Plantation Club At the Dunes

The Plantation Club at The Dunes is a great amenity for residents of the surrounding seven condominium towers. The club also serves the adjacent Sea Grove lakefront villas. There is a resort-​styled pool with flowing waterfalls that add to the tropical theme. The club also offers a fitness center and spa. Tennis courts are adjacent as well. The design is very convenient for residents.

The Tiki Bar by the pool serves very good food, but not from 5 to 6pm when every other restaurant in Naples is offering happy hour appeters bargains or early bird special dinners. The main restaurant is open only on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, and only after 6 pm. The predictable result is that many residents leave the Dunes for happy hour snacks or an early dinner, so the Plantation Club throws away a lot of business because the Tiki Bar stays open too long for lunch then stops food service just when seniors want to eat. We like the place for lunch but not enough to wait until 6 at night. Management does not seem to notice that Florida seniors eat early, and the competition offers great bargains to attract them.

Love the upbeat, active vibe here. The large portico serves the dining room as well as two pools and the tennis courts.
Décor here leans toward early 1990’s taste in monkeys and palm embellishments. and the furnishings are very Tommy Bahama in well made, dark wicker. An eight blade, palm arm ceiling fan efficiently turns slowly on a rotary arm up in a tall coffered ceiling.
The bar is very much part of hte dining room, as are a few upholstered chairs to welcome guests and members.
We remarked that their are enough North-​easterners and Southern folks here to keep the menu honest. I had a wonderful lobster roll on toasted bun, while my companions had a fried green tomato triple decker sandwich, and a half of a fried chicken with fries, biscuit and honey. Delicious lunch!