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    Encore Southern Palms

    3.3 (22 reviews)
    Closed 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Howard P.

    Southern Palms is a wonderful RV Resort. We arrived on Friday evening. We were advised to call Mike on his cell phone (since it was after office hours) Mike greeted us with a warm friendly hello. He wore his mask the whole time he was with us. Mike took his golf cart and led us to our camp ground. He was very patient with helping us get backed in, in the dark. The park was very clean and well maintained. Our neighbors, Rick and his mother, were super nice. They do not have WiFi and the cable TV had poor reception. You can pick up most of the local stations with an antenna. Also, the bugs are really nasty at night and will fill you RV. This place is just moments to Mount Dora and easy to find. There are several restaurants and gas stations close by the resort. We look forward to going back to Southern Palms when we can spend more than 2 nights there. Note: Good Sam and Military Discounts apply.

    Jennifer M.

    I'm not even sure where to start with this campground honestly. It was awful! To start off, this resort should be a 55+ campground because everything here is directed towards 55+ anyways. The staff are beyond rude and the older members who stay here aren't any better. They all complain about the younger crowd and kids who come here and trust me, there are very few of us. Not to mention, no one is friendly at all. Some people seem friendly but you can tell it's very forced and fake. Like please, don't be fake to me. It's rude. There's nothing to do here besides bocce ball, shuffle board, the pool, and a hot tub. All the events - bingo, lunch, dinner, etc all cost literally an arm and a leg (and you don't even know it's not free until you're already there and told it costs because nothing in the flyers, calendars, etc indicates there's a cost), younger people are blatantly made to feel unwelcome and are treated badly, etc. It's awful. Don't even get me started on trying to use the community fire pit. Some staff says yeah, anyone can use it! It's for the community! Then the owner comes out and says no. No one can use it unless you have 10 to 15 people and it's been an approved activity event. Fire must be out by 9pm. The staff in the office says something entirely different. And I mean, whose paying for the wood for this community event that I have to hold just to have a fire because this campground doesn't have fire pits on any of the lots. Since all the other community events cost an arm and a leg, can I charge everyone who attends my fire for it too? No. I'm sure you can't. Completely stupid. Continuing to the pool, it's in need of repairs. The hot tub is under filled so there's not enough water in it for the catch filter to even get water. So the hot tub is filthy. It's filled with what looks like dissolved oatmeal that just floats on the surface of the water. It's absolutely disgusting. We also learned 4 days into our stay that you're required to have some sort of wristband for the pool. We were never given one with our check in stuff and apparently we were supposed to have gotten one and it was never mentioned, etc. It just adds to the disorganization of this place. Moving on to the general look of the park. There are a LOT of full timers here who live her on a permanent basis or at least leave their park model homes here permanently. The rules say that RV and lots should be kept neatly, etc but most of the park models that are here are absolutely dilapidated. One had a tarp on its roof, another had not one but 2 mattresses and a couch sitting outside of it, many are filthy, covered in overgrowth, and just looked like run down or abandoned he'll holes. It's got a real trailer park feel. A lot of the lots are torn up and muddy. When we arrived (after hours) we were not given a map, list of rules, or the bathroom lock codes. Even though several staff members had to come out and help us no one informed us that the bathrooms were passcode locked and that we needed a code. When I said something the following morning when we FINALLY got the code, the staff made it seem like it was OUR FAULT we weren't given the code and that because they don't do tent camping they figured we'd just use the bathroom in our RV. I wasn't aware that all RV's had bathrooms. I know that some pop-up campers most certainly don't and with how many people use the bathroom for showers and bathrooms daily, apparently a lot of people need these facilities. So to assume I didn't because (allegedly) all campers have full bathrooms is ignorant. Then to make a fight and debate over how they weren't wrong in not making sure we had this info was even more rude and inappropriate. It wasn't a debate. We should have been given this info RIGHT AWAY regardless if we were in a tent, RV, cabin, or whatever else! This should have been immediately provided. The men's bathroom has a urinal that's out of order and this is indicated by a cardboard box placed in front of it. This urinal has obviously been out of order for quite some time as it's COVERED in filth and dead bugs. The men's bathroom is filthy and grimy. The women's restroom has a major leak behind the first two stalls causing a constant flooding on the floor in the first two stalls. The third stall is out of order. To my final point going back to why we had several workers out after hours when we arrived. The first was to help us find our lot. The next was to inform us that someone would be checking into our lot in the morning and we could move now or tomorrow. At that point we chose to move that night at which point we were given the options of lots 87-89, none appeared to have power boxes. 88 and 89 were in the front yard of someone's park model trailer and the homeowners parked on 89. So we demanded different lots. We eventually settled onto 91, which had power but we did have to buy an adaptor just to get power because it was 30 amp only.

    Southern Palms is great...staff is wonderful and bathrooms are fantastic!

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