Sterling Vacation Homes Company Profile
My husband and I have been vacationing in the Orlando area and Florida for over eighteen years and we love it. Over the years we have stayed at a broad range of accommodations, enough to know exactly what we like in a vacation property. Vacation time is something we look forward to during the working time of year and how our vacation time is spent and that we enjoy it very important to us.
We vacation in each of our homes for extended periods of time and therefore we require all the amenities of home. These homes are truly our home away from home. Before we purchased our homes we made a list of the most desirable features and made sure our homes included every one.
At a hotel or condo villa the pool is not private, is usually some distance from your room, is often cooler than one would prefer, and has specific hours of operation. We wanted a private heated pool, just seconds away from our room, with unlimited hours of operation.
At a hotel or condo the spa has specific hours and many do not allow children. So, there I am, not swimming in the pool because it's too cold and I am not relaxing in the spa because the children are playing in the pool. Our vacation home spas are open 24 hours a day. Both adults and children love relaxing in the spa after a long day of walking at the parks. Another very important benefit of having your own private spa is that once the children are asleep you can go out to the spa and enjoy the peace, knowing that your children are safely asleep just inside the house. It sure beats having to sit quietly in your hotel room and not even turn on the TV for fear of waking the children.
Our vacation homes are all close to Disney. Distances vary from 2 miles to 8 miles. When it takes less ten minutes to travel to Disney property you arrive before anyone asks ?Are we there yet??
Vacationing at a home is less expensive then a hotel and this is especially true if you have five or more in your party and therefore require two hotel rooms.
We like to eat out as much as anybody, but after a few days, eating out for three meals a day is expensive, time consuming, and monotonous. We like at least being able to eat breakfast and evening snacks at home. A proper kitchen also allows you to pack a picnic lunch or just have a leisurely meal in the lanai.
A fully equipped kitchen is an absolute must. We have stayed at hotels that billed a fully equipped kitchen but I couldn't even heat up food in the microwave because there were only Styrofoam plates. My kitchens have all of the amenities of home, which makes traveling with young children and teenagers much easier and less expensive.
We wanted a vacation home with room to roam. It is difficult for a family to stay in a 300 square foot hotel room for more than a few days. At over 2000 to 5000 square feet our vacation homes have ample room to roam. You are not secretly wishing, even for a minute, that you could be back at home snuggled up in your favorite chair with a cup of tea or coffee.
One of the greatest features of a private vacation home is that there are activities for all ages. All of our vacation homes have a games room which includes a full sized slate pool table, seven foot air hockey table, and foosball. There are numerous TV's, DVD players, and VCR's so you do not all have to watch the same channel. Try doing that in a hotel room. There are plenty of toys for the younger children and story books for bedtime. High chairs, strollers, and Pack'n'Plays are standard children's features of our vacation homes.
We enjoy vacationing at a real Floridian villa. It doesn't feel like Florida unless you stay somewhere with vaulted ceilings, a bright stucco exterior, surrounding palms and typical Floridian vegetation.
These are some of the reasons why we enjoy our homes and we hope that your visit to Orlando, Florida will be as exciting and relaxing as has been our experience.
Roberta Beriault and Family
Sterling Vacation Homes Company Expansion
Since we purchased our first Florida vacation home, Dolphin Springs, many families have enjoyed vacationing in our private homes just as much as we do. Increased demand prompted us to purchase Forest Springs then, Formosa Springs our first seven bedroom home, and things continue to progress from there. We soon found that even with several homes there was no vacancy for us when we wanted to stay in Florida so it was time to buy again. We purhcased another seven bedroom home, Captain Nemo's. We realized that many of our guests enjoy vacationing with their extended families and we continued to see an increase in requests for homes that can accomodate even more... So we purchased our first eight bedroom home, Tigger's Tree House.
Now we find ourselves with the task of booking five vacation homes and taking care of all our guests, which already had become more than a full time job for us. So in order to continue ensuring a high level of service for our guests we hired Joanie Wilson to take reservations and provide customer service to our guests. With Joanie on our team it gives us more time to focus on the homes themselves, decor, renovations, maintenance and upgrades like adding Kiddie pools, landscaping, and of course finding more great vacation homes.
Joanie is our cousin and has worked with us for over five years in another capacity. She has vacationed in Florida with our family many times and being a mother she knows the challenges of travelling with children. Joanie brings to Sterling Vacation Homes over five years experience as a Reservation Supervisor at one of the largest resorts in cottage country here in Ontario, Canada. Most of all, she considers Sterling Vacation Homes a family business that she is a part of which is exactly how it is. We believe she will be a great asset to our Sterling Vacation Homes family and look forward to working with her for many years
As we move into the future we look forward to making our vacation homes a part of family history for many more families, providing a home away from home for many wonderful family reunions and weddings and memorable moments that happen so rarely in our lives but mean so much.
Roberta and Lawrence Beriault
Private Vacation Rentals, Vacation Homes and Villas near Disney, Orlando, Florida.
