The Grove Resort & Water Park Orlando

We are 47 year olds with kids 12 and 16 and stayed 8 nights. It was a bit farther from theme parks (especially universal) than we liked. We spent between 30 minutes to 1.5 hrs (albeit due to traffic) on Florida bus each day, twice a day, on our theme park days. The resort itself was dated inside, especially the hallways to rooms with old carpet and layers of cracking paint. But the grounds, the lobby and our room were really nice and we loved the space it gave our family of four with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, balcony, kitchen and laundry! Loved the pools, hot tub, Surfari Water park with lazy river, restaurants and bars, and the Austin Pier fishing where my son won a tournament for largest fish that day and received a free surfing lesson (Flowrider surf simulator) as a prize which he loved! Many features to keep us busy when not at Disney or Universal. Be prepared to spend a lot of money!! To eat, drink, and play at the Grove (we splurged and did everything available to us including gift shop purchases) we spent roughly $5000. This doesn't include expenses off resort like theme parks, door dash, Uber, Lyft...etc. I was surprised that no dish clothes were supplied for use in the kitchen and how strict the resort is about towels... You get just the amount you need and you must carry to and from pools and Surfari Park and if you loose any, you pay. We lost one despite our best efforts and I'm not sure yet what the charge will be. Also there's a party like atmosphere in the late evenings especially Friday-Saturday nights with the outdoor alcohol and vacationing crowd. Expected I suppose. All in all we really enjoyed our stay and would recommend it to those who want that kind of experience for days away from theme parks.

Sherrie