Timeshare Vacations and confirmed exchanges

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

April - France, Brittany (t/s), combined with Guernsey (non-t/s)
April - Romania, Brasov (non-t/s)
July - UK canalboat (t/s)
August - Scandanavia (non-t/s)
September - Italy (t/s)
November (Thanksgiving) - Canary Islands (t/s)

Also, I am trying to work in a trip to Crimea in the Ukraine sometime this summer or fall, hopefully in conjunction with a business trip to the area.

[Larry Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Larry]

adding more vacations to list

I just decided to go back to Aruba in January and stay at my week 4 at La Cabana that I was going to rent out.

I also have a pending request with II to add week 3 to my week 4 and may try to rent another week so that I can get out of the cold weather in NY for 3 weeks in January like this year. It seems that ever since I retired I just can't get enough vacation.

[dougp26364 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dougp26364]

How does everyone go on so many vacations? I am guessing that many of you are either retired or self-employed or I am doing something SERIOUSLY wrong.

Perhaps this question should become a poll? JLB you out there?

My job has flexible scheduling and, rather than sick leave and vacation time we have paid-time-off, which is one pool to cover all time off. So long as we're not sick a lot, we have plenty of time to take off. It helps that we've been with one employer for a long time, which maximizes our paid-time-off balances.

You also might take into consideration that, with so many points programs out there that will allow you to reserve less than a full week, it's possible to take several mini-vacations vs taking week long vacations every time.

[akparsa Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close akparsa]

Here's mine

We have young kids in school nearly all are planned around school vacations if the kids were involved.

NY 2010/2011 Wilderness Club at Big Cedar (BG Points, drive)
Jan 28-31 Orlando me and middle daughter for 10th bday (BG Points, drive)
Feb 1-8 2011 4 bedroom Presidential unit at Daytona Seabreeze (BG Points), me, mom and 5 sisters
Pres Weekend 2011 - skiing at Christmas Mountain Village (BG Points, drive)
Spring Break 2011 - Wilderness Club at Big Cedar (BG Points, drive)
Apr 29-May 3 2011 - Shenandoah Crossing, Husband and son only (BG Pts)
Memorial Day 2011 - Wilderness Club at Big Cedar (BG Points, drive)
June 4-18, Hawaii - FIVE FF tickets!
June 4-6 - Wyndham Waikiki, rental
June 6-11 - Wyndham Shearwater, Kauai, RCI Points
June 11 -18 - HGVC Kingsland, Big Island, RCI Points
July 10-15 Solara Surfside, me and nieces, BG Points
Aug 5-12, Grand Timber, Breckenridge CO (II exchange, drive)
Sep 20-24, Manhattan Club, me and hubby (RCI Points)
Nov 4-6, Long Creek Lodge, (Ridgedale, MO) girls wknd with 7 friends (BG points, drive)
Dec 3-10, TBD for me and hubby. Just missed a Four Seasons Aviara exchange yesterday! Originally thought about taking kids to Orlando while DH did a training course but oldest son (12) has too much homework to miss school.

And for 2012, I'm repeating all my standard weekends at Big Cedar (New Year's, spring break, Memorial Day weekend) but I have no other trips planned.

[gandalf252002 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close gandalf252002]

Well if we are including "short stays" ie weekends this is what mine looks like;

Feb 5 - 11th Sunshine Resort in Orlando FL (BG Points)
Mar 25 - 27th Carriage Hills in Barrie ON (BG Select Connections)
April 8 - 10th Georgian Manor in Collingwood ON (BG Resort Hot Weeks)
May 6 - 8th Mountain Run in Boyne MI, (BG Points) (gift for mother's day)
May 20 - 23rd Mountain Run in Boyne MI, (BG Points) introducing a couple friends to TS'ing
Jun 18 - 23rd Calabogie Lodge in Calabogie ON (BG / RCI points) white water rafting
Aug 26 - 29th Laurel Crest in Pigeon Forge TN (BG Points)
Sept 2 - 5th Club Cranberry in Collingwood ON (trade with another TS4MS member)

Maybe not so bad after all. Not quite the distance or luxurious as some of you but over all not bad. Looks like I have some gaps to fill though!

