Amerisuites Calypso Cay kissimmee area? Reviews? ever been there?

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We are planning on booking (for spring break time) at Amerisuites in the Calypso Cay Resort complex. It is for $249 for 5 night and 2 theme park tickets, it is a timeshare resort and the deal is to do one of the presentations. No big deal to us, we have done a few of these and know what to do.

Has anyone been here? What are rooms like? IS THE POOL HEATED?/ :smooth: How close to all attractions? Any info would be fabulous!!! A link is down at the bottom for the package.
Thanks, in advance, for the help!!

http://packagepriceorlando.com/#
 
I don't know about the timeshare units, but the amerisuite hotel is alright. Rooms are a not well insulated. Pools are great with a fun middle pool, slide, fountains. It is heated, but not enough!! We always go to disney 1st or 2nd week of December, no crowds. This time we are trying the Sharaton Vistana Resort. hope it is nicer.

The morning "buffett" is basically a breadfest with cereal. Not great. You will get annoyed with all the poeple taking up the seating with timeshare salesman. I hate listening to that crap next to me while I wake up. It is a decent place, have fun!
 
Hi..just FYI the tickets will be one day, one park only and not hoppers...Ted
 

Could you please help me? We are going in April, but I was wondering what the spring dates were? We always go at Easter, right inthe midst of spring break and Easter breaks. This time we are going almost two weeks after Easter. Still wondering if we might miss most of the spring breaks. Thanks
 
We stayed there last April in one of the 2 bedroom Villas in their
condos. Very nice rooms, clean, etc.

The main pool was nice, slide was fun. The other 2 smaller pools were cold.

The breakfast was okay, i.e. cereals, toastable french toast, fruit. We had a fridge so didn't use it much.

The free minigolf is fun!

We might take them up on the 5day 4night $199 offer, with the free tix - we got a call from them last night about that, and I am waiting to hear back from them - free tickets will be good!

Our pics from it are at:
http://homepage.mac.com/ken_kleiner/Disney2004/Menu43.html

Day7 of the photos has some good inside shots, and another has some good pool shots.
 
Hello,
We stayed at the Calypso Cay resort in September of 2002.
I've stayed at a few timeshare resorts because I feel that's the only way to vacation - washer/dryer, bedrooms, kitchen, resort grounds, etc. We stayed in a Two Bedroom unit, which was really a large Master Suite unit connected to a smaller one bedroom unit. Me and DH stayed in the Master Suite and the girls stayed in the smaller unit.
But.....Let me tell you about Our Experience with Calypso Cay and why I'll never stay there.
#1 I know it's Florida, but the first night we walked into our suite, there was a huge 5 inch roach or whatever type of insect Sitting On The Couch. After a minute of standing there thinking what the heck will kill this thing without dirtying the couch, it escaped, never to be seen again.

#2 Lots of Roaches in my girls' bathroom. They weren't in our bathroom, but in my girls' bathroom, which by the way, was a separate "room" than ours. Of course I kept their suitcases zippered, only opening them to take out clothes or put in clean clothes fresh from the dryer, where I don't think the roaches can live in.

#3 I was born and raised in The Bronx and my husband is a retired NYCity Police Officer who worked midnights in Jamaica, Queens. I am not easily intimidated, but when I'm on a Disney vacation, I don't feel I should put my guard up while "relaxing at the pool".

It seemed that the local citizens would frequent the pool area with their friends and family. One such "family" which consisted of a bunch of grown men, lots of kids and some ladies, were having fun in the pool. Me and my family had just entered the pool area and were looking around for an open table or lounge chair. It was around 10:00 pm. There was a commotion in the pool. Some of the kids from the local family were causing trouble and splashing at guests, children. One of the moms of the children being harrassed spoke up, lots of fingerpointing and yelling. She got her stuff and left. So naturally, we saw an empty table and took it.

