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289 Gordons Corner Rd, Manalapan, NJ 07726

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Lee G

Child of resident/client

5.0 out of 5 stars

Thank you so much!

The entire nursing staff is fantastic. The physical therapy and occupational therapy did the job ! Daddy was able to move out and continue his life. The staff from the kitchen is warm and loving. I don’t have anything negative to say but thank you so much for helping daddy ! [name removed] and everyone else I love you all. You’re part of our family now

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The Villas of Manalapan

The Villas of Manalapan in Manalapan, NJ is one of senior living communities in the area. To find the right community for your needs and budget, connect with one of A Place For Mom’s local senior living advisors for free, expert advice.

Senior living options offered

  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care
  • Independent Living


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for The Villas of Manalapan

8.3 out of 10
Review Score15 reviewsWrite a review
Overall Experience
3.7
Cleanliness
4.2
Friendliness
4.2
Care Services
3.8
Staff
3.9
Meals & Dining
4.0
Activities
3.8
Value for Cost
3.3

A Place for Mom has scored The Villas of Manalapan with 8.3 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 2 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time, The Villas of Manalapan has 15 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 3.7 out of 5.

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Last Updated: 8/26/25

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Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

August 26, 2025

3.0 out of 5 stars
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Mixed experience

There are some very good things: Nurses are excellent, medication management program is excellent, front desk people are great, some of the nurses aids are great. Beautiful common areas, they have a nice apartment, they offer activities, they have a small theatre with a schedule of movies. The food is good to average. There are some weak to poor things: they are understaffed in the kitchen and with nurses aids. My parents have waited an hour for breakfast or dinner. They have waited a half hour for their order to be taken. Some nurses aids are wonderful and some are just lazy and stand there when they are supposed to be helping them get dressed. They sometimes have to wait 30-40 minutes after calling for a nurse aid. Even more short staffed on weekends. The "primary care physician" usually does not see patients, even though it was represented that way when we toured the Villas. There is a nurse practitioner. Things that are needed can be slow to be delivered. The psychiatric nurse did nothing when my mother was not improving. The family sought an outside psych practitioner and she's doing much better. The billing department is inept and rude. They do not offer a shuttle to stores for the residents which makes them feel isolated.

Lee G

Assisted Living

Family/friend

January 24, 2025

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Thank you so much!

The entire nursing staff is fantastic. The physical therapy and occupational therapy did the job ! Daddy was able to move out and continue his life. The staff from the kitchen is warm and loving. I don’t have anything negative to say but thank you so much for helping daddy ! [name removed] and everyone else I love you all. You’re part of our family now

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Resident/client

October 8, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
4.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Love living here. Love the staff very pleasant atmosphere.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Resident/client

October 8, 2024

4.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
4.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
4.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

The best Villas. Community is the right place for people over 70 years to live better and longer.

Mary F

Assisted Living

Resident/client

October 8, 2024

4.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
4.0
Value for Cost
4.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
4.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Things are great!

I have been here, almost 3 years, enjoyed most of my days.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Resident/client

October 8, 2024

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
4.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

Pleasant! Very comfortable! Very clean!

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

June 3, 2024

1.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
2.0
Friendliness
3.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Care Services
1.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
3.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Do not put a loved one here

Don't go there. That's my comment. This is really a place set up for independent living. If you need help, you are out of luck. Don't be fooled by how beautiful the facility is. Don't be fooled by what they promise you - they lie to you. We moved my parents out in [date removed]. It is a horribly run facility. Only interested in money. The aides are not trained nor do they seem to care. They complain about being overworked but they don't do anything.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

June 5, 2023

3.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
3.0
Friendliness
3.0
Value for Cost
3.0
Care Services
3.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
3.0
Meals & Dining
3.0

The Villas of Manalapan

While I believe we made a good decision to place my parents at the Villas of Manalapan, there are concerns we continue to have. The facility is beautiful, very clean and the staff seems to take care of their basic needs. The meal plan, activities and entertainment is really great.

sheryl B

Assisted Living

Family/friend

May 23, 2023

1.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
1.0
Friendliness
1.0
Value for Cost
1.0
Care Services
1.0
Activities
1.0
Staff
1.0
Meals & Dining
1.0

Desperate stay away

Don’t send loved ones there, they lie take lots of money and forget about resident . My moms a vegetarian and kosher and they serve her meat. For dinner they give her a cold HAM sandwich with potato chips, ham is meat and not kosher and not even fries. Delivery guy drops food on ground cleans up spilled food and leaves the rest for my mom, didn’t even offer to get something new. Unbelievable. Refused to let my mom go to ER until I yelled, and luckily she did because her extremities were covered in sores she had a UTI and bilateral pulmonary embolisms. They could have killed her. All my moms clothes are missing, one aid didn’t want to put on soft nigh gown I bought but other aid said ok. Two days later that gown and my moms soft blanket were missing and they never found it mysteriously, or 7 pairs of pants.