[10AC-TYM Member Find all posts View Profile Close 10AC-TYM]

We did 34 weeks in 1010. This is our schedule for 2011.

Dec. 28 -- Jan 15 Panama Canal cruise
Jan 12 - 30 Sheratan Broadway Plantation Myrtle Beach, NC
Feb 14 - Mar 2 Hawaii cruise
March 18 - 24 The Quarters Ocean City, MD
Apr 16 - 23 St James Place Beaver Creek, CO
Apr 24 - May 2 Wyndham Durango Durango, CO
May 13 - 20 Vacation Village Orlando,FL
May 21-22 Philadelphia
May 26 - June 3 Arrowhead Condominums Seeley Lake, MT
June 3 - 10 Banff Gate Mountain Resort Banff. Alberta
June 10 - 18 Paradise Canyon Resort Leathbridge, Alberta
Aug 16 - 28 Alaska cruise
Aug 28 - Sept 10 Worldmark South Shore Zephyr Cove, NV
Sept 16 - 24 Westgate Tunica Tunica, MS
Sept 24 - Oct 1 Wyndham Smokey Mountains Severville, TN
Oct 14 - 21 Diamonds Edge-Muskoka Muskoka, Ontario
Oct 24 - Nov 4 Walton Hall Wellsbourne, England
Nov 4 - 19 London to Ft. Lauderdale cruise
Nov 20 - 27 Mountainside Villas Massanutten Virginia
Dec 16 - 23 Pinecrest Townhomes Pigeon Forge, TN

We still need 2 or 3 weeks for July and a week or two more in December. We have not chosen a bowl game for 2012 as yet. We had to miss the bowls last year due to the Panama cruise so we went to the ACC championship game instead.

[shorts Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close shorts]

Well, I can't compete with a lot of you as DH doesn't get much time off work but here goes.

Feb 2011: 2 weeks Grand Cayman (own weeks)
May/June 2011: Orlando Bonnet Creek - Wyndham points
Thru summer: Several 3/4 day weekend RV trips
Oct 2011: Hilton Head - RCI

Jan 2012: 2 weeks Grand Cayman
Summer 2012: somewhere with Wyndham points 4BR unit but can't get adult kids to agree on where we should take family trip. Several RV trips
Oct 2012: Samoset Resort Maine - RCI
Will still have Wyndham points left for either another trip or to rent out some weeks. Not sure what we'll do.

[akparsa Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close akparsa]

Well if we are including "short stays" ie weekends this is what mine looks like;

Weeks owners don't have the flexibility to take long weekends or midweek stays. Definitely include your less-than-a-week points trips to show the beauty of a points system!

Anita

[bellesgirl Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bellesgirl]

My understanding is this thread is asking for just T/S vacations, so that is what I am including.

Jan- Feb 2011: 5 weeks in Puerto Vallarta; Villa del Mar, Villa del Palmar and Club Buganvilais
Mar 2011: Vacation Village at Weston, Weston, FL
Apr 2011: Sandy Point Beach Club, Tobago
May 2011: Swan Mountain resort, Dillon, CO
June 2011: Shadow Mountain Resort, Aspen, CO

That's it so far. We will be back in PV for 2012 but I have not planned beyond that. 2011 has been very busy with weddings and graduations.

[Jeanne Sz Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jeanne Sz]

I need to win the lottery!

I can't even come close to competing on vacations!
DH changed jobs early this year, so we canceled 2 planned vacations.

Feb. 2010 Hawaii
April 2010 Myrtle Beach (ended up sending some friends instead)
May 2010 Myrtle Beach
Oct. 2010 Wyndham Glacier Canyon

2011
Feb. Hilton Head with a friend - her Marriott TS
March. Bonnet Creek - Epcot getaway w SIL
May-June Branson (driveable)
July - Wisconsin Dells. 3 units via RCI

Haven't decided where the fall will take us. Watching SFX...


