Orange Lake ResortRental Guest Reviews

Our 16th year to Orange Lake

WE love our condo at Orange Lake. We come every single year and have had many memorable vacations to reflect on. The grounds are amazing, something for everyone! We will use this forever and bring our children and grandchildren at times, too. I am disappointed, however...with the high pressure to do the timeshare tour. We love to come and enjoy our week...we own Many MANY timeshares and don't want to purchase any others. When you check in...the staff directs you to a line of HIGH PRESSURE agents that won't take NO for an answer. I was very upset this year, when the man absolutely refused to listen to me!!! It took my husband and I 20 minutes to get this man to let us leave and go to our condo to settle in. I have sent several couples and families to use our other week in Sept...and I am very leary about doing that in the future. I don't like the thought of them coming to enjoy a vacation, and having them ripped apart with questions, and having 9 phone calls to the room, like we did during our stay to have someone to a Quality check. WE did that last year and the guy was in our unit for 2 hours!!!! Never again! That kind of pressure runs people off...I am an owner there and just want to enjoy our time without people interupting us and wanting to sell us MORE WEEKS> NO NO NO!

Beware of "mandatory" "Time Share" presentation/tour!

Orange Lake was a beautiful places to stay. If I had known about time share tour I would not have stayed there. We only had 21/2 days in Orlando and no time for pressure. As soon as we checked in we were told we could receive $100 after a tour of the grounds. There was no way to get away from the sales man who was right at the check-in counter, after a long day of travel it was very annoying. To get them (2 sales men) off our back I agreed to an 8a.m. meeting and we headed back to the airport to pick up my grand kids. At 7a.m. we got a phone call reminding us of our appt. (Which I had put out of my mind and was asleep). When I told the woman on the phone that we would not be going she said I would be charged $30!!! I said for what???She said it was part of the resorts policy if we stayed there and didn't take the tour! I had NO knowledge of this, I reserved our condo for 2 nights thru the Entertainment Book. So we headed out to Cocoa Beach around 9. The next morning we got another phone call saying we were scheduled for another showing at 8a.m.!!! We were eating breakfast, checking out and heading to Universal. No way I was taking 2 hours out of our day for something I have no desire to buy. Too bad they are so aggressive, if I had known we would have stayed at a different place, we had no time for all this. Will be checking credit card bill and contesting extra charges if there are any. All that being said, it was very clean and comfortable. We didn't have any time to check out the pools, golf course, or anything else that may have been there. You would think by just looking at when we checked in (Wed 4p.m.) and sched check out (Fri 9a.m.) they would know time was short...........Oh, well...........! Will know better next time! Nice place to stay if you have time and are willing to go on the sales tour.

gorgious and comforitable villa

Our villa was absolutely beautiful. We had three bedrooms with lovely decorating and everything was spotless. We were right next to the pool which was wonderful with my four grandchildren. Our only complaint was all the traffic. We got lost lots of times, but that certainly wasn't the fault of the resort. The pricee we paid was way less then if we had rented hotel rooms.

Coffee Pot in Room and other notes

I have 3 complaints. 1) The filters for the coffee pot were the wrong size, they were for a 12 cup pot, not a 4 cup pot. 2) Not enough luggage carts available. We saw none at time of check in and had to make 2 trips by two people to get our luggage to our room. The same thing when we were checking out, no luggage carts and 2 trips by 2 people. No staff offered any assistance either time. 3) I had to insist that I did not want to learn about the HI Vacation Club. Several times I said no, but the person kept asking if I was sure.

Beautiful rooms, esp bathrooms

We had a great time. The shuttle service makes a huge difference since the place is soooo big. The weather was cool but we found the pool areas were quite sheltered and got a great tan to take home. Read previous reviews and knew not to go on the "tour" because it was really a play to get you to time share. It took alot of convincing (daily) to avoid it. Overall very good.

Great Service

Totally Recommended, Great location, nice and friendly staff, great service. Staff is very active in giving the guests a special experience.

Great!

Loved this resort! Very close to the Disney resorts, large rooms, very clean, great price. This is where we will stay every trip to Orlando!

golf trip

My group and I rented a 3 bedroom villa for 8 persons for a golf trip. The room was quite roomy, could accomodate everyone and was comfortable for all of us to gather in the morning or after our round of golf. I have stayed here many times with my family and enjoyed it each time. Food is very good, and the service is always first rate. We plan on returning another time with a larger group.

Great weekend

Great stay! easy check in check out, was even easily acommodated with a late check out and early check in with no problems.. GREAT 2 room villa! HUGE!! nice and clean.. I travel all year and am in hotels at least 8 months out of the year. so I tend to be picky. saw some WEIRD reviews on here, but I had no problems and enjoyed an excellent stay..THANK YOU (very close to disney as well)

Enjoyed the grounds

Our stay was very good. Except for the people above us seemed to like to bounce a golf off the floors and walls at all different hours. To the point where we had to call security at 10 pm and it started right back up by 8 am. The king bed is in need of replacing, We liked the set up of the two bedroom unit. Disappointed there was no broil pan for the oven and was even promised an aluiminum pan by house keeping twice that never came. Broken glass was left outside our door after we had to call twice to say we had No outside light. Resulted in another call for clean up. The grounds are large and our kids enjoyed the pool areas. Guest were very unfriendly on the most part. a lot of grumpy older people.