ChampionsGate vacation rentals

The Oasis Club serves the Country Club and Vista homes and has the lazy river, cinema and spa. The Retreat is newer, with its own water park and sports bar. Your home determines which one you use — every listing says so.

It's eight miles, roughly thirteen minutes on I-4. Slightly further than Storey Lake, but you trade those few minutes for a Publix and six restaurants outside your gate.

Easily. Both clubhouses are built around water and food rather than golf, and the courses are separately ticketed so you never pay for what you don't play.

Almost all of the eight-bedroom-plus ChampionsGate homes have a converted garage games room — pool table, arcades, air hockey — and many have a home theatre too.

Guests staying in The Retreat at ChampionsGate use the Oasis Club as part of the stay: two heated pools, the lazy river, the two-storey waterslide, the children's water play structure, the fitness centre, the games room, the movie theatre and the Grille Room restaurant. Cabana rentals and golf are charged separately.

Yes. The Oasis Club's outdoor area has a winding lazy river with bridges and waterfalls, alongside two temperature-controlled pools, a two-storey waterslide, a children's water play structure and a Tiki Bar with poolside food and drink service.

Roughly nine miles, usually about fifteen minutes by car. ChampionsGate sits directly off I-4 on the western approach to the parks, which keeps the drive clear of the busiest stretch of US-192. Every home we manage has free parking.

Yes — a Publix sits at the entrance to the community, which makes it one of the shortest grocery runs of any resort we work in. Most guests stop there on the way in from the airport rather than making a separate trip.

ChampionsGate Country Club is within the community and there are seven tennis courts as well. Golf is booked directly with the club and green fees are not part of the rental, so treat it as a facility nearby rather than something included with the home.

Our ChampionsGate homes span the widest range of any resort we manage, from two-bedroom townhomes up to twenty-bedroom estates. That makes the same resort workable for a couple and for a large family reunion, which is unusual — most communities cluster around one size band.

It is one of the two resorts we would suggest first for a big group, because the biggest homes here are genuinely large and the Oasis Club gives everyone somewhere to go that is not the house. The live figures on this page show exactly what sizes we have available now.

The Grille Room is inside the Oasis Club, and there is a Tiki Bar with food and drink service by the pool. Beyond the gates, the ChampionsGate junction has the usual cluster of chain restaurants and the Publix, all within a couple of minutes' drive.

Yes, both are inside the Oasis Club — a movie theatre and an air-conditioned games room, alongside the fitness centre and the concierge desk. They are part of the clubhouse rather than paid extras, which makes a rainy afternoon considerably easier.

Yes. Access is through a gate, and your party's name goes on the gate list before you arrive — we arrange that when your booking is confirmed, so there is nothing for you to do beyond turning up.