Types of Homes in Bonita National Golf and Country Club
Four kinds of home sit here, and they separate cleanly by size. Terrace condominiums are mid-rise with an elevator, at 1,122 to 1,299 square feet. Verandas are low-rise, 1,344 to 1,549. Coach homes are low-rise with an attached garage, 1,741 to 2,138. Single-family homes run 1,891 to 3,143 and come in three lot sizes the community calls Executive, Manor and Estate.
Compare inside a product before you compare across them, and inside the same membership. A golf Terrace condominium does not price against a social coach home, and the fee that comes with each is different too.
What Living in Bonita National Golf and Country Club Is Like
Bonita National welcomes all ages. The clubhouse is the center of it, and the ownership of that clubhouse is worth knowing: the Lee County Property Appraiser records the amenity tract as belonging to Bonita National Homeowners Association. Every one of the 1,459 homes owns a share of the dining rooms, the resort pool, the spa, the fitness center and the courts. The golf course sits on separate parcels. That is the community in one line. Everybody owns the club, and 866 doors own the golf.
The main clubhouse was built in 2018 and runs about 36,000 square feet, with the fitness building, the restaurant and the poolside café dating from 2016. Between them the amenity buildings total 43,434 square feet on the appraiser’s record. Dining runs three ways: a main dining room, the BLVD Bistro, and the poolside café with its Turnstand window. The U-Topia Spa and an attended fitness center with a group exercise studio sit alongside. Outside, eight Har-Tru green clay tennis courts sit beside bocce and pickleball. A resort pool and three satellite pools run through the community, on Carlow Court, Bridgetown Court and Bonita National Boulevard.
The golf is an eighteen-hole Gordon Lewis course. Practice runs to a putting green, a short game area and an aqua range, which is a driving range hit out over water. The community documents mention it by name, in a clause banning powered boats on the lakes except to maintain the water system and that range.
The location is straightforward. Bonita National sits east of I-75 off Bonita Beach Road. That puts Bonita Springs and Estero either side of it, with Fort Myers and Naples within reach. Use the interactive What’s Nearby map to test the drive times that matter to you.
What to Know Before You Buy
The membership is the thing to understand before anything else. Every home comes with one, golf or social, and it comes with the house. The club states plainly that a social home cannot be changed to a golf home. The recorded declaration goes further. The golf membership is attached to the property, and any attempt to separate it is void. The declaration also says that owning here gives you no right to the golf course on its own. What a social owner gets instead is a published rate, $65 for eighteen holes, available May through October. From November through April the card offers social residents no rate at all, so in season they play as the guest of a golf member. Every home also pays the Beach Road Golf Estates Community Development District on the tax bill. That runs from about $1,261 to $2,193 a year depending on the home. That district debt runs to November 2046 and can be paid off.
Practical Considerations
- HOA fees: Every home pays $5,841 a year to the master association. Golf homes add $3,948. Single-family homes add lawn care by home size, and condominiums add their own association’s quarterly fee instead.
- CDD fees: Yes. The Beach Road Golf Estates Community Development District appears on the tax bill, from $1,261 a year on a Terrace condominium to $2,193 on an Estate home. The operating half is $235.52 for every home and the rest is bond debt running to November 1, 2046.
- Schools: Served by Lee County Public Schools.
- Getting around: East of I-75 off Bonita Beach Road, between Fort Myers and Naples, with Southwest Florida International Airport to the north.
- Golf: 866 of the 1,459 homes carry a golf membership. Golf owners pay $3,948 a year and play eighteen holes for $28.50. Social owners pay nothing extra and play for $65, May through October only.
- Leasing: A thirty-day minimum and up to twelve leases a year under the master declaration, which is unusually open for a bundled golf community. Individual buildings can be stricter and several are.