The Colonnade

Merlynn

The Colonnade is within a couple of miles of my home. I had visited there many times, so I know it very well. It was also very welcoming, and the woman that worked with me there stuck with me for years and still I didn’t go there. I find them first class, and they’re much newer than the others. They’ve just put up their very latest condos; they’re very nice, and they’re filling up fast.

Tom730123

The Colonnade was close to the hospital, and they probably had the most impressive rooms, some of them were large, and they have casitas with a 2-car garage. It’s like living in a house, totally independent, but you have access to the main building where all the apartments are. They provide you 10 meals per month. However, I don’t want to live that far out. They had a very nice dining area, and I liked their pricing structure. Also, they take care of you completely, and you get assurance of your health taken care of as you grow older.

LouFRVPB

I visited The Colonnade. I would not venture there again. You have to go out of the building to get to the dining room. A friend of mine moved in, and I knew she spent a lot of money. It was right on Grand Avenue, and when we were out on the terrace, we could not hear one another talk. The traffic was so loud. I only saw where my friend lives. They just built four brand-new, four-story buildings there on Grand Avenue. They don't have dining facilities within the building. You have to go out of the building to eat. The parking is very poor.

005997

Food service is poor. The food servers are poorly trained. The food in inconsistent in quality and quantity. Rolls are stale and hard. Take-out boxes are no longer provided. Too costly. And take-out food can make you sick, so says management. Very little variety in meals and meals are not as good as the two other Sun Health communities: Grandview Terrace and La Loma Villiage. The food choices at the other two communities are much better and more upscale. For example: Grandview Terrace had steak and lobster for New Years eve. We have had lobster once since 2009. Too expensive says management of the Colonnade. Note: All three communities are run by Sun Health but obviously with different budgets, especially for food. Used to have an Included Happy Hour every Friday. Now every other Happy Hour charges for drinks. I could go on. The bottom line is: Don't move in here. Most of the benefits touted are out and out lies and half truths.

SK Spencer

The staff was very nice and very thorough at The Colonnade. They introduced us to the residents there, and they were very friendly. They had a nice library, cards, and billiards room, inside swimming pool, and exercise area, and they're adding an outside swimming pool. It includes the amenities that are offered by Sun City Grand development. We liked the place. It was the most competitively priced for the same amount of square footage in the area.

Caring112681050

We went to visit The Colonnade. It's a very expensive community, but it's a very beautiful community. It's big and modern.

Caring111649050

We visited The Colonnade. I didn’t have a formal walk-through type of thing like I did with the other facility, but like the other facility, they provide three meals a day, and that would be hindrance because I don’t eat three meals a day.

Caring105959950

They have all kinds of activities in The Colonnade. There's a large party every month. Every other week, they have what they call happy hour on Friday evenings. They have social gatherings, like ice cream socials, cookies, and lemonade socials. They have an activity director who plan all kinds of things, like trips to the ball game, shopping, the symphony, or casino. They go out all the time. If you went to everything available, you'd be gone every day. It's a gated community, so we can only enter through the gate. Like any such facility, there's good and bad food, but they do have a variety of menus, sort of on a 6-week rotation plan. They always have maybe 5 or 6 entrees and 6 or 8 desserts. You have plenty of choices. Generally, if there's something you don’t like very much, there's usually something else you can choose. It's in a lovely dining room, and service is like a restaurant setting. There's no assigned seating, servers come and wait like you're in a restaurant, and you order off a menu with different courses. We live in a garden home they call "Casitas." It's large, and I understand that it's the largest for independent living townhomes in Arizona. We live in one that is about 1800 sq. ft. with a 2-car garage, high ceilings, 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, and a living room. It's very comfortable, just like a nice home. We're not attached, and we don't share walls with anybody. We only have 1-story cottages.

Caring95971950

The Colonnade was quite fine. I visited there when they were just opening and they had just houses with garage and everything. It didn't have the apartment type thing then, but they have it now. It was beautiful. I had lunch and breakfast there in a couple of meetings and the food was excellent. It was connected with Banner Del E. Webb hospital, which was a good hospital and also, I thought it was owned by doctors. It was pretty and the food was excellent in the restaurant. I thought they had a lot of services. They had gated entrances and housekeeping, all the things that people wanted. It was very clean and had no strange odors. The people in Colonnade had they had the ability to use the recreation things that they had which were pool, gymnasium and indoor walking.

Caring80542450

The only one we really toured is The Colonnade. They have different facilities, and they're still building. They had individual villas, like little homes, and then they have town homes, and then they have apartments, so they have a bit of variety. The staff was very good. Everybody seemed very capable and helpful. It's fairly expensive. If it's right for you, it's a very nice facility. We had a meal there; it was very good. The dining room was very lovely. Only then, they had just one. It's not multiple dining rooms, and then they have like a café, which is informal. I think they have an indoor pool, and they have some exercise activities.