Thousand Trails Orlando — Hotel in Four Corners

This is my detailed honest review after spending a little over a week here. This place has a lot going good for it and a lot of areas where I feel it could improve. First off the sites... The sites are actually pretty spacious and there are a lot of new sites that are well maintained.

The operations of this place is very organized and although security could do a better job of screening vehicles/drivers coming through the gates especially at night. They typically just stand up and look for a piece of paper in the windshield which is usually only a 2 second look and then sit right back down and wave you on in. They definitely need to be taking a longer look and maybe potentially start asking for ID of people.

For the most part it's a pretty friendly quiet environment and they do have a lot of amenities. There's really a mix of old versus young people here however it definitely skews towards the old with this place being kind of like a halfway house between the retirement home and the nursing home. If you like recreation you will certainly find it here as they seem to have all of the things you would typically ask for from an RV park however you might be the youngest one there if your under 65 participating. All of the families that are they pretty much stick to the playground and pool.

D loop is back in the heavily wooded corner area where you will find a mix of permanent trailer houses and 5th wheel full timers that look like they just broke down and stayed put. We tried a couple of nights in the D-loop but had neighbors that were apparently the neighborhood hangout spot so there was a lot of people coming over to there site smoking weed and smoking cigarettes like they were chimney's. Which of course blew right into our campsite. Me personally could have dealt with it but having an infant and 5 year old breathing that over and over is not cool.

B loop is where they like to stick a lot of the families and kids which is where you will want to stay if bringing your family here. My personal thoughts were lets go somewhere quieter and maybe get into the new sites but being surrounded by the older crowd and further away from the park left my 5 year old pretty bored and wanting to make some friends so I would just suggest going to B Loop to begin with.

As for the area and the commute... the area is a ok it's definitely in a suburb of disney world and you must drive through a tourist trap in connecting the main highway of Clermont which thousand trails boulevard is on and the disney resort bubble. However, the drive is only about 30 minutes to Disney world which is nice but everything else is pretty far. The town itself is fairly quiet though and a smaller hispanic community with a Lowes, Walmart, Publix, and plenty of fast food nearby. All of the other things to do/experience are probably closer to an hour away with traffic and will likely cause you to drive the dreaded I-4 to get anywhere.

The pools are nice and heated and the hot-tub was very large and accommodating. The gym is right next to it, as is the park, and the retire-I mean recreation center. The grounds are very well kept and I'm told from the lake/dock area you can actually see the Magic Kingdom fireworks which is pretty neat.

To summarize, I would recommend staying here as it's a decent property and has a fairly good location. I've been told it's one of the better Thousand Trails park which if that's true means I might be more disappointed the more parks I visit but for the price of zone pass it's probably still worth your two weeks here. Just make sure you pick the right loop based on your preferences and whether or not your bringing a family here and set your expectations on the drive to get anywhere. There's all kinds of people to meet and places to explore. See you...

Stayed July 23, and July 27-30 with our 24' travel trailer, averaging $38/night. Stayed one night to break up a trip between Georgia and the keys, and then a few nights on the way back.

Sites are first-come first-serve, meaning you can just drive around and pick out any open spot, which took us a bit off-guard the first night. Didn't matter much, as we were only staying ~12 hours or so, but given that we got there when it was dark, it was a bit difficult to navigate through. Luckily, most of the sites are very large, so there wasn't an issue backing in, in the dark. We stayed in E22 our second trip, and found it had a great balance of shade between the two trees the site offered. To be honest, I can't believe it was even open, as many sites were open around it, and maybe it was an issue for larger class A/C where their height would hit the trees?

[Good] As mentioned above, the sizes of the site are very large. I could easily park my truck in front of my trailer with extra room. Saw larger fifth wheels do the same. Made it easy for when we had guests and they needed a place to park.

Sites we used were very level, and were paved.

Proximity to Orlando made for great over the air channel options.

They recycle!