Well, ten minutes later security came to escort the local family out of the pool area. There was a lot of talking/yelling going on between the local family and the security guards. Then they start staring and pointing at me. It seems that the local family remembered a lady who was yelling at them who was seated at the table that I was now at, but they never saw her leave. So I pulled out my Bronx attitute and stared right back. My husband and the kids were in the pool but they didn't realize what was going on. Thank God security escorted them out on the other side from where I was.

While all this was going on, there was also a bunch of cop cars racing around the resort right across from the pool area with their sirens blaring and a helicopter circling the resort with it's spotlight on. I felt like I was right in the middle of a COPS taping.


You will never get me back at Calypso Cay Resort, nor will you ever hear me recommend it to anyone I know. I know this was a couple years ago, and maybe it has changed for the better with tighter security, but I just didn't like the mingling of Calypso Cay resort guests with Country Inn hotel guests. Country Inn is a really nice hotel, but it's a little more transient than a resort, so security has no idea who should and shouldn't be on resort property.
When I go on a vacation, I expect to feel safe, especially in a resort. I did not feel safe at all at Calypso Cay. Speaking with other guests right after this all happened, they did not either.

I hope this helped you.
Corryn
 
Corryn - what a horrible time for you and your family!!!

I am so sorry you went through this - we never visited the pool (we had to leave early - mother got sick).

although I do agree about security - at the timeshare I generally visit - there is a security guard - if you don't have the proper pass or a reservation or a salesperson verify that you are there for appointment - you generally don't get in....

this place did not have a security guard - and yes it was in with a bunch of hotels. Even worst the hotels allowed pets - the timeshare did not!

I travel with my pet - but he had to stay at FW then. So I got more than a little mad when other people had their pets with them.
 
Corryn, I agree with you about Calypso Cay. Was the area you stayed in the Runaway Bay section? That's where we were two or three years ago.

One day when outside the apartments, I saw a cat in the window and said, "Oh, how nice. You can bring your pet." Another day I saw a moving truck unloading furniture. That, and the beaters in the parking lot, led to my suspicion that "local" people were living at the site. During my timeshare tour, I asked my salesman about this and my thoughts were confirmed. Runaway Bay did rent to locals.

The place way set up so that the "rentals" were on one side of the street, and the resort on the other. Unfortunately, we were at the rental section. They didn't, at that time, have any guard station to check who was coming through other than the code you had to punch in to get in the parking lot. (You had to be fast. One night while we were punching the code, one of the "locals" sped through the gate before we were able to get in.)

The condos in the high-rise that I saw during the tour were nice, though.

It has a good location just off 192 and there is a Publix very close. Not THAT far away from the Wal-Mart in Kissimmee, either.

However, I did not like the Runaway Bay experience at all, but for $45 per night for a 2 bedroom....

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Popsicle,
I'm looking at the map now (I save everything). We stayed in the Amerisuites Vacation Club. When we went, they had the Country Inn and Suites building (which we stayed there for a few days before our week in the timeshare), then there were two other buildings in the Calypso Cay Resort Village.

We were told that the Runaway Bay Apartments were just that, apartments. Now that I'm looking at the map, I see 5 separate buildings in the Runaway Bay Apartment Complex that are colored and used as part of the Calypso Cay Resort. They're listed in the Map Key as being so. Yet there are 19 other buildings in the Runaway Bay section that are not listed as being in the Calypso Cay Resort. I'm guessing they had initially planned for the Runaway Bay apartments to be used for a Home Away From Home for Travelers, but it wasn't working out that way so they rent out to locals.

When we inquired about purchasing a timeshare there (we did not go on the tour) we were told nothing about Runaway Bay Apartments being used as a Timeshare. We were told they were apartments and they were separate from Calypso Cay Resort, they had their own pool and clubhouse and we had ours. And that's why, I'm sure, the "locals" were escorted from the Calypso Cay Pool during my stay there.

You know, you want a nice place to visit while on vacation. You want to put yourself in Disney Mode and not have a worry. When you're forced to get your haunches up about watching your back, that's no vacation.
I'm sorry about your vacation, too, but I'm kinda glad to hear that it wasn't all just in my head.
Have a Sunshine Day! :sunny:
 















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