Nov.

[dougp26364 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dougp26364]

Well if we are including "short stays" ie weekends this is what mine looks like;

Feb 5 - 11th Sunshine Resort in Orlando FL (BG Points)
Mar 25 - 27th Carriage Hills in Barrie ON (BG Select Connections)
April 8 - 10th Georgian Manor in Collingwood ON (BG Resort Hot Weeks)
May 6 - 8th Mountain Run in Boyne MI, (BG Points) (gift for mother's day)
May 20 - 23rd Mountain Run in Boyne MI, (BG Points) introducing a couple friends to TS'ing
Jun 18 - 23rd Calabogie Lodge in Calabogie ON (BG / RCI points) white water rafting
Aug 26 - 29th Laurel Crest in Pigeon Forge TN (BG Points)
Sept 2 - 5th Club Cranberry in Collingwood ON (trade with another TS4MS member)

Maybe not so bad after all. Not quite the distance or luxurious as some of you but over all not bad. Looks like I have some gaps to fill though!

I always think of short stays as vacations. If I'm away from home, I'm on vacation. The problem for us is that most short stays are to Branson, MO. It's about the only drive to destination where we have the opportunity for short stays. I think we actually have 4 trips to Branson planned between now and the end of the year. No, we don't consider it the greatest vacation destination. It's just the only destination for short stays that doesn't take 10 hours to reach by car. We will occasinoally use Breckenridge for a short stay but, that's around 9 hours in the car and there's rarely any BIG sale on airfare to get us there.

[Dori Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dori]

In November, we went to South Korea for our son's wedding, but there are no timeshares close enough to Seoul, so we stayed with him during our visit.

We didn't stay in nearly as many timeshares, this winter, as we bought a mobile home in Florida, and stayed there for 7 of our 9 weeks in Florida. We did spend 2 weeks at Summer Bay in Orlando during February, when the kids and grandbabies came for a 2-week visit.


Upcoming trips include:

May 14-21- Grandview in Las Vegas
July 15-22- Carriage Hills in Ontario

November- 3 or 4 weeks in our Florida home

January, Februay, March in our Florida home, with a one week stay at the House of Summer Bay in February (again, when the kids and grandbabies come down for a visit).

We are looking now for something in California or Arizona for next May.

Ain't retirement grand?

Dori

Dori

[Larry Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Larry]

Great responses here but zero over yonder on TUG

I don't get it !!! we are getting close to 30 responses here yet I posted this same thread on TUG and have had zero, zilch, nada in responses over there.

Maybe the folks over there have stopped traveling altogether.

[eal Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close eal]

How about 2012?

We have 5 weeks booked for Southern California for late Jan & Feb (Oxnard, Avila Beach, Palm Springs, San Clemente & Escondido).

A week in Scottsdale in March for baseball.

Glacier National Park in May

Mt Baker (Snowater Wa) in August

Santa Fe & Durango (Monument Valley) in Sept.

Hawaii in Nov/Dec: 2 weeks in Kauai and 2 weeks on the Big Island.

Ah.... vacations

[Larry Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Larry]

I just decided to go back to Aruba in January and stay at my week 4 at La Cabana that I was going to rent out.

I also have a pending request with II to add week 3 to my week 4 and may try to rent another week so that I can get out of the cold weather in NY for 3weeks in January like this year. It seems that ever since I retired I just can't get enough vacation.

I just added week 3 to my week 4 in Aruba thanks to a rental I got from Lawren. So I changed my II pending request to try and get an exchange prior to my check in date of my rental.

Hope to get 3 weeks in Aruba in January just like I did this past year and get out of the cold weather in NY.

So the answer to the other thread " Has timesharing run it's course" is still a big no for me as long as I can get these types of vacations.