Of course I recommend a private beach club! The staff is…read moresuper attentive and welcoming to all of their guests, the food comes out very quickly and is quite tasty. But really, the view is the best. Right on the beach. Gorgeous. If you ever get invited here, I highly recommend you go!

Very nice outdoor pool with a small bar that serves alcohol, beer, wine and a bunch of small…read moreplates. They serve a great burger!

Holly Oaks has a friendly group of summer passholders that love to spend time by the pool! There…read moreare diving boards, shaded areas and bathrooms with showers on site. Concessions are available, but families can bring coolers to the pool deck too! Family and individual passes are available, and lifeguards are on staff to monitor the fun. There is a pavilion and event hall available for rental as well. The facility offers swim lessons, a summer swim team program and a year round competitive swim team.

Wonderful place to throw a party. Holds a little under 130 people I believe, but very spacious!…read moreI've only been in the actual Community Room, which had a full size kitchen and nice, clean bathrooms (men and women separate). It's not around a residence so you can be as loud and have as much fun as you want. The place includes A LOT of 8 foot tables, probably around 15-20 of them, and also metal fold-out chairs. All you need is table covers, food, and a DJ, and you're in business for a party!

Excellent accommodations and service. Available throughout the day and early evening…read more Helpful/wise staff

So happy I signed up recently to swim here! I have an outside pool at home but the water got too…read morecold to use. They have this pool moderately warm 82 degrees or so so I'm able to swim my laps. There is sometimes swim team or lessons going on but they do not use all the lanes so I've been able to swim every time I've gone in my own lane.

I called them about my granddaughter taking swimming lessons the young people that's running this…read moredepartment are doing a very good job it's taking about 3 weeks and she's doing very well swimming I thank them for teaching her to swim

Overall, far less than impressed. It's a new-ish facility but already showing its wear and built…read moresmaller than its current capacities dictate which planners should have realized when it was planned. The dive well has only 1m boards and a 3m could have been included, but wasn't. Locker rooms are absolutely tiny. I've been to an aquatics center in Lewisburg, West Virginia which is a town about the size of Lake City or smaller that pool is better than Cecil and is about the same size. For Jax-area, this needs to be much larger. Then there is my personal experience. I called ahead to ask if I could practice water polo here and the lady on the phone said, sure, of course. I show up with my polo ball and another girl is like "no, you can't take that ball in the pool". I explained other staff said I could and this was standard practice for water polo. She said "the other person must not have known what water polo was and that it involved balls". Sorry, you should not work at an aquatic center if you don't know what water polo is, period. Train your staff, Cecil. Also, face masks for underwater swimming which cover the nose are not allowed--these are standard training gear for swimmers. The lifeguard didn't know why and agreed the rule is stupid but said that's the rule. I'm a licensed USA Diving coach. I'm also very versed in high school and collegiate swimming and water polo. I also happen to run a youth sports program at another institution and per all this I can validly say the rules here and lack of staff training/knowledge are pathetic and far below national or World Aquatics or even FHSAA standards. Get it together, people. I gave two instead of one star because the pool itself is alright for lap swimming at the least.

This is a must visit. The pool is 85 degrees. Its huge. They have movies on a massive screen…read morewith an awesome sound system. The locker rooms are clean and kept. There is a nice patio area. They have concessions with junk food, soft drinks, beer, and wine. The list of offerings is too long to write in a review. Check out the website. There is nothing like this in north central Florida. Check the schedule for adult date night. That's right - drop your kid(s) off at the pool on select Fridays and they'll keep the kids entertained for the evening.

Had a great time at a work golf outing in January. Nice and cool weather but not too cool. Got a…read morecoffee from the cart woman. Then she ran out so I couldn't buy coffee's for my foursome. Oh well, they'll have energy drinks, hah. After leaving a bunch of balls in the water we headed back in the clubhouse for late lunch and drinks. I was doing dry January so it was Gatorade followed by shots of pickle juice for me. I just learned that the land here was once a settlement of Mocama people. After them Don Juan McQueen had a slave plantation here. When you are on the course along the marsh, it is cool to think of how historical this land is and the people who once lived here thousands of years ago.

The Queens Harbor Country Club is (clearly) a part of the expansive private neighborhood of Queens…read moreHarbor off of Atlantic Blvd. I have been here several times through out the years and it is always beautiful and clean. There is a gym with tennis courts, a pool, and a soccer field near the front of the community. There is practically anything you could ever need in the gym and I think it is a great recreational facility. There is also a clubhouse that has its own pool. The clubhouse is great for private events since it has a wonderful view of the golf-course. I've personally attended several college and graduation events here and was always impressed. The golf course is lovely and lush. It is surrounded by beautiful scenery. One of my favorite holes looks out over the inter coastal. Overall a lovely place to live and hangout!