Looking for Luxury Vacation Home Rental recommendations

[rexalite]

I am organizing a 4 family "friend" reunion, and looking for a really nice house that we could all stay in together. It would have to be minimum 6 bedrooms. I don't really know the respective subdivisions, and my personal experiences have taught me that online property photos are not to be trusted! So I'm wondering if anyone has any particular recommendations for me.

 

[sympatico]

There are lots of subdivisions in the area. For nice 6 or more bedroom homes: Windsor Hills, Windsor Palms, Rolling Hills, Indian Creek, Calabria and others have up to 6 bedrooms. Emerald Island, Acadia Estates have 7 bedrooms and Formosa Gardens Estates has up to 9 bedroom homes. These are all within 7 minutes of Disney's Animal Kingdom. Calabria is a little further out. There's also Reunion Resort which has up to 9 bedroom homes and is probably 10 - 12 minutes from Disney property using I - 4.
It's all depending on how much you want to pay. You can find anything from $1400 per week to $5000. per week depending on the time of year.
Here's a map of the area:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...8.272032,-81.608849&spn=0.068335,0.11055&z=13
Windsor Hills is #1, Formosa Gardens Estates #9, Emerald Island #15, Reunion is #21, 22. It's a huge resort with 3 golf courses. Click on some of the blue markers around Emerald Island and you'll see other subdivisions in the area. Red markers are a few of the restaurants in the area and the pink markers are Disney.
This is a 7 bedroom home in Emerald Island that we stayed at in 2010:
http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p253707
Stayed in this 6 bedroom in Windsor Hills:
http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p250801
Visited this 6 bedroom in Emerald Island:
http://disneyvacahome.com/

 

[Lucky'sMom]

Check out www.luxurylifestylevacationhomes.com at Reunion resort. We just booked a 5bedrm/5bathrm house there for July. Our home is on the lower price range and is lovely, but there are some GORGEOUS well-decorated homes there! Their homes are also on homeaway.com and vrbo.com. I had very good responses to my questions before booking, they got back to me right away with thorough answers. Plus, the resort has 10 pools you can use, in addition to your home's pool.

 

[mrsklamc]

I think this is the most luxury of the vacation homes I've seen; way out of our budget though:

http://www.star-lake-manor.co.uk/

 

[waltmick]

We rented this 7BR/6BA home in Emerald Island for 11 nights the first of August for $1900 ($172.27/night). All taxes and fees included. Much lower rate than published on website. We also reserved the 7BR home next door, as we have a group of 26 going this time.

Hope you have a great trip.

Bob

 

[mrsklamc]

We rented this 7BR/6BA home in Emerald Island for 11 nights the first of August for $1900 ($172.27/night). All taxes and fees included. Much lower rate than published on website. We also reserved the 7BR home next door, as we have a group of 26 going this time.

Hope you have a great trip.

Bob

Bob- are you referring to the link I posted, or another house? Thanks!

 

[waltmick]

Sorry, I forgot to link.

http://www.firstclassfloridavillas....asp?PageDataID=26576&ad=4/25/2012&dd=5/2/2012

Bob