I don't know that choosing Alden Bungalows for the lifestyle program is their best business decision. I was there last month. My husband and I are looking for a active golf cart community where we can play 9 hole golf, racquet sports, go to dinner and dancing and walk to shopping and coffee in the morning. It sounds like the villages would be the place, but you can't tell from that location.
There is a lot of heavy construction still going on there. All the activities they provided with the lifestyle program (golf, pickle ball, tennis), were over 30 minutes away by golf cart. We kind of could tell that was a problem when he picked me up at the MCO shuttle stop and it took us forever on the cart paths to get back to out bungalow, not a good first impression. To play tennis on the soft courts we had to take a car, as it was past Lake Sumter. We ended up cancelling one tennis activity and one golf tee time because it took up too much travel time.
From that lifestyle visit I learned the people, everywhere, other than perhaps our assigned realtor, were extremely nice and friendly. The activities, once you got there, were fun. But if we were really that far away from things I'm not sure I want to spend that much time of my retirement on the road. My husband really likes the villages, and is looking for weeks rental this summer closer to the center of things to determine if I'd like it better if it was a 10minute jaunt to all the stuff we want to do.
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