A better alternative to an extended-stay hotel in Orlando

How a longer stay here actually works

Most guests who choose us over an extended-stay hotel are not on vacation. They are in Orlando for a stretch of work, a corporate relocation, a stay near a hospital, a convention, or a longer visit built around Universal or the rest of the parks, and what they want is a front door of their own rather than a room down a hotel corridor. The process is close to the same no matter which of those brought you here. You tell us your dates and roughly which part of Orlando you need to be near, downtown, a hospital campus, the convention center or Universal, and we point you to two or three houses that make sense for that spot, with a drive time from each to the destination that matters to you.

Once you are ready to commit, the agreement is a written monthly document naming the home, the dates and the rate, with the first month paid up front. You get arrival notes a few days before check-in with the code or the lockbox location, so there is no front desk to find and nobody to wait on. From there the house is yours for as long as the stay runs: your own kitchen, your own laundry, your own driveway, and no shared hallway or elevator between you and the front door. If the stay stretches past the first month, tell us as soon as you know and we extend the written agreement month by month at the same terms.

The houses themselves are straightforward: modest, renovated single-family homes on residential streets across the west, northwest and downtown edges of Orlando, not new-construction apartments or a wing of a hotel. A few show their age around the edges, a cracked driveway here, a patchy lawn there, and we say so plainly on each home's own page rather than dressing up the photos. What you get in exchange is real space: bedrooms that close with a door, a living room that belongs to your stay alone, and in most cases a yard, more room for the money than a single hotel room built for one or two nights at a time.

The homes that fit this kind of stay

Seven of our thirteen homes are a good match for a stay built around work, a hospital campus, a convention or simply a longer visit to the city. Three of them do the most work for guests who want to be close to downtown and Orlando Health.

Downtown Orlando

Parramore / Downtown Edge

Amelia’s Arena Retreat

4 bd 2 ba Sleeps 8

7 min downtown · 9 min ORMC · 16 min Universal

Travel Nurse & MedicalInsurance & Displacement

South of Downtown

Holden Heights

Fruit Tree Home

3 bd 2 ba Sleeps 10

6 min downtown · 5 min ORMC · 13 min Universal

Travel Nurse & MedicalInsurance & Displacement

West Orlando

Malibu Groves

Meet. Play. Stay.

3 bd 2 ba Sleeps 9

9 min downtown · 10 min ORMC · 12 min Universal

Remote Workers & Digital NomadsGroups & Reunions

The 25th Street House in Holden Heights is the closest of the three to downtown, about 6 minutes away, and about 5 minutes from Orlando Health / ORMC. It is a three-bedroom, two-bath bungalow with a full-size washer and dryer on site, a screened front porch and a fenced backyard, and 142 reviews on Airbnb at a 4.83 rating. The Amelia House in Parramore sits about 7 minutes from downtown and 9 from Orlando Health / ORMC, a four-bedroom, two-bath house with a freshly renovated white-cabinet kitchen and a bedroom that has its own attached bathroom, useful for two guests keeping different schedules under one roof. The Meet & Play House in Malibu Groves is the newest-built home in the portfolio, three bedrooms and two bathrooms with a desk and office chair in two of them, a laundry room, and an attached garage, about 9 minutes from downtown and 12 from Universal.

Beyond those three, the Dollins House in Washington Shores is a four-bedroom, two-bath house on a shaded lot of mature oaks, about 7 minutes from both downtown and Orlando Health / ORMC, with blackout curtains in its furnished bedrooms for anyone working irregular hours. The Katherine House in Lockhart is the pick if your work or a family member's care runs through the AdventHealth system to the north: a three-bedroom, one-bath home with a screened porch and a private driveway, closer to AdventHealth Altamonte Springs and AdventHealth Winter Park than any of our other homes. The Head Avenue House in Pine Hills has six bedrooms, three bathrooms, an in-home desk and full-size laundry, room for a project team or an extended family to share one address instead of several hotel rooms. The Wekiwa House on the far west side is the smallest and simplest of the group, two bedrooms and two full bathrooms, a fit for one or two people who do not need six bedrooms of space for a season.

Getting downtown, to the hospital, the convention center and Universal

Downtown Orlando is the spine of an extended stay here, whether the reason you are in town is a job, a project, a hospital campus or a stretch of meetings. By road and without traffic, every one of our homes reaches downtown Orlando in 6 to 17 minutes, and Orlando Health / ORMC in 5 to 18 minutes. The map below places each home in its true compass direction from downtown, with the distance from the centre showing drive minutes rather than miles.

