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Maui Beach Vacation Club
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So my significant other and I attended a presentation in Florida two weeks ago. It sounded great, it was a good deal and we bought it. When we got home we found out it wasn't the good deal we thought it was, turned out it was EOY not annual ( thereby making it twice as expensive as we thought) and they hadn't explained all the costs, so we canceled ( still waiting to make sure it has canceled) and are only out $200 which is what we would have spent on tickets to Disney they gave us.
I really like the idea of the timeshare though. I own my own business, work 6 days a week, have a hard time getting away, need to book time off long in advance ( need to book someone to take my place) and felt that if I had a place to go, it would encourage me to go more often . Other than long weekends, this trip was my first trip in 5 years and my first vacation in 8 years.
My partner on the other hand gets as many as 5 weeks vacation a year- he went to Hawaii this year without me and went on the Florida trip and had some time off at home.
So when we do buy a timeshare, and I am pretty sure we will, should we be looking for something that is closer to home ( driving distance) so we are more likely to use it, can check it out personally before we consider buying (via resale) or should we look for something with good exchange value so when we do use it, we can go wherever we really want to go or can rent it out when we don't use it.
If we get something we want to use ourselves, I am thinking floating week is best since I can never guarantee from one year to the next when I can get away, but if we get something with the intention to trade, can we trade a fixed week for another time of year or are we stuck using just that week?
Should we look for points so we might be able to book two 3- day -long trips closer to home or weeks?
We live in an area that a lot of people vacation to ( Vancouver Island) but I don't think I would want to vacation here myself and was thinking either Whistler, or somewhere in Washington or Oregon but on the other hand, I am not a skier and summer vacations are close to impossible so we might want someplace warmer.
I just have so much information that I have gathered since we got back that I cannot process it all. Any and all advice, personal experiences etc are welcome
FYI we are about 20 years away from retirement and I am hopefully 10 years away from when I can start to take more time away from work
Thanks so much
Carole Ann
I really like the idea of the timeshare though. I own my own business, work 6 days a week, have a hard time getting away, need to book time off long in advance ( need to book someone to take my place) and felt that if I had a place to go, it would encourage me to go more often . Other than long weekends, this trip was my first trip in 5 years and my first vacation in 8 years.
My partner on the other hand gets as many as 5 weeks vacation a year- he went to Hawaii this year without me and went on the Florida trip and had some time off at home.
So when we do buy a timeshare, and I am pretty sure we will, should we be looking for something that is closer to home ( driving distance) so we are more likely to use it, can check it out personally before we consider buying (via resale) or should we look for something with good exchange value so when we do use it, we can go wherever we really want to go or can rent it out when we don't use it.
If we get something we want to use ourselves, I am thinking floating week is best since I can never guarantee from one year to the next when I can get away, but if we get something with the intention to trade, can we trade a fixed week for another time of year or are we stuck using just that week?
Should we look for points so we might be able to book two 3- day -long trips closer to home or weeks?
We live in an area that a lot of people vacation to ( Vancouver Island) but I don't think I would want to vacation here myself and was thinking either Whistler, or somewhere in Washington or Oregon but on the other hand, I am not a skier and summer vacations are close to impossible so we might want someplace warmer.
I just have so much information that I have gathered since we got back that I cannot process it all. Any and all advice, personal experiences etc are welcome
FYI we are about 20 years away from retirement and I am hopefully 10 years away from when I can start to take more time away from work
Thanks so much
Carole Ann