What is a shoulder week

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

I have seen this term, shoulder week, used in a few threads but haven't been able to figured it out.

Mike

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

I have seen this term, shoulder week, used in a few threads but haven't been able to figured it out.

Mike

not prime season, not totally off season, but just outside prime. Like September in Cape Cod or any number of other hot summer destinations.

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

I have seen this term, shoulder week, used in a few threads but haven't been able to figured it out.

Mike

Like a pink week.

[Jya-Ning Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Jya-Ning]

The week the exchange company claim is prime week but supply is greater than demand. Like Sept, May at beach. Most Orlando's week if it is not holiday.

Jya-Ning

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

In the tourism business, "shoulder season" is the time period between high season and off-season. Only a place with a distinct off-season, such as Cape Cod, would have a shoulder season. I'd say that shoulder week refers to tourist season, rather than to timeshare supply and demand. I wouldn't call any weeks in Orlando "shoulder season" because Orlando doesn't really have an off-season, although certainly some timeshare weeks there have far more demand than others.

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

Fall, winter and spring are my favorite times for Orlando because it is quiet.

Orlando definitely has a shoulder season, which is every single day that kids are in school!

I can pull any of the "red" weeks that kids are in school with my bluest week. I can pull three bedrooms, I can pull HGVC's. To me that means that Orlando has a shoulder season. The salespeople will tell you that all of Orlando is red, which is just a lie. Just because the weather is great all year does not mean that demand is there all year.

More proof that Orlando has a pink/white/even blue (green with II) shoulder season: For under $500 I can rent a two bedroom Marriott Grande Vista from II's Getaways. If there was true demand, those weeks would not be there at all. That is one of the top resorts in all of II, in my opinion. Also available are Cypress Harbour and Marriott's Horizons.

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

Thanks to all...now I know

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

Orlando definitely has a shoulder season, which is every single day that kids are in school!

I can pull any of the "red" weeks that kids are in school with my bluest week. I can pull three bedrooms, I can pull HGVC's. To me that means that Orlando has a shoulder season. The salespeople will tell you that all of Orlando is red, which is just a lie. Just because the weather is great all year does not mean that demand is there all year.

More proof that Orlando has a pink/white/even blue (green with II) shoulder season: For under $500 I can rent a two bedroom Marriott Grande Vista from II's Getaways. If there was true demand, those weeks would not be there at all. That is one of the top resorts in all of II, in my opinion. Also available are Cypress Harbour and Marriott's Horizons.

I definitely agree that there are times when Orlando is an extremely easy trade. However, in my view, "shoulder season" refers to whether a particular area is a tourist attraction at a particular time, rather than to the ease of getting a timeshare week. For example, September is definitely "shoulder season" in the Michigan tourism industry -- school is back in session, it's getting too cold to swim, and so it's not really tourist season anymore. However, even in September, it can be hard to trade into a timeshare in Michigan, because there are so few timeshares there.

In fact, in reference to Orlando, there is an oversupply of timeshares there even in the summer. But, it wouldn't make sense to say that summer isn't tourist season in Orlando -- the attractions are fairly crowded and airfares are relatively high (although neither is as bad as Spring Break or Christmas.) If someone were told that Orlando is "shoulder season" in the summer, and went there hoping to find few tourists, they'd be disappointed.