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Are you or your family looking for a great holiday resort in Orlando? With the trend towards booking holiday homes well in advance of arrival, it’s not too early to start booking a great villa for the Fall.

One of the biggest issues many travellers have is the plethora of options they do have. The OVH 360 website contains resort reviews for over 70 resorts in Central Florida. This may make the selection of a holiday resort in Orlando much easier for most people.

The Devil is in the Details

Selecting a vacation home can be easy if you’ve the information you need all in one place. This is the concept behind this “360 degree” view of holiday resorts in Orlando. That’s why the Central Florida resort reviews are so useful to the occasional traveller. Pictures, resort descriptions and locational details and narratives are all part of our resort reviews.

Booking holidays can be made easy with these useful tools. However, one must fully assess their own family and individual needs before booking a holiday resort in Orlando. For instance, which parks will you mostly be attending? If your park mix is diverse, for example if the Walt Disney World® Resort, the Universal® Orlando Resort and Legoland are all on the itinerary, vacation rentals closest to Disney may not be your best option. Alternatively, it’s you plan to spend 4 days at the Walt Disney World® Parks, one may want to be as close to the gates of WDW as possible.

Holiday Resort in Orlando

Booking Holidays for Your Family

The easiest way to find a holiday resort in Orlando is first jot down your most important criteria – location, size of home, amenities, privacy. Of that list, one may want to then make sure the “must haves” are satisfied. For most groups or families, size of home and sleeping accommodations are at the top of the list. Typically, the list of other desirables tends to follow after that.

Once you have established your needs, finding a holiday resort in Orlando gets much easier. There are many neighborhoods to choose from, new and old, plus lots of variety in terms of villa amenities.

Extensive Selection of Holiday Resorts

For our purposes, holiday resorts include clubhouses, recreational amenities and of course outstanding villas. These communities are often a perfect lodging option for a large group or family.

Some outstanding choices for a holiday resort:

Emerald Island Villas – This is always at the top of everyone’s short list as one of the top resorts in Central Florida, The OVH 360 inventory includes a beautiful 4 bedroom vacation rental in Emerald Island.
Windsor Hills Resort – This resort has a large clubhouse, outstanding community amenities and beautiful holiday homes in the facility
Isles at Cay Commons Holiday Villas – If you spend several days at Universal, this will be the top holiday resort in Orlando for you.

Other fantastic resort communities and associated resort reviews are listed on our main page. Each of our resort reviews includes proximity to major parks and attractions, location and resort amenities. These details will help you determine a holiday resort in Orlando that matches your needs.

If you are looking for a holiday resort in Orlando and need any advice, please give OVH 360 a call at 1-888-826-0551. Our friendly and knowledgeable service team is trained on the many resort options that are available in Central Florida.

Fox News Slams Multi-Billion Dollar Vacation Home Segment

In what must be considered a black eye for the industry, this major media outlet featured “vacation rental horrors” on the front page of its online travel portal. The title of the piece even threw more insult at one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry: Ever wondered what people get up to when they rent a vacation home? Please click here for the full article.

No real background is given other than to say that they have provided the “worst guest antics” of UK holiday home guests. On several levels, the Fox News piece is a “hatchet job” on a multi-billion dollar industry, and is journalism at its worst. A couple of critical notes:

No mention is made of the rapid growth of the vacation rental industry over the last several years. If vacation rentals are so bad, why are millions of families and individuals flocking to this segment?
The article makes no attempt at differentiating between owner listed rentals and rentals managed by a professional rental company.
The article is written to be as salacious as possible. Heavy emphasis placed on terms such as feces, raw meat, etc… for purposes of shock journalism.
The reader is really left with no real compelling reason why this article was even written. It provides no useful purpose nor provides the reader any useful insights. Its superficial storytelling meant to shock the reader.

For a network that purports to be “fair and balanced”, this content falls way short of that standard.

While we don’t challenge the truthfulness of whether many of these vile and disgusting experiences actually occurred, it would have been nice to have pointed out the millions of customers (and growing) that have been very pleased with renting vacation homes.

Orlando Vacation Homes 360 – Setting the Quality Standard

While there is admittedly some risk associated with aspects of the vacation rental segment, the advantages of booking with a professional management company are clear (see our recent blog post here). For example, OVH 360 personally selects each of the homes in its reservations portfolio to ensure quality. This avoids all of the experiences mentioned in the Fox News piece. Each of our rental homes are also cleaned to the highest of professional standards.

The bottom line for any consumer is to take the risk out of booking vacation home rentals. The OVH 360 concept, with its dedication to high quality online content, is dedicated to just that plus a quality at home experience and more. We believe every visit to Central Florida should be pleasurable and fun for your whole family. No one should endure the negative conditions mentioned in this Fox News travel article.

Our advice is to stay in an OVH 360 villa to remove the risk associated with booking other types of accommodations and to avoid “vacation rental horrors”. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff is also trained to assist you in any way possible including resort and community questions, booking policy, rates or anything else. Give the team a toll free call at 1-888-826-0551 to discuss your many Orlando area vacation home options.