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Starting to get tiring....

bastroum

bastroum

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I have been semi-retired for about 20 years. In that time we discovered time sharing. It's been wonderful and we have stayed in timeshares about 6 months every year for the past 15 years.I just completed booking for 2017 and quite frankly it's becoming tiring. I turned 65 this year and the constant traveling (although still enjoyable) is starting to wear me down. I was just wondering if anyone else has had this experience?
 
Too Much Of A Good Thing ?

bastroum said:
I turned 65 this year and the constant traveling (although still enjoyable) is starting to wear me down. I was just wondering if anyone else has had this experience?
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We enjoyed an off-season timeshare week at Myrtle Beach SC the end of last month.

We're signed up for back-to-back timeshare weeks at Kissimmee FL in January 2017 & are mulling over whether to stretch that out to 3 weeks.

We're not at the saturation point yet, but I wonder whether we'd enjoy 3 straight Florida weeks more if we varied the locale instead of sticking with Orlando-Kissimmee.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
We've found that we vacation differently than we did while working. We tend to take either longer (2 to 3 week) or shorter (a few days) trips now. We also tend to be going to places that either don't have timeshares, or don't have availability for when we want to go. As for getting tired of the traveling.....not yet. :D
 
I have been timesharing since 1997.

My issue recently is that I hate to leave my cats alone as they do get lonely, even with pet sitter visits. We moved and my son used to provide them company. I am cancelling a trip in Dec so as not to leave them on their own again so soon. We have been gone for the past couple of weeks.

The other thing is that we want to cruise more and time sharing gets in the way.
 
I think that this very thing is why we see older people giving away their timeshare weeks. As people age, staying home is just easier. That's life.
 
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I think that this very thing is why we see older people giving away their timeshare weeks. As people age, staying home is just easier. That's life.
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We do enjoy staying home as well. But, when we retired we moved to an area that we love, and there is plenty to do and see right here. There are certain times of the year, like summer, when we just don't want to be away.
 
I'm a youngster at this timeshare thing - only been at it a bit over ten years. In that time I've found my interests have changed about travel, as I've learned more about where and when I like to vacation, and what I want to do when I get there. My "learning by owning" timeshare purchases have also been updated to reflect those changes, a number of timeshares have since been sold or given away, and places I knew I wanted to own have become less interesting because I've seen it so often. The cost of my vacations have gone up, as air travel and general expenses have increased. It was time to shake the tree a little.

I'm currently in escrow selling my last Hawaii week, and as of yesterday, I am now an owner of a new (to me) timeshare in California I can drive to. Owning in the GPR system will give me greater flexibility for more than home resort stays or exchanging, including traveling back to Hawaii when I want to do so. It's all about options.

As I get closer to retirement, this seems like a good change for me. Time will tell. I still enjoy traveling, but I want to be sure it stays that way. When it becomes tedious, it'll be time to change things up again. :hi:

Dave
 
As age increases traveling decreases

We also have been using timeshares less bit by bit. the thrill of new destinations is less, airport and airplane misery has increased,driving reflexes have slowed down, and energy has lessened. We are 77 and our eight to 12 weeks time sharing each year will permanently vanish in two years.Luckily we do not own but one timeshare and have the right to use for our others. We have started the deed back process to eliminate the one timeshare we own. The rest we just quit paying maintenance fees and notifying the company we will no longer be using them. Our children and grandchildren do not want timeshares and we do not want to leave them with them.
We have probably used about 250 timeshare weeks over the years and really enjoyed our experience. From traveling almost half the year for our first ten years of retirement we have now slowed down to less than 90 days per year and this will decrease to 86 days this year and less next year.We will do more cruises which are more our energy level and easier.We originally did not appreciate the one day in each port but now that fits our needs best.
We still will take what I call an adventure trip each year for the foreseeable future but it will have us staying in one or two area of a new country for an extended period of time. Next January will be Ecuador and Columbia for three weeks with only a one day car rental.
We also will vacation in Hawaii once each year for a couple weeks and make a couple short staycations within a days drive of where we reside.
 
We own 1 timeshare in a location we love to visit, the Caribbean, to escape our cold MN winters. It's a RTU, so we expect our years will run out about the time we're too old to travel there! And we've been able to advance a week, to stay two weeks or to bring our kids. We've considered another purchase, but our other travel isn't the type that works for timeshares. We like large European cities, staying somewhere for a few days and then moving on. We also organized tours of places that are harder to travel independently, like India.

We're still working part time and have personal reasons, including a dog, we can't take advantage of multiple week stays in the winter or travel every month. If that were possible, I'd be glad to add another week or two or a points system.
 
Thanks

Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts. Although we still enjoy traveling to Hawaii, Palm Desert, Orlando, Cape Cod and Aruba each year I think we will start to slow down in 2018. Now for the task of getting rid of 18 timeshare's....
 
