jasenj1
TUG Member
The name of this board is "Timeshare User's Group" not "Timeshare Owner's Group". You can have some good experiences using the timeshare system but not necessarily owning.
E Tour and Travel is an agency that sells timeshare sales tour packages. We fall in their demographic, and they contact us fairly regularly. We bought a package for ~$250 which got us several days lodging, rental car, and two Disney tickets. Typically they put you in a hotel somewhere in Orlando.
We scheduled our trip & tour for Christmas week. When the time came to confirm our reservation, they said they had overbooked and ended up bumping us to staying in the resort we were to tour, Vacation Villas at Fantasy World.
We took our tour and said "no". Then we went over to Downtown Disney for some shopping. We are planning to take a Disney cruise and had some questions about how DVC could be used with the cruises (We were wondering if it would be worth getting into DVC and trading into a cruise vs just paying for the cruise outright. It wouldn't). The people at the DVC kiosk just shift you off to a tour at one of the DVC properties. We drove over to Bay Lake Towers to take our tour. For our time, we were given VIP Fast Pass cards. These get you an immediate use Fast Pass at three rides, i.e. you swipe the card & get a Fast Pass for right then.
The day we went to the Magic Kingdom they filled to capacity. However, using the VIP Fast Passes and the regular Fast Pass we were able to "leap frog" our our rides. i.e. Get a regular Fast Pass for an hour or two from now, walk over to another ride and use the VIP Fast Pass to get on immediately.
Since our condo was very near the Disney property, we were able to get to the Magic Kingdom at opening and ride a few rides before the crowds got bad. Then we headed back to the condo for a few hours in the middle of the day and went back to the park in the evening. The park was FULL until after the fireworks, but then cleared out. We were able to get several rides in before leaving at closing time - 1 am.
In the end, we rode everything we wanted to and more. And ended up with one VIP Fast Pass use left over.
A great experience using the timeshare system without owning.
E Tour and Travel is an agency that sells timeshare sales tour packages. We fall in their demographic, and they contact us fairly regularly. We bought a package for ~$250 which got us several days lodging, rental car, and two Disney tickets. Typically they put you in a hotel somewhere in Orlando.
We scheduled our trip & tour for Christmas week. When the time came to confirm our reservation, they said they had overbooked and ended up bumping us to staying in the resort we were to tour, Vacation Villas at Fantasy World.
We took our tour and said "no". Then we went over to Downtown Disney for some shopping. We are planning to take a Disney cruise and had some questions about how DVC could be used with the cruises (We were wondering if it would be worth getting into DVC and trading into a cruise vs just paying for the cruise outright. It wouldn't). The people at the DVC kiosk just shift you off to a tour at one of the DVC properties. We drove over to Bay Lake Towers to take our tour. For our time, we were given VIP Fast Pass cards. These get you an immediate use Fast Pass at three rides, i.e. you swipe the card & get a Fast Pass for right then.
The day we went to the Magic Kingdom they filled to capacity. However, using the VIP Fast Passes and the regular Fast Pass we were able to "leap frog" our our rides. i.e. Get a regular Fast Pass for an hour or two from now, walk over to another ride and use the VIP Fast Pass to get on immediately.
Since our condo was very near the Disney property, we were able to get to the Magic Kingdom at opening and ride a few rides before the crowds got bad. Then we headed back to the condo for a few hours in the middle of the day and went back to the park in the evening. The park was FULL until after the fireworks, but then cleared out. We were able to get several rides in before leaving at closing time - 1 am.
In the end, we rode everything we wanted to and more. And ended up with one VIP Fast Pass use left over.
A great experience using the timeshare system without owning.