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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rob562" data-source="post: 3704615" data-attributes="member: 13585">I'll throw my own two cents in here... (I don't often chime in on the on-site vs off-site debate)First off, I'm a big advocate for staying on-site. I've stayed both on-site and off-site. My on-site experience has been limited to Value and Moderate resorts. My off-site has been timeshares a few times, two nights at a Hotel Plaza Blvd hotel before our on-site reservation started, and a few stays with friends that live 20 minutes down the road.As others have said, when you stay onsite, even at the Value resorts, you're surrounded by Disney 24/7. But when you're offsite, you're thrust into the real world when you leave property. This is especially true when you're staying on US192. With all the tourist-trap souvenir stores, cheapo mini-golf places, fast food and chain restaurants, it kinda "cheapens" the overall feeling of the vacation. It kinda makes it seem like you're driving to your local Six Flags park or just another amusement park. When you stay on-site, you never see any of that, and it makes it feel like the all-encompassing vacation that Walt had in mind when he planned the Florida Project.When I stayed at Orlange Lake Country Club (a nice timeshare, BTW) and with my friends in Davenport, I couldn't wait to turn off 192 and onto Sherberth Rd to get onto property.Though I will admit, this "real world shock" is much less for the couple of resorts along Route 536 just on the other side of I-4 (Marriott World Center and Caribe Royale, I believe) because there isn't as much "junk" along that stretch, I think just a gas station and a small strip mall.-Rob</blockquote>

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