It is like a country club decided to tack on some time shares at the far end of their property. The community would probably be a nice...
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It is like a country club decided to tack on some time shares at the far end of their property. The
community would probably be a nice place to live if you like the over priced house on the edge of
a golf course type of place. But the time share units were tacked on later and not really considered
part of the country club or the community. We did have to go through a guard gate to get to the
time share area but other than a few houses at the end of the main street, we had to go out and
go back in another guard gate a couple of miles away to get to the country club facilities.
The "resort" had no facilities of its own other than the units themselves and a pool that was still
drained and closed the last week in March.
The kitchen had a two burner stove top and no oven. The windows looked out at a retaining wall.
We felt like we were half underground. We knew our units would be on the first floor but we didn't
realize until we got there that the first floor was two stories below the parking lot.
The resort activities schedule was very sparse and because the "time share people' didn't actually
have an activity center all activities were at the country club on the other side of the property so
we were required to go out through the guard gate, drive over two miles and re-enter the country
club through another guard gate. And the worst part was, all but one of the 3 or 4 activities my
wife and daughter signed up for were cancelled.
The one activity that was not canceled started over 30 minutes late because the person bringing
the materials and running the activity was "running behind schedule." This seemed to be a chronic
situation.
On the plus side, this resort did not "get" what the whole resort vacation experience is supposed
to be like so they at least didn't bug us to take a tour of their very sad facilities. Does anybody
actually own at this resort? I can't believe they didn't try to pitch it to us while we were there. I
honestly believe this resort exists just for people to trade out to other places.
In retrospect though, I've stayed at 3 other resorts in Branson. Two of them were different
Fairfield/Wyndham resorts and one of them was the Blue Green resort in Branson and I have been
disappointed with all of them. I own 15 weeks through various time share chains and I travel a lot.
It may just be that the standards of quality in Branson are lower than other places. Adminitedly 3
of my timeshares are Marriots and I am spoiled.
So don't write this one off completely, just know that it is a pretty good drive from the city of
Branson but is actually close to Silver Dollar City. If you do go here, make sure to book something
on the second floor so you are at least level with the parking lot and if you are staying in anything
less than a two bedroom, be sure to make sure you have the "Deluxe" unit. They assured me that if
I had gotten a deluxe unit we would have had an oven and the couch would have been a sleeper
sofa.