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Timeshare Agent or Travel Agent?
Imagine lying down on the sand, listening to the rhythmic sounds of the surf and feeling the warm water lapping up your toes. There’s no brainstorming meeting to attend, a report to file or a business lunch meeting to schedule. All you have is peace and quiet, not stringent schedules. It’s the ideal vacation; are you going to share it with a bunch of other people or would you rather keep it to yourself and your loved ones?
The Busy Vacation
The average vacation for most people is a hustle and bustle of activity from take-off to landing and back again. Before a vacation can be taken, flight or cruise ship tickets have to be reserved, hotel reservations have to be made, the travel insurance company has to be called, the credit card company has to be informed, and a car has to be rented. When you reach your destination, you shall have to concentrate and get busy on having a “good time.”
You line up at the hotel’s recreation desk to schedule scuba diving and snorkeling trips. You go to a tour guide and sign up for packaged tours that you have to share with a multitude of other guests. You dress up for the night and eat in a crowded restaurant that does a mean fillet mignon, but stays crowded because of it.
Soon enough, your vacation is over and you realize that all you did was get brown but what you’ve been doing is adhering to hotel, tour and restaurant timetables as well as lining up and getting crowded by the other vacationers. You just exchanged your busy schedule for another busy schedule: same people, same crush and same hectic time – the only difference is that during your ‘vacation’ the people were in khakis, prints and sun hats, you had a great view and you got a great tan.
The Ideal Vacation
The ideal vacation is one where you can be alone with your family when you want to be and where you are free to do anything you want when you want to do it. You can just laze around and look at the view. You can stroll along the beach and not trip all over other people.
The ideal vacation is typified by spending time on a beachfront property or on a private mountain resort that is secluded enough so you can be alone with your family but near enough public amenities so you can have all the modern conveniences when you want and need them.
Even if you want that kind of vacation property, however, buying such prime piece of property is out of the question. Why would you need to buy property you’ll only use once or twice a year? However, renting this kind of property may also take up more money than you are willing to spend.
Timeshare Vacation: The Ideal Solution
Investing in a timeshare property (say a timeshare resort or a Marriott timeshare) is the ideal solution. Properties offered in timeshare deals are usually exclusive, expensive and located in prime vacation spots – exactly the sort of property you’d wish to spend your vacation in but – due to financial and practical considerations – you just cannot buy or rent for your vacations.
To buy timeshare, you only need to choose among available timeshare vacation property. Then, you have to approach the timeshare operator or go to timeshare auctions online to find timeshare resellers. Decide how many shares you want to buy then purchase your timeshare or timeshares by processing the paperwork and paying the upfront costs of purchase. By buying a timeshare for sale, you and your family can spend your vacation on a fantastic vacation property every single year.
With a timeshare purchase, you’d no longer have to arrange for hotel reservations. Nor would you have to deal with other noisy and busy tourists. All you need to do is to get to your property and enjoy yourself.
You can spend your vacation in relative seclusion, cook your own meals and provide your own entertainment. When you tire of the quiet, you can bring your children to the theme parks that surround your timeshare property (especially if you have a Disney time share), you can walk along the beach that borders your property (especially if you have a Florida timeshare) or you can bring your spouse and play roulette or blackjack in the nearby casinos (especially if you have a Las Vegas time share).
Let Your Checkbook Speak for Itself
Buying a timeshare is better than renting villas or reserving hotel rooms during your vacations. I’m sure your checkbook would agree, too.
Let’s compare the costs of a standard vacation and a timeshare vacation. Assuming that you go for luxury and exclusivity, you’re going to spend two hundred fifty dollars per room for every night you stay at a luxury hotel, condo or resort. At the end of a seven-day vacation, you would have spent around $1750 in accommodation costs alone. Spend this amount of money every year for 40 years and you will have spent approximately $70,000 on accommodation costs alone.
On the other hand, if you are to buy a week’s share of an exclusive vacation property, you would pay perhaps around $9,000 in one-time purchase costs (this amount is just the cost of a one-time cruise). You’ll also pay around $500 for attorney’s costs. Let’s say that maintenance costs are around $600 per year (this is greater than average). In 40 years of 7-day annual vacations, the costs would be only around $33,500.
The prices outline above would vary according to the location of property and the size of property, but one thing will remain constant: you’ll save money by spending your vacations in a timeshare property than you would on a rent-per-night property.
In the end, one thing is clear: a timeshare vacation will give you both maximum enjoyment and maximum savings. What could be better?
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