Starting to get tiring....

[VacationForever]

When I see large number of timeshare, my first thoughts are whether they ar3 for personal use only. Easy to own a whole chunk for rentals.

 

[bastroum]

I use them for personal use.

 

[DaveNV]

When I see large number of timeshare, my first thoughts are whether they ar3 for personal use only. Easy to own a whole chunk for rentals.

There are some folks here who are full timers in timeshares. I can't imagine what all they'd need to own to do that. Just the scheduling to coordinate all those check-in and check-out dates would make me crazy. I had enough scheduling trouble a few years ago when I owned four at once. One at a time works well for me.

Dave

 

[easyrider]

We use at least two ts weeks when we fly anywhere. I don't mind using one ts week for drive to's. I think what I dislike most is all the flying. Some trips are fine, but some times, not too often, we get a very overweight or very smelly or very loud person sitting next to us that makes a 6 hour flight seem like forever. I have been saving our air miles for a really long flight for the first class or business class flight. It would make sense to actually fly first class if we just stayed for 4 to 6 weeks instead of doing three or four separate trips but with a long stay in one area, I think I might get bored.

 

[artringwald]

As we get older we like traveling less, but now that we're down to zero pets, we can stay longer when we go. Two or three long trips per year is plenty for us.

 

[Glynda]

Since we have so few of our Bluegreen points (10,000), it's the frustration of trying to find what we want with what we have that has become tiring. However, we manage to come up with something and the big plus still for us is Bluegreen's Bonus Time. Reserving vacancies starting at 45 days out. We use that a lot and take mini trips costing $79 or $89 a night at their resorts within driving distance. That has been of as much value to us as the week we get out of our points. So we'll hold on for the time being.

 

[wenholze]

Wow! We have two weeks in an Hawaii Marriott and we complain about the maintenance fees. Can't imagine owning twenty-one.

 

[Deb & Bill]

We have 325 points with DVC and two flex weeks with HGVC. We bought the HGVC in Marco Island a few years ago because we really like heading to Marco either before or after our WDW trips. We've been going to WDW for 19 years and Marco for nine years. I've been retired about four years, my husband about 15 months and we're planning on selling our house and moving to Marco Island sometime within the next year. We'll probably keep all our timeshares since we like heading to WDW and would be about 3.5 hours away. Plus our son currently lives there since he works for Disney. We might even keep our Marco flex points to use in Orlando or elsewhere or even right in Marco. My husband is looking forward to telling someone we meet on the beach that we live here, when asked "where are you from" like always happens at the Charter Club. We could stay right on the beach (we're not getting a house on the beach there, no pets in the million $$ condos and we have two dogs and two cats).

 

[JudyH]

I'm in the opposite place. I only ever had one timeshare week. Being a lockout, it traded as two weeks. Then when RCI went to the TPUs it morphed into 60-80 TPUs. We don't use them all, we give some weeks away. We actually have never stayed at our home resort in Myrtle Beach, just bought it in 1997 to exchange. Being retired now, and healthy for the present time, we are taking long trips in the US and abroad. We try to tack on a TS week where ever we are going, but it doesn't always work.
Now that we moved to FL, we try to use the weeks here to see different parts of the state. My kids have no interest in using the TPUs as they plan at the last minute to go someplace.
The cat sitter takes them to her place, they love her. We try to see the grandkids before or after one of the trips. I took them all to Myrtle Beach last summer, with a five bedroom ocean block rental that we loved. Worked out much better than our MB timeshare which is not convenient to the beach.

 

[gsedlock]

My wife and I own a week at Marriott Kauai Beach Club and 2,500 MVC points. For the last several years, we've traded the week for more points and have gone to Europe three times with a Collette Tour. We plan on following this pattern for the next several years. We also go on other vacations - Blues Cruise and Big Blues Bender - plus some weekends within driving distance of central TX.

My wife is retired; I'm semi-retired - keep my fingers in the world of software development.

We want to do as much international travel as practical over the next several years. There are so many places we want to visit, but 9+ hour international flights are hard on our bodies. We're 66 and have heard the old adage: go-go sixties, slow-go seventies, and no-go eighties.

We have two dogs - getting pet sitters that visit the house adds to the travel expense, but they'd rather be home than in a kennel. They're a draw to keep us from going on extended vacations.

We also have an 18-month old granddaughter who lives within 20 minutes with our daughter and her husband. Our son and his wife live within a three hour - not too far away. They don't have children yet. But, the draw of visiting growing families tugs on us - keeping us close to home.

Once we get to the point of international travel gets too hard, we're banking that we can still travel domestically - shorted flights or drives at a slow pace. We have friends who are trying to convince us to buy an RV. I'm not the best at driving a large vehicle. Plus, we can stay at a lot of hotel rooms for the price of an RV.

We're going to keep up with the international travel as long as we can. We'll switch to domestic travel.

