Hurricane Michael slammed the Florida Panhandle earlier today as a Category 4 storm, and several timeshare resorts have been evacuated. At this time, we know the following resorts have been evacuated: Destin Club Destin Resort Destin Holiday Beach Resort Wyndham Vacation Resorts at Majestic Sun Emerald Grande at HarborWalk Village Bay Club of Sandestin Wyndham…
Ready to spend Christmas somewhere awesome this year? RedWeek members are booking these weeks like crazy, but luckily there are still lots of weeks available! Here are the most-booked Christmas destinations on RedWeek: Hawaii By far the top location for Christmas-travel on RedWeek is Hawaii! Members’ favorites are: Marriott’s Ko Olina Beach Club on Oahu…
Time’s running out to book a timeshare for your Thanksgiving vacation! We’ve made it a little easier with a guide to some of the resorts that still have space. No matter where you want to be grateful this year–on a sun-soaked beach, from the powdery slopes, on a lush golf course, or out of the…
RedWeek just returned from a long road trip where we attended industry conferences in sunny Las Vegas and supposedly sunny Orlando, but as soon as we got to Orlando, we got the word: Rained Out. Not really, but the Sunshine State turned into the Soggy State during our visit, just in time for the start…
Timeshare owners are a mixed bag: younger, older, wealthy and educated Younger. Smarter. Wealthier — and tougher to fool. That’s the new look timeshare owner for 2018, according to surveys commissioned by the timeshare industry’s trade and lobbying group. In a recent column posted in Developments Magazine, Howard Nusbaum, president of the American Resort Development…
Forget January. February 2018 is a great start for the new year. All maintenance fees should be paid by now, and if you want to go to your Hawaiian timeshare next winter, now is also the time to make that 12-months-in-advance-of checkin reservation at your home resort. But it’s also a good month for most…
Most people know that fall and football go together. But only a handful know that fall is also election season at timeshare resorts across the country, where very few people vote and, in all likelihood, even fewer care about the outcomes. All owners generally care about is #1 reservations and #2 maintenance fees. HOA board…
The horrendous hurricanes in Texas and Florida have taken a huge toll in human life and billions of damages in property losses across several Southern states and the Caribbean. To help timeshare owners assess what is going on, RedWeek contacted several companies for updates on their resorts and how to handle cancellations, etc. While…
AUGUST 16, 2017 — MANHATTAN. After more than three years of investigation and litigation, the New York Attorney General’s Office today announced the settlement of the Big Apple’s most notorious timeshare case. The AG announced that hundreds of owners at The Manhattan Club will share in a $6.5 million settlement approved by the long-troubled operators…
Last month, in our Ask Redweek forum, we posted an article about positive trends in the resale market. For the first half of 2017, resale closings tracked by RedWeek rose 46 percent compared to 2016. As a follow-up to our feature on resales, we’ll now give you a snapshot of industry-wide stats just released by…