kfp673 wrote:
Thanks all. I understand the appeal ofFt Wilderness. We have been there and loved it. But we are planning a week where the Ft costs $200+ per night and we could get any of the Sun RV properties or a few others that are actually just as close to some parks for <$100. Trying to decide if $5-600 is worth it. I thought maybe a bus ran right to the parks the way it does to some of the 3rd party hotels but it does not sound that way.
Thanks all!
Fort Wilderness is probably the nicest park in the area. It's the most wooded with some privacy between spots.
Thousand Trails Orlando has a wooded section ( D ) but it's usually in various states of kept. Sometimes the grass back there can get pretty long. And you likely won't get a 50amp spot back there, if that's important to you. Not a paved pad to be found back there, either.
The rest are more RV parks than campgrounds. Open spaces racked and stacked:
- TT Orlando has a new section of fully paved spots, though they're a bit snug for my liking.
- Lake Magic has a mix of paved spots and un-paved spots, both pull-throughs and back-ins.
- Tropical Palms has a mixture of paved pull-thru spots that are pretty tight through to grassy back-in spots that are decent.
- As I mentioned before, Sherwood Forest is mostly grassy pull-thrus and not the nicest.
- The KOA is decent but a little snug.
- Bill Frederick Park at Turkey Lake is a beautiful little campground in Orlando but it can be an ugly drive down I-4 to get to Disney. But if you're after Universal Studios, it's perfect. Good for Seaworld, too.
- Lake Louisa State Park is supposed to be nice; never been and it's a little ways up Rt 27 to get to Disney.
- I'm trying to think what else is nearby... there's Bee's and Clerbrook both up in Clermont. They're getting to be 45-60 minutes from Disney, though.
As you factor costs, if you aren't annual passholders, you'll have to pay for parking at the parks if you drive-in. That's a good $20-25 or more per day.
