Orlando for a week

[chrizzy100]

quote:Originally posted by LuvOrlando

Just got back yesterday from our week in Florida staying at a villa in the Buenaventura Lakes area of Kissimmee. We have stayed in many villa's in Florida (usually booking direct with the owners). We were unfortunately quite disappointed with this villa, we could tell by the pictures on the website that it looked older than other villa's we have stayed in and therefore expected that. However the villa was generally not in the condition we have come to expect (maybe our standards are now too high after some of the fantastic villa's we have stayed in?).

The exterior of the villa was dirty and looked like it hadn't been painted for a good few years, inside the carpets were dirty and kitchen appliances and equipment in poor condition. One of the showers did not work and the BBQ was not fit to be used! The villa is described as 'luxury' and 'executive' in the ad but I would not use these words to describe it, 'a bit old and shabby' would be more suitable!

The area was not too bad, but quite noisy being on the flight path to Orlando International.

We called the Management Company to report the shower problem on the third day and was told that someone would 'probably' be out that day - they never arrived! The Management company were generally not very helpful.

Do you think I should email the villa owners and mention these comments to them or give them this feedback?

To be fair it didn't spoil our holiday at all - the weather was fantastic and it was one of the best pools we have had to due to the free solar heating and the good weather. We would not return to this villa but I am not sure if this is just us having higher standards now.

Any thoughts?


p.s. We only visited one park - IOA, very quiet (infact everywhere we went International Drive etc. seemed exceptionally quiet!) had a great day - despite Hulk being closed due to technical problems

I would e-mail the owners...they are paying for a service they are not getting....and you paid for a villa that was not up to standered.....

[Carla]

Managed to get my 2 year Universal and IOA Annual Card with the Burger King offer. They didn't want to see my vouchers at the Guests service desk at all!!! Our cards expire on 8 September 2005 and are definitely worth the $169 each that we paid. Parking is free with an Annual Pass, so we went along for a couple of hours, twice, on our way to somewhere else, and rode our favourite rides.

The new ride Shrek is great. Lovely pre-show and great main show. All round good fun.

I love Epcot too!!

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[orlandobabe]

I'm so sorry that your villa was disappointing.

I was about to reply that we've passed the Crowne Plaza many times and it always looks lovely-I think it's relatively new. I didn't realise yours was not a recent posting.

You probably found that you were a bit further out than you expected to be also.

I'm glad it didn't spoil your holiday and it won't put you off booking a villa in future. I think it's a good idea to email the owners-they might not have been out for a while and not realised that it's not looking as pristine as they imagined.

[Ray&Sarah]

If it were our villa we would definately want to know that it wasn't up to par and that our management company was unhelpful.
We visited Epcot on our first ever visit to Florida about 8 years ago, it was a cold, windy day in December and we were not taken with it at all. Since then though we have heard so many people sing its praises that we keep saying we should go back and take another look as we must have missed something the first time around.

[orlandobabe]

Epcot is a park I feel very ambivalent amount. There's times I've really loved it and others I feel like I've paid to shop and eat.

Last time I went I loved it-that's Disney -you just never can tell what sort of an experience it is going to be.