Our family of five recently bought a timeshare week at Horizons as we love visiting Florida as often as we can. The grounds at Horizons are beautiful, and our three children love the pirate pool, and the waterslide pool. We stayed for two weeks in July of 2007 and didn't want to leave. We have traveled to Florida every year for the last 7 years and this is by far the best resort we have stayed in and we have stayed at many, often two or more resorts per visit, including Disney resorts. Horizons tops them all. We would recommend Horizons to families with young children and/or teens!

We have owned vacation condos in Myrtle Beach South Carolina for the past 13 yrs, so we now what it takes to provide a wonderful vacation experience.

Marriott Horizons met and exceeded our expectations. You need to rent from an owner though to get a fabulous rate.

The perfect place to stay and also perfect for a day away from all the parks. Use the waterpark features and sit back!!

Brian
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this was exactly what we needed. We were here for a week at Disney World. We have previously stayed on property and that has worked very well for us. We did miss the onsite transportation, but this was great for this trip. We brought along our 4yr old and our 1.5 yr old and my parents. Our unit had 2 bed and 2 bath. My parents did not go into the parks with us everyday so it had lots of space for us to hang out and relax. It was super clean and has free wireless internet. A huge plus. We were about a 10min drive from an of the Disney parks. We didn't get house keeping everyday b/c we bought this week off of someone else. The weather wasn't very warm so we didn't get to use the pool, but our room was on the ground floor and it was facing the pool! There is a nice playground, tennis courts and b-ball courts. There is a puttputt course and for $26 for the week your whole unit could have unlimited puttputt. We did not take advantage of this. The unit was clean and we ate in or had take out when we were here. We have annual passes, but my parents do not, so that is why they stayed back some with our youngest. This was not our "hard core" trip, that we like to do sometimes, so we didn't go hard into the parks all day. After staying on property, we have really missed the buses. The buses are nice b/c when you get off the buses you get to the park right away. here we had to drive ourselves and then get on the tram and then the monorail. What is nice is there is a "drop off " lane in all parks, so my dad would drop off us at the park in the morning and then come back and pick us up when we were ready.

This resort is located "within a stone's throw" from Sea World and right off International Drive, which has every restaurant you can think of and there is a grocery store and drug store about 1.5miles away.

So we booked this stay and weren't expecting much at all--right?! Well, we were surprised. The room (2 bdrm) was great. It was clean and had a great layout. The housekeeping called us to let us know we could call anytime if we needed something. The staff at the bar and grill and the coffee shack were very friendly. There was a staff member, Don, who was very helpful and gave us tips on beaches that were nice and was just very friendly. He threw out the "pirate coins" into the pool for kids to find and then on check out redeem for free gifts. There were plenty of activities--my girls loved karaoke night and band night. We didn't do any kids activities, but everyday something was going on. They have free table tennis, pool tables, basketball, volleyball...There are 2 pools--one with a big slide and it is a zero entry pool and then right next to that is a big splash area--reminds me of the Great Wolf Lodges--but outside. Then across the "street" there is another pool with the pirate ship (4 slides on that) and lots of squirting things and then the pool is attached to that. It was just awesome.
I did have a two "negatives". First when we checked in Chris from concierge was not aware of what the word means, I guess, because we had a package to include the Sea World tickets but he couldn't find it in the system and told us to call Marriott to get the tickets added on. We paid for this trip back in July and were convinced that we pd for tickets so I had to have the front desk help me get on a computer (b/c I was not going to pay to use one) and I was able to show that we did pay for this thru the Sea World package. He had to be asked to do things--he wasnot willing to offer himself. We called down later and had him call S.W. to make sure the tickets were there so we didn't get over there and have problems. Second, we asked for towels from housekeeping b/c we had used up all our towels and had not washed them yet. It was late in the afternoon, however, to give them the benefit of the doubt and so we did not get new towels until the next day when the came in and cleaned our room--that was partially our fault though, b/c we didn't have them cleaning our rooms every day.
Overall, this was the BEST vacation that our family has had so far. We thought the girls would want to just hang out at the pools on site, but they loved Sea World so much that we ended up going to Sea World for 4 whole days--yikes....Anyway, If you are thinking of this hotel I would highly recommend it. Other than concierge (who should have had the best attitude) every other staff member we met was extremely friendly and helpful and kind.