Covenant Living of Florida

Rui

Covenant Living of Florida is the one I'm leaning toward for my mother. What I liked the best was the fact that every new resident is paired with a resident who has been there for a while to help the new resident acclimate to their environment and the activities and everything available. I thought that was very helpful. I thought the place was very well-kept, very clean, and reasonably modern. Everything looked on the up-and-up. I was very pleased. The ones I met were very attentive and very knowledgeable about the units and the processes for everything. The facilities seemed ample. I saw a library and a gymnastics room, and I toured the actual living areas and the restaurants. I was very pleased with what I saw.

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Bellagio bloke

I only did a tour with the sales Director. He was very pleasant and the facilities seemed decent. The food was decent as well. Nothing special. I saw a couple different units and one of them was quite pleasant. The costs are high but that’s what you expect nowadays with inflation, having led to higher labor cost as well as upkeep, repair, overall facilities management. Location was good because it’s adjacent to a large city parking plantation which amplifies recreational potential.

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Nanette

I went to tour Covenant Living of Florida. I loved the staff. Her name was Kimberly. She was super nice. She's a very, very nice lady. It was a beautiful community. But what I didn't like is the fact that, where the dining room is and where the buildings are where you might have to move, the walking distance is too far for me. I broke my neck, my hip, and my leg back-to-back from 2021 to 2022. I am walking, and I'm getting around, but if I had to go to the dining room for meals once or twice a day, and let's just say it's raining or whatever, I wouldn't want to have to walk from wherever I'm living to one place to get my meals. It just doesn't make sense to me. I would want to be in the building and maybe go down an elevator or just have access to the dining room closer. That's one thing I did not care about the facility. They had a pool, which I'm not interested in. They had a nice little snack bar area. They had a gift shop, which could be very, very nice, but it was probably 75% empty. There wasn't much stock in it. If you wanted to buy a gift or a card, there wasn't much in the gift shop. I had lunch there, and the food was very good. They had a very elegant dining room. Very, very nice dining room. I was with three other ladies. One of the ladies got sick because she had had a procedure called the sleeve on her stomach. So she got sick after lunch and we didn't have time to look at an apartment. So, I did not get to see an actual apartment, although I have several friends that lived there, and they rave about the community. However, it's just not for me. Their staff was excellent. My food was excellent. However, the facility could use some work. It's an older facility, but I think they do their best to keep it updated. They're working on it from what I can see. It's a work in progress. There was no activity whatsoever going on that I saw when I was there, and I was there for a good two hours. There were no activities at all. Maybe it was the time of day, which was lunchtime. Even the lunchroom didn't have that many people in it. It just didn't look like there was very much going on.

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Janis

Covenant Living of Florida was the very best place, without a doubt. It's excellent. It has great facilities. Their therapy room is three times bigger than anyone else. It's just way above everybody. I give it 10s right across the board. It's that good. They have condos in there for permanent living. It's huge. My partner was there for two weeks for therapy. It's top-notch all the way around. It's updated and it's very well managed from top to bottom. Everybody tries to get in there.

Barry

I toured Covenant Living of Florida. They had a lot of good amenities, and they had good transportation services. It was a nice and attractive campus. The staff was lovely. The people we met were very, very nice and the residents seemed to be very happy there. The actual apartments were just a little bit dated and I think they were kind of mediocre. They weren't attractive. The place looked quite clean. They had people that were doing maintenance there. I thought that the problem that they have was just that the place has got some age on it and therefore it's a bit outdated. But they do a good job of keeping it up and caring about the people there. It was also reasonable in terms of cost.

Jerome

Everybody at Covenant Living of Florida has been friendly and helpful. I couldn't say enough about Annie, who is the sales director. She held our hands through the entire process of moving my parents in. The facilities are all very well maintained and it's like living on a cruise ship. Having everything on site stood out the most to us. Everything is at your fingertips. Three activities are going on every hour. There's wellness, health, fitness, strength, and balancing, caregiver classes, all sorts of crafts, woodworking, flower arrangement, wreath building, plus games like mahjong, bunco, and Wii bowling. There's just so much to do. Then there are multiple dining rooms. There's a bistro, a coffee shop, and the main dining room. The food in the main dining room is average, the one from the bistro is above average and has great service, while the coffee shop offers very good food. It's a few hundred thousand dollars to move in because you're in a life contract. It's $5,000 a month for the unit they are in, but they're in a two-bedroom, two-bath. It's about 1500 square feet with a large 18 by 18 patio and 10 foot high ceilings. It's nice and it comes with maid service.

Emmalie

Covenant Living of Florida is a CCRC. They have everything. They also have assisted living, skilled nursing, and memory care. We didn't like the facility. We were looking for a parking place and I didn't feel very comfortable about the way it looked. However, it is right next to Central Park and you can walk into it from the parking lot. I think that's probably a big benefit for a lot of people. We found an apartment there that we liked a lot, but it didn't have a view. The patio and the view were not that great. We didn't have a meal, but we visited the restaurant and they have two kinds of restaurants, one where you can go in and take out and one where you can sit down and have a meal. It looked fine and the food looked good. The facility, to me, was a little rundown. It felt like you were in a nursing home. We'd rather feel like we're in an apartment. We learned a little bit about it and also, we are not sure that we want to go into a CCRC. We have to put a lot of money upfront. They have everything there. You can stay there until you die. If somebody is looking for a place soon, they have quite a bit of availability. The staff during the tour was good.

