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21170 Ashby Ponds Boulevard, Ashburn, VA 20147
4.0
(32 reviews)
"We did a tour of Ashby Ponds. That just was too big, and it's farther away than we want to be. I'd rather be in a few miles of, you know, our friends and neighbors and people that we know that'll probably be useful for a while anyway. It was a very nice physical tour of the buildings. There were two or three of the different styles and sizes of apartments. There was a group meeting, I guess there are about 40 or 50 of us and each couple person was assigned a resident to be their liaison, which was kind of a neat thing. I mean, you had a point of contact who was not somebody who was a marketing person, but somebody who lived there. You could feel like you get on more honest answers. I thought that was a nice touch. They had the speakers, a couple of the employees, and then one of the residents got up and talked about various different activities and whatnot. I thought it was well organized. It was the first onsite tour after some level of Covid restrictions had been lifted. So, you park, then they had a bus that took you to the meeting building. It's all very well organized and it was all very nice. The place is huge, it was 1500 people or so. It was probably more overwhelming than we were ready for. You kind of get lost in that, so maybe something a little bit smaller would be good. That was the value of that. It was a good data point, we decided we didn't want something that was a thousand plus people; so that was good. There are much smaller ones around here and it's consistent. Those two things kind of work together. It had a full suite of amenities or activity areas from, a woodworking shop to kind of like those neighborhood bars. They had groups of guys get together and organize, routine golf outings. It had on-site amenities, physical amenities. Plus, it had a fairly very active group of residents who then kind of organized other activities that may have very well been off-site like the golfing was at local golf courses. So, I thought it is very well established in terms of its activities and what's going on. What's nice about it is that they have many buildings, but each set of buildings sort of has its own little social area. It has a restaurant or two, and maybe a bar is not the right word, but an area for cocktails before dinner. The dinners are sort of structured so that you can get to meet people. There is this kind of a social aspect to how things are done so that you kind of inadvertently, you don't get forced to, but you get to meet your neighbors; I think that's important. It had a hair salon. It had, at least, two pools, underground parking for one car per apartment, and then surface parking for an additional vehicle. It had lots of walking trails, which was a big deal and outdoor grill areas. If you went to a resort, you had a lot of that kind of amenities. They're a very great facility, very well organized, nicely presented. You couldn't ask for anything more. They give you free lunch, it was excellent. It was a box lunch, that's all they could do back in the COVID days, but it was pretty upscale for me. It was very nice. The staff was very professional. It is truly grand. "
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