Timeshare Televisions

[Bwolf]

A post in another thread made me wonder how important timeshare televisions are to experienced timeshare users? One of our resorts now has 55 inch wall mounted TVs in the living room and smaller wall mounted TVs in each bedroom. We like having TVs in a resort to keep up with the news and weather. What do others expect on vacation?

 

[pedro47]

I liked the big screen television in the living room and the small television in the bedrooms.

 

[Panina]

Tv not important to me when vacationing.

 

[pedro47]

Panini, how is your spouse going to enjoy some sports time away from The Commander In Chief?

 

[hjsweet2002]

It really depends on what resort we are at and wether or not we are sight seeing. We enjoy the TV when we are just relaxing in the unit.

 

[bbodb1]

Look at this lovely living area from a 3BR Smuggs unit, then check out the TV in the main area (see yellow arrow). It might be 28 inches - maybe. It is a good 15 feet from the couch to the TV. Conceivably, Smuggs should have chosen to hang a TV over the fireplace (where the framed photo is) which would allow for a larger unit but during our 3 day stay, I think we turned this TV on one time.

I added the photo of the living area to give an idea of distance from the TV to the couch and provide a sense of the right lovely area in this 3BR unit.

The other photo is a shot of a guest BR with a TV - it is pretty much that same size as the TV in the living area.

 

[WinniWoman]

A post in another thread made me wonder how important timeshare televisions are to experienced timeshare users? One of our resorts now has 55 inch wall mounted TVs in the living room and smaller wall mounted TVs in each bedroom. We like having TVs in a resort to keep up with the news and weather. What do others expect on vacation?

My husband can't live without TV. It goes on when he wakes up. It goes on when he comes back for lunch. It goes on in the afternoon when he is being a couch potato and takes a nap and it goes on at night. Me- I could care less. Pollard Brook has had the big screen over the fireplace for awhile (and most recently put one in the master bedroom also). Big complaint there from our son and other guests is there is no TV in the second bedroom.

At Smuggs, for our building they are finally going to install big screens over the fireplace at least- but keeping the small TV's in the bedrooms. I had been asking the HOA for this for years and they have already started doing this in some of the other buildings in our West Hill community there.

At Smuggs we have had a small TV on the bottom shelf of a built in type bookcase in the living room since day one. Meanwhile, the couch is one of those long modular types and if you are sitting on the other end of it you cannot watch TV comfortably. The TV's are mounted down so they cannot be turned in any way.

 

[WinniWoman]

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Look at this lovely living area from a 3BR Smuggs unit, then check out the TV in the main area (see yellow arrow). It might be 28 inches - maybe. It is a good 15 feet from the couch to the TV. Conceivably, Smuggs should have chosen to hang a TV over the fireplace (where the framed photo is) which would allow for a larger unit but during our 3 day stay, I think we turned this TV on one time.

I added the photo of the living area to give an idea of distance from the TV to the couch and provide a sense of the right lovely area in this 3BR unit.

The other photo is a shot of a guest BR with a TV - it is pretty much that same size as the TV in the living area.

Looks familiar! LOL!

You actually had a bigger living room TV than ours!

 

[Panina]

Panini, how is your spouse going to enjoy some sports time away from The Commander In Chief?

At the local bar and then I get the whole place for myself with peace and quiet!

 

[Free2Roam]

Depends on the trip and who's traveling with me.

If I have the bedroom to myself, that TV is never turned on. I don't spend a lot of time in the bedroom... when I do, it's because I'm looking for a quiet place.

I do like to catch the morning news while preparing breakfast, so a living room TV large enough to be seen/heard from the kitchen is preferred. If the family is there, we watch movies a few evenings. A 40" or larger TV is preferred in that case.

I have traveled with people who like to sleep with the TV on...that disturbs my sleep. I'd rather sleep with a loud snorer.

 

[bbodb1]

At the local bar and then I get the whole place for myself with peace and quiet!

So, inquiring minds wonder....are these assignment ever flipped?

 

[Panina]

So, inquiring minds wonder....are these assignment ever flipped?

Could be, on the timeshare terrace facing the bay, watching the boats and dolphins with a great tasting moscato wine.... he wants coffee and donuts, off he goes.

I do disappear to my own outside havens at times and he usually takes a snooze or goes on the computer.

 

[bbodb1]

Could be, on the timeshare terrace facing the bay, watching the boats and dolphins with a great tasting moscato wine.... he wants coffee and donuts, off he goes.

I do disappear to my own outside havens at times and he usually takes a snooze or goes on the computer.

Excellent!

 

[bluehende]

I am also the one that lives the tv as background all day. Saying this we usually travel to places where we can be active outside. We rarely go out at night so a nice tv is very nice to have. Since the daytime activities are the main focus it would never be much of a consideration. As much as I love tv I would rather have no tv at all and a great location where I can hike, bike, or ski.

