
i want to go to maine
i would love to go to orlando florida for vacation this year
I’m going to Florida, and would like to go to Indiana to visit family.
anywhere been a bad 3 weeks
I’d like to go to AZ to visit my Grandmother.
i want to go to virginia beach wow would i love to go their
I want to go to the Hoh rain forest.
I want to go to NYC to visit my uncle then South Carolina to visit my brother.
I want to go New Orleans. Thanks for the chance!
Somewhere out of the country would be nice. Italy maybe?
I’d love to go to Silver Springs with my hubby, but at this point anywhere away would be nice.
Other than going home to visit family, which I always want to do, I’d love to hop on over to Vegas. 🙂
I’d love to go to the west coast this year – either Portland or Seattle would be amazing!
I would love to go see my family in Ohio (I live in FL).
To Oregon to see my boyfriends parents!
My daughter is graduating from OK State in May and has been begging us to come spend a weekend at Bricktown. What a timely post 🙂 great giveaway!
Down to Florida’s gulf coast
I would take my son to Williamsburg, VA for a fun weekend at Busch Gardens. Thanks for the chance!
I want to go on vacation in Gettysburg Pa this year!
I would love to vacation at Cape Cod this summer.
I would like to go to Aruba.
id love to go to the smoky mountains with my kid and my guy
New York is on our radar this year.
I want to go to California
I would love to go to Vail, CO with my hubby!
I’d like to go to Branson with my family, I’ve heard it’s fun!
*I would love to complete my list of big cities by taking a trip to San Francisco with my husband. We are making 2015 our year of traveling to new places together!! Memories for a lifetime*
We want to go to see the Redwood National and State Parks!
We would like to go to Glacier National Park.
I want to go to Busch Garden’s Williamsburg.
I want to go two place this year. The first is for several days or more at a cozy cabin in the NH White Mountains and the second is to anyplace tropical where I can go snorkeling and swim with colorful sea life.
Costa Rico – any Comfort Inns there?
i’d love for my kids to see the ocean this year!
I think we are thinking about going up to the north east (maybe Boston). Thank you
Would love to win!!!
I am going to New York in August for my Grandmother’s 100th birthday party!
My vacation plans are to backpack on the Appalachian Trail from Mass. thru Vermont and the Long Trail up to Canada. A stop at a Comfort Inn somewhere along that path would be wonderful.
I’d like to take the kids to Florida this year.
It’s not so much where I want to go but who I want to be there with. My husband and I will be married 20 years this fall and would like a little time to ourselves (don’t get much of that anymore with 4 kids!)
Paris and Rome
I would like to go to Disneyland with my kids.
i want to take my daughter on a road trip to yosemite national park
I would like to go to Disneyland
We are hoping to go to Alabama this summer to visit my fiance’s family.
I want to visit Florida and go to SeaWorld
Maybe Florida to visit.
where ever my kids sports tournaments takes us!
I want to go to Disney world.
Northern California area near the Wine Country in Napa.
I would love to go to OH to see my girlfriend while shes getting her phD.
Disney World!!
Great review! Sounds like a fun place to stay. I’m currently looking for a suite near Washington D.C. in March for a girls getaway. I’ll check them out! Thanks.
We are really wanting to take a road trip with our three kids and mother in law and travel from Oregon to Montana this year for Thanksgiving to see my husband’s grandparents. We have never been to Montana and we also want the kids to get to know their great grandparents and cherish the memories forever.
Who won? 🙂
William W. from Ohio