Attractions 

Recreation and eating out

There are many parks and recreational facilities offering a superb selection of activities within a few minutes drive of the villa. There are also many excellent restaurants within close proximity and details of these are available in the villa. A multiplex cinema can be found at the Coastal Way Plaza (see below).

Beaches

The nearest beach is Pine Island, Located on the Gulf of Mexico which offers a cafe, changing rooms, showers, picnic pavilions, barbecue facilities, boat ramps, kiddies play area and white sandy beaches. This is only 20 minutes from the villa and is a particularly good beach for small children as the beach shelves very gradually. The popular beaches of Clearwater, St. Petersburg and Howard's Park are only an hour's drive away.

Sports

Sailing can be done in many areas around Spring Hill and there are two excellent golf courses nearby: the Spring Hill Country Club and Ray Floyd's Oak Hill Country Club. Both offer 18 holes of championship play in the heart of the most scenic landscape Florida's west coast has to offer. More information of golf is available if required.

Shopping

The Coastal Way Plaza and Mariner shopping malls are five minutes drive from the villa. Mariner is mainly focused on food shopping and as such offers a wide range of shops from a Walmart superstore to McDonalds. There are smaller speciality shops in the area. Coastal Way Plaza offers a wider range of shops including a number of clothes shops. There is also a multiplex cinema.

Further afield

The many attractions of Orlando (Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studios, etc.) are about one and a half hours drive along route 50. This is an attractive journey and as driving in Florida is an easy and comfortable experience, travel poses no difficulty.