 

[HitchHiker71]

I’d also agree it depends on the amenities available at the resort and in the immediate area. If we are going somewhere that has good wilderness hiking and lots of activities available, then having a TV isn’t so important. If we are going to stay in often and actually cook in the kitchen during our stay and eat in the room, then having the TV is nice as we tend to turn it on to check news and just to have some background noise available. I also like to be able to come back to the room and recharge for 15-30 minutes sometimes, in between activities, as I am an introvert so TV time is one of the ways I recharge my batteries.


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[Jan M.]

I'm not one to have the TV on for noise, company, etc. I like my peace and quiet. Although I do sometimes have it on one of the music channels available with cable. But when I want to watch a program I want a big screen. We have a 60 inch that we bought 7 years ago and my husband had an "only you" moment with me not too long ago when I asked him what he thought the life expectancy was of our TV because I want a bigger screen. I like the timeshares to at least have a 50 inch TV.

 

[dioxide45]

My husband can't live without TV. It goes on when he wakes up. It goes on when he comes back for lunch. It goes on in the afternoon when he is being a couch potato and takes a nap and it goes on at night. Me- I could care less. Pollard Brook has had the big screen over the fireplace for awhile (and most recently put one in the master bedroom also). Big complaint there from our son and other guests is there is no TV in the second bedroom.

This sounds like my FIL. When he travels with us, this is exactly how it is. The TV is turned on the second we enter the room. For us, we rarely if ever turn it on. Personally, there should be a coin slot next to the TV for those that want to use it, they should be paying for it!

 

[Ironwood]

Nothing more frustrating than finding an old CRT TV in your unit as we experienced 6 weeks ago. I had thought by now the old boxes would have been replaced everywhere. Well the living room had a 43" LG flat screen, but the bedroom had an old standard def cathode ray tube behemoth taking up a good portion of the small dresser.

 

[Talent312]

Aside from size, you can also gauge the quality of a resort by the TV brand...
Hisense, Sharp, Sceptre, TCL, Vizio are all signs that the HOA has gone cheap.
LG, Panasonic, Sony and Samsung show the HOA has some quality filters.
<IMHO>

 

[Panina]

Aside from size, you can also gauge the quality of a resort by the TV brand...
Hisense, Sharp, Sceptre, TCL, Vizio are all signs that the HOA has gone cheap.
LG, Panasonic, Sony and Samsung show the HOA has some quality filters.
<IMHO>

My non rated older Marco Island resort that I love has a Samsung TVs but still have older kitchens and baths, well maintained of course. I haven’t turned it on yet.

 

[moonstone]

DH thinks the bigger the TV the better, but as long as I can see the picture I'm happy. I do enjoy a 2nd TV in the bedroom as I don't watch the same type of shows as DH does. If we are in a 2 bedroom unit and DD joins us then she prefers to have her own TV as she doesn't watch the same shows as the old folks.

A few years ago we toured a newly renovated unit at The Silver Beach Club in Daytona Beach while we were staying there. The woman giving the tour was excited to show is the new big wall mounted TVs and new modern furniture. When we walked into the living room we both burst out laughing at the size of the television. Our desktop computer monitor is about the same size! DH turned the set on and there was a baseball game on, you could barely read the score, and couldn't see the ball, from the couch!​

 

[jimf41]

Do TS's have TV's? I never noticed.

 

[clifffaith]

Television is a must, don't care how big it is (when we moved into this house I made Cliff take the first TV he bought for the bedroom back, it was humongous). First thing I do is make sure "my channels" are accessible -- can't get to Sunday night and find no zombies available (better to know right up front). Last thing I want to do when I get home is be faced with gobs of "make-up TV" so I try to stay current with my shows. TV at home only goes on in the morning if something is happening (unfortunately way too much morning TV these last few days in SoCal). I am so sorry they took the morning/early afternoon HLN shows off the air last month -- I especially miss Michaela. On vacation I'd turn those shows on as soon as I got up, and was part of what I loved about getting up in my own good time without cats encouraging me to do so.

 

[mrsstats]

TV is very important to us. We enjoy watching after we are done for the day and just relaxing. Also, I do not go to sleep without tv

 

[mdurette]

If the trip is just to getaway from home - then yes, I want a TV.....why because I rarely watch TV at home. I once told my DH that my perfect date night would be away from home, on a comfy couch, in comfy clothes with pizza delivery and binge watch a show for hours!

With that said, it isn't the size of the TV that matters to me, it is the quality of the sound. I remember staying at DVC Vero Beach for a week and the sound quality was so terrible I couldn't stand listening to the morning news.