I've been to the Martindale for several years now and with each visit I keep hoping they will have spruced it up but instead each time I visit it keeps looking more run down. I can quickly name a few issues I encountered: peeling bathtub finish (can't take a bath), windows that were cracked and couldn't close properly so you... More

Wow, is this place ever ready for the wreaking ball! What a decrepit, tired, filthy dirty, run down, trapped in the 50's dump. There were more tiles broken on the floor than not and was it ever filthy! A quick walk across the tile floor and my white socks were black on the bottoms. The bathroom was something out of... More

Better than Sandy Shores. Stayed at Sandy Shores (on the way to the Florida Keys) the previous weekend and had booked one night on the return trip at Sandy Shores again. The rooms were double booked so they moved us to the Martindale instead. We needed a two bedroom and they gave us two adjoining rooms. This was a large... More

Booking.com described this accommodation as a hotel. I booked for two nights. On arrival we discovered this was a motel a sign directed us to check in at an office in a premises next door. It was late in the evening and after travelling for over ten hours the last thing we needed was to end up standing outside this... More

Awful, very poor motel. Totally different compared to information in internet. Lazy and tired (to life?) person in reception, always face upside down. Room was crappy. Warm water available, only thing to be happy. Free parking in front of the mote was only positive thing. More

We stayed at this hotel for a convention nearby. When we first arrived the room was clean and neat. After several days we had to find a maid to get fresh towels everyday and they never made up the bed. My main concern was that the bathroom was clean, which it was. The pool is nice and out of the... More

We were in Ft Lauderdale for a family reunion. The hotel staff was excellent. Our room was spacious, very clean. We loved having the kitchen so we could make coffee etc. The hotel was very accomodating in allowing us to utilize the outdoor patios for our get together. The beach and shopping/restaurants were all within easy walking distance. We will... More

My reservation was for the Shell, so when we checked in, I was a little let down to hear the Shell didn’t have the room I requested & we were to stay at the Martindale. It seems the Shell only has double beds, & my request was for Queen / King Bed, which the Martindale has, so from this perspective,... More

I traveled back to Ft. Lauderdale to visit family and needed an affordable place to stay and use as a base during my stay. I had not stayed at the Martindale before but was familiar with it from my stay at the Shell Resort hotel next door. Compared to the Shell, the Martindale was more of a family, mellow and... More