There are a lot of scheduled activities, as well as permanent ones, and you can use most ( if not all ) of them without having to pay for them. Many other places we've gone they will have things like mini golf, but charge you $3-$5 to play a round. Here you rent everything you need out, which was nice for a change.

Bathrooms were clean, and the water pressure was good.

Laundry was clean. Tokens are used, and you'll pay $3 to wash, and another $3 to dry.

[Bad] I feel like the activities could be communicated a bit better. When we came for our longer portion of the trip, we didn't even get a calendar, though we eventually found one. Without it, the only way we knew what was going on was by signs that were put up in the bath and laundry section or on the a-frame sign by the activity center. Found out there was a Sunday morning breakfast when going to rent the mini golf clubs, only because the kitchen was right there with a sign. This makes for a bit of a disconnect with the "community feel" you might otherwise get at other campgrounds, because it's preventing groups of people from being together at the same time.

Section D is definitely wooded, and offers a consistent amount of shade. Unfortunately, this section looks like it has many people who have lived there for extremely long periods of time. We saw in the reviews that D had good shade, which we were willing to sacrifice being so far from the activities to get. Once we got there, and drove through D however, we quickly realized we were going to have to deal with some sun. Again, luckly we found E22.

The mini golf, an older set of tennis courts, and a few other areas of the park are in need of some rehabbing. We were told by one of the employees that the work is to be done and starting soon, but then we were told by another camper who has been staying there for a while that they have been saying that for some time.

[Other] Being somewhat picky, but the activities seem designed more for extended stays. Meaning, a lot of them happen very infrequently. There are weekly items like candy bar bingo, but a lot of the outdoor activities such as wiffleball or basketball were just once a month.

Garbage is not picked up, you need to drop it off at the activity center.

Sewer hookup is not threaded.

I don't think there are any drive through sites, which didn't make a huge issue for us, but the sites are so big, that really anyone should be...

My husband and I arrived at thousand trails RV in Clermont, Florida on Friday, February 22, 2019 at 5 PM. Upon arrival, we were told it was a first come first serve on which site you get. Since this was our first time at this resort, we had no idea where to begin to look for a site and I told the gentleman at the front desk that. He said most of the 50 amp sites are booked and only 30 amp sizes were left. He told me to just drive around and find a site. If we are not happy with that site, we could pack everything up on Saturday morning and look around after people leave to find another site.

On Saturday, we took a walk with our dogs and took the resort map and saw that some sites are premium and some were not but we couldn’t tell the difference from one Or the other. It really made no sense at all.

Some other things that we found that we have not found at other campgrounds are the following: The trees really need to be trimmed. We scraped the top and side of our a class A searching for a site. After pulling in to a site, we couldn’t find sewer hook up. So I looked at other sites and followed their hose and discovered that if you lift up a chunk of concrete, that is your sewer connection. Not the typical PVC with the lid you screw off that you see in every other campground. This was a chunk of cement you had to lift off with the pair pliers by the rebar that was sticking out of it. The community bathrooms are not cleaned on the weekends. I was surprised when my husband said there was no toilet paper in the men’s room. I went and looked in the women’s restroom and noticed the cleaning list on the wall indicated no one cleans them on the weekends. That’s really gross!! in the places we have camped before, we have received welcome packets with all the camp rules & regulations and garbage pick up and that sort of thing. We received none of that when we arrived. So we did not know what to do with our garbage as we typically have put it at the front of the site and it’s picked up usually by 10 in the morning. Come to find out there’s a huge dumpster area at the front of the resort by the welcome center and recreation hall that everyone uses. If you do not check out or put your parking designation paper in a slot as you leave the park, you are fined $35. Who does that?!

I asked the front desk if this is typical of thousand trails resorts and he said yes. With as much money as thousand trails charges for you to become a member, I would have thought this resort would have been top-notch. We were extremely disappointed and felt it was one of the worst campsites we...