Anonymous

Independent Living

Family/friend

January 6, 2023

3.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
4.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
2.0
Care Services
3.0
Activities
3.0
Staff
3.0
Meals & Dining
4.0

Buyer beware

The facility itself is clean. When you walk in, it's beautiful and makes you feel good about living here. The food is good. In my opinion, it's better than most places in the area. We toured several. The activities staff is lovely, but the quality of the activities is lacking. Housekeeping of resident areas is lacking. They do a quick surface clean only, if you can even call it that. I end up cleaning behind them almost every time, especially my parent's bathroom. It's just never a good or thorough cleaning. Overall, they're unorganized and there's not a set process for anything here. Starting with the intake process. They told us that several forms were required, but never gave them to us. I had to ask several times. The intake lady that we worked with, I don't even know how she has a job. The whole process was just totally unorganized. Care plan changes are unorganized also, we found that out the hard way when they recently made one for my mom. It was made, but wasn't followed at all. The nursing staff is mostly great, but you have to be on them all the time. They charge a lot of money for not enough at this facility. They're also incredibly inflexible. My mom needs help with showering, nothing else, just showering. Well, that's considered a higher level of care. Even though that level consists of many things and mom only needs one of them. So we had to pay $1,000 extra per month just for help with showering. Well, they would show up when mom was at breakfast, mark it as unable to complete, and leave it at that until next time. I got frustrated and asked if we could have them come to help her at a different time of day. They agreed to come in the early evenings instead, but never did. When I asked about it, I was told they didn't come because they were caring for other residents and didn't have time. So I cancelled it and now I go and help her shower. I will say, there are a few good things. If my parents don't show up for dining, someone does go to check on them and make sure they're ok. Also, if I mention a concern/problem to the nurse, she follows up almost immediately. There are other facilities/options in our area, but my dad says he likes it here and wants to stay. So we're making the best of it. I would recommend them to friends and family, but only for a loved one who is looking for true Independent Living and doesn't need assistance of any kind.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

September 30, 2022

3.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review

The Villas of Manalapan

The Villas of Manalapan was good. My mother stayed for about 2 months, but they were severely understaffed. For a month, we had my mother in the special unit for Alzheimer's on the top floor where it's locked, and there was only one person there at a time for too many patients. They needed two people; they were very understaffed. I know it's industry wide and it may not be their fault they don't have sufficient staff, but we just couldn't keep her there. I'd suggest that they have two people there at all times because if one patient needs care, that staff member will have to spend some time in their room, and the rest would be left unsupervised. There were residents sitting in the lounge as well. What happens if one person falls in the lounge and the nurse is in another persons bedroom? They wouldn't know, and they need two set of eyes at all times - one handling problems, and one watching the rest. I couldn't keep her there under those circumstances and I didn't feel comfortable doing so. The community itself is absolutely beautiful and the food is good, but the service was understaffed. I felt my mom didn't have sufficient care for their price or for any price. I want others to know this, because you'll go and you'll see how beautiful it is, but after being there a while you'll see the flaws. The most important thing was that there was not enough coverage.

Anonymous

Assisted Living

Family/friend

August 30, 2022

4.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
3.0
Care Services
3.0
Staff
3.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

The Villas is a friendly place

If you have a relative who is mostly independent and just needs help with a few things, The Villa is perfect for them.

David E

Assisted Living

Family/friend

March 3, 2022

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
5.0

Great Place

The following review was written by Florence Elias My husband [name removed] and I came to The Villas from Florida to be closer to our children. Our son and his family live only 5 minutes away. I was more apprehensive about coming to the Villas than my husband Joe was. We both were nervous. In a month or so, we both realized that we made the correct decision. The Villas is immaculate, beautiful with a great variety of delicious food. The help tries in every which way to be helpful and make you happy. The Staff is great! I feel very safe here. On a scale of 1-10, we both give it a 9.5! or 5 stars if you will! [name removed] and [name removed]

anonymous

Assisted Living

Toured community

May 25, 2021

5.0 out of 5 stars
Verified Review
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Staff
5.0

Professional

The Villas is a unique community. It has everything you could want and a warm and welcoming staff. I give it 10 out of 10.

Susan Balan

Memory Care

Family/friend

June 1, 2020

5.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
5.0
Care Services
5.0
Activities
5.0

Home at the Villas

My mom moved into the Villas In October and has had nothing but great things to say about her new home since. The first day we walked in we knew we had a found the perfect home. Not only is The Villas beautiful but the staff is loving and kind, the food delicious and her new friends delightful. She’s busy everyday and I know she is safe and being well cared for.

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