Calypso Cay Vacation Villas

My son and I visited this Resort in August of 2010. The apartment was a little small, but clean. I found a few ants on the bed, but nothing major. The staff was extreamly nice. I had no problems with them at all. The resort is kind of boring. The pool closes around 8pm. They have mini-golf; three pools, a tiki-bar (the drinks are great). The Resort was quiet. They were supposed to have a DJ, but he came only once and we had rain, so he left. My only complaint is that you must find something to do, it's boring.

There is a hotel in the same location. This hotel and Calypso share the same amenities. I heard there was "free breakfast" at the hotel. All you have to do is to get a ticket. I never enquired, but I was told it was true. I made breakfast eveyr single day. I love to cook. The kitchen was totally furnished. Walmart is just around the corner. I made dinner two days; it was a great kitchen. I met a family who was staying at the hotel. I allowed them to use my kitchen. It was a big family and they made delicious Latin food.

My kid loved the pool; I loved the kitchen and porch. The water was horrible. I hated to take showers. I hated the smell of swamp water. I bought water to drink/cook/ wash dishes. The pool had way too much clorine. I guess this was the only way to kill the smell of swamp water; God that was horrible. I almost forgot, the blinds on the bedroom were clear white. Once the sun comes out, there is no way you can sleep. The sun comes in your bedroom and there is nothing you can do. This is not a 3-star Resort.

I was never asked to take a Tour and I was not interested.

The resort itself is just okay. nothing spectacular. we were in a one bedroom unit which we found much too small ( the living room area was a joke). The MAIN complaint we had was the STAFF. As a timeshare property manager, travel agent and Real Estate agent, these people have NO idea how you treat a customer. We arrived at 3:00pm and told our unit wasn't ready (which is fine, since we were an hour early) however, at 4:00 we tried to check in again and was told the unit was not ready. I explained to them that my daughter was sick and needed to lay down. The desk supervisor told me she couldn't put me in a different unit that was ready. i had to wait for the one they were putting me in. long story short, we finally got into our room at 5:30 pm. The maintenance staff never cleaned the pool while i was there. Believe me, one pool could not be used. It was filled with leaves, dirt, bugs, etc. It was nice they had a singer by the pool bar on certain days. Other than that..stay away! I would never stay here again.

This is the lowest rating I have ever given a stay at any timeshare I have exchanged into. Unfortunately they have terrible customer service. I have a longer review on Tug2.net, but let me just say, I left early. Orlando is probably the TS capital of the world. As a result they have a lot of competition for TS customers. You would think that with that being so, they would be very concerned with how they treat visitors.

I have stayed in several other Orlando area timeshares including Star Island and Marriott Grande Vista. Both were more than acceptable stays. I would gladly stay in the Sheraton Vistana Villages or The Fountains or any of the Disney Properties or Wyndham Bonnet Creek. So, do yourself a favor and avoid this timeshare.

This outfit engages in the worst kind of deceptive marketing practices. After receiving a number of robo-calls that hung up on me, I finally received one was that was successfully connected to an agent who informed me I had "won" a fabulous vacation with Calypso Cay. I passed and asked to be removed from their call list, yet I still receive the hangup calls from the same bogus number.

Obviously a timeshare pitch, I researched (via Google) the bogus cell phone my caller ID indicated was the source of the call and Calypso Cay. They are a rash on web sites complaining of everything from phone abuse to failure to deliver on "free" vacations that require pre-payment of "certain handling charges".

Boycott this sort of place as they give time share operators and owners a black eye. Not to mention there are plenty of horror stories from people that stayed there. Avoid at all costs as there are plenty of alternatives in the Orlando area.

Overall a very decent resort with good amenities. We stayed in January of 2007 for one week. We're a family of four, with two boys 8 and 4 years of age. The unit we had was a two bedroom, nicely decorated with plenty of room for the four of us. We had a king sized bed with large ensuite, a second room with two doubles and a pull out sofa in the living area. The kitchen was sizeable, and there was a PC in the unit with 24 hour internet access which allowed me to check email, and book tickets online to Universal Studios - very convenient. There were two pools centrally located within a one minute walk from our unit. One designed for adult use and the other for mixed adult/children. The mixed pool was great, it had a decent waterslide as well as a very shallow area for the younger ones. The only down side was the resort seems to be shared amongst different chains so the pools can get quite busy at times. Overall, a very comfortable place, neatly kept, with good amenities. There is a PUBLIX grocery store, and a HUGE Wal-Mart about a mile away, and of course the parks are all within a short drive.