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Windsor Palms Executive Homes Florida

September 22nd, 2008 by Alison | Comments Off | Filed in Orlando Vacation Homes

Looking for the best vacation home resort close to Disney World Florida? Then choose an executive  home in Windsor Palms resort.

Want to be close to Mickey Mouse?

Want to be close to Mickey Mouse?

A Disney World vacation is the trip of a lifetime, and more and more people are finding that booking a vacation home in Kissimmee is a great option for their family. Windsor Palms and Windsor Hills are the 2 most sought after executive luxury resorts in the area.  You simply cannot be any closer to the Disney World attractions. Just drive from your Windsor Palms home and you can arrive at Disney World Animal Kingdom in less than 7 minutes. Want to eat at a Disney World restaurant. Well you can arrive at the Animal Kingdom Resort Hotel within 8 minutes from your Windsor Palms home.

What else does Windsor Palms Orlando offer? Aside from beautiful resort homes with private swimming pools, the resort offers facilities which you would expect in a 5 star resort complex. Windsor Palms has a community pool and spa, children’s pool, playground, barbecue area, clubhouse, fax and internet facilities, sundry store, shuttle to the theme parks, tennis, basketball, table tennis, pool tables, volleyball, video arcade and even a movie theater.  You will never want to leave Windsor Palms – OK so that is a bit of a stretch of the truth as you are so close to the Happiest Place on Earth you may be tempted!

Are all the homes on Windsor Palms the same? Well they may have started out the same when they were built but they are certainly all individual with very varying standards now – from the basic to the top of the range luxury executive homes that I offer there is something for everyone on Windsor Palms.

Want to know more? Just hit the big Contact Me button to find out more about how you can make your dream come true with your very own Windsor Palms executive home in Florida

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4 Bedroom Orlando Vacation Villa New Features

September 6th, 2008 by Alison | 1 Comment | Filed in Orlando Vacation Homes

If you are looking for a great 4 bedroom orlando vacation villa to rent you really can’t go far wrong with my Windsor Palms home. You can’t get any closer to Disney World. You have the fabulous facilities of the Windsor Palms resort. The very best thing about the house? Well that would have to be that it is set on one of the most private lots on the resort. It is a very wide lot – 120 feet wide at the back and is set far apart from it’s neighbors. So if you are looking for relaxation and a sense of open space then this is the Windsor Hills home for you.

Wish you were here so close to the Magic?

Wish you were here so close to the Magic?

Now things have got even better. The house has just been updated with new floor tile, paint and soft furnishings.   I have brand new photos on the site for guests to check out just how great that view is at

Windsor Palms Orlando 4 Bed Home

So now is the time to take advantage of my Disney vacation specials for the month of September for this house. Book this month and get a great discount on an amazing Orlando vacation home.

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Orlando Vacation Home Rental Companies – Should I Book With One?

September 3rd, 2008 by Alison | Comments Off | Filed in Orlando Vacation Homes

If you are looking for a villa in Kissimmee for rent then there are a lot of options. Are you confused yet? There are so many out there all with websites tempting you to book their rental home. They all shout ‘please book my home it is the best one out there’! So how do you choose?

You just want to have a fabulous vacation – not deal with trawling around the internet for days trying to find the best home!

You just want to have a great Disney World family vacation right?

You just want to have a great Disney World family vacation right?

The first choice that you have to make is are you going to book with an Orlando vacation home rental company, or will you book directly with the owner?

There are advantages and potential disadvantages to each approach. If you book an Orlando home directly with an owner then generally you will get a better rate than booking with a large company. You will also know exactly which home you are booking. No surprises when you arrive at the house and find out it is not located where you had hoped, or it just doesn’t look like the brochure. An Orlando home owner will also usually give you more personal service than a large company – well they certainly should do anyway!

