Hampton Lakes Vacation Rental villa

Just home from a 10 day stay at Nick's wonderful villa. We had a great time. The home's location was perfect. Just a few minutes from Disney Parks but in a quiet and beautiful neighborhood. Close to grocery and take out. We even took a short walk along the orange grove nearby. Pool was wonderful for lounging and swimming. Bedrooms were spacious and well kept. A hot tub would have been great - as the spa is only heated to a few degrees over pool heat temperature. Nick is a great owner and the management company responded quickly to our one request. Nick thanks for letting us make our Disney Dreams come true at your place. We left a small cooler for future renters hope you enjoy your time as much as we did ours.

I attend a trade show which in most years is in Orlando. I use this required visit as a yearly vacation for the family. Nicks wonderful vacation home is right smack in the middle of everything. I've stayed in many places over the years, and you can contact me personally but you WILL NOT find a better property at any price. Thanks Nick and we'll be there in a few weeks.

Just returned from March Break 2008 where we stayed at Nick's wonderful house! I organized a CHIKK holiday (women and children only!)and there were 11 of us in the house. I will echo all the other comments. The house is wonderful. Its layout is what really makes it stand out. The bedrooms are positioned away from the "hub" of the house (kitchen, family room and pool area), so if you needed privacy, you could retire to your room. With 4 cooks in the kitchen at one time, each preparing meals for their "brood", we were never crowded. There is plenty of counter space. And one thing I really noticed is that there are plenty of dishes, cutlery, bowls etc. I was also super impressed with the number of towels, both bath towels and pool towels. Naturally the kids LOVED the pool...as did I because it was beautifully warm. Our week's weather was pleasant, but it was quite cool at night. The pool was able to maintain its warm temp even though it was so cool at night.

The house is very convenient to Disney and shopping on US27. Some of the CHIKKS went to Universal studios a couple of days and I was afraid it would take forever to get there, but I-4 was wide open and it was dead easy to get there from the house. One day there was an open house at a 7-bed, 6-bath house in Hampton Lakes, so I went, just for comparison. It was not as nice a house as Nick's, and the pool area was not anywhere near as nice as this one.

There are 3 things missing that for me would have made the house a perfect "10" (right now it stands at 9.8!!!). We all love to barbeque, and the one at the house doesn't work. We bought a small, portable gas BBQ from Wal-Mart and used that, but then had to bring it home. A place to hang pool towels would also be great. We bought some rope and strung it up between pillars on the far side of the pool and that worked OK. And I can hardly believe that I'm writing this, because I'm a dinosaur and hate modern technology, but wireless internet would have been really nice! We had a couple of laptops with us, and figured we could check park hours, order tickets etc once we were there. I had my daughter with me and she needed to hand in an assignment while we were away (she's in college), so we had to find internet somewhere. It took us some time, but the McDonald's at I-4 and US27 has Wifi and she was able to send her assignment. All small complaints that in no way should disuade somebody from staying here!

...and one last thing. Nick is an absolute GEM to deal with! We had a problem that was not in any way Nick's fault, but he very kindly helped us solve it, going above and beyond his obligations as "landlord".

Thank you, Nick, for a wonderful holiday. I'm sure we'll be back!!

Jan Duffield, Ontario Canada