Whistler, Canada–Is Truly A Great Place To Visit If You Like Winter Sports

November 13, 2011

The third week of our Western trip was spent in the Canadian town of Whistler.  Whistler is truly a great place to visit if you like winter sports, such as skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, etc.  It is also a great place to visit if you like summer sports, especially mountain biking, ziplining, trail hiking and ATV-ing.  [...]

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Trip Report: Washington State-Raintree’s Sandcastle Resort at Birch Bay (Part II)

November 6, 2011

Hopefully you are enjoying our current trip report of our three week trip out to the northwestern area of the country. We have written two posts about our Alaskan cruise and one post about our second week in Washington State. We are continuing that second week in this post. We will talk about some of [...]

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Trip Report:Washington State-Raintree’s Sandcastle Resort at Birch Bay (Part I)

October 30, 2011

We are continuing a trip report of our recent three-week trip to the Northwest section of the country.  We have already posted two articles about the first week of the trip, which was an Alaskan cruise:  “Timeshares Rock, Cruises Rock (The Boat)” and “ Cruising Vs. Timesharing—Can You Really Compare?”  In this article we will get [...]

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Cruising Vs. Timesharing-Can You Really Compare?

October 23, 2011

If you read our last post, “Timeshares Rock, Cruises Rock (the Boat!),” you may have gotten the idea that we didn’t enjoy our trip too much because of the weather.  Actually, that’s not true—we enjoyed it very much, in spite of the weather.  It’s one of those trips that we’ll look back on and mostly [...]

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Timeshares Rock, Cruises Rock (the boat!)

October 12, 2011

How can you verbally describe a phenomenal trip?  You really can’t, but in these next few posts, that’s exactly what we’re going to attempt to do.  Our last 3 weeks have been spent at sea, Alaska, Washington State, and Canada.  It wasn’t all fun, and there were some inconveniences, but it was mostly enjoyable and [...]

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Can You Enjoy a Timeshare Vacation on a Shoestring Budget?

October 2, 2011

One of the truly wonderful things about owning a timeshare, is that YES, you can take a vacation and spend very little money—that is, if you spend that money wisely.  If you bought your timeshare from the developer, that is probably one of the selling points that the salesperson used to try to convince you—and [...]

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Timeshare Cooking-Did Someone Mention Football?

September 25, 2011

Well, it’s that time of year again when the pigskin flies through the air and frenetic fans are hovered around the TV on Sunday afternoon or Monday evening. I guess if you’re into college football, it would actually be on Saturday (you can probably tell that I’m not really into this stuff!) At any rate, [...]

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Disney Vacation Club Resale

September 17, 2011

Who doesn’t love the magic of Disney and Mickey Mouse?  The Disney Vacation Club is the timeshare division of the Disney Corporation. It is comprised of some 11 timeshares, 7 of which are in Orlando, Florida in the Disney World complex.  There is one at Disney Land in California, one in Hilton Head, South Carolina [...]

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Zen and the Art of Timesharing-10 Paths to Vacation Enlightenment

September 6, 2011

Zen is often touted as the way to inner peace. We have done some reading and studying about the “Zen Way” to a stress-free life.  We also love to timeshare and take about 15 to 20 weeks of timeshare vacations every year.  We think that our timeshare vacations can help lead all of us to [...]

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Timeshare Scams and How to Avoid Them

August 28, 2011

It was reported by CBS news this month that timeshare fraud is at the top of the list of complaints by consumers.  In Florida, complaints were up to 12,000 for the year– the highest ever.  They also indicated that timeshare scams are one of the top areas of trouble, running 3 to 1 over all [...]

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