We stayed up there with two families and booked at the last moment and were able to get two rooms side-by-side.
The hotel was OK, rooms were clean and comfortable and the staff was very friendly and helpful.
The outdoor pool needed some sprucing up but the indoor pool was great and the kids loved it.
The grounds were good and it was a plus having a playground for the kids.
The restaurant was "closed for renovations" so we had to venture out for food (no mention of this on their website) but the staff was very good at recommending a couple of family friendly places in the immediate area.
The staff was great and they went above and beyond to make your stay a pleasant one.
Overall, I think that this place is a decent choice to stay with your family especially with Storyland right around the corner (about five minutes away by car).

In all fairness this hotel is rough at best!
We drove up from Mansfield, MA and had 2 kids in tow ages 2 and 4.
They loved being in a hotel for the night but my husband and I were definitly not thrilled with the uncomfortable, hard "mattress" or was that a box spring being passed off as a mattress that we slept on?
The place was in deed very musty smelling and left a lot to be desired as far as cleanliness was concerned.
The walls were thin as paper so we heard everything that was going on inthe room next door and the loud voices outside our window .
So much for trying to save a buck!!! I would much rather have spent a little more.
The only upside is that I not knowing it would be this crowded to get lodging near Story Land waited too late to get a room. It was good that we could get a room and still take our planned trip although this hotel is in desperate need of upgrades!!!
The resteraunt on the grounds was sooooo pathetic we just got up and left ! Good thing too because we went right around the corner and found Red Foxx resteraunt and they had the BEST FRESHEST MOST DELICIOUS ALL YOU CAN EAT BREAKFAST I'VE HAD IN MANY YEARS!!!!!
The resteraunt definitly made the trip worth while.

I used to live in this area and have driven by this place a million times. It always looked great from the highway, on a hillside with the pool area all lit up and so on. I have since moved away, but recently returned on a family vacation to take my kids to Storyland (virtually next door).

Let me tell you, any niceness quickly disipates when you drive in and start looking more closely. The place is just in a state of complete disrepair and neglect. Peeling paint, unkept grounds and it only gets worse when you get to the room. The musty room contained furniture and carpeting that should have been replaced at least 25 yrs ago. The mattresses were completely shot; I could literally feel the springs poking me, not to mention very loud creaking whenever anybody moved a muscle (including my 6 yr. old!!). Everything just looked and felt dirty. Cobwebs in the entry-way; a rusted out patio table and chairs on a broken concrete slab surrounded by weeds outside our room; dirty windows we couldn't open.

The bottom of the indoor pool was covered with what looked like algae but I couldn't be sure. The outside pool had a lot of dead bugs floating on the surface and at least a couple of bandaids. The outdoor hot tub obviously was out of service for a verrry long time and there were larvae and insects swimming in it that I could not identify. I am NOT kidding about this!!! If it's broken they could at least cover it with a piece of plywood. My little girl walked up to it and was going to put her foot in it!!!

After a completely sleepness night feeling like bed bugs were biting me (admitedly it was probably my imagination), we were going to get the heck out of there first thing in the morning. But guess what? The office doesn't open until 8am. What place has NOBODY on duty until 8am! At 8 o'clock sharp I checked out and the girl behind the desk was going to charge me $20 for checking out a day early! After I made a bit of a fuss she didn't charge me. I didn't get into all my complaints since she was just a kid and I did her job at a hotel many, many years ago. And, I figured 'what's the point'?

By now the kids were hungry and we wanted to get to Storyland when it opened, so we made our final stupid mistake by trying their on-site restaurant (which also doesn't open till 8). Again, it probably was a nice place about 20 yrs ago when somebody knew how to run it, but it was in about as good shape as the room (well, nothing could be that bad really). Our waitress spoke no English...really, none. I don't know how she managed to even get our order partially correct. I ordered and omellete with diced ham and got scrambled eggs with a ham steak. My little girl ordered frosted shreaded wheats, and got.....well I still don't know what she got but eventyually settled for Fruit Loops.

I have never written a bad review of anything, but felt compelled to warn anybody out there not to be drawn in to this awful place. Oh, and I forgot the price for this disaster.. $150!!!!!! $35 would have been more appropriate.

We recently rented 4 rooms in the Poolside for ourselves and relatives. We felt that Storybook Resort was better than similarly priced hotels due to the following:
1. the staff and workers were extremely helpful and accommodating
2. the wading pool for children was great
3. the indoor pool and hot tub were A+
4. it is right next to Story Land!
5. a breakfast restaurant on the property
6. walk to Dunkin Donuts, Dairy Queen, and other family restaurants
7. a playground and tennis court on property
8. we were satisfied with the Poolside rooms ~ beds were comfortable, walk to pool, plenty of towels, clean
We would stay here again with small children.