At some point, we'll shell the time share and points. Unless, one or both of our children want them - but, that's years off - I think

 

[DebBrown]

I thought we'd be timesharing into retirement but now things have changed. When we had the kids with us, we always needed the 2br units. We also had to travel at peak times. Now I find I don't enjoy the travel and all the changes give me migraines. I don't like leaving the dogs for long periods either. We just bought a lake house about 2 hours away. I expect to be spending my time there and maybe have one warm weather vacation each winter.

 

[Joyce]

As I get older (73) and think about travelling, I remember a dear friend who would tell me "go when you can". That did not make too much sense at the time as i was in my 50's and thought I will go when I retire. Now I have all the time in the world and wish I had gone when I could. Now, money is not an issue as I saved so I could travel "later" but I just don't have the energy to do it anymore. My TSA agent would tell me "you will have plenty later, so take the 10% money now and travel when you can". I am still recovering from a very bad infection in my lower back caused by a surgery in my stomach which yielded an infection that settled in my lower disks (diskitis). Hospitals are dangerous places. It took over a year to kill the bug which caused kidney failure (recovered after a few bouts of dialysis) and congestive heart failure. I am about 80% recovered and starting to think about traveling again. Now I wish I had the energy and wish I had listened to my friend. You youngins out there, Go when you can. Tomorrow is often not what you planned.

 

[Passepartout]

We've had to change plans twice in the last year, gave up our annual Yellowstone week (listed it free here, and no takers), and we were scheduled to be flying to Amsterdam today to board a river cruise. DW tweaked her back and can barely walk and can't sleep in a bed. Fortunately this trip was insured. MRI tomorrow to see what can be done, and we're hoping for the best so we can go to Puerto Vallarta in January.

Bottom line: Travel while you can. You won't always be able, and you won't know when that change will take place.

We will be divesting our TSs in the foreseeable future as the type of travel we are enjoying has changed too. We sold the RV, bought an urban loft condo, and enjoy cruises. Since TS MFs have risen to rates similar to hotel room prices, we are renting more VRBOs instead of trying to find or plan for a suitable exchange as far ahead as needs to be done now.

If it isn't one thing, it's something else.

Jim

 

[DaveNV]

We've had to change plans twice in the last year, gave up our annual Yellowstone week (listed it free here, and no takers), and we were scheduled to be flying to Amsterdam today to board a river cruise. DW tweaked her back and can barely walk and can't sleep in a bed. Fortunately this trip was insured. MRI tomorrow to see what can be done, and we're hoping for the best so we can go to Puerto Vallarta in January.

Bottom line: Travel while you can. You won't always be able, and you won't know when that change will take place.

We will be divesting our TSs in the foreseeable future as the type of travel we are enjoying has changed too. We sold the RV, bought an urban loft condo, and enjoy cruises. Since TS MFs have risen to rates similar to hotel room prices, we are renting more VRBOs instead of trying to find or plan for a suitable exchange as far ahead as needs to be done now.

If it isn't one thing, it's something else.

Jim

Wow. You had shared with me awhile ago about the challenges you and your family were facing, but it seems to be one thing and another right now. Hang in there, friend, and don't lose sight of the good times still to be found. Wishing you both very good news on all counts.

Dave

 

[shagnut]

Traveling isn't as fun as it used to be. Maybe it's because of my health, but not as gung ho as I used to be. This year I'm going to go to Orlando for wrestlemania and tack on 3 days at a ts to relax. In July I am going to Portland for 3 days and then to the Oregon coast for a week. In Sept or Oct. I'm going to Branson/ Ridgefield staying at BG . I can't even think about 2018 . Just thinking about this year makes me tired. I have a MROP and my eoy/ Wyndham. I will probably get rid of both in about 2 yrs.

 

[WinniWoman]

It's a shame because most people have to work until their mid sixties and can't get a lot of the time off to travel (if they can even afford it). Then, by the time they can retire and have the time (and hopefully some money) they start to get tired and overwhelmed, possibly ill, and maybe can't or don't want to travel as much. That is why we travel and enjoy our timeshares now, even if it is a week at a time. We can't go out West for a month or to Europe for 3 weeks in a row. But we take what we can get because we do not know how things will be in a few years when we retire and are older.

 

[x3 skier]

About to pass the 3/4 century mark and travel as much as I ever did. No desire or intention to slow down. In fact, I'm in the middle of building an airplane to use for flying on short trips / long weekends.

I do really miss The Allen House but I still go to London every year for a week in addition to SC with the kids and grandkids, a week in Mexico and the ski season in Steamboat Springs. I add a cruise every few years and other trips for whatever looks like fun.

Between my three timeshares, FF Miles, hotel points, VRBO and Airbnb, things seem cheaper to me than when I was working.

Cheers

 

[slip]

I started traveling about 15 years ago when my father was getting older and passed away. I changed my thinking at that point to travel more when I could, even if I had to work a little longer. With the traveling we do I don't think it's extending my work years. We vacation more like locals, especially in Hawaii.

I rent out a lot of my weeks so we can stay for free and we hope to use them ourselves in retirement.