We stayed at Orbit One just over 15 yrs ago for an extended family vacation ( I booked 4 2bdrm units) and it could have been a converted motel, but they did a better job converting it than others in the Daytona area that we have stayed at. I loved the screened in porch and the master bedroom was huge. Our then 4yr old DGS loved the water slides into the pool that was right outside of our patio. There was a 2nd pool on site as well. At the time I would have compared it furnishings wise to VV@Pkwy and we enjoyed being in a smaller resort where we could park right outside our front door. We didnt care about the amenities/activities as we were at the parks almost every day. The staff were nice enough to give us all 4 units in the same building, side by side on the ground floor. Looking at the photos online it appears the units have been completely refurbished since we were there.
Interesting that the CEO of DRI in that 2018 press release was Michael Flaskey ... who is now president and COO for MVW.
One of the options is to retain your ownership through the management transition. Even though the current affiliation may be Interval, the new management company may decide to switch to RCI. That is one of the unknowns along with the direction of maintenance fees and special assessments. These may not be known until well past July 1st.
Thank You. It is amazing these companies keep giving the owners a line of crap. One person doesn't know what the other is doing. The Tug podcast has it on its list of items to discuss tonight at 10PM on YouTube channel. Should be interesting.
You forgot the resort property in OBX, North Carolina.
Exact. Beachwood was the 6th resort acquired from Gold Key Resort. The Atrium resort is owned by Vacatia (Vacatia acquired the 3 resorts owned by VSA Resorts in 2022).
I had RCI with Carriage Hills which closed a few years ago. I was able to keep the RCI account and use my deposits even if the resort no longer was open (i had paid to extend them). I still have RCI but will not be renewing when the membership expires as if find that my choices on Interval and SFX Resorts are better (and cheaper cost). But you can definitely keep the account as long as you wish for the Extra Vacations even if you no longer have a timeshare.
We live very close to the former Carriage Hills/Ridge timeshare and our DD worked there while going to high school. We didnt buy into it because we already had a week at a Florida timeshare that is affiliated with RCI. We are hoping to retain our RCI points account but if they kick us out at least we have our weeks one and will continue to use the Extra Vacations and Last Calls.
They won't kick you out, I've had the membership for over 5 years without a timeshare in RCI. It's a requirement to GET the membership to RCI, but as long as you continue paying you'll be able to use it. If it expires (because no renewal payment), you'll be out for good.
I finally got through to a real person at the US Embassy in Toronto this afternoon and they will only notarize visas or other forms to do with immigrating to the USA. So Hilton is misinformed. We found out that many American UPS stores have a notary on staff but of course the one in Niagara Falls and the easiest one to get to in Buffalo do not. With further Googling I found out that many banks have a notary on staff. We have a Bank of America account so we called 2 branches in desirable (for us) locations and both said yes they could do it, one even had open appointments tomorrow! So I guess we are driving to Niagara Falls NY early next week, our next day with nothing else going on, to get the forms notarized and have lunch. We can even mail the forms from there and save some postage costs!
There are also online notaries available, including the ability to handle from other countries outside of the USA.
Don't you need to have e-signature documents, like Docusign, for that? If you need to sign actual paper, you can't use a virtual notary.
One that I looked at could use Physical or Electronic Signature
I used notarycam.com a while ago for a notarized document required to have mail forwarded by a US shipping company to Canada (they required a legal authorization) and it worked very well. All done from home, online.
We can not use those as the documents must have an embossed seal of a US Notary stamped on them. Hilton seems to be very picky!
Wow. What happens if someone lives in the UK? That is totally ridiculous. Not everyone with a Hilton timeshare is American!
The Atrium was not a Diamond Resort.
Hilton erroneously said in the documents that any owners living outside of the USA just needs to go to a US Embassy in their country and somebody there will be able to notorize the papers. Since the Toronto one does not do that I would imagine all the others around the world would have the same rules. We are just lucky that we are less than a 3 hour drive from the Niagara Falls / Buffalo area.
You can quite often just walk into a bank to get something notarized. Most banks will have at least one notary on staff. If you find a branch that doesn't go across the corner to another bank. Other places that may have a notary, UPS Store, FedEx Office Stores, AAA offices, DMV offices and even a county clerk of court office.