But I understand that booking an Orlando rental home directly with an owner can also be a bit of a leap of faith. You have to trust the owner. You are trusting them that they have described the house accurately, and that they will help you if there is a problem when you arrive. You should take some time to build up a conversation with the owner. You can do this with email, but sometime the internet is a confusing place, so if you would rather they called you then ask them. Sometimes a 5 minute conversation can help more than hours worth of surfing on the internet. That is why I am always happy to talk to any of my guests and answer any questions they have – either on the phone or in person on the phone. I am here to make your vacation special. I adore Disney World and I personally love staying in my homes. I enjoy luxury and the best of everything so figure that my guests enjoy the same. I genuinely want to make their stay as exceptional as I can. So I work hard at it. All the time.

Lets face it. There are good owners and the not so good. Great companies and the ones that people tell me they have had bad experiences with. So how do you increase your chances of finding a great orlando vacation home rental? Well you book one of my homes of course! You didn’t think that you were going to be saved the shameless self promotion did you? Well of course I want you to book one of my homes, but I know that most of you out there probably won’t – for a start there aren’t enough to go around! What I know and want you to take from this is that you need to be happy with your choice. Look at the website. Is there care taken over that? Do you get quick and helpful responses to questions? Will they give you guest testimonials?

You will know when you have found the right house. Here’s hoping it is one of mine!

Windsor Palms and Windsor Hills Resorts – No Hidden Fees

August 13th, 2008 by Alison | Comments Off | Filed in Disney World, Orlando Theme Parks, Orlando Vacation Homes, Restaurants

Windsor Palms, Windsor Hills and Solana have facilities to rival many expensive hotels in the Orlando area. Vacation homes already make a lot of sense in offering value to families looking for a great place to stay. But when you also look at all the hidden extras which often appear on your hotel bill it makes Windsor Palms and Windsor Hills look like an even better option!

Hotels seem to have started more and more to ‘hide’ the fees that they charge. I am not sure why they think that we won’t notice when we check out that all of a sudden there is a long list of extras. Perhaps they know that by the time we check out it is too late to make other choices!

Recently I stayed in a great hotel in California. One of the best I have ever stayed in. But it came at a price! The room rate looked good. Well that is the ‘headline’ room rate. The one that you see before you start adding the tax, the ‘resort fee’, the wireless internet access fee, the extortionate phone charges…….

But the charge that made me most annoyed was the valet parking fee. $25 a day plus tips! Was there a choice? Not unless you were prepared to put your car in the parking lot across the busy street about a 10 minute walk away. Will I stay at that hotel again? Probably not as they just didn’t seem to be being honest with me about how much it was going to cost. Why aren’t they just upfront about it?

So an added bonus to staying in one of my vacation homes? The resort facilities are free. No charge for the Windsor Palms community pool, spa, tennis, gym,basketball, volleyball or even the movie theater! No charge for all the fabulous community facilities at Windsor Hills or Solana.

Many of the homes that I offer also have free wireless internet, game rooms (no need to feed the pool table with money) and free international phone calls.

Oh, and of course parking is always free. On your own private pool home drive.

So when you are working out the amount of money you save on an Orlando vacation home as compared with an hotel remember to think about all the ‘hidden’ hotel fees. You are not going to get a big shock at check out as everything is already covered. So just check in, relax and enjoy the benefits of your smart choice.

So What Is This All About?

August 13th, 2008 by Alison | Comments Off | Filed in Disney World, Orlando Vacation Homes, Uncategorized

Now I do not usually suffer from writers block. I usually have a million and one ideas and the words flow off the page and after all this is how I make my living. But I have to admit that this was a difficult post to write. Why? Because it was the first one on my brand new blog.

I decided a while ago that the needs of Orlando vacation home guests were a little different from other visitors to Disney World. They have made a smart choice by deciding to rent a vacation home. But there really isn’t much out there to help them make a choice of home, or how they can get the most out of their vacation home when they get there.

So I guess this is a new place that guests thinking about renting a home, or those visiting for the 10th time, can come and see what Orlando has to offer them. You will find tips about homes, Disney World, Universal Studios ( yes there really are other parks in Orlando) and everything from where to find the best take out pizza to how to save money on your Disney World tickets.

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