Yeah, that is the one I was referring to as not being anywhere close to downtown.
It's a new product in Nashville, not related to any of the current resorts.
That is my understanding as well, it's similar to the Margaritaville resorts where most of them aren't associated with Wyndham.
To be fair, you also crapped on Atlanta when it first opened without ever having been there, and in the several years since then I’ve heard almost universal praise of the resort and the nearby attractions from other owners.
To be fair, you also crapped on Atlanta when it first opened without ever having been there, and in the several years since then I’ve heard almost universal praise of the resort and the nearby attractions from other owners.
Though I still think vacation ownership specifically in college towns is misguided. Nashville is different because it’s a major city.
In your defense, you were crapping on Atlantic City, not the entire Jersey shore, and I am right there with you.
Perhaps, but where is the demand for that? The same reservations that owners are looking to book will be the same ones that people paying cash will want to reserve. I could see these maybe working if they were close to a major highway like all the mid-range hotel brands. Perhaps they could fill them with overnight road trippers.
The SI resort in Nashville will likely do well. It is located on Music Row, so not even really associated with any sports related anyway. It is a hotel conversion, so I don't really know why they would even bother. How do they expect to attract a sports related audience there?
There’s zero MVC in Pigeon Forge now. I don’t think any of the units were ever owned within the vacation club - it was just an associate hotel.
do they still show the models at the Island sales center still?
I had one daughter graduate from the U of Alabama and can say that this and other larger schools have year-round visits from parents, who knowing they have 4-5 years of a child living away might consider this a smart way to have a local place to stay. In addition, every other sport, baseball, basketball, soccer, and every academic meeting , conference hosted etc as additional draws.
I don't think it is being sold as a vacation destination. This is a great place for parents who send their child off for 5 years to stay when they visit, a great place for conference going visitors to stay together, and a place not only for football crowds but also basketball, baseball and the rest of the sports teams that draw fans. The university has academic events, speakers, graduations etc also. This is not going to be sold at all like other Wyndham properties, it is a new audience.
It's still very event-specific with a lot of weeks where very little is going on. I live in Athens as a comparison - graduation, move-in, parents' weekend, football weekends. Basketball and baseball are much lesser draws, especially weekday games. Once you get into other events - our summer music festival, two half+ marathon weekends, conferences at our downtown conference center, etc. - you're talking less about vacation ownership and more about renting unsold inventory in more of a hotel/airbnb type scenario, but you would need that to fill those units all 52 weeks out of the year.
