Windsor Palms Resort & that bad smell

[LurkerLisa]

FYI - If you rent in Windsor Palms beware the East Wind!

I can't believe in all my extensive research, I never found any mention of the fact that there is a HUGE sewage treatment plant adjacent to the Windsor Plams property (in fact, depending on which house you are in, you can even get a nice view of the plant in addition to the smell). Of course, all during this week, the wind has been blowing from the east, so it's prety stinky outside. The house is nice and the club house is great, but the smell, not so much!

I'll post more info about the exact house in the other section of the board when we get back.

Lisa

 

[suggies08]

Yikes We are staying there in June and I was *SO* looking forward to it. I even just posted asking for info on Windsor Palms. Is it like this throughout the whole neighborhood? I don't want to cancel, but I don't want to smell sewage our whole vacation.

 

[mtmbyck]

I specifically warned someone last week who said they were staying there! This is why we chose WINDSOR HILLS!! No smell there! We were warned about this 2 years ago and if you go on Google earth you can even see the water treatment plants.

Honestly, I would consider cancelling and try to book in Windsor Hills. We just got back and it was totally fine!

 

[lexie32]

We stayed there for 2 weeks in sept 05, no smell just lovely peace and quiet!

 

[LurkerLisa]

Sorry - double post

 

[LurkerLisa]

Yikes We are staying there in June and I was *SO* looking forward to it. I even just posted asking for info on Windsor Palms. Is it like this throughout the whole neighborhood? I don't want to cancel, but I don't want to smell sewage our whole vacation.

I think that the smell is the worst at the back of the development (on Wyndham Palms Way) and yesterday it even smelled in the house It seems that the smell is the worst when the wind is from the east - and it's too bad that the wind has been from that direction ALL week

Lisa

 

[Tissa]

Um, Thanks for the info I guess. We are going the first of June and I'm about to send off the final payment. If I cancel I loose the deposit on a house that I really like. I'm just going to close my eyes and forget I ever read about the smell and hopefully not experience it while we are there.

 

[dougsmom98]

We stayed there in Feb of 06 and didn't smell a thing. Good luck to those of you who have reservations. I hope there is no smell for you too!

 

[Dis1978]

That is dreadful Lisa. Have you complained strenously to management and asked to be moved and or have your payment refunded. I would think that having to deal with noxious smells amounting to a nuisance would not be part of your vacation contract.

 

[suggies08]

Tissa,

We will be there around the same time. I think i'll try your tactic and try to forget about it, lol.

 

[mareed]

We've stayed in condos and townhomes at Windsor Palms about 6 times over the last few years, and have never noticed a bad smell. If it's close to Wyndham Palms Way, I guess that's the individual villas and we may have been at the opposite end of the resort. I don't deny that the plant is there, and that you might notice a smell at times, but I'll try to reassure others that I don't think it's usually noticeable.

We're also staying in townhomes there for our next 2 planned visits. It's a great price at a wonderful price! (Although I did notice the stucco & siding on some of the homes needed cleaning and looked a bit bad with what I assume is mold/mildew.)

I was also surprised that I hadn't read about the entrance being moved due to the new road that's nearby. Since we'd been there so many times before, and we could see the "old" gatehouse and we knew that the "old" entrance was straight out from that, we drove right past the new entrance and had to turn around and come back. The entrance is now right past Indian Creek neighborhood. There's an overpass that goes over the new road and takes you to a "new" gatehouse.

 

[LurkerLisa]

That is dreadful Lisa. Have you complained strenously to management and asked to be moved and or have your payment refunded. I would think that having to deal with noxious smells amounting to a nuisance would not be part of your vacation contract.

Well, I might have tried to do something, but we rented from VRBO (a private owner). Really, the house was nice and on the largest lot, but the smell on Friday was the worst . I really didn't smell it until we got about 6 houses from the end of Wyndham Palms Way, which is at the very back of the development, so those of you in the condos and townhomes should be fine.

Lisa

 

[heathera]

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[Tissa]

I just returned from touring this area, I didn't stay there, I rented a house in Davenport, and if I'm thinking correctly that the end near the John Young Parkway was looking very run down- like old couches and stuff thrown in the dumpsters out front or on the lawns and the edges of the lawns definetly needed to be weed wacked, also there does not look to be a very favorable neighbourhood on the John YOung Parkway end, we drove through a 10 PM after eating at the Loop's Romano's Macaroni Grill and there was a young man running down the street shooting a gun into the air and the police were just driving beside him doing nothing! The houses are very run down in the residential neighborhood nearby and seedy looking too....IMHO I'd look elsewhere but prehaps the ammenities at Windsor are nice enough to forget the 'outside' reality!

Are you serious?

 

[nyfinfan]

Can you really expect the police to stop EVERY "young man running down the street shooting a gun into the air " The police can't be expected to do everything all the time. Sometime's the citizen's need to police their own

 

[lexie32]

I just returned from touring this area, I didn't stay there, I rented a house in Davenport, and if I'm thinking correctly that the end near the John Young Parkway was looking very run down- like old couches and stuff thrown in the dumpsters out front or on the lawns and the edges of the lawns definetly needed to be weed wacked, also there does not look to be a very favorable neighbourhood on the John YOung Parkway end, we drove through a 10 PM after eating at the Loop's Romano's Macaroni Grill and there was a young man running down the street shooting a gun into the air and the police were just driving beside him doing nothing! The houses are very run down in the residential neighborhood nearby and seedy looking too....IMHO I'd look elsewhere but prehaps the ammenities at Windsor are nice enough to forget the 'outside' reality!

I think you maybe thinking of a different windsor! Windsor Pams is off sandlake road, in the formosa gardens area 34747 nr west 192 see here



http://local.live.com/default.aspx?...&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=8421616


Sorry the link keeps putting me back to windsor hills but if you scan left you will find windsor palms
HTH

 

[MYDISNEYHOUSES]

I just returned from touring this area, I didn't stay there, I rented a house in Davenport, and if I'm thinking correctly that the end near the John Young Parkway was looking very run down- like old couches and stuff thrown in the dumpsters out front or on the lawns and the edges of the lawns definetly needed to be weed wacked, also there does not look to be a very favorable neighbourhood on the John YOung Parkway end, we drove through a 10 PM after eating at the Loop's Romano's Macaroni Grill and there was a young man running down the street shooting a gun into the air and the police were just driving beside him doing nothing! The houses are very run down in the residential neighborhood nearby and seedy looking too....IMHO I'd look elsewhere but prehaps the ammenities at Windsor are nice enough to forget the 'outside' reality!

I think you are mistaken about the Windsor Palms area. It is located in a very nice area called the Formosa Gardens area and no where near John Young Parkway.

 

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[Tissa]

Well from the pictures I have seen and the virtual tour I took, Windsor Palms looks like one nice inner city project.