Holiday Inn Club Vacations South Beach Resort

From the appearance on the outside to the kindness on the inside, this destination rocks! The area is full of planned beauty, clean driveways, immaculate yards, beautiful landscaping, wonderfully designed and decorated buildings, activities daily, and easy access points. I can’t say enough about the quality and beauty of this resort. The property is large, and Ocean Boulevard splits it into two separate sections, so from early morning until late evening transportation is provided nonstop between the resort sites. Our room was modern and comfortable, the bed was awesome!

This review will be applicable to families with toddlers. We were traveling with Parents and 1 toddler, Grandma and Aunt - 4 adults and 1 child. Had no complaints regarding cleanliness/check-in. We stayed in Building A on the 3rd floor - I'd recommend trying to get the 4th/top floor because the last night we were there a family moved in above us and they walked like elephants. Our room faced the pool which proved quite entertaining to our toddler. We anticipated that being in the flight path - resort is next to the airport - might be problematic, but we watched so many helicopters take off - every 5 minutes during the day and also planes & jet planes. We talked about the colors of the helicopters, "bye-bye" copter!, it was great entertainment! Aunt thought it was a bit obnoxious. A nice feature of our pool was that a portion of the outdoor pool was under cover - really nice when we'd had enough sun. Under cover hot-tub and outdoor hot tub, lazy river - never busy or crowded. We found out on our 2nd to last day why - the other pool with the swim up bar and the Splash Pad was the more "happening" location. Our toddler enjoyed the Splash pad a bit, but the lower-key pool at our building was perfect for a 16 month old. All the staff we encountered were very friendly. I do wish they presented us with a sheet listing the hours of all the various things like gym, Market Place deli, Splash Pad, Shuttle - I had to ask and then write down the schedules myself - they don't have it all listed on one sheet. Gym should really be expanded - 1 elliptical, 2 treadmills. A shuttle runs from 9-5 and will take you to the beach - it's just a bit too far to walk if you're carrying chairs, bags, equipment, kids. But you can also drive to the beach and park in South Beach parking lot - get Dad to drop the gang off at the pool entrance beachside and then he can go park - because there is no crosswalk fro parking lot to beachside - felt dangerous with kids. Overall, a very pleasant stay.

Reading these reviews with our tour scheduled for tomorrow, I most certainly hope we will not be held against our will one minute past 2 hours. We have children with us and will not be accommodating anything over 120 minutes. If this isn't feasible you need to make that clear, because that would be false advertising, and totally unacceptable. Was actually considering buying in, but this is scary and weird.