Florida Planning May 2014

[LiesaAnna]

Hi Sam welcome to OV, we always book everything by ourselves, just booked flights for 14 of us and a villa for the same, need to book car hire from here must remember to do it maybe tonight... u can book everything through here and always someone around who can give you advice or lend a hand or ear

we will have the same dilema soon as our youngest is 18 in 2 months and doesnt want to come everywhere with us so will be just Steve and i... the thought of not staying in a villa or town home scares me...
the homes are far bigger then what we are used to at home but a townhome is a nice size for 2... 3 beds without a pool just see if they have a nice big communal pool if u fancy a dip.. u can get park tickets and everything else through here follow the links at the top... good luck, keep us posted would like to see how you get on xx

[daisey10]

We always rent a villa for the two us. We really enjoy having a pvt. pool to use. We have rented both a 3 and 4 bedroom villas.

[Lyn]

Before we bought our own we rented both 3 & 4 bed villas for 2 of us, we like the space.

[daisey10]

There is just two of us and have rented a villa each we go. We have rented a 3 and 4 bedroom villa because the deciding factor os the pool privacy. We do all our own booking. If you want a community pool rent a villa that has a club house.

[bargainqueen]

We're a couple who have been hiring villas for nearly 17 years, tried a hotel on our first visit and would not recommend it.

It only worked out about £50 more than the package to book it myself. You'll have to pay for the flights now but the villa and car hire will be a deposit with the balance x amount of weeks before. Try to get a villa with solar heated pool, as to where to stay that's a matter of personal choice. We've tried several places all in a 3 mile area and for the past 3 years have been booking a villa in the same place as our 1st villa rental.

[Tony G]

Two trips ago, I booked a villa just for me!

I actually quite like the hotel experience, but it becomes tedious very quickly. I don't like the pressure of vacating the room, or face half the world knocking on the door if I've slept in unexpectedly. I don't mind it for a few days, but any longer than that and I'll always try a villa.

The villa just gives you a quota of space you wouldn't get anywhere else, and you can play on your own schedule.

Regarding booking, I always try and book things separately to keep as much control over my trip as possible (control freak here!). Recently, I have had to weigh up the costs of a package trip against booking separately, as cost is becoming more of an issue.