Seralago Hotel & Suites Main Gate East facts for kids

Seralago Hotel & Suites Main Gate East
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Location	5678 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy, Kissimmee, Florida
Coordinates	28°19′52″N 81°30′41″W / 28.331015°N 81.511302°W / 28.331015; -81.511302
Opening date	March 1973
Management	Seralago Investments LLC
Owner	Seralago Investments LLC
No. of restaurants	2
No. of rooms	614
of which suites	113

The Seralago Hotel & Suites Main Gate East is a 3-star family resort located on Irlo Bronson Highway in Kissimmee, Florida. The resort is located 3 miles or 4.8 kilometers east of the Walt Disney World Resort and is near Old Town.

History

The hotel opened in March 1973 with 228 rooms in four detached buildings. For the first 32 years of its existence, the hotel was a franchise hotel of Holiday Inn.

One of the original owners of the hotel was Henri Landwirth, founder of the Give Kids The World Village, a nonprofit resort where terminally ill children would enjoy a week-long vacation with their families for no charge. Another owner of the hotel was the astronaut John Glenn, later a United States senator. Massive expansions of the resort took place in 1975, 1979, and 1989 with the opening of 445 additional rooms. This hotel pioneered the concept of "kids' suites;" suites with child-friendly themes where children have gaming consoles and their own private area for relaxation. Each kid suite can accommodate up to five people (two parents/adult guardians and three children).

On January 1, 2005, the employees jointly took over ownership of the hotel from the Holiday Inn corporation and became an independent hotel. The current owner of the resort property is Seralago Investments LLC.