Vero Beach

[Button]

Has anyone stayed here? Yep planning next years trip. Apparently it's 2 hours drive from WDW and Goofy and Donald do a character meal breakfast and pirate dinner. Coming up on our RCI timeshare exchange so thinking maybe do 1 week there and 1 week in Orlando. Looks beautiful. Would mean I get to stay in disney resort without wasting a timeshare exchange.

 

[pampat]

Yes, stayed there a few times. We used to own Vero Beach DVC points, so it used to be our end or beginning of our holidays. It was lovely last time we were there, really restful, right on the beach. We loved staying in the Inn, never stayed in one of the 'blocks'. We loved a sea view room where I could sit on the balcony, have my morning coffee while the other two got themselves up in the morning. A walk on the beach there is lovely, there are some fantastic lightning storms and lots of places to explore round the area.

I envy you! Not been for a long time, since we sold our DVC points.

Pam

 

[Mrdudecool]

Definitely agree with what has been said.
It has the Disney service but is a laid back approach. The pool area is lovely and so is the beach.

The local area has some really good restaurants too, something we preferred over the ones at the actual resort which we thought were expensive and not the best but it depends what you want.

Stayed in the Inn as well as a villa and a beach cottage and they're all beautiful. Definitely worth a visit if you can, such a nice chilled back resort.

 

[london75]

We're going to try 3 nights at the end of our orlando trip this summer. It looks nice and the videos all look good on youtube. The only thing I'm not sure about is if the weather isn't great eg storms or hurricane, what will we do with two kids! We'll have the car though so I suppose as long as we get out before anything hits we've got the rest of Florida to explore.

Incidentally, is your username your actual name? I'm a Button too, you don't meet many of them in daily life so always nice to hear of more.

 

[Button]

Incidentally, is your username your actual name? I'm a Button too, you don't meet many of them in daily life so always nice to hear of more.

Button is my dogs name! They only reason I can cope to come home after a trip to the world.

I think we'd be looking at a 1 bed villa . I'm used to the washing and cooking facilities from our timeshare at vacation village at parkway. Just starting to explore threads so not sure of the differences yet with buildings etc. looked at pics on trip advisor but didn't even think of you tube (doh)

 

[scoobydooby]

Does this resort offer any watersports?

 

[mickg7dyd]

Does this resort offer any watersports?

Imagine miles of unspoiled shoreline and tropical blue-green waters just steps away from your hotel door. This area is one of the most dense sea turtle nesting spots in the western hemisphere, as well as a home to a variety of rare and endangered animal species. Explore this beautiful environment on a family outing, or take some time out for a romantic sunset stroll. You can even rent boogie boards, sailboats, jet skis, kayaks or banana boats at the beach.

Chairs and umbrellas available for rent for a fee. No lifeguard on duty.

We love Vero Beach, both the Resort and the city itself.

Mick

 

[scoobydooby]

Imagine miles of unspoiled shoreline and tropical blue-green waters just steps away from your hotel door. This area is one of the most dense sea turtle nesting spots in the western hemisphere, as well as a home to a variety of rare and endangered animal species. Explore this beautiful environment on a family outing, or take some time out for a romantic sunset stroll. You can even rent boogie boards, sailboats, jet skis, kayaks or banana boats at the beach. Chairs and umbrellas available for rent for a fee. No lifeguard on duty. We love Vero Beach, both the Resort and the city itself. Mick

That sounds good. Thanks. I'm looking for a beach near WDW for 2015

 

[Jammmy77]

Disney vero beach resort is a vacation club located in the Vero Beach, Florida.It Offers the visitors to enjoy the Mickey Mouse shaped swimming pool and also provide the best dinning like shutters, Sonya’s, The green cabin and the Bleacher’s.

