Which Marriott Vaction Club??

[mickeyhereicome]

I am booking a trip for November. The current Marriott's available are Cypress Harbour, Grande Vista Resort, Sabel Palms or Royal Palms. Which is the nicest? All have two bedroom units available. Thanks for your help!

 

[spiceycat]

do you want nicest or closest to WDW?

Cypress Harbour is probably the nicest - although still like Grande Vista

closest is Royal Palms - although Sabal Palms is not that far.

 

[swilshire]

You may want to join the Timeshare Users Group at www.tug2.net . They have extensive reviews of most timeshare resorts. They charge a $15 annual fee to access the reviews, but there are ways you can extend that for free after the first year, such as writing reviews or referring new members. I never book a resort without reading the great reviews there first. Well worth the cost to me.

Sheila

 

[jeff968]

I am booking a trip for November. The current Marriott's available are Cypress Harbour, Grande Vista Resort, Sabel Palms or Royal Palms. Which is the nicest? All have two bedroom units available. Thanks for your help!

I've been to three of the above (Cypress, Grande Vista, and Imperial which is the sister resort of Royal). Without question, Cypress Harbour is the best of what you have listed. We have stayed there a few times. It has a great location and configuration. It is just the right size and has something to do for everyone. They have 3 pools and a large pond, a beach, fishing, an activity center, a small mini-golf, it goes on and on. Many activities and the resort is just beautiful. You can find free reviews on trip Advisor.

 

[Ed J]

+1 For Jeff's review.

I've stayed at all 3 mentioned, we're going back to Imperial again this year as I like the convenience of the golf course that is on site at that resort. Add easier assess to golf to Cypress Harbour and I don't think I'd stay anywhere else.

Also I can get a 3 bedroom Imperial so that factors into it for us.

And as said before the Imperial, Sabel or Royal Palms are the closest, we have about 15 on average when we go and not everyone wants to go at the same time. A suburban from the world center (the hotel Imperial, Sabel & Royal Palms surround) was only $20 to a park. We also cabed it home from DTD for <20 after a night where none was in any condition to drive.

 

[spiceycat]

A suburban from the world center (the hotel Imperial, Sabel & Royal Palms surround) was only $20 to a park.

the parking for the timeshare was free - or are you talking about parking at WDW?

 

[Pkltm]

We stAyed in Grande Vista last year, many of the suites have been redone. The whole stay was amazing!

 

[mieuxmew]

We have stayed at Grande Vista and Cypress Harbour and LOVE both!

Cypress Harbour
All rooms are 2 bed/2 baths. The living room is very large. There is a laundry room with washer and dryer (full size side by side). Nautical theme with blue/white/yellow. There is a bar/grill and a pizza hut express. 2nd bedroom is small. It has one bed and a pull out sofa bed. If you open the sofa bed, the floor space is entirely consumed and the sofa bed does not have a good view of the TV. Resort is not too big/not too small. Lots of kids activities. Has a spa.

Grande Vista
This is a HUGE resort! There are studios, 1 bedrooms, 2 bedrooms and 3 bedrooms. The 2 bedroom/2 bath units (for comparison) have smaller living room, but 2nd bedroom is much larger. 2nd bedroom has either a king bed with sofa bed, 2 queen beds or 2 full size beds. Some of the 2nd bedrooms are lock offs, so will have a separate entrance and/or balcony (might be good for adults but bad with small kids). Washer/dryer is a stackable apartment size. More dining options here - food court, fancy restaurant, ice cream stand, bar/grill, pizza etc. There is an indoor kids play area (similar to McDonalds). Lots of kids activities. More of a grande gold/maroon theme. Also has a spa.

You can't go wrong with either. Consider who will be staying in the second bedroom - it might be the deciding factor, as the Cypress Harbour 2nd bedroom is very small and really has only 1 usuable bed. I like both but for different reasons. My husband prefers the Grande Vista, as it is a bigger resort with more amenities.

 

[Ed J]

the parking for the timeshare was free - or are you talking about parking at WDW?

A ride from the world center via a full size SUV was $20, sorry for not being more clear .

 

[happymommy]

Of the ones you mentioned, I've stayed at Grande Vista and Sabal Palms. I MUCH preferred Sabal Palms - it's much closer to Disney (in the same complex as Royal Palms), and I liked the layout of the condo better. It was so nice and quiet! Grande Vista just didn't "wow" me ever - only nice thing was I had Marriott Gift cards last August, so we started our stay there and charged our Disney tickets to the room (can't do that at Sabal Palms) so we could pay for them with the gift cards when we checked out.

We had a rental car - I definitely recommend one! Very strongly!

I would choose Sabal Palms over Royal Palms if you have more than one child - the second bedroom at Sabal Palms has a double bed plus a twin bed. At Royal Palms there is just one double bed (and a tiny day bed, but it doesn't look like you could sleep anyone on it). I recently put a review on tripadvisor about it. I would go back there in a heartbeat!

 

[Buzz L. Year]

I'll gladly join the cypress harbour bandwagon. Loved the in-unit jacuzzi !

 

[Detailor]

In my opinion, Cypress Harbour is the nicest (far and away our favorite Orlando-based Marriott timeshare resort), though the size and make-up of your group may influence which resort to stay at. The Cypress Harbour second bedroom has a queen bed and a queen sofa bed but when the sofa bed is pulled out there's not a lot of walk-around room in that bedroom. Some of the other resorts have two beds in the second bedroom (and of those, Grande
Vista is the nicest).

Dick Taylor

 

[goteamSy]

I personally love Sabal Palms because not only of it's close proximity to WDW, but because it's next door to the World Center, which offers a fabulous pool and amazing restaurants! You can even charge things from World Center to your villa!

 

[jeff968]

I personally love Sabal Palms because not only of it's close proximity to WDW, but because it's next door to the World Center, which offers a fabulous pool and amazing restaurants! You can even charge things from World Center to your villa!

True, but getting to the world center is a PIA. We stayed at Imperial palms and it was a pain to have to call and wait for the shuttle, especially off the busy world lobby. And walking always made me feel like we were playing frogger. The difference in getting to WDW between Cypress harbour and the palms resorts is only a couple of minutes as Route 4 south has that entrance right near CH.