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More Accommodation Options For Orlando Visitors

Honestly,  the summer of 2010 will go into the books as double-the-inventory-season for Discount Vacation Rentals Online. It has indeed been a busy and hot year here in Florida for DVRO, with Disney visitors wanting to see more of us and owners and management companies competing to get into our portfolio. You can’t please everyone and so we were determined to stick to serving our renters with the best possible service as a priority uno and wherever we had the time we would approve management companies and individual properties on a case by case basis, offering more options for our Orlando visitors.

We were able to add some properties in the How To Find Florida Homes page describing properties such as:

Legacy Park & High Gate Park News

Legacy Park, High Gate. An often misunderstood concept of one huge piece of land that was developed by several different builders all at the same time, with one entrance way (Legacy Park Boulevard) and each neighborhood branching off of this lane. Legacy Park is the common name for the cluster of communities, one of which is High Gate.

High Gate is the only neighborhood in Legacy Park that is shielded from the public by a gate. Staying here means you have a gate code to enter and get to your home every day. Other non-gated sections within Legacy Park are:

  • The Estates
  • The Towns
  • The Retreat

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New Properties With DVRO For July 2010

Discount Vacation Rentals Online likes to keep you updated and one way of doing this is to shout out to those who follow us on Twitter or Facebook, to inform our visitors of the new property add-ons into our system. In July 2010 we focused on mainly 5 bedroom private pool homes it seems.

Those new add-ons are normally already in our booking engine. The property as described on our web site here is a work in progress until all information is complete and the rental property has been updated with pictures, video, amenity lists and so on. [Read more...]

Pool And Spa Heating In Orlando Vacation Homes

Pool Spa In Rental VillaThe pool water and spa water is the same volume. Therefore it is not possible to choose either one separately. The system can temporarily heat the spa by itself but this cannot be sustained for a long period of time as explained above. The cost for pool heating (and spa) is substantial. It is considered an additional utility that needs to be turned on by the management company. Bear in mind that a bath tub in your home will take 10 minutes or so to fill up with hot water. A bath tub inside a home is only a fraction of the size of an 8-10,000 gallon pool. A bath tub fills with readily available hot water, where a pool starts from cold water that needs to be heated. A bath tub is in controlled inside temperature settings; a pool is subject to the coldest outside temperatures at night. Therefore, pool heaters are much more powerful than any hot water boiler inside a home, it will still take 24-48 hours usually to get 8,000 gallons of cold water to a comfortable 80F. [Read more...]

What Is A Spa, A Hot Tub Or Jacuzzi In Vacation Rentals

A wrongful assumption a hot tub is heated or that a vacation home in Orlando with a jacuzzi automatically comes with a pool may have everything to do with the language differences across the country and the differences in meaning of the word.

Orlando Vacation Rentals With Jacuzzi Have A Spa Too?

All 3 terms (jacuzzi, spa and hot tub) are used intermingled in the Orlando vacation market. The guests’ understanding of a jacuzzi may be different to what is understood by the home owner or management company advertising. Be ware and double check they mean what you desire.

Generally speaking, the Orlando vacation rental market will only use the word “jacuzzi” for a stand alone unit. This, however, may well be a jacuzzi outside on your patio or, as we have seen advertised, a bath tub that has an integrated jet system in you master bathroom. Therefore, check what is meant by jacuzzi for the advertised unit. Discount Vacation Rentals Online will not advertise a vacation rental home with a jacuzzi if it is not a stand alone unit on your patio or pool deck. Here is a great example of an Orlando town home rental with jacuzzi on the patio.

Vacation Rentals SpaWhat Is A Spa In My Vacation Rental

A spa in a resort normally means there is a sauna and/or massage services available at the clubhouse. A spa in a vacation rental normally means a separate section within the private pool itself that is attached to the pool, using the same pool water volume. The spa is raised from the private pool in most cases and overflows into the pool. This spa has jets that can be manually switched on or off by the guest. A spa is not heated! If you would like the spa to be heated you will need to order pool heating with your reservation. There is no option to only heat the spa since it is the same water volume as the pool. However, when switching on the jets of your spa, the system will automatically turn valves that will take water from the spa and return it to the spa. This bypasses the pool and if you would leave the spa setting on for -say- a week, the pool would get no circulation and evidently would turn green. [Read more...]

