Hey find a place to camp in a winter can be tricky but we found a place to camp
and play golf we're gonna tell you all about it hey y'all I'm Jimmy and I'm
Lisa kids are all grown up and now it's our turn to have fun so now you'll find
us camping yes you will today we're gonna take you on a tour of the Claire
Brooke Golf & RV Resort in Clermont Florida when you first arrive at the
park check-ins are to stay in the left lane you pull up to the guard shack and
they assign you a site give you the map tell you about what's going on and send
you on your way once you're checked in you have a gate code and so in the
future you can stay in the right lane punch your code in and go on straight on
into your campsite something a little different about this campground than
most of the ones we've been to is that this resort is actually divided into
three areas and they all surround the branches of the Golf Course so one is
the lifestyle area one is the veranda area and one is the crossroads area and
they each have specific things to them they all have the same things that most
of them yeah they all have some recreational areas but they're a little
different each section so on our tour we're going to come through the front
gate and we're gonna bear to the right immediately on your right is the office
and then around the corner from that is the dumpster and they have they have
it's actually a huge trash compactor and then they have a recycling bin there
as well once you go past the dumpsters in the recycling area right at the
entrance to the lifestyle area there is a large common area they have a post
office they have a Reading area puzzles that kind of thing an exercise room free
Wi-Fi in this area and there's a large playground outside once you get out of
that you actually get into the lifestyle area itself the lifestyle section is
sites 1 through 656 now some of those are RV sites some of them are permanent
nice like park models people that are there long-term in this section they
also have a hot tub shuffleboard those seem to be standard amongst all the
areas in the laundry facility it is two dollars for a load whether you're
washing or drying they but there was something different yeah they had a card
system so you had to pay five dollars to get what was like a little debit or
credit card you had to go to the office to buy it and you had to pay cash yeah
it was a little odd um then you could if you wanted to use cash you could put
money on your card in the office if you just wanted to use your debit or credit
card you could do that at any of the laundry facilities in the separate areas
so but if you don't use all of it they got your phone in your card there is a
number you can call to see what other campgrounds it's good at this particular
campground was an encore park so we thought that it was probably good at all
encore parks but I ran into a lady motor facility that was trying to use one she
had from the Encore Park they had just come from and it didn't work right
before you leave the lifestyle area there is a bathhouse and vending
machines then you kind of take a little road around and you enter into the
veranda area which is sites 888 through I believe 1257 again it's a mix of
different sites summer camp sites some are annuals people that are there I
guess all the time or maybe that's their winter home and then the veranda seemed
to have a larger recreational area yeah we drove all through the whole site
and it ends up coming that there's a baseball softball I don't right in the
middle of nowhere big old baseball field over on the
left-hand side the way we were going so if you were you know you wanted to watch
the games a lot of those camp sites back right up to it which would have been
great with a toy hauler we could have put our patio down and we could have
watched the game from there and they had like the scoreboard and the PA system
and everything one of the days we were riding around they were actually playing
a game so we just sat on the side and watched for a little while something
neat that they also have there that they didn't have any of the other areas was a
wood shop like a full-on wood shop with all kinds of you know you wouldn't walk
around I went in and just showed the camera around to see because it was
really kind of cool they also had a pool and a hot tub when I was there there was
a game of water volleyball going on everybody waved and said hey we're on
camera which was you know pretty fun then I also did a walkthrough of the
laundry facility which was pretty much just like the last area of dollars and
then they had a clubhouse I didn't go in I just held the camera up to the window
and looked in because they had some kind of event going on I didn't want to
interrupt as we left the veranda sight there was I don't know a pond or creek
or something over to the right there was water ways throughout the whole park and
so Gator Cove Oh alligators we did see an alligator one day but he was so far
off that we weren't sure it was an alligator and Jimmy took the camera over
to try to get him on film he was afraid of me before he could get close enough
that you could even tell what he was he went down into the water and he was gone
you had almost alligator suit but as you come out of the veranda area you end up
kind of coming up behind the Pro Shop for the golf course so the pro shop has
a putting green and a driving range and there are like two sections to the golf
course one that you know goes over between veranda and the crossroad
section and one that is between lifestyle and
the crossroads area as we come out of Miranda we kind of went around the pro
shops it's a video of the pro shop and started whole number one going into
crossroads section which is where we stayed we stayed very far and we backed
right up to the golf course which was really cool because we again put the
patio down and sit out there while you're eating breakfast or launching and
watch the people play golf the crossroads area was sites 657 to 884 and
most of them seemed to be RV sites there weren't as many cabins and park models
in that section and it also seemed to be the smaller of the areas that were that
they had there was a lot more trees and shaded sites which was nice but it did
make it a little difficult to get into some of the sites we watched somebody
that was staying across from a friend of ours and he a really hard time backing
in once he got in it was a great sight though so we did drive around check out
the pool very similar setup to the other areas the pool the hot tub shuffleboard
those seem to be the standard that they all had laundry and Clubhouse in the
Crossroads area those are all in one area there wasn't you know a bathhouse
here and then a bathhouse on the other side of the area everything was
centrally located as you get down to the end of the street is where we stayed we
were like forth from the end so it was really quiet down there and for incoming
except for that golf ball that came in and when it hit three times yeah we got
hit more than once but we only found damage from the one time I guess overall
the question is would we return to Clair Brook RV and Golf Resort absolutely yeah
we will not park over there again now we also had a really good time because we
got to meet up with some friends that we hadn't seen in a while like since
Thanksgiving which is always great fun they're friends that we met while
camping and we meet them up several times a year and camp together so they
didn't know we were coming we surprised them and we
a great week with them so we are looking to camp with you guys - yeah where will
you be are you gonna be in Florida anytime soon are you gonna be in
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