TimeshareTraveller
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Bluegreen ShoreCrest,
Massanutten Summit,
Eagle Point,
Hey all,
We're from Baltimore, Maryland. Our family was sent home to telework and the aged parents wouldn't stop going out to visit folks. So two weeks ago I said to my husband, "let's see if we can get a Massanutten timeshare and we'll just lock ourselves up there where there is no temptation for visitation."
We came down roughly 2 weeks ago. They have closed all pools, all events. The gym is sort of open, but I'm not going in --you make a reservation at Woodstone and the staff wipes the equipment down. At Regal Vistas the door is open but it's deserted. (Just no.) We spend our days teleworking on wifi cellphone connections, and evenings taking walks and having dinner with the family.
When we first got here, it was hard to contain them still. The restaurants were still allowing 10 people in the building, so Mom & Dad wanted to go to our favorite Mexican restaurant. There were trips to Costco and grocery stores and Dairy Queen's drive in. That's calmed way down now as they've realized that this isn't a joke.
There is almost no one here. Of the 2000 units of Massanutten, only 40 are occupied this week. We're in a 4-br Regal Vistas unit, and frankly I'm concerned about keeping the parents safe if we go home. RCI has increased the point value for the 2br Regal Vistas next week from 4 pts to 10 pts. (weeks). I have no idea who would travel now. The trip down with the stops for gas, food, restrooms would be anxiety-provoking now. All of us are keeping distant from others. The restaurants are open inside Massanutten, but there are no customers and I think they may shut down. We're holdouts with the rest of this row of units --I think Regal Vistas may have almost all 40 reservations because there is no one on the mountain. It's kind of eerie. It's not the time to be reading Stephen King's _The Stand_. We're here for one more week.
When we arrived at the unit originally, we left mom & dad in the car and the girls and my husband and I went into the unit and wiped everything down with lysol wipes (the staff is wiping surfaces and remotes, but we found their cleaning to be haphazard). Once we got one of the units done, we put the luggage in, ran the dishwasher with every dish in the unit (took three loads), and Mom & Dad came in and started setting up everything. The rest of us tackled the second connected unit. Once that was done, we transferred luggage over and had a beer.
If you are thinking about vacationing here, you may want to rethink that. It's not that it's a bad place to be stuck. It's that the point where you could travel safely may be past. I am terrified of the trip home. And I am refusing to let the family watch the non-stop virus news. We're playing games, doing needlework, talking, teleworking, cooking, taking walks.
We're from Baltimore, Maryland. Our family was sent home to telework and the aged parents wouldn't stop going out to visit folks. So two weeks ago I said to my husband, "let's see if we can get a Massanutten timeshare and we'll just lock ourselves up there where there is no temptation for visitation."
We came down roughly 2 weeks ago. They have closed all pools, all events. The gym is sort of open, but I'm not going in --you make a reservation at Woodstone and the staff wipes the equipment down. At Regal Vistas the door is open but it's deserted. (Just no.) We spend our days teleworking on wifi cellphone connections, and evenings taking walks and having dinner with the family.
When we first got here, it was hard to contain them still. The restaurants were still allowing 10 people in the building, so Mom & Dad wanted to go to our favorite Mexican restaurant. There were trips to Costco and grocery stores and Dairy Queen's drive in. That's calmed way down now as they've realized that this isn't a joke.
There is almost no one here. Of the 2000 units of Massanutten, only 40 are occupied this week. We're in a 4-br Regal Vistas unit, and frankly I'm concerned about keeping the parents safe if we go home. RCI has increased the point value for the 2br Regal Vistas next week from 4 pts to 10 pts. (weeks). I have no idea who would travel now. The trip down with the stops for gas, food, restrooms would be anxiety-provoking now. All of us are keeping distant from others. The restaurants are open inside Massanutten, but there are no customers and I think they may shut down. We're holdouts with the rest of this row of units --I think Regal Vistas may have almost all 40 reservations because there is no one on the mountain. It's kind of eerie. It's not the time to be reading Stephen King's _The Stand_. We're here for one more week.
When we arrived at the unit originally, we left mom & dad in the car and the girls and my husband and I went into the unit and wiped everything down with lysol wipes (the staff is wiping surfaces and remotes, but we found their cleaning to be haphazard). Once we got one of the units done, we put the luggage in, ran the dishwasher with every dish in the unit (took three loads), and Mom & Dad came in and started setting up everything. The rest of us tackled the second connected unit. Once that was done, we transferred luggage over and had a beer.
If you are thinking about vacationing here, you may want to rethink that. It's not that it's a bad place to be stuck. It's that the point where you could travel safely may be past. I am terrified of the trip home. And I am refusing to let the family watch the non-stop virus news. We're playing games, doing needlework, talking, teleworking, cooking, taking walks.