Summit Place Eden Prairie, MN

I visited Summit Place. I saw some of their activity areas and the main reception. They're definitely spacious and clean. They had swimming. I just met the receptionist, and she was impressive. I looked at four facilities, and I rank it #1. I felt pretty good about it.

Summit Place was a very fancy place with exercise equipment, and exercise room, and big apartments. They were expensive, but they had lots of activities, bus tours, trips to grocery stores, oil painting, jewelry, reading, and book club. The location was beautiful right off the freeway. They had two pool: a salt pool for soaking or healing and a regular, heated, Olympic-sized pool. They had a nice dining room with a nice menu, but we did not eat there. They had a happy hour every day from 3 to 5 and separate bars and rooms for that. However, I did not like their paint and decoration. They had dark grey upper walls and the bottom part was green. The carpeting was dark.

Summit Place was a very sophisticated place. The rooms were good, and they also had a connection to Parkinson’s -- which is a big issue for us. They had lots of activities. It’s convenient for most people as most of our relatives are in this side of the city, and they have a pool.

Everything is good at Summit Place Senior Campus, except my parents didn’t like the food. The apartment is nice, with a bedroom and a den. The staff are good. I like the fact that my parents are safe in this facility.

Summit Place was one we really liked. The rooms were very nice, though not as nice as some that I have seen in other locations. I did not like that there was only one, small bathroom. What I did like was that they have a good activities program with music and talks on subjects that we may be interested in. I also like the fact that they have lots of available exercise equipment; they had enough that you feel like you probably won't have to wait for a machine to become available. I liked that they had a little bar that you could go to in the evening to visit with some other people. It seemed like they had a really good program to keep people busy. From what I saw of the staff, they seemed to be very concerned about the people. They seemed to know everybody by name, and I was amazed by that because I've had trouble with names all of my life, so that's one thing I really noticed. We ate in their little coffee shop and really liked it; it had good food. I really liked the back part where there were lots of nice, little places for walking because I'm one of those people who wants to take a walk every morning, and there's good scenery out there. They had swimming pools inside and outside, which would be really nice in the summertime.