http://www.orlando-vacationhomerental.com/florida/florida-tourism/ Orlando Florida Vacation Home Rentals - Reviews! Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.orlando-vacationhomerental.com/florida/florida-tourism/comment-page-1/#comment-2998 John Thompson Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:29:05 +0000 http://www.orlando-vacationhomerental.com/?p=4663#comment-2998 My family and I have been travelling to Florida for over 25 years now and have seen some major changes in the Disney area such as International Drive changing from what used to be "the place to stay" to now being "the place to avoid" unless you are into cheap tea shirts and Chinese ornaments. We have stayed at the Marriott (now Wyndham), the Castle and the Quality Inn Plaza, the first two of which were very comfortable but the Quality Inn left a little to be desired. Having travelled there pretty much every other year for the first 18 years or so and saw the gradual decline in standards down International Drive we decided to buy a Villa on Lake Berkley Resort back in 2001 and have never looked back since. Sure we took a hit with rentals for a while after 911 and the market is depressed at the moment but we did get over 35 weeks rental in 2008 and have over 22 weeks so far this year which goes to prove that people still want to holiday in Florida and in particular the Disney / Kissimmee area, plus if you are on a well kept gated community such as ours it is a bonus. Although new building work in Osceola County have more or less come to a standstill it is good to see that the old Beltz outlet on International Drive has been completely re-built to a more modern standard and work is going on where the old Mercado used to be. Florida is still high on the list for family holidays and as long as the GB pound is strong against the dollar I think the trend will continue. John My family and I have been travelling to Florida for over 25 years now and have seen some major changes in the Disney area such as International Drive changing from what used to be “the place to stay” to now being “the place to avoid” unless you are into cheap tea shirts and Chinese ornaments. We have stayed at the Marriott (now Wyndham), the Castle and the Quality Inn Plaza, the first two of which were very comfortable but the Quality Inn left a little to be desired.
Having travelled there pretty much every other year for the first 18 years or so and saw the gradual decline in standards down International Drive we decided to buy a Villa on Lake Berkley Resort back in 2001 and have never looked back since. Sure we took a hit with rentals for a while after 911 and the market is depressed at the moment but we did get over 35 weeks rental in 2008 and have over 22 weeks so far this year which goes to prove that people still want to holiday in Florida and in particular the Disney / Kissimmee area, plus if you are on a well kept gated community such as ours it is a bonus.
Although new building work in Osceola County have more or less come to a standstill it is good to see that the old Beltz outlet on International Drive has been completely re-built to a more modern standard and work is going on where the old Mercado used to be. Florida is still high on the list for family holidays and as long as the GB pound is strong against the dollar I think the trend will continue.
John

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