Thanks for the reply. I've been staying at the Vistana for many years and remember the last update that took place in Cascades between 2012-2014. I was led to believe that they are on 10-12 year cycles, so wondered if they might start soon. I was there in March and December last year and parts were beginning to look a bit tired, especially the carpets.
You’re welcome! Your postings have helped me so much - I love details lol!
You’re welcome! Your postings have helped me so much - I love details lol!
March is great - although certainly busy everywhere. Fab to escape the Canadian cold though
We are here now and back again in February. Haven’t decided yet about March…
.Totally ironic! I am so excited to finally get to come without worrying about school holidays (although we do still watch the calendar when we bring my young adult kids).I find it very ironic that we managed to avoid traveling on March break for our son's entire childhood, and now that he's grown (and married a teacher) it ends up being our week of choice LOL Everyone has always told me how wonderful the weather is in March, so hopefully that will help make up for the crowds. That's what I'm telling myself anyway!!
This will be our first trip with the daughter-in-law, and her first time to Florida since she was in kindergarten. We are very excited to introduce her to all the things we love about Orlando .... beginning with the Vistana. We hope she gets bitten by the bug as badly as we all have been!
If you happen to make it back to the resort between the 11th and the 18th, be sure to send me a message and we can meet up for a drink
Well, you can request it certainly, but there is a very high likelihood that you won't get that. All of the 1BR villas at Vistana are one-half of the 2BR LO - there are no natural 1BR villas. If they are Marriott's units, they will split it into two 1BR units because they get a ton more $$$ that way and they need to meet the demand for 1BR villas. It is highly unlikely that an owner depositing in RCI wouldn't break it up on deposit as they get almost double the trading power that way. If you are going at a VERY slow time the resort might honor that request because they have excess inventory, but I wouldn't count on it. I know I only once made the mistake of not splitting our 3BR LO at Silver Lake when depositing to RCI as it was our first year of ownership and I was still learning the ropes.
This would be very hard to do. From most of my experience, when Vistana does bulk banks into II and RCI, they usually split all the lock offs and deposit them all as 1BR units. Thus there are no real in tact 2BR lock off units left in place unless a 2BR lock off owner reserves their full unit. Generally, Vistana is going to keep you in the unit type you have confirmed based on occupancy. Since the LO units are really 8/8 behind the scenes (II doesn't even list these as a unit type), it may not be possible for them to move you as someone who really booked an 8/8 (owner reservation) should be guaranteed that unit.
I know this nuance doesn't really matter much to the context of the question asked, but there are some natural 1BR units in Cascades.
Okay, I am not aware of any natural 1BRs, and Vistana doesn't show any on their floorplans here: https://www.vistana.com/destinations/sheraton-vistana-resort/villas but we have only had villas in Cascades a couple of times and the 1BRs were both part of a LO. Are they in any specific buildings? Always happy to add to my knowledge of the resort!
Yeah, I don't know why Vistana doesn't have a floorplan on the website for them. I notice they are missing a few floorplans for several other resorts too. You can see them in the condo related documents/drawings for the Cascades phase that were recorded with the county.
Well now that's really cool! I didn't know that you could pull up the plans on the OC Registrar site. I've only ever used it to search out our deed (to ensure it had been appropriately filed). I'll have to play a bit to figure out how to do that!
Yeah, on the Orange County Comptroller site, you can uncheck the box in the upper right to search only by condo related documents and then I enter part of the phase name into the Legal field on the Advanced tab.
Neat, that works. was able to pull up some more documents about our ownership, although most I had from the sales transaction (deed company provided). But yes, they get smaller. That's why we love our Courts townhome villa. At 1,500sf on 2 levels it really is like having a house.
I beleive it is now $25 per night. So, for a seven night stay, it would be $175.
They are basket style filters.
As far as I know, they haven't. The most recent refurbished units are still Lakes and Fountains and even those are coming up on three years old.
Thank you. Do you happen to know roughly how long ago the springs and courts areas were done?