Yup, I do find traveling arduous at times. In the last five years we have lowered our timeshare weeks quite a bit and bought a vacation property about an hour from home. I kind of like it so far. The place needed work and even though it has electric heat we use the wood stove. So now I have a project to work on and chores to do like cutting wood. There is plenty of outdoor type activities and maybe the best thing is there is no phone service.

We still snowbird the heck out of here in the winter so I will need some timeshare weeks. Currently, most of my timeshares are rtu's that expire in about 7 years. I only plan on keeping Worldmark after these expire.

Bill
 
Our travel interests and style changed about 5 or 6 years ago. I'm still working fulltime, so retirement isn't in play yet.

I just think people's interests do change and evolve. I do believe that once I get closer to retirement (probably 5-6 more years), I'll want to get rid of the last two timeshares that we have. (We had already liquidated a couple of others we had about 4 years back.)
 
I am retired now and purchased my first timeshare 2 years before I retired and before i knew about TUG. I knew we wanted to travel once we did retire so that was my reason. I have purchased 2 more in the last few months and both in Hawaii where we enjoy going. Both resale this time and plan to be there next year for sure.
 
While we still find it a joy to escape harsh New England winter weather for a few consecutive weeks each year, I must admit that my energy and enthusiasm for the logistics of travel (i.e., the trains, planes, automobiles and driving) diminishes a little bit more with each passing year, despite having more time and opportunity to travel in our long-awaited retirement years. It is quite sobering to think that our "spirit of adventure" may be diminishing merely as a result of our increasing difficulty with the sheer logistics of travel. Perhaps that's just an inevitable (if entirely unwelcome) consequence of aging.

I first became self-aware of this phenomenon not too long after turning 65. Maybe it was the psychological indignity of becoming "Medicare eligible", I dunno. :shrug:
In any case, we've cut our timeshare ownerships in half in recent years and plan to further reduce them down to just a very few intervals during the next 2-5 years.
I will also likely choose to vacate my BoD seat upon expiration of the current or next term, as that role involves the same increasingly burdensome travel logistics.

It has been said that "you're as young (or is it as old?) as you feel". Speaking only for ourselves, I guess we are just simply not feeling too young anymore.
 
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I plan to retire next Spring and will almost immediately hit the trail...
-- Orlando in May
-- South Florida (2 resorts) in June/July
-- Alaska cruise-tour in August
-- Longboat Key (FL) in September
-- Gatlinburg in October.

I think it best to deal with my travel bug while still ambulatory.
But we will also cut back on the number of trips in 2018.

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I am hoping to do most traveling/vacations BEFORE we retire in our mid sixties. We will be on a tighter budget then, plus don't know how we will feel. Right now we are working so we are still a bit limited in how much vacation we can take anyway. I am already getting overwhelmed with the thought of planning to visit new places and all the logistics and I hate flying and I am procrastinating more because I dread that part. I am OCD and I obsess about leaving the house, though I am fine once we leave. I like visiting National Parks and maybe will visit Italy once- but I am not heavily interested in going anywhere else and we haven't been all over the world like a lot of people. I think maybe if someone else did it all for me I might be more enthusiastic, but I have always been the one- my husband has no interest in it.

Not so much with our timeshares- as we can drive to them and I find them mostly relaxing, though we do do lots of sightseeing and activities also. To me, just being able to go into a pool and not working and a dinner or two out is vacation. Just getting away- the change of scenery and freedom to do what we want each day and not be on a schedule. BUT- if we were retired since we live in a secluded area I would still like to go to a resort and see people around and so on.

As our VT resort might be coming up with a buy/take back program in the future (they have recently sent owners a survey regarding this), even though we are not ready to give it up, we might consider taking advantage of that offer depending on what it is. (We have two weeks there). Then we would just rent there or elsewhere in VT or wherever until we tire of it. We would keep our NH one (1 week) since we only acquired it 2 years ago and we plan on retiring in that state.

That is the other thing- the thought of selling our home and moving out of state in our late 60's also is overwhelming. Enough to handle.
 
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This is an interesting thread. I guess my observations so far is that the plan that sounded so good when you were 50 may not sound so great at 65.
 
I feel guilty about traveling lately. With our daughter-in-law needing us to babysit for our little granddaughter, and our cats that are aging, and my stepdad, and Rick's stepmom, and the other grandkids...golly, I just feel guilty for going anywhere.
 
bastroum said:
Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts. Although we still enjoy traveling to Hawaii, Palm Desert, Orlando, Cape Cod and Aruba each year I think we will start to slow down in 2018. Now for the task of getting rid of 18 timeshare's....
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Is that a record(amount) for tuggers?
 
I re-counted. 17 annual timeshares and 6 EOY timeshares. Pretty funny. Not sure how that happened.
 
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