Vacation Rental site?

[pta-mom]

We've decided to drive to Orlando for our summer vacation, last two weeks of August. Normally we do DW but not this year...this time we're all about other Orlando parks.

Anyone have a website they use to rent a vacation property, house, condo, etc while in Orlando? What area should I be looking in if we are doing Universal, Sea World, other Orlando attractions but NOT DW? Any info much appreciated!

 

[branmack]

Try Windsor Hills. I have personally not stayed here but I have had lots of friends that have and loved it. Some of the owners are Canadian.

http://www.windsorhillsrent.com/

 

[drag n' fly]

We are doing a family UO trip in November offsite. We have rented a 6 bedroom house with a pool and a games room for a very reasonable price. The people have been great to deal with also. You do not have to rent Sat to Sat.

http://www.floridasunvacationhomes.com/

These people are also very reasonable and easy to deal with. Prices are fantastic but they do have a Sat to Sat rule.

http://www.vacationcentralflorida.com/

 

[Reese]

We've rented a couple different villas. I used http://www.vrbo.com/ to find our rentals. We've rented in Rolling Hills and Emerald Isle. It breaks it down into rental areas and than you can look for a specific house from there.

 

[mtmbyck]

You didn't say how big your family is or ages?? If you are 4 people - 2 adults and 2 kids, I would go with the Hilton Grand vacation villas or Sheraton Vistana villages. They are basically 2 minutes from Sea World/Aquatica and maybe 5-7 minutes from UO. More like 10 minutes to Disney parks. We have rented many homes around Disney (I use VRBO.com to source homes) but in the last couple of years have enjoyed the villas as they offer a larger themed pool, activites, and still all the amenities of a home. My children are older so we can leave them in the unit while we go for a drink to the bar or a hot tub. When they were little, a home was amazing since you could put them to bed and then sit out by the pool........

 

[snickerboo]

I like homeaway.com because it allows you to see properties at many different vacation resorts.

Our last Orlando vacay we stayed at Windsor Hills and we really enjoyed it. My friends' parents have a timeshare at Sheraton Vistana and they love it there, too. Have also heard good things about Emerald Island from friends who stayed there.

We really loved having a condo over a hotel room-much more space an ammenities and we paid less than we would have at most major hotels ($89/night for a 3bdrm condo).

 

[DbleTheFun]

We have used VRBO for many many vacations all over the world and is excellent!!!! I totally reccomend them, as the site is very user friendly and has tons of pictures! (vacation rentals by owner)

 

[PanamaMike]

My family and I just returned from 9 days at DIS sponsor
http://www.dreamsvillas.com/

We were very satisfied with the place.

 

[scoobydoo2010]

Cool some new sites I was not aware of before!!! We have aways stayed in Windsor Hills and Floridasun seam to have a lot of homes there. Sites I have used before are VRBO, Villa4vacation and magicalvacationhomes

 

[Tantor]

We have used VRBO for many many vacations all over the world and is excellent!!!! I totally reccomend them, as the site is very user friendly and has tons of pictures! (vacation rentals by owner)

totally recommend this site!! They are world wide. we are using them in Paris and London this summer

 

[sjsjbrook]

My family and I just returned from 9 days at DIS sponsor
http://www.dreamsvillas.com/

We were very satisfied with the place.

I just booked with these guys as well. They are owned by two of the dis unplugged podcast hosts. It was very easy to book and all the reviews posted on the guestbooks, were all very positive. I am looking forward to staying here. Oh and did I mention that the price for a 4 bedroom, was way way way cheeper than our last stay at OKW 2 bedroom.

It's location makes it easy to get to any of the theme parks. I went on google maps street view and drove around to some of the theme parks. We are planning our first trip to Universal.

 

[minnie56]

Just booked a Villa through VRBO and it was a very positive experience. House was perfect and their system effortless. They followed up with me after to be sure that all went well also.

 

[ccudmore]

I used Award Pool Homes (http://www.awardpoolhomes.com/) a couple years ago and everything went really well.

 

[ado121]

we highly recommend this site. we stayed here for christmas 2009 and it was wonderful.

http://www.rent-windsorhills.com/windsor_hills_condo/index.html