Category Archives: Our Florida Villa To Rent

Here’s a collection of posts all regarding our family friendly villa in Tuscan Ridge, how you can hire it for your holiday, and what sort of updates we’ve been doing. If you can think of anything else we need to add please let us know. Stop your search for a villa – here’s the best there is in Orlando!

Tuscan Ridge Community Video

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When we were searching for our private villa in Tuscan Ridge we took a short video of the community drive to reach each villa we looked at.  This is one of the best ways to remember what the community was like when you’re looking at real estate.  If you see ten private villa communities in a day how on earth can you remember what each community looks like without a movie to remind you?

Tuscan Ridge Community Video

Tuscan Ridge Community Video

Tuscan Ridge Vacation Rental – the drive in to Dave’s Florida Villa

The drive down to our villa from highway 27 is fairly straightforward.  Enter Tuscan Ridge from the southbound carriageway and head down to the roundabout.  If you are travelling north on the 27 you will need to do a u-turn just after you pass Tuscan Ridge. This must be one of the rare roundabouts in Florida! Take a left at the roundabout (anti clockwise) past the community club house into the “countryside” section of Tuscan Ridge and then turn right at the end of the road onto Dolcetto Drive.  Take the next left on to Moscato Drive and again the next left on to Barbera Drive which is where our villa is located.

Wide plots and spacious surroundings are a highlight of Tuscan Ridge that you will recognise whilst driving to Dave’s Florida Villa.  Pine trees line the south western edge of the community, and no other communities overlook Tuscan Ridge.  It’s a fantastic location away from the hustle and bustle but still near to Disney and Golfing areas of Florida.

Restaurants and Dining near Tuscan Ridge

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Orlando and Tuscan Ridge have plenty of places and restaurants to eat out, to suit all tastes. Yes, America is renowned for its fast food and chains, but there are a lot of nice places to wine and dine as well as lots of places to grab something quickly. Dave’s Florida Villa have all you need to eat in every night, but it wouldn’t really be a holiday if someone always has to slave over a hot stove, would it?!

Disney is well known to have lots of different places to eat, so here are a few as well as restaurants near to Tuscan Ridge.  I’ve left out the major fast food chains.

Nearby Restaurants

Disney Restaurants

Other Restaurants

 

Public transport from Tuscan Ridge, Davenport

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Our private Tuscan Ridge Villa is located on the US highway 27 about 5 miles north of the I-4 junction, but can you jump on public transport to enable you travel without a car?

In order to travel by public transport from Tuscan Ridge it would be necessary to find the nearest bus stop and most likely take a taxi there. The Davenport area is not particularly pedestrian friendly and often the sidewalks simply end abruptly and you’re forced into another route to walk.

However, there are a number of bus routes you can take advantage of if you do want to use public transport.

On the US-27 there is a 427 main bus route that runs north-south from Haines City all the way up past the 192. Unfortunately there aren’t many stops on the route so the nearest bus stop to Tuscan Ridge is near Posner Park.

Links here:

http://www.golynx.com/plan-trip/route-details.stml?portalProcess_dd_0_1_1=showPublicPosting&calendar_entry_id=1145
http://www.golynx.com/core/fileparse.php/97363/urlt/0055370-link-427.pdf
http://www.golynx.com/resources/pdf/lynx-system-map.pdf

To get to Disney, take the 427 up to the 192 and then another bus East on the 192 that travels up into the Disney Parks. We can’t comment on timings as we personally haven’t tried this route ourselves, preferring to drive to the attractions as opposed to lugging our bits and bobs around on public transport. However public transport is certainly a viable option.

How to rent our Tuscan Ridge villa – the process

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Tuscan Ridge – it’s the place to be!

Tuscan Ridge

Tuscan Ridge at Christmas

It can be daunting the first time you want to rent a private villa.  How do you know the villa is as described?  Is the private pool actually green? How do you pay?  How can you get a level of security that you want?  What if it goes wrong?  There are loads of questions that need answering, so I will do my best here to explain how to rent our Tuscan Ridge villa in Florida.

  1. Please contact us!  We will listen to any of your questions and answer as many as we can.  There’s no such thing as a stupid question. We will respond quickly and honestly. We can send extra pictures over, or simply put your mind at ease.
  2. Once you are sure on your dates, check our availability.  We keep our calendar up to date with all confirmed bookings.  Tentative books are only made for 48 hours until we hear a response back.
  3. Contact us again, and we can hold the dates for 48 hours so long as you say you want them.  Discuss if you want pool heating or not, or any extra services such as a welcome pack, BBQ, and so on.
  4. Once you are happy that our Florida pool and spa are the best in town (which they are!), send us a deposit.  Since this is your hard earned money there are a number of ways you can do this, each with different levels of security but there is always one that will suit your needs.
  5. Transfer by bank account or PayPal, if you are comfortable with this.  Any PayPal fees have to be covered by the renter, although if you transfer by bank account the fees are zero.
  6. Visit our Florida Villa on one of our other listing sites: Tuscan Ridge on Flipkey or Florida Villa on AirBnB.  These sites offer payment security but you will be charged between 3% and 10% for this.  They will take the full amount, plus security deposit.  The full amount gets transferred to us once you check in, and the security deposit is returned automatically once we confirm everything is OK at the end of your stay.
  7. If you transfer the deposit direct to us, then the full amount is due 8 weeks before you stay.  The security deposit is returned either by a PayPal refund or bank account once our management company have checked everything is OK after you have left.  Most people are comfortable with sending money this way, you can call us and have a chat about it to make sure real people own the villa!

 

As you can see, we have every option covered for our private villa, and we are positive that one of the options will suit your needs.  Please contact us if you are still unsure about anything at all.

We have various referrals who have stayed in Tuscan Ridge that you can contact too, for another layer of confidence.

And last of all – if in doubt – contact us!

Tuscan Ridge Villa upgrades

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Donna and I have been busy buying upgrades to our Tuscan Ridge Florida villa.  Out with the old and in with the new!  Gone is the old TV in the living room and in comes a fantastic 47″ high definition JVC TV.  Sadly, we don’t live at our villa so we have to make do with a 5 year old TV here in the UK!  I hope our latest rental is enjoying the Super Bowl in glorious high definition!  Why would you want to leave Tuscan RIdge?

The villa now has high speed Bright House wireless internet throughout, along with their long distance USA and Canada call tariff.  So our guests can ring far away for no cost to themselves.

Tuscan Ridge is a great community, so to keep up with the neighbours we’ve bought brand new linen, towels and sheets to liven the villa up, and make anyone feel a million dollars when they rent the villa.  Some of the older style pictures have now been shifted, and in their place are some bright holiday pictures that inspire and relax and bring the villa up in to the modern day.

Tuscan Ridge Bedroom

Our queen bedroom – new linen

These finishing touches really add a touch of class to the villa – it’s always the little details that count.

So don’t wait to book your stay at Tuscan Ridge in our private villa.  You will not regret it!