The chart below breaks the same trip down home by home. Fruit Tree Home reaches downtown in 6 minutes, the quickest of our thirteen homes. Three homes follow close behind at 7 minutes each: Amelia’s Arena Retreat, Game Day Getaway-Downtown Orlando and City and Stadium Sanctuary Vibes. Wekiwa Home on the far west side takes the longest at 17 minutes. Most of the rest fall between 9 and 14 minutes, which is the range that makes a house here a realistic stand-in for a downtown hotel room without downtown parking or a downtown room rate.

Two other destinations matter for this kind of stay: the Orange County Convention Center for anyone here on a trade show or a conference, and Universal Orlando for a longer visit built around the parks or for anyone working there. The convention center runs from 18 to 31 minutes depending on the home, and Universal from 12 to 26. Here is the full set against three destinations at once, so you can compare a home against all of them before you choose.

Typical road-routing times without traffic; Orlando rush hours add to the longer routes.

The spine roads are SR-408 and I-4, and both are tolled, so a SunPass or E-PASS transponder is worth having if the stay runs a month or more. Orlando's rush hours add to the longer routes on this list, in particular the run out to the convention center along International Drive.

What's already in the house

An extended-stay hotel room usually means a mini-fridge, a two-burner cooktop or a microwave, and a laundry room down the hall you share with every other guest on the floor. Every Libema house works differently: a full kitchen with a stove, an oven and a full-size refrigerator, your own washer and dryer inside the house, and parking that is yours alone, a driveway, a carport, a parking pad or a garage depending on the home. We confirm the exact list for the home you book in writing before you move in.

Exact inclusions vary a little by home and are confirmed in writing when you book.

A stocked kitchen matters more than it sounds like it should once a stay runs past a week or two. Cooking three meals a day from a hotel kitchenette is close to impossible; every one of our homes comes with cookware and dishes already in the cabinets, so the first meal you make is dinner the night you arrive, not a grocery run followed by a trip to buy pots and pans. The Katherine House keeps its kitchen stocked with a coffee maker as well, on top of the cookware and dishes.

If the stay is built around work rather than just sleeping somewhere, two of the homes are set up with that in mind. The Head Avenue House has a desk for working from home alongside its full-size laundry, and the Meet & Play House has a desk and an office chair in two of its three bedrooms, useful if two people on the same stay both need somewhere to sit for a call. Every other home still has a kitchen counter and steady Wi-Fi, which covers most of what a laptop needs for the odd call during the day.

Parking is private at every home. The Piedmont House has a concrete parking pad that fits several vehicles, and Meet. Play. Stay. has an attached garage instead of a driveway.

Paying for a stay that runs a month or more

However your stay is being paid for, the mechanics stay the same: a written monthly agreement naming the home, the dates, the rate and the deposit, plus itemized receipts you can hand to whoever is covering the cost. If you are paying for yourself out of pocket or on a personal card, that is the whole process from here. If your employer, a relocation coordinator, an agency or an insurer is the one settling the bill instead, we can write the agreement in their name with you as the occupant, and invoice monthly rather than collecting from you directly.

For established companies, agencies and insurers, we offer net-30 terms on a signed agreement or a purchase order, with the first booking paid up front while the relationship is new. We provide a W-9 and a certificate of insurance on request, since Libema carries a commercial landlord liability policy, and we will complete a standard vendor-onboarding form if the organization you work with uses one. None of this applies to an individual guest booking their own stay: net-30 and purchase-order terms are for companies, agencies and insurers, not for someone paying their own way.

One detail worth knowing before you book: six of our thirteen homes publish a full street address on the site, and the other six publish only the neighborhood and zip code, with the exact address shared once you book. Both groups are real, furnished, whole houses; the difference is only which ones we list publicly. Rates themselves are never posted online, since they vary by home and by season. The way to get a number is to send your dates, and we confirm the monthly rate, the deposit and the pet policy in writing the same day we hear from you.

Daily life once you have settled in

Groceries and food depend on which cluster your home sits in, and each of our local area guides covers it in more detail than we can here. From Amelia’s Arena Retreat and Fruit Tree Home on the downtown edge, the Publix at The Paramount on Lake Eola is the closest full grocery store, a compact spot you can walk to from either home. From Game Day Getaway-Downtown Orlando on the west side, the nearest big-box groceries are the Walmart Supercenter on West Princeton Street and Presidente Supermarket, with that same Paramount Publix a short drive east downtown. From Meet. Play. Stay. in Malibu Groves, the Publix at Metro West Village on South Hiawassee Road is the everyday stop. From WinterPark Home and The Clue House in the northwest, Presidente Supermarket and the Caribbean Supercenter on West Colonial Drive put some of the most varied grocery shopping in the city a short drive from the front door. From Wekiwa Home, that same Metro West Village Publix is the nearest full store.

