Silver Lake Resort

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  • 7751 Black Lake Road
    Orlando, Florida
    407/397-2828
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Silver Lake Resort

  • December 23, 2002
  • Rated 3 of 5 by Lisava from Cork, Ireland
Best Things Nearby:
Everything is nearby, as long as you have a car. Reasonable restaurants, good shopping, and of course the theme parks.

Best Things About the Resort:
Location is great, and the units are extremely well maintained. The pool is just the right size (although no kiddies pool as such).

Resort Experience:
These are well kept units, with three TV's, one in each bedroom and one in the living room. There's huge beds and separate bathrooms for both bedrooms. There's also a comfy couch to watch the TV, and a full kitchen.

There's a movie theatre, videos to rent, virtual reality golf, and a shop on site to get your basics. They offer a shuttle to Universal and Sea World.

Silver Lake was the first real 'apartment' vacation we had experienced. It has now spoiled us for all future vacations. It gives you total freedom. Freedom to cook or not cook. Freedom to spend the day in the apartment if you want to, not having to leave for room service every day. It felt like a home away from home and really enhanced the whole vacation experience

  • Unit Type: 2 Bedroom
  • Activities: Good
  • Amenities: Good
  • Unit Satisfaction: Excellent
  • Family Friendliness: Very Good
  • Service: Very Good

From journal Two Weeks in Orlando

Silver Lake Resort

  • November 11, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by kathy51 from Reading, Massachusetts
Best Things Nearby:
Disney World, Universal Studios, SeaWorld, Cypress Gardens, Splendid China

Best Things About the Resort:
Great pool, own movie theatre, spacious condo with full kitchen, jacuzzi in master bath, laundry facilities in condo, really close to the Animal Kingdom.

Resort Experience:
This fully equipped resort is a spot of calm away from the hectic traffic of Disney World. Silver Lake Resort is not so huge that you feel lost or that the staff is remote. It's like coming home after a full day to relax.

  • Unit Type: 2 Bedroom
  • Activities: Excellent
  • Amenities: Excellent
  • Unit Satisfaction: Excellent
  • Family Friendliness: Excellent
  • Service: Excellent

From journal The other Orlando

Silver Lake Resort

  • November 4, 2002
  • Rated 3 of 5 by xuamox from Vancouver, British Columbia
Best Things Nearby:
Walt Disney World is 10 minutes away!

Best Things About the Resort:
Location, Location, Location - and they have an amazing pool.

Resort Experience:
This resort offers a great location and a nice setting. The resort is only 10 minutes from Walt Disney World.

The resort is about 10-12 years old, and they keep it in great shape. The rooms are very clean and large. They have your standard kitchen, living room, dining room, large king beds, and nice bathroom with jacuzzu and shower. They also have washers and dryers.

  • Unit Type: 2 Bedroom
  • Activities: Very Good
  • Amenities: Very Good
  • Unit Satisfaction: Very Good
  • Family Friendliness: Very Good
  • Service: Very Good

From journal Orlando - The Great Escape

Silver Lake Resort

  • October 22, 2002
  • Rated 2 of 5 by rfm6128 from Denver, North Carolina
Best Things Nearby:
Restaurants - an abundance of them

Best Things About the Resort:
Location! The resort was close and convenient to what we had planned to do on vacation: a PGA golf event and a wedding at Disney.

Resort Experience:
We did not participate in any resort activities or use any amenities. Housekeeping came around 1 hour prior to checkout. Our unit felt cramped. The master bedroom was small--not enough room hardly to turn around. There were not enough towel racks in the bathroom for wet towels--only one. Blinds in the unit did not close tightly and light always came in the room. We went to breakfast on the property at 8:30am and they were out of bread for toast--we went elsewhere!

  • Unit Type: 1 Bedroom
  • Activities: Not Available
  • Amenities: Not Available
  • Unit Satisfaction: Fair
  • Family Friendliness: Good
  • Service: Fair

From journal The Wedding & Golf

Editor Pick

The old Sea Breeze Resort

  • April 18, 2002
  • Rated 2 of 5 by Jose Kevo from Middle-of-Nowhere, Missouri
The old Sea Breeze Resort

The Sea Breeze Resort where I stayed almost six years ago was on the verge of folding then. It has since been rennovated and turned into the Sunset Beach Resort & Spa. While I've no specifics on Sunset other than guidebooks still list/rate it as a middle-of-the-road resort, there's some generals which couldn't have changed still worth mentioning.

At the time, this was about the only resort south of Montego Bay. (The airport is north and if pick-up service is still not offered, you'll need calculate price of a cab.) It's located on a narrow hook-shaped peninsula which hems in the huge harbor area where all cruise ships dock. Things were rather quiet and secluded; the masses of "cruise passenger oriented" shops within a moderate yet doable walking distance should you not feel like hassling with a driver.

The two pastel colored towers had already been closed and boarded up leaving the two-story, square-shaped horseshoe facility still struggling for business. I'd paid about $725 for a one-week stay during the off-season for airfare, room, and single supplement, but had declined on the extra all-inclusive price for meals, activities, etc. Don't ask me how, but I landed in an air-conditioned junior suite with two king-sized beds and a balcony that looked out over the courtyard and across to the sea for those beautiful sunsets. There was a lot of indoor relaxing and reading accomplished that week. The placed looked clean, but had a dank moldy smell that overwhelmed any freshness from the salty name - "Sea Breeze".

There were two wide expanses of beach with the one furthest north for clothing optional. One factor for September travelers to keep in mind was the grotesque amount of jellyfish in the water and washed up on the sand. I'd seen this annual phenomenon in late August at NYC's Coney Island, but never in this large amount. "Supposedly", these are to be the harmless kind when/if stung, but it made getting in the water risky and all but impossible without them sliming up against you.

There was hardly anyone else staying in the resort at the time which made for great relaxing solitude, but quickly fueled boredom with so few and so little apparent opportunities. I guess it depends upon what you're looking for, but unless the resort's major rennovations have also included expansion and addition of services, I can't imagine this place being worth anything more than its new name - "Sunset Beach".

From journal Glitzy Advertisements masking Dismal Realities

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