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Status of Florida resorts/Milton

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For anyone is staying at any of the Florida resorts, can you post the status of the resort? How about some photos? I'm most interested in Orlando since I will be arriving at MGV this weekend.
 

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I believe @vol_90 is at Grande Vista.
 

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No major issues here at Gand Vista that I'm aware of. We did not lose power. Recreation Center opened at 10:30AM today for movies, board games, crafts and more throughout the day. Hopefully the pools get cleaned up and opened later today.
 

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No major issues here at Gand Vista that I'm aware of. We did not lose power. Recreation Center opened at 10:30AM today for movies, board games, crafts and more throughout the day. Hopefully the pools get cleaned up and opened later today.
Did they pack up all the pool furniture and tie it down?
 

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My family and I are currently at Sheraton Vistana Resort Villas (the one in Lake Buena Vista area). The resort did not loose power.

Walked the resort this morning. Lots of roof shingles on the ground, also lots of tree branches and tree debris, some gutters damaged. A big sign was down (the one advertised the restaurant as you drive into the fountains/ lakes section of the resort.

Lots of cleanup going on already my many of the resort grounds keepers.
 

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Someone posted on one of the Wyndham Facebook groups how terrible it is that people are worried about their own vacations and the resorts' condition after the hurricane, when people actually died.

People die every day. I don't want to get too philosophical about it, but when I was a kid and tragedy struck our family and my dad was severely burned after a fire in our garage, I had nightmares for weeks, I couldn't stop the visions of my dad on fire. I didn't sleep at all in those weeks, and I watched people at school, going about their lives and I was envious.

I thought of how lucky they were that they didn't have to live with the nightmares and the trauma that I went through. They didn't have to go to the hospital every day to visit a dad who was swollen and not even recognizable. I was driving, I was 17. The smells of the creams they put on his burns are still with me. We had to wear hospital gowns each visit. They had stacks of them outside of his hospital room for us.

His face was changed, his ear lobes burned off, and he suffered through excrutiating pain. That was tough to watch.

He lived and was badly scarred. This tragedy shortened his life. He was in the hospital for four months.

My point is, tragedy strikes every one of us, different times of our lives, and the rest of the world doesn't stop. The earth still rotates around the sun. We live through it, and people who do not feel your pain are not cold to it, they just don't know what you are going through.
 
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Orlando Utility company did not have a single location with power loss. The rest of Central Florida did not fare so well with roughly 3.4M without power the highest number I've seen. Only a small % are showing as having power restored.
 

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No major issues here at Gand Vista that I'm aware of. We did not lose power. Recreation Center opened at 10:30AM today for movies, board games, crafts and more throughout the day. Hopefully the pools get cleaned up and opened later today.

Do you know what condition the golf course is in? I don't know how much rain fell on MGV, but our local news showed Orlando in the 12+inches corridor. I can't imagine any golf course that can take on that much water.
 

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As for people in the Wyndham Facebook group who are disgusted by people worrying about their vacations when people have died... what are we supposed to do if we have a planned trip down there? Cancel it in observance of those who died? Personally, I am not worried about my vacation. I was naturally curious about the condition of my "home" away from home. I'm glad the resort came through ok. Many people work there, may people stay there, and I'm glad everyone was safe.
 

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Again, this is why Walt Disney chose Orlando to built his amusement park in Florida. Years and Years of research went into Disney selecting Orlando to build Disney World.
 

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As for people in the Wyndham Facebook group who are disgusted by people worrying about their vacations when people have died... what are we supposed to do if we have a planned trip down there?
I suspect most of the people making these comments are just virtue signaling.
 

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Do you know what condition the golf course is in? I don't know how much rain fell on MGV, but our local news showed Orlando in the 12+inches corridor. I can't imagine any golf course that can take on that much water.
Golf course is wet with a few branches down but overall good shape. It will be back open on Saturday. Just spent an hour on the putting green.
 

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People who have reservations at a resort in the next few weeks don't have much time to make alternative plans if their reserved resort is closed. There is little time remaining this year to use those VC points, especially since they will be 'penalty' points that have limited use. MVC has done a terrible job in the past regarding providing resort status to those with upcoming reservations. Not only do the 'hubs' have limited information, owners services typically are clueless regarding resort conditions. Each resort should be able to provide an initial assessment within 24 hours regarding whether there is damage to the public areas or if several villas will be out of service for a while.
 

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Anyone staying at Ocean Pointe please post if there was any damage there? It was probably too far south of the area to sustain damage but still wondering.
Thanks
 

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Anyone staying at Ocean Pointe please post if there was any damage there? It was probably too far south of the area to sustain damage but still wondering.
Thanks

Not staying there but according to the Facebook groups there was a bit of debris in the pools that had to be cleaned up but that was it.
 

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Anyone staying at Ocean Pointe please post if there was any damage there? It was probably too far south of the area to sustain damage but still wondering.
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There was a significant tornado in Palm Beach Gardens which is pretty close, but I'm we've heard if something happened to OP.
 

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This has been kept up fairly well. Someone commented (different thread) that Royal Vista is closed for renovation til November, so that info is not accurate. But at least gives you an idea what's going on (for Wyndham).


If you cancel by the dates noted, they will refund the points. Someone mentioned they were allowed to deposit them to 2026 - that has not consistently been offered.
 

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I'm at MVC now. Everything looks normal, except it feels like the resort is half empty. We're used to being here during February or March vacation weeks, so maybe I'm just not used to seeing so many empty parking spots.

We were 'forced' to do preferred checkin. The front desk was empty but the preferred checkin room was packed and loud with people and kids and no sound absorption. I said I'd rather go to the front desk since there's no wait but they said nonsense: Jeremy would be right with us. My husband told him right at the beginning we weren't doing the "informational presentation." He tried a little to convince us we should, but didn't push when he saw we weren't going to budge. We did get our preferred location, and building, and floor (6th) and our room was ready (early! at 3:00), probably because the resort seems half empty.
 

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My point is, tragedy strikes every one of us, different times of our lives, and the rest of the world doesn't stop. The earth still rotates around the sun. We live through it, and people who do not feel your pain are not cold to it, they just don't know what you are going through.
Similar reaction in Maui when Lahaina burned. Everything closed, everyone stay away, every respect the natives loss----then everybody come on back, we need the money. Yes, that is exactly what happened. There was a public request for tourism to return from Maui government.
 

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One more note about Grande Vista: we golfed today and the course was so soggy and spongy. It was hard for me. My feet were soaking wet throughout and I hope my golf shoes (and the course) dries out before Wednesday, our next tee time. There were a few spots where there were a lot of downed palm fronds but they weren't on the actual course.

Today they removed the sandbags that were in front of every villa door.
 

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I'm at MVC now. Everything looks normal, except it feels like the resort is half empty. We're used to being here during February or March vacation weeks, so maybe I'm just not used to seeing so many empty parking spots.

We were 'forced' to do preferred checkin. The front desk was empty but the preferred checkin room was packed and loud with people and kids and no sound absorption. I said I'd rather go to the front desk since there's no wait but they said nonsense: Jeremy would be right with us. My husband told him right at the beginning we weren't doing the "informational presentation." He tried a little to convince us we should, but didn't push when he saw we weren't going to budge. We did get our preferred location, and building, and floor (6th) and our room was ready (early! at 3:00), probably because the resort seems half empty.
Glad this worked out for you. I am sure a lot of people canceled due to the uncertainty of how the storm would work out. I know if I had a regular hotel booking, i would certainly have changed my trip. Timeshares are obviously less flexible, not certain what I would have done.
 
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