The Morningside of Vestavia Hills was very pleasant, very clean, and very nice. Everybody was very friendly. We were impressed with it. It was updated and more organized. Everything smelled clean. The residents were also friendly. The staff was very good, hospitable, and accommodating. The presentation was very good, too. The independent living side looked accommodating. They had emergency buttons inside the rooms. They have converted all of their tubs into walk-in showers, and they are getting ready to change the carpets. It had a very nice garden area. They have transportation to the grocery store, to the pharmacy, and to the doctor's appointment. They serve 3 hot meals a day. It was just very pleasant. They have a library, a game room, and a recreational area where you can get coffee all day long. We liked it.

The size of the studio room in Morningside of Vestavia Hills was by far bigger than other ones. There were multiple activities and multiple amenities available as far as meals, transportation, and affordability. The staff was very nice and very courteous too. They had some exercise classes and a library available for the family. Now that COVID restrictions are being lifted, they are making plans to do outside visits and events, like going to zoos, libraries, senior centers, and such.

I've toured Morningside of Vestavia Hills. I like it. I've looked at the independent living. I'm thinking very seriously of moving there. It is only about three miles from where I'm living now. It's much better than where I'm living now. It's much more economical. One thing that I'm looking for is to get into a better situation there. This place where I'm living is just going up so much every year, and it's eating into my retirement. Morningside of Vestavia Hills is very beautiful, very beautiful. They had just renovated that place. I don't remember how old it was, but they said they had just renovated it, and it was gorgeous. The colors were soft aqua and sand colors, and everything was just done gorgeously. You could tell interior designers have just done the work. They also have sitting rooms available on the floor. There's a nice seating area. They also have water available up there with nice cucumber water, lemon water available, coffee available, and tea available, 24/7, which we don't have here. It was a very extensive tour. The staff who gave me the tour was very knowledgeable. Actually, I called her back and asked her questions, and she gave me a lot of the information. The place was very beautiful and gorgeous. They had just been renovated. They have an on-campus beauty shop, a beautiful library, and a librarian that's there every day. They have an activity director who does a lot of activities, and one of the things that I thought I would enjoy was they have a lot of educational type things, like college type things where they have a professor come in and talk. They have field trips to museums, and those type of things, which we don't have here. That I really thought I would enjoy.

We visited Chateau Vestavia. They were very nice and very congenial. It wasn’t a bad place, but when you hold them in comparison to the others we visited, it didn’t measure up. I think they still provided a good service. It did not have a pool, and it was a very small community. It was good, but it just wasn’t what we wanted. The room was an apartment-type.

Chateau Vestavia was very clean and well kept and did not look like what I imagined because it was kind of upscale. The lady who gave me the tour was great and explained everything. The room was small, but there was nothing wrong with it. The dining area was set up nicely. She told me about the outings, exercises, and activities they do. They were passing a balloon back and forth with each other, which was a kind of therapy, so there were sufficient things as far as activities go. I thought the facility was a nice, well-rounded place.