Holiday Durham Regent

We recently helped my father move into, The Holiday Durham Regent, and our experience has been excellent. The staff provide friendly, responsive, and supportive assistance. The facility is always clean, bright, and cheerful. My father is especially pleased with the three delicious meals served daily. There are also plenty of fun activities and opportunities for residents to connect. We couldn’t be more pleased!

This is my favorite place to go because every time I am met with a clean space the smiling facing of the residents. I recently hosted a game of bingo with them and the were so welcoming and engaged. Mercedes always goes above and beyond to coordinate activities and more for them.

Staff here is wonderful - hard-working, friendly and fun to be with! Food is decent & I love not having to cook! Residents are friendly & welcoming and try to look out for one another. Price is reasonable. However Corporate doesn’t seem to understand what encourages a community of Senior Citizens. Just found out the owner wants all our puzzles taken away. Sitting in the activity area and working on a puzzle is my way of engaging with others and de-stressing. Since I moved here there have always been three or four puzzles in progress on tables for people to join in solving, and now they’re all gone! Am told a lot of the books are going as well! These two things are what attracted me, and I constantly see residents grabbing a book from our library. I would think when touring prospective clients, Corporate would want evidence that there are activities going on and residents are involved. My husband saw the basketball game and mini ping pong table and was sold. Now those items have to be put away out of sight for some reason. I walk down the hallway and enjoy the different door decorations, and now understand they are no longer allowed. That is unfortunate for a neighbor who depends on her door wreath to help her remember which apartment is hers, not to mention making the residents feel we can’t enjoy our own home by putting a decoration on the door. In light of these new, restrictive and unwelcoming-feeling orders handed down from our corporate headquarters Atria, I hesitate to recommend the Holiday Durham Regent to friends. If Atria could work on the problems, like installing a second elevator to help relieve the 30 minute wait to get to the third floor dining hall at meal times, or find a way to hire housekeepers & food servers separately in order to decrease their workload, or think about replacing the dingy carpet in the hallways to help our building look more inviting, instead of taking away some of the things the residents enjoy, the Durham Regent would easily ge