Villa location recommendations

[stephy]

Originally Posted by boltyboy

The new Walmart is at the junction of the192 and North Old Lake Wilson Road. It opened a couple of months ago it's closer that the one at Cagan Crossings if you are staying in the Formosa area.

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Thanks for this. We’re staying just by lake davenport so it’s quicker for us to use the target

[toots82]

We really like Windwood Bay. Its right by Championsgate and there's a Publix, Walgreens, McDonalds and loads more really close. We use LIZH villa on here which would tick all your boxes. The pool area is fab.

[Mrs sun]

We stay at sunset lakes and can highly recomend it, we stay in a beautiful villa which backs onto the lake and love our time spent there.

[Worgie]

Emerald Island, Sunset Lakes or Lindfields (Lindfields is slightly older so a bit cheaper) are the places we love. Genuine 5 minute drive to Animal Kingdom, Walmart 5 mins away and plenty of shops and restaurants within a few minutes drive. Also one of the best things of the holiday for me is sitting by the pool early in the morning with a cuppa watching the wildlife in and around the lake. Perfect.

[boltyboy]

Originally Posted by Mrs sun

We stay at sunset lakes and can highly recomend it, we stay in a beautiful villa which backs onto the lake and love our time spent there.

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Thats where we are staying in August, can't wait.

[Dreaming]

Absolutely fell in love with Providence, bit further away from universal and Disney but amazing villa’s! Highland Reserve and Legacy Park are beautiful too! Marbella villa’s are really nice too!

My advice is stay away from Tuscan Hills and we didn’t get on with High Grove, each to their own though and we have only stayed in one of the many villa’s onsite ☺️ High Grove had termite things in the pool when we stayed, and Tuscan hills didn’t cater for as many as it stated online, had broken beds, really squished for a villa and no storage for clothes whatsoever! (sorry if anyone is staying in, I’m sure you’ll get a much better villa than we had! We’re unlucky!) ☺️

And we did it through a travel agent, dont want to offend anyone that owns villa’s within these parks! I’ve seen the ones on the Dibb and I’m jealous of them all! 😱

[Guest]

There are a lot of 'Which location/community is best?' threads, to me, that's a shame, as whether one community is 5 minutes closer than another one is really neither here nor there ...

... it's the 8-18 hours a day that you'll spend at the villa that really matter ...

... better I think to focus on the features of the villa itself, and make sure you get that right.

And perhaps at an even more basic level, whether it has been updated. Just because a villa is on a particular community, doesn't guarantee that it will have been updated.

Some things - like really old floral settees or those old massive ceramic pastel lamps - are obvious. Some things less so ... there's a particular type of dining chair / bar stools (wood colour seats with white backs) that I think were put in bulk in villas built in the late 1990s, so must be 20+ years old now!

[Dreaming]

We never considered DIY since recently and when we have Virgin or other companies have been cheaper at the time, or we needed to book with someone to get a package wedding. Failing that other people have paid for us such as grandparents which we have been lucky and grateful for, as much as we have declined, it hasn’t always been booked by us ☺️

Do agree DIY is for some, not for everyone though. I’ve never got the chance and hats off to people that do it! You can save when you shop around!

I didn’t like Tuscan Hills as a Park, I must add, just wasn’t for us, used to having more space between villa’s rather than townhouse style ☺️

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Dreaming

We never considered DIY since recently and when we have Virgin or other companies have been cheaper at the time, or we needed to book with someone to get a package wedding. Failing that other people have paid for us such as grandparents which we have been lucky and grateful for, as much as we have declined, it hasn’t always been booked by us ☺️

Do agree DIY is for some, not for everyone though. I’ve never got the chance and hats off to people that do it! You can save when you shop around!

I didn’t like Tuscan Hills as a Park, I must add, just wasn’t for us, used to having more space between villa’s rather than townhouse style ☺️

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You get what you pay for.

If travel agents' villas, when you take out the 25%+ commission the travel agent is taking and the 15%+ the owner's management company is taking, if the price of an allocate on arrival villa is even still coming out cheaper, ...

... say 10% cheaper for talking's sake ...

... then that is 50% less the owner is taking in ... and given even direct owners only at best cover costs ... this could easily mean 50% less maintenance, replacement, repairs etc. It's not bad luck when AOA villas aren't great ... it's just simply an unsustainable model for runing a business.

[Dreaming]

Just adding, if you’re looking for nice villa parks you can have a look in travel agent books, they often list which parks contain what, such as communal pool playground for kids, gated etc so you have a rough idea of what’s to offer!

That’s how we decide what we want off a park!