We still have incentive to travel in a poor economy
As I stare at "my itineraries" section of my UAL account, I am appreciating the decision to bite the bullet and purchase this timeshare when we did.
In normal economic times, we are fortunate to have a pipeline of trips planned out for the year ahead. Now I view my itinerary listings and see that the only travel we currently have planned is for the use of our units. And we feel fortunate to have that.
We are organizing our next trip to HI. I must say that it feels as if it is a good $$ deal since the only cost is the MF. We are also encouraged by the fact that we can minimize the cost of our trip by not eating every meal out at restaurants.
We recently went to a presentation at another property/TS system . It was high pressure, deliberately misleading and eventually got rude and insulting (even moderators on this board have declared it a confusing system). Although we originally had no intention of buying, we momentarily got enticed by the thought of locking in more vacation time in the future. We luckily came to our senses in the nick of time and did not sign on the dotted line.
I know there are lots of complaints about SVO's treatment of owners but I will say that our initial Starwood sales presentation was professional and respectful and we have not regretted our purchase for a single minute.
Aloha!
As I stare at "my itineraries" section of my UAL account, I am appreciating the decision to bite the bullet and purchase this timeshare when we did.
In normal economic times, we are fortunate to have a pipeline of trips planned out for the year ahead. Now I view my itinerary listings and see that the only travel we currently have planned is for the use of our units. And we feel fortunate to have that.
We are organizing our next trip to HI. I must say that it feels as if it is a good $$ deal since the only cost is the MF. We are also encouraged by the fact that we can minimize the cost of our trip by not eating every meal out at restaurants.
We recently went to a presentation at another property/TS system . It was high pressure, deliberately misleading and eventually got rude and insulting (even moderators on this board have declared it a confusing system). Although we originally had no intention of buying, we momentarily got enticed by the thought of locking in more vacation time in the future. We luckily came to our senses in the nick of time and did not sign on the dotted line.
I know there are lots of complaints about SVO's treatment of owners but I will say that our initial Starwood sales presentation was professional and respectful and we have not regretted our purchase for a single minute.
Aloha!
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