Pet Friendly Vacation Rental Homes In Orlando Florida

With more than 100 pet friendly rental homes in the Orlando Disney area alone, Discount Vacation Rentals Online is no doubt the largest supporting pet friendly vacation rentals provider in Orlando Florida. There are however a few things a traveler needs to know when it comes to traveling with pets.

Pet Limitations In Pet Friendly Vacation Rentals

Pet Friendly Vacation RentalWhere some owners are pet lovers themselves, many will make a distinction between the pet Chihuahua and the pet elephant or Boa. Evidently, the example is surely exaggerated but you get the point: there are differences when it comes to pets. Reasoning for taking pets in a home may vary however as to size of the pet, size of the home, the contents and furnishings of a home and the location of the property itself. True, when a kids playground is located next door it is understandable there are restrictions to the pet size in relation to the liability of possibly harming kids next door. [Read more...]

Orlando Vacation Homes Swimming Pools : Know A Pool

Vacation Homes With Pool In Orlando

Vacation Homes With Pool In Orlando

Swimming pools in Orlando vacation homes are always in-ground swimming pools, concrete walls and bottom, finished with a fine quarz type surface. The quartz type of surface can be made from different materials as well as different grain structure and different color choices naturally. In Orlando vacation homes are built for short term rental purposes (with an exception here and there) and will automatically have a pool built with the home at the same time. The homeowner can choose the type of pool at the building stage and can go for a special shape pool or a rectangular version. Most swimming pools you will find are an approximate 28 ft long. This may differ for special shaped pools however. An upgrade to the home would be a 30 or 32 ft swimming pool. Click the link for more information on vacation homes with swimming pool in Orlando. [Read more...]

Orlando Vacation Rentals: The Best Value Option

Best Value Rental Home OrlandoAre you searching for a great vacation rental in Orlando for your traveling party this year but you feel bombarded with the hundreds of thousands of sites, searches, and endless listings? Are you looking for a comfortable condo or town house near the Disney area, or even a private pool home near Orlando but tired of searching through hundreds of homes that don’t offer the amenities you were hoping for? It is a long road traveled, believe us we know what you’re encountering when you’re searching for a vacation rental in Orlando and yes, there are countless options but you do have a simple option that can take all the work out of this vacation planning…who said planning a vacation was suppose to be work? You should be daydreaming of lying in the warm sunshine next to your sparkling pool with friends & family, or thinking about that crazy shopping spree at the local outlet malls in Orlando. I’m sure the ladies of your party are smiling no doubt! [Read more...]

Crib Rental In Orlando: Pack-n-Play Or Full Size

crib-rental-orlandoLooking for a crib rental in Orlando or a BBQ or any special needs for your party? We understand, some of the homes will have a freebie in the home but not all come that equipped. No problem, for only a few bucks you rent a crib or a BBQ or a high chair here in Orlando. A simple phone call and your rental will be waiting for your arrival in your vacation home that day.

More information on different types of toddler bedding and high chairs for children simply scroll down to learn what to expect upon your arrival. Discount Vacation Rentals Online can opt to rent from the management company who oversees the property or use an independent rental service if a full size crib is needed, depending on the guest request. [Read more...]

Use The Orlando Human Search Engine For Your Vacation

down-marketSure, blame the economy! You don’t need to be a politician it seems to highlight a positive factor when your company just lost 4% over the last quarter! Expedia reported earlier this month a decline of 4% profit margin, Hotels.com earlier reported a loss… who doesn’t? It’s the economy…

There are the exceptions: the people who display flexibility, who gear their efforts towards the market and the consumer positions. And the winner is… the one who is happy he found an ‘explanation’ for his bad numbers? The one who takes a chair and waits till it blows over? Or the one who says: here I am, I can help!

Discount Vacation Rentals Online will let you be the judge. Feel free to comment at the bottom, please do! We love your reaction, we love your ideas. [Read more...]