Vidanta Estates Owners

[jssquared]

Hi Diva - The Estates are an entirely separate property from the Kingdom of the Sun. You are correct though. The Kingdom of the Sun is a hotel property within the VIdanta World theme park. There is question as to what role Cirque will play in the park. In very early iterations, Cirque was going to create and develop the entire park. Now, they are likely to have a theater and a show within the park. We are not sure how much or what else Cirque will do within the park.
I would check your contract - Kingdom of the Sun is in the park, the Estates are across the river from the main Vidanta resort. I have not heard of a four bedroom estate unit within Kingdom of the Sun.
Where did you buy the contract?

 

[MC3]

I am an Estates owner and would like to be part of this group to learn what others have found out.

 

[jeffvb9]

We are currently at Vidanta NV and had our presentation meeting the day after we arrived. Told them we'd give them 1 hour. We have been here two other times and declined both time and once in the other Mexico location. We were in this meeting for 4.5 hours. We own two other timeshares that we were trading in. They initially offered us the Grand Luxxe at a ridiculous price. We said no. They then came in with the Estates plan at half the cost of the GL plan they initially presented us and were providing 4 weeks. They offered either a 1 br estate with an addendum to move to a 3 br once they were ready or a 2br with an addendum to move into the 4br. Their offer was under $100k and we said no. They then cut it by 30% and said if we take the 1 br estate we can then get the addendum to move into the 4 BR estate when completed with 4 weeks and any weeks we didnt use Vidanta could use. We again said no and we were escorted to what we thought was Customer Service. Another lady slashed their last offer by 50%. Definitely seems worth it now but we are still undecided and leave tomorrow. They have contacted us again and we are debating. Just not sure with the uncertainty of when things will be finished.

 

[Mroze]

Walk, Run, Don't turn around.

 

[jeffvb9]

Walk, Run, Don't turn around.

Agreed. Luckily my wife took pics of the form and at the top it doesnt say Estates but says Kingdom of the Sun III (estate park). So I believe now we were totally getting scammed to buy into Kingdom of the Sun instead of the estates.

 

[Eric B]

@jeffvb9, buying a Vidanta contract is a decision you should make based on your needs, but bear in mind that they make a lot of weeks available through several exchange companies in the shoulder and low seasons. It sounds like the price for these contracts has come down considerably from what it was before COVID. As far as the timeshare trade in part of the transaction goes, though, it's really not a great way to go but instead a come on that is offered in many Mexican TS. Read all you can about it here on TUG; Vidanta will give you the same price without the trade in and many people have wound up still owning TS they thought were supposed to have been transferred out of their names in this transaction. If you do buy, deal with your current TS yourself and save the trade in cost that doesn't really get you anything.

 

[Eric B]

Agreed. Luckily my wife took pics of the form and at the top it doesnt say Estates but says Kingdom of the Sun III (estate park). So I believe now we were totally getting scammed to buy into Kingdom of the Sun instead of the estates.

Sounds right; KoS is a different set of resorts associated with the theme park they are working on. Those contracts typically come with exchange privileges into the other Vidanta resorts somewhere in the GL level. There are some details that they don't really make obvious when they are trying to sell them to you. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

 

[jeffvb9]

Sounds right; KoS is a different set of resorts associated with the theme park they are working on. Those contracts typically come with exchange privileges into the other Vidanta resorts somewhere in the GL level. There are some details that they don't really make obvious when they are trying to sell them to you. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Thanks for the information. Very helpful.

I was very surprised to see that on the form when they had the estates brochures our in front of us showing us some really nice places......when they get finished. Literally talking directly about these places and we'd be buying into those specifically.

 

[Karl Engdahl]

Interesting in starting a group of Vidanta Estates owners. If you own one of these contracts can you please private message me or reply to this post. Thank you so much.

Hi , I'm a Vidanta Estates owner since 2018 , and am interested in being in this group

There are at least two of us on TUG. Several more from Aimfair. And, several more that I know from vacation and just meeting people at the resorts. I am sure over time Vidanta will get these sold. They will be spectacular. But, will have to be suitable and appropriate for each member. Will share more here when Vidanta releases more details. I do know Vida's focus at the moment is the theme park, Estates and cruise ship(s). Will see how it all progresses. In building out the owner's group I was checking notes and emails back two and half years. It is amazing how much the plans (for the park, estates, beach club in RM, etc.) change over time. The end result is always quite different then the first concept.

