The Club Continental

Beautiful property tucked along the shore of the St Johns River in Orange Park. Once the family home of the founder of the Palmolive Soap Company and then reimagined as a social club with rooms, tennis courts, swimming pools and more. Service was impeccable by Kyle and everyone was welcoming and friendly. From bartender to pianist to owner herself - a direct descendant of the original owner. This 100 year old property personifies Old Florida.

Great place for anytime of the year . It's good for anyone who is human or domestic pet . It's a great place in old Florida .

1920's Palmolive her estate nicely renovated. Impressive views is St John River. Generous Thanksgiving buffet

Went there for a formal event and food was okay. Bartender limits what drinks and no shots. Drinks weren't very good.

Club Continental is a mansion that was built in the 1920's for the Palmolive soap family on the St John's River. It has since added condos, rental rooms, tennis court, pool, etc. a part that has remained is the entrance and rooms which is where they have their restaurant. Guests and members can have breakfast, lunch or dinner there or rent the facility for weddings, parties, luncheon and such . My brother who plays tennis here has a membership and invited us for lunch. It is a buffet for $18 ea and the menu changes. Today was roast pork-sliced, rice pilaf, sm corn on cob, collard greens, chocolate cake and always.... a large salad bowl, drinks. The ranch dressing was very good with nice fresh,basic salad. Pork was tender, pilaf was tasty, the collards though good, were way too salty. It was a nice space to sit and talk which is what we did after eating.

What are unique and beautiful venue a friend of mine got married here last month and I have to say the views were impressive. The food was impressive. Layout was impressive. It's very small and intimate, but it also has enough room for everyone.

My first time at this club on the St John's River. Came for a wedding. The grounds are very pretty, perfect for an outdoor wedding. Indoors was nice too but the space doesn't really work well with a large wedding. The location of our table didn't give us a view of the bride & groom at all. We missed all of the special dances, toasts, etc bc we couldn't hear any of the announcements or music. Some TV screens hung in the rooms would help bc they could live stream the event for everyone to see.

Attended the Father's Day brunch and the food was subpar land way over priced. We waited for beverage service at our table. We had a reservation for 10 and were sat at 2 separate tables. Did not have the experience we've had before. Prefer the food stations over a Golden Corral buffet line. Location earns the 2 stars, service and food quality would be 1 star. Please fix this CC.

I just got married here 9/15/24. The venue was beautiful, the day went smoothly, and everyone told us how good the food was. Carla was easy to work with and responded to all of our questions quickly. The employees were so kind, even making us feel special the morning after our wedding. They went above and beyond what they were "supposed" to do to help my family and friends set up, clean up, etc!There were only a few cons that added stress to the day:- When we arrived the morning of my wedding, there was a note and key to my hotel room taped to the door. We waited a few minutes, then grabbed the key and went to the room. A few minutes later, there was very loud knocking at my door. We opened it, someone I've never met before barged in (the owner? Still don't know, she never introduced herself), and said "We have some serious problems". She accused me of stealing hotel room keys off her desk and told me I wasn't allowed to be in that room. It was pretty embarrassing considering the makeup and hair artists and all my family had just showed up as well, and wasn't what I expected for my first interaction on my wedding morning. I explained the situation and that I had paid a lot in order to be able to be here early, and she kept telling me I was wrong and "should have told someone"... which I did when I booked the rooms. (Check in is at 11 and there's not a "bridal suite", so I had to book 2 nights in a hotel room in order to start getting ready early and at the venue. Something to think about!) I understand confusion, but that should have been sorted out before confronting a bride on her wedding day. She never apologized or admitted her wrong, although I heard her getting angry on the phone with staff about it later for not communicating. I'm not sure what there was to communicate considering my name was on the bill for both nights, and the staff didn't deserve that either. They, however, did apologize for their boss and brought champagne up to my room.- The rain! Not the venue's fault at all, but the outside is so beautiful, and you have to count on the weather to cooperate - The honeymoon suite was beautiful, but a jacuzzi was advertised, and it didn't work. Overall, stunning, and I'm glad we chose Club Continental for our wedding!

It does truly pain me to finally have some time to sit and send out this message in regards to my tour with Diana for possibly hosting our wedding here.Not only did I think the entire tour was completely unprofessional. I am still completely heartbroken by my experience coming to tour the venue I had almost 100% been sure on hosting our wedding at. I had a check all ready made out to the club in my checkbook in order to go ahead and pay upfront as we made a trip all the way down from Pennsylvania to your see this venue and this venue alone as I had the highest of expectations and excitement to finally see it in person and to finally book. Diana completely ruined the entire experience for myself, and for my maid of honor. When describing my wedding day vision to Diana ,she on not one, but two occasions, used the word tacky to describe my vision. Instead of reassuring me that my wedding day vision could be whatever I would've liked it to be as it's mine and my fiancés day and our day only. Not hers. I myself am a full-time Wedding planner and to say I was SHOCKED by her demeanor and choice of words through out our tour is an understatement. My maid of honor could also not believe how awful of an experience she provided during our tour. It was truly the worst feeling. I left the tour in tears and I'm to this day completely heartbroken that I will not be having my wedding with you guys the way I had envisioned it for almost 5 months straight. Diana made sure that my vision and dream of being married here was crushed. I wish it could have been different in so many ways and I'm still so crushed and in disbelief of how much wasted time and money we spent buying flights and hotels to have this big of a let down occur. I imagined I would of had a follow up in regards to how our tour went and if we wanted to book but I still have not heard anything and I want it to be known how crushed my fiancé and I are. We had planned to spend ALOT of money here for our event at the club and the check was ready to go upon our arrival. Diana was completely unprofessional and enjoyed talking over me to my mother ON MANY OCCASIONS about the weather that day and other nonsense rather than trying to sell me on the venue and rather than paying attention to my questions and comments. I hope this message can be shared with someone of a high position because her actions during our tour need to be considered as it was the worst experience we have had in our wedding planning process. I would give 0 stars if I could.