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Towns of Legacy park is a housing scheme in Legacy Park complex. Agents have bought number of houses from the scheme and they rent those for tourists. We reserved a town house with three bed rooms, two and half baths, garage, kitchen and washer dryer,  at a cost of $100 per day.

The house was nicely cleaned and well organized. It was a big relief to see such a pleasant environment after a 17 hrs drive and tiresome few hours we spent to find Towns of Legacy park. It was about 3.oo a.m when we get in there and we hurried to take a bath and then to get some sleep. We knew it is actually going to be a 'nap' because we were willing to visit Disney's Blizzard Beach on next morning. However we had a good long nap :). So it was our first night in Florida and I should mention we really liked the house through out our whole stay. Most importantly it is very closed to Disney world and other attractions in Orlando, FL.

However I have to mention some negative facts too. The kitchen was full of cooking utensils but there was no cutting board or a sponge to clean dishes. Anyway it is not a big deal. Next thing is "NO Internet access", which is of course a big deal. They had mentioned that there is a place called club house where we can access Internet, in the scheme. But we never found such. So we had to stay 6 days without Internet. Apart from these facts our stay was comfortable and nice. It would have been perfect if we had Internet there.

I am posting some interior pictures of the house here.

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We were dying to get a good break after a stressful three months of studies and work. So we decided to have a 6 days vacation in Florida, which would definitely be a nice sunny place for a vacation, in December 2010.

Considering the opportunity cost we preferred driving to FL over flying. So we rented a large SUV from Enterprise. The cost ($400) was reasonable for 7 days with insurance. Well it was a 17 hrs drive from Bloomington, Indiana to Orlando, Florida. 


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True, it is a really long distance to cover up in one day but my husband and brother-in-law could manage the drive. We departed from our home at 5.30 a.m. on 23rd Dec. We bought breakfast from a McDonalds on our way.We passed Indiana, Kentucky and were able to come through Tennessee by lunch time. We had lunch from a China Buffet, from where we can get a good meal for a reasonable price.

Then we started the rest of our journey and the surrounding was becoming scenic because of Smoky mountains, TN. It took a considerable time for us to pass Georgia (GA) as it is kind of a long state. We stopped at a Subway to buy dinner and arrived in Orlando, FL around 12 midnight.

Then the real nightmare began :). We were supposed to find the housing complex called Towns of Legacy Park, which is going to be our lodge for the stay. So we followed the address appended in the payment confirmation mail. Ouch!! it led us to an office called Florida Choice and it was closed. Not a sign of a housing complex. However we managed to find the housing complex, which was few miles away depending entirely on GPS. Now what? there was not any office or someone to talk to. We were so tired and disappointed by this time. Finally we found a phone number from the confirmation mail and called the number. Someone answered and asked us to open a lock box to get the key for the house. He gave us the house number and the code to open the lock box but again, he didn't know where the lock box is located. We searched around the complex but no any sign of lock box. Then we drove back to Florida Choice office and found the lock box there. Phew...finally we could get in. It was about 4.a.m when we went to bed.

This process could have been really pleasant if they had given the necessary information beforehand (about the lock box, code, etc).
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