Anyone stayed at Regal Oaks?

[Cruz91]

We're offsite veterans (~16 trips in the last 6 or 7 yrs). We've stayed at WH (most often), WP, WBC, Paradise Palms, and a couple other places. Found a deal on a 4BR townhome at Regal Oaks that is about half of Paradise Palms. We don't need granite and a pool on the private patio. Really only stay in condo to sleep, shower, and mid day naps. Really just want something clean. Anyone have experience with this property? I know individual owners may vary, but all feedback is appreciated.

 

[Ametista]

We're offsite veterans (~16 trips in the last 6 or 7 yrs). We've stayed at WH (most often), WP, WBC, Paradise Palms, and a couple other places. Found a deal on a 4BR townhome at Regal Oaks that is about half of Paradise Palms. We don't need granite and a pool on the private patio. Really only stay in condo to sleep, shower, and mid day naps. Really just want something clean. Anyone have experience with this property? I know individual owners may vary, but all feedback is appreciated.

Half of Paradise Palms? I have seen quite a few 4 bed PP townhomes from $700/week. (plus add tax and cleaning fee, but still about $900/week)

We stayed at Regal Oaks June 2012. We were pretty disappointed overall. The carpet was very dirty, the 3rd bedroom was so small the bed blocked the door from opening all the way, the dryer didn't work, busted trash can, etc. Lots of just cheap fixes or no-fixes. No bath mats and only a few tiny towels, I slipped on the wet tile getting out of the shower and the management acted like we were being demanding wanting mats (who on earth doesn't have one on a wet tile floor???). I had a lovely bruise on my leg for most of my trip. But what made us most upset was that the water slide and lazy river didn't work (never has been water to the slide, no current in lazy river, and no pool heat whatsoever). If it was summer you don't need heat in the pool but the water slide/lazy river thing really irked us because it was advertised on vacationrentals dot com as part of the greatness of the resort.

Regal Oaks went under financially, so that's why the pool is like that. Overall I felt we could have gotten a better deal. I would have much preferred to pay a few hundred extra and have cleaner carpet, working amenities, etc. And overall the whole place felt like a ghost town, hardly anybody there. Of every place I have stayed in Orlando/Kissimmee that is the last one I would return to.

Ironically Regal Oaks was what encouraged me to loosen my purse strings a bit, and the next place we stayed after that was Paradise Palms, which really DID seem like paradise comparatively. We already have a PP townhome rebooked for June.

On the plus side, at least Regal Oaks had a security guy riding around on a bike even if it wasn't gated. And it is SOOO close to Disney. I wish some investor would finish it up and get everything working because the location is superb.

 

[Cruz91]

Thanks for the feedback! We're thinking about 10 nights starting around June 7. One mgmt company I rent from fairly often has several 4 BR RO properties for about $1000, but cheapest PP I could find for that time was $1600 or so. Not half, but that delta would pay for one of the 4 AP's I have to buy this trip. We don't usually swim a bunch, so pool doesn't bother me too much. Dirty would bother me though. Typical... not an easy decision.

 

[Ametista]

Thanks for the feedback! We're thinking about 10 nights starting around June 7. One mgmt company I rent from fairly often has several 4 BR RO properties for about $1000, but cheapest PP I could find for that time was $1600 or so. Not half, but that delta would pay for one of the 4 AP's I have to buy this trip. We don't usually swim a bunch, so pool doesn't bother me too much. Dirty would bother me though. Typical... not an easy decision.

Do you have to have 4 bedrooms? Even if you look on Ebay there are houses with 4 beds for less than that. I don't know, I kept apologizing to everybody in my family for that resort/townhome. Did you search on Homeaway, VRBO, flipkey, etc?

 

[Cruz91]

I haven't done my "full court" search yet. Just started looking because we just kinda decided to do the June trip. We were originally thinking of waiting till Thanksgiving, but we can't wait. We figure if we get AP's in June we'll get at least 3 trips and maybe 4 out of them (June, Nov, maybe March, and early June just before they expire again). I'll def do some looking on eBay. I never really thought about that. Have you gone that route before? I've rented a ton from VRBO.

 

[Ametista]

No, I get ticket discounts and that kind of thing from Ebay all the time (and there are some Disney tix, but I think they are cheaper on UCT). There is almost always some special discount code for 20% off Seaworld or something but you have to pay somebody 1.99 to get the code (which is worth it if it save you $75). I have seen some home listings on Ebay that looked good but they are never in the subdivision I want or they are further away than I want. If the seller had good feedback I would definitely try it. I usually go through Vacationrentals dot com, homeaway, trip advisor, etc. I have always had pretty good luck except for the Regal Oaks.