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Orange Lake Daily Fees for Amenities for RCI Exchanger?

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Hi,
My sister and her family have a scheduled exchange in November for Orange Lake East Village. She got a letter from Orange Lake informing her of a Daily activity fee for amenities per person per day. Is this a new procedure for exchangers?
I’m an owner and we haven’t had a daily fee per person. Just our maintenance fee and fees for tube rentals if we choose to use them. Have any of you who exchanged into Orange Lake lately been notified of these per person per day fees?
 

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I don't remember seeing this fee. But right now this shows under resort fees:

"Resort amenities fee is 5.00 to 20.00 U.S. dollars, . Only Credit Cards accepted. The optional amenities fee is per person. For details call the resort directly at 800-877-6522."

I does say optional. Your sister may want to look at the confirmation email and there should be a yellow box with feed/policies to confirm this.


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We were there in January 2022 and were offered the chance to buy an activities package. We declined. Then we were offered free ones if we attended a timeshare presentation. We declined that also.
 

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So can you still use the pools and other activities if you don’t pay the daily fees?
 

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Yes. The activities package is for tubes for the lazy river, mini golf, and maybe one or two other extra activities. You can still use all the pools and the lazy river, just with no tube. But the lazy river is still awesome even with out tubes.
 

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No fees for the pools. If you want to walk or swim the lazy river, there is no fee for that. You can't use your own floats of any kind in the lazy rive and to rent theirs the daily or multi day fee is on the higher side.
 

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Are the resort fees only for exchangers and renters ?
Do owners at Orange Lake, pay
the same cost to use all the onsite amenities ?
 

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Are the resort fees only for exchangers and renters ?
Do owners at Orange Lake, pay
the same cost to use all the onsite amenities ?
They have to pay too. Like Massanutten Orange Lake developers kept some of the amenities for themselves rather than selling them as a part of the timeshare project. Owners don't pay for the upkeep of those amenities and the developer rents out use of the amenities to the HOA's for a fee and in this case sets up a for profit fee for usage for other amenities. Specifically the HOA at River Island Signature units rolls those fees into their MF's and pay a couple of hundred extra per week for those perks.
 

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Thanks for clarifying
 

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Hi,
My sister and her family have a scheduled exchange in November for Orange Lake East Village. She got a letter from Orange Lake informing her of a Daily activity fee for amenities per person per day. Is this a new procedure for exchangers?
I’m an owner and we haven’t had a daily fee per person. Just our maintenance fee and fees for tube rentals if we choose to use them. Have any of you who exchanged into Orange Lake lately been notified of these per person per day fees?
Hi,
I just had a week stay there and didn't incur any fees, atleast any i'm aware of. We traded through RCI and were there from May 27-June 3. We were in the east village also, which was enjoyable due to being further from the hotspots and able to see Disney fireworks. The only fee i did come across was, like you said, the fee for tube rental. Hope this helps.
 
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