 

[TheFram4]

We are Dvc owners at Vero beach, and have generally had a few days there every trip (7 visits to vero) this year we aren't visiting because we find august just a little too hot to sit around the pool and now the kids ( young adults actually!) are older the activities don't have the same attraction for them.
There is loads of organised activities for youngsters - crafts, pool activities, 'parties'
And plenty of things to do in the resort - crazy golf, table tennis, board games, bikes etc,etc.
The pool has a counter service food - fries, salads, hot dogs, chicken strips etc and also serves the usual ice cream offerings and cocktails! You can also purchase refillable mugs for length of stay which is great when sitting round the pool.
The beach is a very short walk (20meters?) from the pool and hotel and it is great to have a splash in the sea - there are various beach items for hire - loungers/umbrellas, body boards, wave rider.
There is less to do in the evenings at Vero but they do have camp fires certain nights, movie nights and dvd rentals.
The cabin room is a bar which serves some snacks and has an outside veranda overlooking the sea (and thunderstorms if you are lucky ), there is live music some nights which tends to be easy listening background stuff and kids are allowed in here.

I would thoroughly recommend Vero for families with children aged 3-15 for a more relaxed few days, it is more like your traditional Pool/beach style resort, complete with the early bird towels on loungers crowd (Brits I think).

 

[iluvtot]

Loved Vero Beach! We stayed there a few times, but haven't been back for a few years.... Even the kids loved it as lots for them to do. We went Kayaking on the India River and they took scuba diving lessons in the pool. We were there in December one year and there was loads to do. DH and DD were taught how to play the mouth organ, there was a hanukkah celebration every evening which was interesting, camp fire sing-a-longs with smores......There was also a fantastic pizza takeaway place a short walkaway.
There is a good mall in India River and a shopping outlet as well (still needed a shopping fix
We did experience a hurricane warning one day. We were advised to stay in our rooms (we had a 2-bed villa) and the rain and winds were like nothing we had experienced before in Florida. However it had died down by the evening and we were able to go out and get something to eat.
Only downside was the' no-see-ums' so use lots of anti-bug spray!
Would love to go back!!

Julesxx

 

[london75]

I've been reading about the no-see-ums loads in the last few days, everyone seems to think the place is worth the bites but I'm not sure, out o fhte whole family I'm the one that gets bitten!

If we're covered in spray every day, will we still be bitten but not as much or not at all?

 

[TheFram4]

Yes the no-see-ums can be very bad if you don't use repellant. One of the first years we visited I went to the campfire with no repellant and my legs got loads of bites, it was very bad and had to use anti allergy tablets to stop the ichy-restlessness on my legs at night.
That said it never stopped me going back and I too always get bitten by bugs when no one else seems to.
The repellant definitely works

 

[edinburghlass]

I've been reading about the no-see-ums loads in the last few days, everyone seems to think the place is worth the bites but I'm not sure, out o fhte whole family I'm the one that gets bitten! If we're covered in spray every day, will we still be bitten but not as much or not at all?

Wherever you are staying this year I would recommend repellant. We were badly bitten in May, staying at POFQ and admittedly our room was near the river, used the boats to DTD and were out on the lake while my daughter was water skiing.

Daughter ended up going to the clinic with badly swollen leg (cost £220) and I came home with blister on my toe which became infected.

I like the phrase no-see-ums as we neither saw nor felt anything at the time of biting and I come from the land of midges who like to attack in clouds although one evening too late as I was walking through them I noticed a cloud of bugs down by the water at Pleasure Island when heading for the ferry back to POFQ.

 

[disneyholic family]

Wherever you are staying this year I would recommend repellant. We were badly bitten in May, staying at POFQ and admittedly our room was near the river, used the boats to DTD and were out on the lake while my daughter was water skiing.

Daughter ended up going to the clinic with badly swollen leg (cost £220) and I came home with blister on my toe which became infected.

I like the phrase no-see-ums as we neither saw nor felt anything at the time of biting and I come from the land of midges who like to attack in clouds although one evening too late as I was walking through them I noticed a cloud of bugs down by the water at Pleasure Island when heading for the ferry back to POFQ.

that's interesting (and terribly unpleasant for you!!). disney usually sprays heavily in an attempt to keep bites to a minimum. I wonder if the problem was more intense this year, or if they sprayed less.

 

[iluvtot]

I've been reading about the no-see-ums loads in the last few days, everyone seems to think the place is worth the bites but I'm not sure, out o fhte whole family I'm the one that gets bitten!

If we're covered in spray every day, will we still be bitten but not as much or not at all?

I read up on them before we went because DH gets really bad reactions with bites. It was recommended to use Avon's Skin so Soft which I bought and (touch wood!), we were bite free x