Thanks for clarifying. By "discretionary" I meant discretionary by the resort. I was just wanting to clarify the actual resort fee. Some people see the total amount (all taxes and all fees) and call that the resort fee, when it might be that only part of that is the resort fee. $80 a day in resort fees is a bit ridiculous. This is one reason I am hesitant to book any Westgate or HVC/DRI properties through II.
As an exchanger into the Manhattan Club I'd much rather pay their outrageous fee (plus the exchange fee) than the price for a hotel.
They should but it seems with thousands of resorts they leave it to the resorts to provide them the information then they update it. They aren't proactive in going out and getting it.
Most of the resorts in Carlsbad charge fees for parking or whatever, but I do agree with you that the FSA fee is fine by me.
I heard on one of the news stations yesterday that the Colorado State Legislature is considering a 28% tax on short term rentals. I assume exchanges would also be included because of what Summit County did.
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I agree with you. Except there is no common sense when it comes to the government looking for money. Taxing timeshare exchanges is one of them that should scare people away from timeshares. So yes you are right that this is about property taxes. But it is not outrageous to believe they will apply this law if passed to timeshares thus driving up maintenance fees. I do not know how timeshares resorts are now taxed to determine the property taxes we pay in out maintenance fees.Short-term rental owners show up in force to oppose Colorado lawmakers’ plan to tax their homes at a much higher rate
Proposed legislation to raise property taxes on short-term vacation rentals draws fiery protests from homeowners at first hearing
It's more about property taxes, I think, but who knows what this could lead to in the future for short-term rentals. I don't see how timeshares can suddenly be grouped that way, unless of course the timeshare is doing a lot of rentals (which our management company is doing). @RENTER
And if you go to Wyndham, many of the resorts are still twenty years behind technology. Limit of four devices (Roku in the bedroom for the kids is one, living room is one, and bedroom, another), or pay a hefty fee for unlimited devices, but we have paid the fee many times, when we are staying more than a few days. Many of the resorts also have tiny TV's and TV's with no ability to add a Roku device, including Steamboat Springs, which was recently updated and beautiful, but the TV's are small and attached too tightly to the wall to add a Roku.
A travel router will fix any device limits.
On that note, do you find that most MVC/Vistana resorts you visit have an ethernet outlet to plug the travel router into, or do you connect the router to the resort WiFi, basically daisy chaining your other devices strictly via Wi-Fi hops?
Depends. Most resorts don't have a wired connection. The router works both ways. You can connect it to a wired connection (bit more reliable) or it works as a WiFi repeater. You connect the router to the WiFi then you connect all the devices to the router. This usually works best if you have a laptop with you to manage the router, but you can use a mobile device as well.
Kinda what I figured. I'm old school enough that I prefer a wired connection for my router to increase reliablity and speed. *sigh* I guess I have to get used to the changes with the times.