Just got back from a week's stay.Very disappointed with the concept. Too large requiring driving to get anywhere. 4 sections divided by a highway. We were in a 2 bedroom unit in the western section. A pool there but everything else cost money. Even the fishing pole. We drove to the river area and they wanted $9 per person per day for a tube rental. These have always been free at other places. We went through the sales pitch to get 10% off our food. The 60 minute presentation took over 2 hrs with 4 sales people. They don't like to hear 'no'. We did not get the coupons as promised either. The ones we got were useless. This place is for golfers only with 4 golf courses - 2 18's and 2 9's. No sidewalks except for the one main road. No walking trails. Claim to have 9 restaurants but in reality there are 2 with 1 sports bar and the rest are where you can get a premade sandwich or order a pizza. Would not stay again. The quality of the kitchen cabinets was poor with the laminate pulling away.

We reserved a one-bedroom unit in the River Island area, which is the newest area of the resort. The room was very small with a bad odor - suite hotels are much larger and nicer than this unit. The "balcony" was a screened area with two chairs (it's all that would fit on the balcony) overlooking the parking lot. The furniture was uncomfortable with stains and scratches - my sons college furniture was in better condition. We left the unit shortly after we arrived to go to the pool bar and had not complained about the odor at this point. When we returned a half-hour later there was someone from housekeeping in the room who said the people in the unit before us had complained of a bad odor. We went to the reservation desk to inquire and were told there was a note on the room that said bad odor reported.....and they put us in the unit anyway! I have to say the kind gentleman at the reservation desk, Pablo, found us another unit which was a two-bedroom and we were happy with the resolution. The bed pillows are the most uncomfortable pillows I have every slept on. I ended up folding a blanket from one of the beds to use as a pillow. I ranked service as average because of the room issue on check-in and the service at the River Island Grilling Co was very slow.

Purpose of our stay was in town for Disney World Half-Marathon, this was our 2nd stay at this Resort. The Resort is huge, you would need a car to go from one end to the other end. Our unit was on Southern Magnolia Court, the only Con there was it was too close to US 192, we can hear all the vehicular traffic noise, but it was close to the Entrance/Exit to Resort. Our Unit was Big and Clean!!!

The other Negative was the step after Check-In, after receiving my welcome packet and keys to unit, I was escorted to the other side of the Lobby of the Sales Counselor Desk, there, the Sales Rep, kept on pushing me to attend the Sales Orientation, I kept on telling him, I was NOT interested, but he kept on and on and on, we just flew overnight/cross-country from Los Angeles and wanted to Rest upon our arrival. The Rep finally had me sign a blue paper I would promise to attend the 60mins presentation, I figured I can call on Sunday to cancel the Monday appointment, well the # I called, no one answered on Sunday morning, when I got home and looked at my AmEx statement, I got hit with the $30 for not attending, this was disclosed to me. So Don't Sign the blue paper, unless you are will to pay the $30 penalty for Not Showing!

It is a beautiful property, I'll give it that. We had found a rate of $73 per night and my husband is a Platinum member. They greated us and thanked us for our status and gave us a free bottle of wine. Now for the sales pitch, 20,000 points if we went to the one and a half hour presentation. We said no thanks, we were there for only 2 nights. The room was near the River run and a beautiful one bedroom suite complete with washer and dryer. Now it was a bit confusing finding it as it is a very large complex. We unpacked and then got a telephone call that we were only there for one night and had to move the next night. My husband told them we weren't moving and nothing happened the next morning. On our last morning our doorbell was rung by the maid at 8:30 asking to do the room. Now on vacations we like to relax not leave at the crack of dawn. We were up but not ready to be answering doors. We loved the River Run which was just behind us. If we were into golfing it would have been a great place.
I don't think we'll be back but that has more to do with not wanting to go back to Orlando again.