Dan

I liked Covenant Living of Florida for my uncle because it's a closer location to where I live. I also like it because it is multilevel care. Also, it's a one-time buy in with affordable rent. He would be in the independent and moving on to assisted. Everything is up to date, very clean, very spacious, and seemed more like a small resort. Their maintenance department has kept things clean and updated. It has close proximity to where I live.

Wainly

The Covenant Living was a really nice place. It was very restrictive because of this COVID stuff, and they only allowed me to schedule a visit by email, and then they would take us and bring my friend to me. I could not go into the facility based on the rules, but from what I saw of it and the staff that I know, I was very, very well impressed. The place was relatively new and very clean, and the staff was very professional. I did not get to tour the facility other than the one area where I would meet with my friend for an hour or so. The surroundings were nice. It's in a middle class neighborhood and a lot of retirees live in that area. They took care of her, they gave her nursing care, and they even had a staff doctor there. She did not have any complaints, and she said that they were taking care of her well. I also asked her about the food, and she said it was OK.

Susan

I had toured there. It's not like that the facility wasn't nice, but they were pushy, expensive, and were always trying to talk you into as much as they could get you to spend. My mother went to in-house rehab there and I would rate that as zero. I would never want her to be at the 24/7 level care there. It was horrible. I don't know about the staff because I just did a tour, and it was just the sales director that I met. The facility was well kept and clean. There weren't a lot of grounds. Their sales force was too pushy. There are several buildings that they have there.

D Huang

My apt. is spacious, clean, and newly renovated (according to my desired specifications), with a fully equipt kitchen. My own furniture fit in here perfectly, so I immediately felt at home the first day I moved in. I have the most friendly neighbors, and yet we all respect each other's privacy. The staff are all so friendly, caring and helpful. The grounds are kept up with beautiful landscaping. We have several libraries, a card room, a Creative Arts Room to do painting, floral arrangements, creating bears for non-profit organizations that care for children, card making and a host of other creative activities. There are prayer groups, Bible studies, book clubs, sing-alongs, and a well equipt gym with my favorite Cybercycle, as well as 2 swimming pools. Other activities include bingo, fitness classes, dance classes, wii bowling. Prior to the shelter-in-place due to the Corona virus, the residents enjoyed off-campus trips to the beach, museums, concerts, etc. We also got to enjoy entertainment provided by professional musicians and actors, as well as school students, and the most popular annual Christmas show put on by the administration and staff. I am so grateful to be a resident in this community. I feel loved and cared for here.

John

It was older, and they've crowded more buildings onto what may have been a spacious campus originally. It gave the impression of being jammed together, so the atmosphere was not pleasant in that respect. The rooms were smaller compared to the other places. They had better gym facilities and indoor and outdoor pools. The buy-in was a little lower, but still pretty hefty. We had good information from the sales representative and the residents seemed happy with what they have. The public areas, the libraries, and the dining facility were nice. They had outside sitting areas around the outdoor pool.

Irene

I did see a library there. They also have a swimming pool and an all-purpose type room where they put on different programs. They also have a room put aside for Veterans. In their dining room, they have a bistro and a formal dining room. The food was excellent. The apartments are very spacious. They have 2-bedrooms, 2 walk-in closets, and 2 bathrooms. They also have 1-bedroom apartments. They have good refrigerators, stoves, and dishwashers.

Marion723300

It was very nice, had friendly staff, and had very nice apartments. The room was like a condo, and they have some that are bigger than others. They are very comfortable and just enough for what you need. The food was good, and they have a formal and casual dining. They have different places you can eat at on the property. They have concerts, excursions to the beach, exercise like tai chi, and everything you can think about.

Caring106980650

The staff is very good. The rooms are clean. They have someone come by and clean the rooms every 2 weeks. They dust, and they look after the apartments. The food is very good. They activities like games, and there is a library. They had a bus that will take you to particular places. We have a 24-hour security.

Jim76297750

It is not appropriate for my dad as it is a retirement community. They do have an assisted living wing, but it is very small -- they only allow 23 rooms. As far as the amenities and the upkeep, that was beautiful, but it was just more for independent living like an apartment complex.

Caring71266250

I live near it. Their living environment was very good. The staff was very good also. I absolutely recommend this place to others.

Caring69534850

It has been there for ages. It is a buy-in community. We were invited there through one of our church organizations and they took us around and showed us what was available. I do like its location, although the community itself is too big and too spread out. It isn't one big building, it is more like a college campus. When people have to go to the main room, from their apartments, they have to go and make a trip over to that area. I was not impressed with that. Food is good but not as good as with the other community I visited. We had lunch there and they served their food more like cafeteria-style. I don't know whether that's the way they serve food for their residents or just for the guests, but you have to go and get your food. If I'm going to spend the money that they are asking, I would prefer they serve me my meal and that I don't have to go through a cafeteria line. Regarding activities, the only thing I saw were people sitting around, playing cards and so forth and that was about it. However, given that their apartments are nice and that they have good staff, I would still not consider living in this community.