Thrive on Skidaway was excellent. It's the nicest one I've seen. The staff was very responsive and attentive. Their two-bedroom apartments had a nice kitchen, nice living area, and nice sized bathrooms. The dining area was clean and the whole place feels like a nice five-star hotel more than it does as an assisted living or apartment. It looks great. They have a coffee bar, a hair salon, an exercise room, physical therapy, occupational therapy area, lobby area, card room, game room, pool tables, pickleball courts, and Bocce ball courts.

My brother has moved into Thrive at Skidaway. The facility itself is wonderful, brand new, and it's right across the street from everything you could possibly need or want. It's got a pharmacy, a hair salon, nail salon, grocery, gas station, travel agency, and a care business. If you need extra help with anything, they've got CNAs and RNs that will help you. There's a library and everything, so that's a big plus. Just before my brother moved in, they lost their chef, and my brother says that the meals have been pretty bad. The staff is personable and ready to help in any way, except getting a new chef, but supposedly it is imminent that the good chef is coming back; I hope it's temporary. Hopefully that will be remedied.

We took a tour of Thrive at Skidaway for my dad, and I like the facility. The convenience of it being close to us was very nice. It's only about a mile and a half from my house. It's recently been renovated, and there's nothing that I saw there that I thought needed renovation or updating. It's all new, and it's recently been redone. It's very clean, and it has all the facilities that he needs, including workouts and access to physical therapy. It has an actual coffee shop within the facility, and as I said, it is very close to where we're going to be living. All the communications that I've had with them to work through the arrangements to have him there have all exceeded my expectations. The staff was all very nice, very accommodating, and very friendly. The other thing that I really like about it is that you can start in independent living, and if you develop additional needs, then you can seamlessly transition to assisted living, and then from there even into memory care. They provide all of those different options as your family member might require them. I did not have a meal there, but I did look at the menus. It looked as if some of it may have come from a fine-dining establishment. It was a very impressive menu.