We have so many friends who have attended timeshare sales presentations and purchased from the developer, and it doesn't matter that they know we bought an oceanfront Maui week for less than $1,600 (and $1,100 of that amount was resort transfer fees to Consolidated Resorts of $550 for each EOY week to make it annual use), or that we bought our ski week for $700, in the resort we love. They are dazzled by the presentations, and they tell us well after the rescind period, too, so we are never able to help them rescind. Often, these friends have big regrets.
Even my aunt bought a timeshare from Wyndham, and she has heard us talk so many times about our wonderful timeshare experiences, but we neglected to tell her about resale, or she would have gone that direction, too, because she is frugal and very much like me in that respect. She is only 2 1/2 years older than I, so we have always been more like sisters, and she really regrets not calling me from the sales table to ask what she should do.
I started warning everyone about buying from the develper after that incident, and now I feel like a broken record. But how do you warn people without sounding like a timeshare addict. :rofl: My kids tell me I get a little ridiculous with the timeshare talk, which is mostly to warn people, so they don't make a mistake like this.
When day-use privileges are gone at Peak 7, what do you have left? A blue week, when kids are in school, and the trading power of that week will be dismal with II. Plus, I was able to get our son and his friends 3 ski weeks this season, two at the resorts right there in Breck: including one at Gold Point for mid-March in a 3 bedroom unit. Same developer, bigger units, and this was Josh's and his friends' favorite unit, though it's older.
They really loved the size of the unit and the location to the slopes. They also stayed at Grand Timber in a 3 bedroom, too, and they liked it okay, but it wasn't as quiet there for sleeping. They liked that it was newer and really nicely furnished and a bit more upgraded because it was newer. Gold Point is probably ready for a refurb, and I sure hope they have the funds to accomplish that refurb; otherwise, there's going to be a special assessment. That week at GT was at the end of January (Brrrr). These trades were with Foxrun summer weeks, so the total cost was $630 maintenance fees + $139 exchange fee. Josh is on our II account, so no guest certificate necessary....
The third exchange for last winter was at Lakeside Terrace with a Sheraton Broadway Plantation, in the preference period for Starwood owners. I got a two bedroom ski week with a 1 bed studio side. I was very pleased with the cost of that one.
