Clerbrook Golf & RV Resort

Judy Higgins

My husband and I stayed at Encore Clerbrook for 4.5 months. We winter in Florida and chose this park mainly for the hottubs and close proximity to our grandchildren, who live in Leesburg. For the price of the lots, which for us was over 1000.00 a month, we were very disappointed in the care and maintenance of it. Streets have potholes, landscaping is minimal, broken down and abandoned RVs, and junk permitted on people's sites. Policues of place NOat enforced. Hottubs were never hot and often not working. Front gate operated with code, and when put it, often did not work. Numerous waterline breaks and no notifications were given. Not enough dumpsters , therefore, dumpsters often full of trash and all over the ground when emptied. We would not recommend this park and will not return.

Renay Howey

Look elsewhere! One of the worst encore resorts we’ve been to. Customer service is a joke. They do not care at all what your grievances are and will not put the customer first under any circumstance we stayed last year and had a horrible experience where they tried, forcing our 45 foot RV into a 30 foot site. We thought we’d give them one more chance this year and sure enough they’re failing again. We will not be back.

Allan Stuntz

Now everything I have read about it being tight here is true. BUT after you get parked you will find a great, welcoming, community. Especially if you are a golfer. My wife and I only came here because we wanted to visit my sister but we are leaving with so much more. We will be back next year knowing it is a PITA to park and be happy to do it.

Mike Rowe

My wife and I spent a total of 4 weeks in 2 different sites. We enjoyed our stay. The golf course is amazing and made up for the sites we were at that needed some upkeep. The workers there are very friendly.

Jodie Button

We’ve been here almost a year in our RV, until we purchase our new home. It’s closest to my husband’s current LEO position and listed as family friendly. We have been to several thousand trails in Florida that claim to be all ages and family friendly with events/activities. That is far from true, with the exception of the one in Sarasota. In regards to Clerbrook : There is a playground, its equipment is for very small children. The only “child” activities were a few around the holiday and not widely advertised to inform families. All other activities are scheduled at times when most children can’t attend due to bedtimes, or when they are in school. If you do attend one with your kiddos, the older generation just stares disapprovingly and aren’t friendly and inviting, making us not want to attend as we sit at a table by ourselves and no one interacts unless they also have kids. The events provide non kid-friendly food and have music/entertainers for the elderly population. For some kids, this is their home and community too and many residents complain about them in the different groups on social media for being too loud, riding bikes in road (as if they can do so on grass and sand) and tailor the lifestyle to retired folks. The amenities are rarely all operational, or maintain a level of cleanliness and repaired /updated as needed. Clubhouses are typically locked unless they are having an activity so they sit dark and unused. The dog park is overcome by black sand and not maintained. The plastic fencing was uprooted from hurricanes and they have not been fixed. The residents go around picking up all the feces so their dogs don’t run/play in it I don’t use any of the shower rooms because they have lots of mold and mildew, are dark, cramped with clogged shower heads, and others reporting men using the women’s rooms when theirs is out of order. We pay for a bigger lot, but end up doing most lawn care ourselves. Every site’s electrical box and water spigot is about to topple over, worn and busted up. No water pressure at all! We have to change both filters at least monthly. The laundry rooms are not clean! Had a roach climbing towards my machine, ceiling has water damage and falling in, washers smell very musty and full of dog hair. There is no ac or it’s broken most of the time and windows are screwed closed. The good: The amenities are open late, until ten. There are a handful of really kind employees. The views of golf course are beautiful. They allow you to set up your site as you want. They have potential for amazing things with the buildings and pool areas/set up and location. However, they must be maintained, updated, inviting and actually open/operational and utilized with an abundance of activities and events for ALL AGES! My additional thoughts: Why not have a senior side and a family oriented side? The space is large enough. Why not have some activities where the older generation participates with the younger, such as utilizing the workshop for seniors to teach age appropriate kids to build a project? Why not have seniors coach little league or t-ball on the fields or even have teams younger than 50 be able to play? Have seniors offer music lessons or an activity they are experts at??- How about holding STEAM, crafts, musical activities for the kids or pool parties, themed activities/events weekly/monthly for the kids? Create volunteer groups with residents to plan child events, assist in creating an amazing dog park with activities and a dog washing station? I know many would volunteer for the things they are passionate about. Provide the families with things to do, specific areas set up for them, activities and events they are encouraged to attend/participate? I’m certain you would have a lot less undesirable behaviors and such a divided resort. The change is increase in rv living families and decrease in retired folks in Florida due to overpopulation. For us, we are thankful we’re purchasing our new home soon, otherwise we would be finding another place that provides what they advertise.

Eric Pritchard

Clerbrook is far and away the best of the three Encore Resorts have visited. It is massive, broken pit into neighborhoods each with it own pool, shower house, laundry room and recreation area all flanking the golf course. There is a playground, dog park, library, fitness center, softball field and the golf course and pro shop. They also have a propane fill station and several of the neighborhood common areas have happy hours, ice cream socials and limited hour restaurants. No large scale recycling that I could find. Everything is fairly well maintained and clean although older, people are very friendly and it feels safe and fairly quiet excluding some road noise. It’s still a trailer park and many of the sites are out in the open sun or, in areas, tightly packed with larger rigs. It’s also an hour/hour and a half from everything with the exception to Clermont that is 20 minutes down the road. We used this campground as a launching spot to visit central Florida springs and it was just too much driving for us. Clermont and the vineyard nearly next door were pleasant highlights of our stay in the areas. Our biggest gripe was the water quality, it wreaked of chlorine. I consume roughly one gallon of water per day and normally I’m not particularly sensitive to it’s taste but this was not drinkable, tasted like bleach. So stock up on fresh water before you arrive.

Vickie Armstrong

Large resort, 1250 sites. Our campsite was in the Veranda section, downwind from the water treatment. Stunk of sewage our entire stay. They were out of laundry cards for the first 3 days of our stay. Leaving in morning and looking forward to pulling out of here

Rodrigo Koss

Good to play golf! The RV spot is not concreted. I think this park is for older people. There are many events for them. And I didn't like the gossip girls at the reception. But the park is nice! I recommend!

N

Rented one of the mobile homes for couple of days and had a very enjoyable stay. The place is a gem! It’s peaceful and beautiful and there are tons of activities to be involved in if you’re staying longer. The mobile home itself was super clean and had a great kitchen. Staff was awesome as well.

Sand Maker

It's s really nice open park. The spaces are roomy. If you like golf it has it's own golf course. Lots of cranes roam the park. Cool. We will go back.