Glenbrook Resort

Glenbrook Resort is an exclusive development, just 8 miles from Disney and close to all the major attractions. This has to be the most relaxing way of vacationing in Orlando, Central Florida. This prestigious community, with attractive palm tree lined roads, has just 267 luxurious rental homes. Why stay in a hotel room when you can enjoy the comfort of our superb villa?

Glenbrook also offers all guests a complimentary community recreation area with a designer swimming pool, a Club House with an exercise room for working out, a games room, plus tennis and beach volleyball courts to run around and have fun in the sun. There is also a media room with a large TV entertainment system, a PC giving free internet access as well as a wireless ‘hot spot’ for those bringing laptops.

Kissimmee

A fairly unremarkable town on the face of it, Kissimmee's history is one of gentle osmosis rather than cataclysmic change ! (If you're easily bored, skip down to 'Orlando' !) The City of Kissimmee was originally a small trading post on the northern bank of Lake Tohopekaliga known as the community of “Allendale”. After the Civil War this area was included in a purchase of 4,000,000 acres of marshland and plains by the Disston Saw Company in Philadelphia. The sale price for the land totaled $1 million or $.25 per acre! (This infusion of $1 million to the State of Florida reportedly rescued the state from financial disaster! ). In January 1881, the area was drained and the Kissimmee River deepened, so products could be shipped into the Gulf of Mexico and points beyond. Many steamboat captains navigated the chain of lakes leading from Kissimmee to the Gulf with cargoes of cypress lumber and sugar cane. On March 24, 1883, the citizens voted to incorporate the City, changing the name from Allendale to Kissimmee City. From then beyond the turn of the century, the economy of the Kissimmee area relied strictly on cattle and sugar cane. By 1920, the population of Kissimmee increased to more than 2,700 people as a result of the Florida land boom of the early 1900’s. In the early 1930’s, the cattle industry began to flourish in the area. However, citrus and other crops remained as the predominant industry. The construction of the Kissimmee Airport in the 1940’s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in preparation for the U.S. involvement in World War II, led to Kissimmee’s population increasing by another 38% to more than 3,700 citizens. City leaders, wanting to continue Kissimmee’s prosperous history, encouraged growth through the attraction of retirees into the area during the 1950’s. This effort stimulated growth of almost 60%. The next period of growth came in the 1970’s with the opening of Walt Disney World resort area and other tourist attractions. Since Walt Disney World’s debut in 1971, the population doubled from 7,500 to 15,000 in 1980. The population doubled again during the 80’s to 30,000. Currently, 41,248 people reside within the corporate limits of the City, with approximately 140,000 people living throughout Osceola County.