Every year my family takes a one week vacation to refresh, rejuvenate and reconnect. Typically we head straight to the beach, do not pass go, do not collect $200. This year, my husband and I decided to try something new, something a little closer to home {the closest beach is 12-14 hours from Ohio) and decided to go to the Virginia mountains.
We are timeshare owners and I did a substantial amount of research on various locations in Tennessee, North Carolina, etc. We really wanted something that didn’t require an extended drive. After all my research, we settled on a resort in western Virginia called Massanutten.
Massanutten is a four season resort which offers hundreds of daily activities including golf, fishing, hiking, swimming, crafts and even basket weaving. You would be amazed at all the different activities that can fill your day.
We arrived late on Saturday night to a very smooth check in process, got our room keys and headed off to find our condominium. Our condo was a 2 bedroom with a partial kitchen and WOW it was very spacious and nice. There were two bathrooms and one included a jacuzzi tub. There was also a very large balcony that over looked a pretty tree line.
We were given an Activity Book that listed all the various activities that were provided during each day of our stay. You have the choice to buy activity cards that provide free and reduced costs on the majority of the activities. While I think the activity cards would be a benefit for many people, I wish I had spent more time looking at the activities that we wanted to participate in and comparing the costs. Fortunately, we were given 2 adult cards in exchange for attending their sales meeting, so we purchased only the 2 children’s cards for $69 each. Had we purchased all 4 cards at $316, we would not have saved any money paying full price for the handful of activities that we participated in.
The resort has several beautiful pools that you can access with your resort ID card. The Woodstone pool is the one that we frequented the most as it had both an indoor and outdoor pool. The outdoor pool has an attached zero entry baby/children’s pool with a giant mushroom that both my kids loved. The mountain top pool which we enjoyed but was a good drive from our condo.
Along with the regular pools their is a massive indoor/outdoor water park with slides, a wave pool, a children’s area and every other type of activity you can think of. My kids loved the water park and Lu even went down one of the bigger children’s slides by herself. I honestly hadn’t thought about my review during the time because I didn’t take any pictures at the water park.
Massanutten has been generously offered a set of activity tickets that I will be giving away at the conclusion of my posts on our vacation. It was such a beautiful place that I can’t fit all the amazing activities into one posting. Hopefully one of you will win the tickets and and enjoy a fantastic vacation to Massanutten Resort.
