Holiday Inn Express & Suites Milan – Sandusky Area by IHG
Heated indoor pool, steps from Kalahari
About this hotel
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Milan carries nearly every tag this site tracks: budget, pet-friendly, breakfast-included, free parking, spa-wellness and indoor-waterpark, thanks to a heated indoor pool at the hotel itself and a short taxi to the large Kalahari Resorts indoor water park nearby. It suits a family juggling several priorities at once, whether that's a dog in tow, a tight budget or an indoor water park day independent of Cedar Point's own outdoor season. Toddlers get the in-hotel heated pool on any day the group isn't heading to Kalahari, and the free breakfast keeps mornings simple regardless of which park is on the schedule. Few hotels on this list do as much work at this rate.
- Heated indoor pool
- Near Kalahari Resorts
- Pet-friendly
- Budget rate
Our take
This is the practical, do-everything pick among the budget cluster, especially for a family that wants an indoor water park option, a dog-friendly room and a lower rate all at once. The heated indoor pool and proximity to Kalahari are the real draws. Families wanting to be on the Cedar Point peninsula itself should look at Hotel Breakers or Cedar Point's Express Hotel instead.
- ✓Plan a Kalahari day trip alongside the hotel's own heated indoor pool days for a fully indoor water park stretch.
- ✓Book early if traveling with a dog and on a budget, since this combination of tags is rare near Cedar Point Shores.
- ✓Use the free breakfast to anchor the morning regardless of whether the day's plan is Kalahari or Cedar Point Shores.
Why we love it
- Heated indoor pool on-site
- Short taxi to Kalahari Resorts
- Pet-friendly and budget-priced
- Free breakfast and free parking
Why guests love itThis hotel checked every box our trip needed at once: the heated indoor pool covered a cold, rainy first evening, the short drive to Kalahari the next day gave the kids an entirely different indoor water park to explore, and bringing the dog along never limited which room we could book the way it usually does on these trips, which took real pressure off the planning before we'd even left home.