More rooms than bodies?
June 17th 2007 18:45
If you’re visiting Disneyworld, or Florida in general, and want an Orlando vacation home, you’d have to sift through one heck of a lot of sites on the Net. I’ve written about vacation homes in this area before, on the blog listed at the bottom of this post, but I hadn’t realized until I decided to look at the possible renters available just how many there were. I gave up after several pages of listings on Google, in fact, because there seemed to be an endless number of them. You have to wonder how many of them can make their business work, or, on the other hand, whether there are just so many vacation homes in Florida, especially around Orlando, that you could have an almost infinite number of agencies and still not run out of homes.
Perhaps I’m just not imaginative enough when it comes to trying to conceive of the vast quantity of these places. And of the numbers of people who want to hire them. The thing that puzzles me is the fact that they all look like luxury places. If that’s the case, are there really so many well-off people in the States who could hire such vacation homes for a
period? Is Disneyland so popular? Is Orlando really the entertainment capital of the world? Maybe they are.
Being so far away from Florida, and being disinclined to go there, I guess I’m not the best person to judge these things. I must admit I’ve never heard of anyone in New Zealand actually staying at a vacation home in Florida, but my circle of acquaintances may not be sufficiently widespread to have come across anyone who has. Equally, it’s possible what New Zealanders regard as luxury may be the norm for Americans.
My wife and I stayed overnight at a hotel near the Seoul airport (Incheon is the official name of the airport.) We actually stayed there for free – or to put it another way, we didn’t have to pay specifically for the place, because Korean airlines have an overnight stop in Incheon, and any passengers in transit to another airport are given free accommodation as a result. It’s probably included in the fare somewhere, but thinking that it’s free is still worth something.
Anyway, this hotel was the epitome of luxury in our inexperienced eyes. Every detail in the place was superbly done, and there was a unity of style throughout. We had breakfast from a buffet that had so many dishes you’d need to stay there all day eating merely to catch up on them all. And the service was impeccable. Young men in suits with CIA-type earphones (those little wiggly cords always give them away) stood around expecting to help you with any need, and the waiters and waitresses in the restaurant, all dressed in shirts that had four lines of brocade down the front, couldn’t do enough for you. Tables were cleared in the twinkling of an eye, and even the supervisors mucked in and sorted things out.
The rooms were large and comfortable, and everything was laid on (though the only thing I had from the in-room bar, a Kit-Kat, turned out to be rather more expensive than I expected). For us this was luxury all round. And we know that if we’d been paying for it, the one-night stay would have cost rather more than our weekly grocery bill, which is always larger than we’d expect already.
So, to return to my theme: how many Americans does it take to accommodate the possible thousands of vacation homes in one State? It would be interesting to know.
Perhaps I’m just not imaginative enough when it comes to trying to conceive of the vast quantity of these places. And of the numbers of people who want to hire them. The thing that puzzles me is the fact that they all look like luxury places. If that’s the case, are there really so many well-off people in the States who could hire such vacation homes for a
Being so far away from Florida, and being disinclined to go there, I guess I’m not the best person to judge these things. I must admit I’ve never heard of anyone in New Zealand actually staying at a vacation home in Florida, but my circle of acquaintances may not be sufficiently widespread to have come across anyone who has. Equally, it’s possible what New Zealanders regard as luxury may be the norm for Americans.
My wife and I stayed overnight at a hotel near the Seoul airport (Incheon is the official name of the airport.) We actually stayed there for free – or to put it another way, we didn’t have to pay specifically for the place, because Korean airlines have an overnight stop in Incheon, and any passengers in transit to another airport are given free accommodation as a result. It’s probably included in the fare somewhere, but thinking that it’s free is still worth something.
Anyway, this hotel was the epitome of luxury in our inexperienced eyes. Every detail in the place was superbly done, and there was a unity of style throughout. We had breakfast from a buffet that had so many dishes you’d need to stay there all day eating merely to catch up on them all. And the service was impeccable. Young men in suits with CIA-type earphones (those little wiggly cords always give them away) stood around expecting to help you with any need, and the waiters and waitresses in the restaurant, all dressed in shirts that had four lines of brocade down the front, couldn’t do enough for you. Tables were cleared in the twinkling of an eye, and even the supervisors mucked in and sorted things out.
The rooms were large and comfortable, and everything was laid on (though the only thing I had from the in-room bar, a Kit-Kat, turned out to be rather more expensive than I expected). For us this was luxury all round. And we know that if we’d been paying for it, the one-night stay would have cost rather more than our weekly grocery bill, which is always larger than we’d expect already.
So, to return to my theme: how many Americans does it take to accommodate the possible thousands of vacation homes in one State? It would be interesting to know.
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Comment by charliesgirl_992000
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These are the way to travel when you have family and your going to be gone for a week to two weeks. The kitchens are fully stocked with pots, plates, blenders, mixeers and everything but groceries.
Tammy
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