Ray Sharpton
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- Joined
- Aug 20, 2018
- Messages
- 7
- Reaction score
- 3
- Points
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- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Resorts Owned
- Daytona Beach Regency Resort, Diamond Resorts which used to be SunTerra, which used to be EPIC, which used to be Howard Johnsons which used to be Holiday Inn
Any Daytona Beach Regency Resort-Diamond Resort owners here on TUG?
I am a deeded owner at Daytona Beach Regency Resort under Diamond Resorts. I am not allowed to see any availability online and I must always call. I have been calling for months for availability at my home resort and there is one here and there. Usually, only one reservation for the rest of the year because someone else canceled their reservation.
It is very frustrating now to make reservations at my home resort compared to a couple of years ago.
They say if I pay the yearly fee and a fee for each reservation at Diamond Resorts "Destination Xchange", I can find plenty of rooms. And they are right. There are multiple reservations for almost every week from August to December 2018.
They say I could go to "Diamond Resorts Hotel" and buy a reservation. And they are right. There are multiple reservations for almost every week from August to December 2018.
Decades ago, I bought a two bedroom lock off deed for week 26 every year for $10,000.
I remember as a kid going to the same address when it was a "Holiday Inn Hotel" with a restaurant on the 11th, top floor.
Then years later it changed to a Howard Johnson Hotel.
At some point, maybe with Epic or Suntera timeshare they gutted each floor of all the hotel rooms and replaced them with one and two bedrooms lock off. I remember it looked like a parking deck with all the walls and outside and inside missing. They removed everything including the wiring and plumbing.
That is why the rooms look a little odd on the inside with some living rooms or dining room having large support columns in strange places. They had to redesign around some 22 hotel rooms to 9 one or two bedrooms lock off.
Now I can barely get any reservation at my deeded home resort for the whole year. And when they do find one, they call me back and said sorry it was gone already.
I probably would not have that problem if I would place an order online. But Diamond Resorts won't allow that for a deeded owner unless I join Destination Xchange.
I guess at some point I won't be able to make any reservations. I just don't know anymore.
I feel like I am the only one in my position having these issues for the past couple of years.
That is why I was wondering if any other Diamond Resort Daytona Regency Resort owners are out there on TUG.
I promise not to complain anymore. I have just been so frustrated.
Respectfully, Ray
I am a deeded owner at Daytona Beach Regency Resort under Diamond Resorts. I am not allowed to see any availability online and I must always call. I have been calling for months for availability at my home resort and there is one here and there. Usually, only one reservation for the rest of the year because someone else canceled their reservation.
It is very frustrating now to make reservations at my home resort compared to a couple of years ago.
They say if I pay the yearly fee and a fee for each reservation at Diamond Resorts "Destination Xchange", I can find plenty of rooms. And they are right. There are multiple reservations for almost every week from August to December 2018.
They say I could go to "Diamond Resorts Hotel" and buy a reservation. And they are right. There are multiple reservations for almost every week from August to December 2018.
Decades ago, I bought a two bedroom lock off deed for week 26 every year for $10,000.
I remember as a kid going to the same address when it was a "Holiday Inn Hotel" with a restaurant on the 11th, top floor.
Then years later it changed to a Howard Johnson Hotel.
At some point, maybe with Epic or Suntera timeshare they gutted each floor of all the hotel rooms and replaced them with one and two bedrooms lock off. I remember it looked like a parking deck with all the walls and outside and inside missing. They removed everything including the wiring and plumbing.
That is why the rooms look a little odd on the inside with some living rooms or dining room having large support columns in strange places. They had to redesign around some 22 hotel rooms to 9 one or two bedrooms lock off.
Now I can barely get any reservation at my deeded home resort for the whole year. And when they do find one, they call me back and said sorry it was gone already.
I probably would not have that problem if I would place an order online. But Diamond Resorts won't allow that for a deeded owner unless I join Destination Xchange.
I guess at some point I won't be able to make any reservations. I just don't know anymore.
I feel like I am the only one in my position having these issues for the past couple of years.
That is why I was wondering if any other Diamond Resort Daytona Regency Resort owners are out there on TUG.
I promise not to complain anymore. I have just been so frustrated.
Respectfully, Ray