Inside of a Publix store in MetroWest, Orlando, Florida · Nielsoncaetanosalmeron · CC BY 4.0 · resized from 6000x4000

For eating out, downtown Orlando and College Park hold the widest range within a short drive of Amelia’s Arena Retreat and Fruit Tree Home, from the Vietnamese kitchens of the Mills 50 district to the sit-down restaurants along Edgewater Drive. The Pine Hills corridor around West Colonial Drive and Pine Hills Road, close to WinterPark Home and The Clue House, runs on Caribbean and Latin cooking, with Island Jam Caribbean Cuisine and Golden Krust among the standouts. Near Game Day Getaway-Downtown Orlando, the everyday meal is soul food: Nikki's Place on South Orange Blossom Trail has served it since 1999, and downtown and Church Street, a short drive east, add the wider restaurant range already covered above. West of the stadium, near Meet. Play. Stay., the Hiawassee Road restaurant row in MetroWest covers birria, Lebanese shawarma and a proper sushi bar, and that same strip is the closest sit-down dining to Wekiwa Home as well.

For a walk or a day off, Lake Eola Park is downtown's anchor, with a roughly one-mile sidewalk loop and a Sunday farmers market from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., a short drive from Amelia’s Arena Retreat and Fruit Tree Home.

Barnett Park in Pine Hills has a free splash pad and walking trails near WinterPark Home and The Clue House, and Wekiwa Springs State Park, about 18 minutes from Wekiwa Home, is a clear spring you can swim or paddle in. Getting around is by car almost everywhere in the portfolio; the exception is the downtown edge, where the LYNX Central and Church Street SunRail stations and the free LYMMO bus put Amelia’s Arena Retreat and Fruit Tree Home within reach of the regional rail line without a car at all.

What guests said about staying a while

The reviews below are real, taken verbatim from the homes' own Airbnb listings, with the reviewer's name and the month they stayed; every home page carries its own set, and the full wall is on our reviews page.

Cristina, who stayed at Meet. Play. Stay. in July 2026, wrote about exactly the kind of stay this page is for: 'Absolute great stay. The place was clean. I had everything I needed to make it a long-term stay. I was in this Airbnb for 30 days.' That is what a house built for a month, not a night, is supposed to deliver.

Carolyn, who stayed at WinterPark Home in March 2025, wrote: 'A few of my colleagues and I had the pleasure of staying here for a work trip to the Orlando area. The location was perfect for us. The place was beautiful and just what we needed for our short stay. Michelle was amazing as well. She goes above and beyond in regard to communication to ensure our stay went smoothly from check-in to check-out.' A short work trip and a month-long assignment run on the same house and the same booking process.

Before you book, a short checklist

The guests who have the easiest move-ins tend to sort out the same handful of things before they inquire.

• Your dates, with room to extend. If there is a real chance the stay runs past the first month, say so up front; we will try to keep the following month open on the same home.
• Where in Orlando you need to be. Downtown, a hospital campus, the convention center and Universal are different drives from different homes; tell us which one matters most and we will match the house to it.
• Who is paying. Yourself, a company, an agency or an insurer. It changes whose name goes on the agreement and whether net-30 terms apply.
• A desk, if you need one. Only The Clue House and Meet. Play. Stay. have a dedicated desk built in; every other home still has a kitchen counter and steady Wi-Fi.
• A pet, if one is coming. Several homes accept pets; the policy and any deposit are confirmed in writing before you commit.
• A car. Outside the downtown edge you will want one; every home has private parking, so the only added cost is the toll on SR-408 or I-4.
• The plain parts. Each home page has a section on what to expect: an older house, a compact kitchen, one bathroom in some homes, a neighborhood that is residential rather than polished. We would rather you read it first than be surprised at check-in.

Send us that list with your dates and we typically reply the same day with two or three homes, real photos, and the drive time from each to wherever you need to be.

More reading on the monthly alternative

Three of our journal guides go deeper on pieces of this page: how the monthly math actually compares with a hotel bill, what is normally included in a furnished monthly home, and how to get around Orlando for work once you have settled in.

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Furnished Rental vs. Extended-Stay Hotel: The Monthly Math

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Monthly Furnished Rentals: What's Usually Included

A plain rundown of the furniture, kitchen, linens, utilities, and internet you can usually expect in a furnished monthly home, and the questions worth asking before you book.

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Getting Around Orlando for Work

A plain orientation to moving around metro Orlando for a job: the main highways, the commuter train, and how to pick housing that keeps your daily drive short.

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If a hospital campus is the reason for your stay, our Orlando Health / ORMC page and our AdventHealth Orlando page each show the drive from every home to that specific campus. And if you want the full comparison across all thirteen homes at once, the homes page has photos, bed and bath counts, and the neighborhood for each one.

Every home page also has its own 'worth knowing before you book' section, the plain parts of that specific house, so you can compare more than photos before you send us your dates.