Hi , I don't know if my post came through , but I'm interested

 

[Karl Engdahl]

We began our adventure in Timeshare Ownership with Pueblo Bonito at Sunset Beach in Cabo in 2010 . We then traded that through RCI for a Grand Myan at Vidanta Riviera Maya , and bought contract for a Grand Mayan 2 Bedroom Suite at Nuevo Vallarta on May 2017 . From there we bought into The Estates in May 2018 for a 1 bedroom unit , which was reworked on October 2019 which added a Celebrate park one bedroom Loft

 

[cooperrose54]

Interesting in starting a group of Vidanta Estates owners. If you own one of these contracts can you please private message me or reply to this post. Thank you so much.

We are interested in this Vidanta Estates Owners group. We just purchased a 1 bedroom unit

 

[manddwilliams]

I am interested in the Vidanta Estates Owners group as well--1 bedroom unit.

 

[jssquared]

Hi Manddwilliams - I will message you directly. Thank you so much.

 

[Eric B]

Welcome to TUG, @anthony rowlinson! There are a lot of folks here that happily share information that they have gained regarding their timeshare ownerships and uses. In this thread, @jssquared did mention having set up a separate group for owners at the Estates at Vidanta; if you are an owner there and interested in joining, PM him by clicking on his name and starting a conversation. Feel free to post any information you've got otherwise; there are a number of folks that do update the TUG community on things they learn (I'm one of them), but wouldn't know where to start in asking you what information you have.

 

[gypsy4now]

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Welcome to TUG

I hope you have been able to connect with other Vidanta ESTATES owners.

 

[JoCoKSNP]

Welcome to TUG

I hope you have been able to connect with other Vidanta ESTATES owners.

Thank you for reaching out. I have not been able to connect with other owners. Any suggestions. I just signed up for an account

 

[JoCoKSNP]

Welcome to TUG

I hope you have been able to connect with other Vidanta ESTATES owners.

Hello. Thanks for the welcome.

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Hello. Thanks for the welcome.

Message @jssquared - who stated this thread. Click on blue user name
and then click on START CONVERSATION.
He was last on TUG in July - but a message wil go to his email

You also may want to look into joining Aimfair - which was started by Grand Luxxe owners & would include GL owners who have upgraded to Estates level.

 

[jssquared]

JoCo - Thank you for bringing back this thread. As T-Dot said, please message me directly and we can discuss my group. I can definitely recommend Aimfair. I know Bob Jones who runs the site. He also holds member get togethers a couple of times a year at the resorts. That may be your best bet.

 

[danmvidanta]

Hi everyone - I was just at a presentation in PVR Vidanta about the "2bd Grand Imperial Jungle Aqua" for $200k, where they were going to take my Kingdom of the Sun loft terrace off my hands and I just pay the tax. There's absolutely NO info about the Imperial Jungle Aqua (although they re-use the name for other packages, so it's all confusing), but it's being framed as a "smaller version of the Estates, with beachfront".

Does anyone have any other info or perspective on this? It seems strange to buy into something for which there's no visuals, other than a room layout.
Am considering keeping my Kingdom of the Sun, but part of me wants the optionality of the 2bd Jungle Aqua if it really is an Estates-lite, and then be able to swap back into the KoS park.

 

[Renameduser1234]

Hi everyone - I was just at a presentation in PVR Vidanta about the "2bd Grand Imperial Jungle Aqua" for $200k, where they were going to take my Kingdom of the Sun loft terrace off my hands and I just pay the tax. There's absolutely NO info about the Imperial Jungle Aqua (although they re-use the name for other packages, so it's all confusing), but it's being framed as a "smaller version of the Estates, with beachfront".

Does anyone have any other info or perspective on this? It seems strange to buy into something for which there's no visuals, other than a room layout.
Am considering keeping my Kingdom of the Sun, but part of me wants the optionality of the 2bd Jungle Aqua if it really is an Estates-lite, and then be able to swap back into the KoS park.

Do NOT… DO NOT buy into absolutely anything additional. There is nothing better than the 4 bedroom estates properties and allow me to just say that there is no official floor plan for absolutely anything and they have the right to make modifications as they please therefore you would be paying for “promises” once again. Their BS pitch of “only pay taxes” is just to get you to buy more because it’s AFFORDABLE but you don’t even need it! Stop feeding into it.

 

[senn]

I am an estate owner and would be very interested in getting/ sharing info.

We are Estates owners and would like to be on this forum.

 

[rafael.mtz.avi]

Recently upgraded from a Grand Luxxe to an Estates 2 br, been member since '19. I'd like to be part of this group, I'm interested in learning other members experiences and share/learn more info.

 

[Bellz]

Interesting in starting a group of Vidanta Estates owners. If you own one of these contracts can you please private message me or reply to this post. Thank you so much.

We are Estates owners and are interested in joining the group please