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Do you have a favorite TS resort that you return to again and again?
We have a few we have been to several times, but any more it is more like have to.
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We love to try new places and that's our favorite way to vacation in TSs, by far. We do relax when we walk in the door at Wyndham's Smoky Mountains (TN) and Cypress Palms (FL) resorts so we've returned several times to each of them.
For trades, we keep going back to Italy but different TS.
So far that's one area I can't get enough of, either - we've been 4x now, sometimes returning to same areas that we briefly visited but hadn't had enough days in previously, never to the same TS so far.
At the moment we have our first confirmation back to the same resort we once exchanged to, and that's Alpin (previously Anfi) Palace Murren - last time for 1 week, this time for 2. (And I'm waiting out the current 1-in-4 rule for MC.)
For many years we owned at a modest TS in Myrtle Beach - always traded our actual week, but used low-cost, last-minute bonus time off-season a few times a year. We loved it because it was always oceanfront, we knew the staff, we didn't have to make plans very far in advance, it was within a few hours drive, and it did feel like we were returning to our own "Beach House" where the minute we checked in, went upstairs, and opened the sliding glass doors to the balcony and ocean, all the tension melted away. There was never any pressure to figure out where to go, what to see or do - it was very healing for me. We got busy with a move recently, and felt a bit overwhelmed with being gone so often what with our several timeshares and all, but once we settle back down, might have to find another with owner bonus time.
We own at Marriott's Beach Place in Ft. Laud. and pretty much return there every year. We also have set up a trade into any Hyatt location in Key West for a second week. We've been to the Beach House for eight out of the last ten years and Windward Pointe once. We really like the Beach House.
We go back to the Big Island of Hawaii every other summer so we've ended up staying in quite a few there. I'd say our favorites (and it's more for location) would be: Bay Club, Kona Hawaiian Village, Kona Coast
1. Marriott maui, Wehave been exchanging in, and by far our favorite location, the older units without a kitchen are a bummer, but we would rather stay here than in a nicer room up at the Westin
2.Four Seasons Aviara, It is our kids favorite, and lots to do within an hour any direction.
Drive to for sure would be the Oregon coast at the Worldmark Seaside.
Two of our timeshares, Tahoe Beach and Ski Club and Pacific Grove Plaza, are our all-time favorites and we go several times each year using regular and bonus time.
No, not a favourite but there are a few we return to over and over again.
Being local to Newport RI and enjoying the area we return often. Have being so in some form or another since 1976. Still haven't stayed in all timeshares but closing in.
Still spit on the pavement near the NYYC, when that way, to show my contempt, in a friendly way.
Hope to branch out again and do something in the FL lower Gulf Coast soon.
In the 20 plus years of timesharing we have stayed in aprox. 100 places since we have gone to the same ones several times. I have written on other sites before and it still hasn't changed.
Lawrence Welk in Escondido is where I go to relax and recoup. I am relaxed from the time I walk in till we drive out. We came upon Lawrence Welk by accident about 16 years ago and after trading to it several times we bought.
We are in the older Villas and that is where it happens for me.
Bart
There are two timeshares I that I return to a lot. One is my first timeshare purchase, the Olympic Village Inn (near Lake Tahoe). The other is Worldmark Angels Camp. These are both an easy drive for me. I have friends that recently bought vacation homes in those two areas, so I have been staying at their places rather than using the timeshares. So I haven't stayed at those timehares as much as I used to.
We like to go to different places but there are a couple that we have been to that we would return to again because we liked them so much. We have only been once to the couple that I would consider our favorites but would go again to them when I get around to it!!
One of our favorites is the Pueblo Bonito in Emerald Bay Mazatlan. The pools and grounds are super and as long as you get a unit on the upper floors (3 or 4) you get an ocean view from any building. Even tho it is outside the city they run a free shuttle to their sister resort in the city.
The other place we would go again is The Harbor at Depoe Bay on Oregon coast. The timeshare itself is a bit older and has no real amenities but the location is fantastic. It sits on a cliff and views the ocean and the entrance to Depoe Bay Harbor (the world's smallest harbor!!). There are a couple of other timeshares there that are on the ocean cliffs, such as WorldMark and their units would probably be a bit more updated so would be a good choice but we did not stay or see inside of units there.
The one place we have returned to a few times is the Wyndham On shore in Newport RI. The unit is nice and in a great location in town but it's the town that we go for. We go in early December for what they call Christmas in Newport. Someday I would like to go in summer to enjoy it's main season.
As I said tho, for the most part we like to go different places and enjoy Mexico and the Bahamas a lot.
ken H.,Ballston Lake, NY
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For us its the MC in NYC, I have own there now for 7 Yrs, never Traded.
goes there at least four times per.year. next is the Sandals Grande in Ocho Rios Jamaica, has the Best food, and top shelf drinks (8 Resturants) of any AI resort I have been. for us it beats resturants in St Martin hands down
Our first visit to Kaua'i we fell in love with the island. We also did a timeshare tour of the Marriott in Lihu'e, and were sold on timesharing. We bought, but before we left the island we learned there were other options. Our last couple of days on the trip, we identified some additional places we thought we might like to own, and did some inspections.
As soon as we saw the Point at Poipu (Embassy Vacation Resort at that time). we were hooked. Both DW and I immediately felt this was a "home"; a place we could come back to over and over where we could feel comfortable. Not a resort, but a "home".
We've been back there every year since save two.
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