(Orlando Business Journal) – Miller Global Properties LLC says it plans to create a chain of Nickelodeon- themed hotels. The Denver developer recently acquired the remaining interest in the 777-room Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn resort near Walt Disney World. Jim Miller, Miller Global Properties president, told the Denver Business Journal that he has a site under contract for purchase in San Diego and hopes to begin construction on a second Nickelodeon hotel in early 2007. The Colorado company hopes to have four to six US Nickelodeon properties, and is looking at Hawaii and New York City as potential sites. Terry Whaples, the Orlando creator of the Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn concept, calls the expansion a no-brainer idea. Miller partnered with Whaples' company, Orlando-based Family Suites Hotel Holdings LLC, in 2004 to transform the Holiday Inn Family Suites Resort at Lake Buena Vista into the first-ever hotel/resort based on the Nickelodeon TV channel. The $120 million Orlando Nick hotel, which was remodeled and opened in 2005, features two- and three-bedroom KidSuites with children's bedrooms decorated with Nickelodeon characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer and Jimmy Neutron. Suites also include an adult master bedroom, kitchenette and sitting room. In addition, the Nickelodeon resort has two water parks, a 3,000-square-foot arcade, spa, three live shows per night and an after-hours karaoke.I've never been inside this hotel, but it is a remodelled resort on State Road 536, oneof the many roads that leads directly into WDW. It is a very convenient location for the WDW scene.
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