First off, the owners of the Magic Tree Resort need to realize that simply having a few palm trees on your property does not make you a "resort." Magic Tree is, at best, a motel, and I've stayed in much nicer motels than this one.

As soon as we walked into our unit after check-in, we were greeted with what amounted to patio furniture in the living room and plastic glasses on the kitchen counter (the kind they serve you soda in at pizzerias). The bed was not comfortable, and the shower magically changes water temperature at random, going anywhere from scalding to frigid and everywhere in between.

The walls are paper-thin, so that you can hear entire conversations word-for-word that are occurring either outside or in the adjacent unit. One potentially fun game to play would be to listen to two people jabbering outside your unit, and then saying to them, without even having to get out of bed, something along the lines of: "That's really interesting. Fred really was a jerk for doing that," or "I hope your syphillis gets better soon!"

Unfortunately, at 4am each night, the garbage truck comes by to empty out the bins, and you're stuck lying there listening to the clanking of metal for a while until the truck leaves and you can finally make a real attempt to go back to sleep in your uncomfortable bed.

But don't let terrible facilities discourage you from staying! There are all sorts of perks on site! The Magic Tree was nice enough to provide all units with a VCR (for younger readers, that acronym stands for "Videocassette recorder"), and their lobby area contains a library of VHS movies for you to check out. It was truly eye opening. Until Magic Tree, I didn't know that Lord of the Rings on VHS even EXISTED. I'm kind of a vinyl guy myself, but someone must have checked out all the records already.

For New Years Eve, Magic Tree hosts a party, but it's of the bring your own food/drink variety. We passed on the party. It was a tough choice between ringing in 2012 at Magic Tree or Epcot, and Epcot *just* edged out Magic Tree.

When checking out, you are REQUIRED to fill out a survey about how good/bad you'd rate your experience at Magic Tree. When I tried to decline the survey, I was told that it was mandatory. I have 2 points to make about this: (1) Forcing someone to fill out a survey is perhaps not the most effective method to earn a positive review; and (2) If your "resort" is this poor, why would you be this adamant about wanting to get reviewed? If it were me, I'd be getting guests to sign confidentiality agreements barring them from telling anyone what Magic Tree was really like.

Bottom Line: If you want a good experience, go to the Vistana Resort. That's actually a resort, and a nice one at that. As for Magic Tree, it's perfect for you if you (1) dislike sleeping, (2) love the excitement of not knowing what the water temperature will be from minute to minute, and (3) love eavesdropping on others.

Drove in, reluctantly checked in, walk into the room, walked out, drove out.

Our stay at this place was very pleasurable and comfortable. The hotel staff were extremely friendly, helpful and professional. The suite felt like home immediately upon our arrival. The laundry facility is fantastic, and the fitness center was awesome. The whole place was very clean and kept up nicely. I would definitely recommend this place to other people visiting Orlando.

We are owners here and have been for many years after coming with my inlaws when my kids were little. They are now in there early 20s and still love coming here.This is no Ritz but a place I am happy to say I own a small piece of. This timeshare is small and very close to Walt Disney World like 10 mins away.The pool, large hot tub and child pool is in the center of this resort and the rooms all go around the outside. I have stayed at other timeshares where you have to drive to the pool and hot tub but not here. These rooms have all been updated and have new furniture. They have a small playground area and tennis courts outback and recently added nice excersise room. If you looking for activities going on all day then this place is NOT for you. But looking for a great location for disney then this will be great. You will love the safe feeling of this resort.

I almost forgot they just put in a elevator so if you have a wheelchair or even a stroller its great.