My husband and I moved into what is now The Glades in Championsgate in January 2021. We made the decision to sell our house and to look for an easier lifestyle. We wanted an apartment that meets our needs (2 bdrm, 2 bath, and a balcony). We were fortunate to find just want we wanted, AND, fortunate to live in a mostly inclusive place. This place is unbeatable - the care, the cleanliness, the staff, 3 meals daily, and best of all, happy residents who become family. We feel fortunate to live out our years here and welcome anyone looking for either assisted or independent living to come by and take a look! You will be pleased.

The Glades at ChampionsGate was tired and old. We were shown a room that was dirty. I was pretty disappointed with that. The lobby looked good though. The restaurant area looked good as well and the people who gave me a tour were very nice, but when we walked around and got into the hallways, it was dated. The rooms were very small. The activity room and therapy room had a musty smell. The pool looked OK.

I'm going back to Merrill Gardens at ChampionsGate tomorrow. It's a beautiful place. Everybody there really cared. I had therapy there. They were all wonderful and just everybody was friendly and nice. The food was delicious. I couldn't say anything bad about Merrill Gardens. I have a little dog, so now we're going to be on the bottom floor, and I will have a gated screen, a little tiny lanai, and French doors, and he gets to run out on the court without a leash because it's all fenced. The pool is right across.

We toured Merrill Gardens at Champions Gate. It would have been our choice because it was close to our daughter, it was like ten minutes from our daughter, and that's what we were working on. If anybody had money, I would say run to Merrill Gardens because it is really lovely and affordable for most people if they have retirement income. We just have social security, so we just couldn't afford it. It was independent living for us, but they also had assisted living/memory care, so we wouldn't have had to move to a different facility if we needed assisted living, it was available in the apartment that we were going to rent. When we first walked into the area, there was a desk and you registered. We had an appointment with a lady and a guy because we went twice. It was very lovely and very clean, and it's only less than four years old, so everything was just topnotch. Oh my gosh, it was beautiful. The rooms were very nice. We were looking at the two-bedroom, two-bath apartment, and it was a little less than a thousand square feet, which was a nice size. Everything was new. Your appliances were topnotch, and the bathrooms were tiled. I just can't say enough. It was just lovely. It was like, "OK, this is the place for us." But we didn't put a deposit the first time we looked, and we lost the one that we really wanted. Then when we went back, we took two more friends with us and they were like, "Oh, move here and we'll come and visit." The dining room was very, very nice. They had menus, and you could go like from 7:00 in the morning to 7:00 at night. So there was always something available, like if you wanted snacks or whatever. There was a lovely, lovely pool with bars that you could walk down into, and you could hold on both sides, it was like parallel bars into the pool. They had a lovely area for barbecues, and you could hire like a chef or something to cook outside for you. It was just really, really nice. Couldn't say enough how nice it was. As for the staff, everybody was so nice. The hallways were really wide. Merrill Gardens was just wonderful.

I toured a brand new place in Davenport called Merrill Gardens at ChampionsGate. It's an absolutely beautiful facility. The inside was topnotch, but there's no place to go outside and there's no place to walk. It's down in the area where there's not much you can do outside, so I felt I would be stuck in that building all day long. They have three levels, and I would've been in the independent part of it. The building itself was absolutely gorgeous. The apartment was absolutely gorgeous and all up-to-date, but when I left and came back here to my place, I noticed things that I wouldn't have liked once I moved in at Merrill Gardens. I didn't really meet the staff. I met the lady that tries to book people into the place and she was excellent and very nice. The lady at the opening desk was very nice, too. I didn't have any food, but the dining room looked very lovely. Other people have said the food was good. The outside was not what I would consider good for older people, but the inside was excellent.

We're moving into Merrill Gardens at ChampionsGate. I didn't have to put money down upfront, you can eat anytime of the day, three meals a day or more, the apartment was decent sized for us, and the facility was in a nice area. They have a big swimming pool, a fitness center, a hair salon, outdoor shuffleboard, and they take people to different places to shows, movies, shopping, and doctors. The staff was very nice, very polite and very helpful.

Merrill Gardens at ChampionsGate was absolutely beautiful. The pricing was right in the area that I wanted to be. The facilities were great. The staff seemed very kind. It was in very good shape. They had a pool, a fitness center, scheduled social activities, and a shuttle that will take people within a 10-mile radius. They offered independent living, assisted living, and memory care. You feel like you're in an apartment when you're in the independent area. When you're in assisted living, you don't have a stove, but it still feels like you're in an apartment. It doesn't make you feel like you're being hospitalized or institutionalized.

Merrill Gardens at ChampionsGate has just opened and there are hardly any people there, so it was sparse. The rooms are nice. They have a nice swimming pool outside and beautiful grounds.