Best places to go to get one bedroom hotels or resorts???

[ingeborgdot Member Find all posts View Profile Close ingeborgdot]

I have a chance to sell my vacation ownership (timeshare) and I was wondering what people usually do when they book their trips? My wife and I are very used to one bedroom rooms now and won't settle for anything else. I have been looking at websites etc. but I am having a hard time finding one bedroom rooms. Can anyone lead me to the right place where I can find these kind of rooms to book?

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

If that's what you want, keep your timeshare, or rent from others. RCI does plenty of rentals. Also IntervalWorld getaways. Classifieds and rentals here and on TUG, Redweek.

[ingeborgdot Member Find all posts View Profile Close ingeborgdot]

My big issue is that our maintenance fees keep going up all the time. When we get into our older age I can only imagine what they will become. Do you believe that vacation ownership is a better deal than just finding my own deals in the long run?

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My big issue is that our maintenance fees keep going up all the time. When we get into our older age I can only imagine what they will become. Do you believe that vacation ownership is a better deal than just finding my own deals in the long run?

I hear you. You can always rent. I also like VRBO and HOmeaway, Air B&B.

[ingeborgdot Member Find all posts View Profile Close ingeborgdot]

What have you used and what do you use the most? Are they easy to use? Do you have vacation ownership?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

My big issue is that our maintenance fees keep going up all the time. When we get into our older age I can only imagine what they will become. Do you believe that vacation ownership is a better deal than just finding my own deals in the long run?

Welcome to the I'm Done With My Timeshare Club.

http://www.timeshareforums.com/forum...ght=tourniquet

The difference between you and the tens of thousands of others is that you are actually trying to see if there's something better.

If you are in RCI, there is. If you are not in RCI, and can be, consider joining.

That way, even after you find a way to unload (probably give away) your timeshare(s), you can still get Extra Vacations and Last Calls. Last Calls is excess inventory for the next two months and they are never more than $299. Right now they are discounted to $209. I don't need to say it, but that is a whole lot better than a maintenance fee plus $209.

Extra vacations are further out and about the same price as rentals would be, sometimes a little less.

Here's Extra Vacations right now:

USA [45715]
Carolinas and the Southeast [7701]
Florida - Orlando Area [4651]
Florida - Other [4746]
Gulf States [2903]
Hawaii [667]
Mid-Atlantic [1938]
Mid-South [5811]
Midwest & Plains [2865]
Nevada - Las Vegas Area [1206]
Nevada - Other [562]
New England [5208]
Pacific Coast [2680]
Rocky Mountains [4777]
Africa & The Middle East [2894]
Asia [6226]
Australia & South Pacific [3065]
Canada [4281]
Caribbean & Bermuda [17246]
Central America [1332]
Europe [19433]
Mexico [51533]
South America [6282]

Here's Last Calls:

USA [2257]
Carolinas and the Southeast [483]
Florida - Orlando Area [54]
Florida - Other [61]
Gulf States [133]
Mid-Atlantic [157]
Mid-South [381]
Midwest & Plains [203]
Nevada - Las Vegas Area [32]
Nevada - Other [65]
New England [335]
Pacific Coast [108]
Rocky Mountains [245]
Africa & The Middle East [204]
Asia [146]
Canada [351]
Caribbean & Bermuda [549]
Central America [7]
Europe [1094]
Mexico [513]

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Next Idea . . . use the Internet.

There are many sites . . . craigslist, homeaway, vrbo, or just google want you want, like Orlando Vacation Rentals.

Here, for instance, is Orlando Vacation Rentals on craigslist:

http://orlando.craigslist.org/search/vac

There's 2761 ads right now. Yeah, it will take some sorting through, but people do cuz that's the way I rent out ours. In many cases, timeshare owners are renting for the amount of their maintenance fee, or less.
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Next, contact resorts you want to go to. Many of our favorites from the past 25 years do rentals for their owners. Normally reasonable.
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Next, and I have to go look at this one, I have gotten condos for my wife and her girlie friends on Hotwire. One trip was a timeshare and a non-timeshare, added to a week on the beach in a timeshare.

Yup, you can still do it. I checked Hotwire for Orlando for a Saturday to Saturday in December, to duplicate a typical timeshare week, and got:

1-bedroom suite (10)

2-bedroom suite (4)

Those are filters under the "Amenities" tab. I clicked on 1-bedroom. There are two lower-end ones for $32 and $33 per night, and they range up to $147 per night. A good gauge is what percentage recommend each one, and in this list that varies from 60% to 80%. Surprisingly, the $32/night one is one of the 80%.
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Well, there you go. Just like there were vacations before timesharing, there will be vacations after, only, thanks to the Internet, less expensive.

Good luck.

[ingeborgdot Member Find all posts View Profile Close ingeborgdot]

Okay, I am just wanting to know what most people are doing now. I have been checking on places we like to stay or would stay. We only take one BR and up and don't want low quality places either. When we use II or RCI which we own at both, I only take upper places. When I have checked I don't know if I find any cheaper than what I can get from RCI or II when I add the MF + RCI exchange fees + average of total paid for TS when purchased. I am just trying to figure out what to do since we have a chance to sell it and get $7000 for it with no fees at all. AAAAHHHHHH the agony of making decisions.

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Okay, I am just wanting to know what most people are doing now.

Well, being as this is a timeshare forum, most people here are likely timesharing.

Here's another Hotwire:


Hot Rate Condo

Lake Buena Vista - Bonnet Creek area

$176 ǂ
$130 per night

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I am just trying to figure out what to do since we have a chance to sell it and get $7000 for it with no fees at all. AAAAHHHHHH the agony of making decisions.

I would have no agony with that decision.

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

I have a Marriott credit card and we usually try to stay in Residence Inns with a 1br if we want to go somewhere that does not have timeshares or easy apartment rentals. Most Residence Inns have true 1brs (that is, there is a door to the bedroom and the living room is separated by a wall) with limited kitchens, including a full refrigerator, dishwasher, sink, microwave, and 2-burner stovetop.

Fairfield Inns and TownePlace Suites sometimes have true 1brs also. Springhill Suites do not have true suites--no kitchen and there's just a room divider between the sleeping area and the sofa area.

Maybe others will weigh in on which other hotel chains have true 1brs.

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I have a Marriott credit card and we usually try to stay in Residence Inns with a 1br if we want to go somewhere that does not have timeshares or easy apartment rentals. Most Residence Inns have true 1brs (that is, there is a door to the bedroom and the living room is separated by a wall) with limited kitchens, including a full refrigerator, dishwasher, sink, microwave, and 2-burner stovetop.

Fairfield Inns and TownePlace Suites sometimes have true 1brs also. Springhill Suites do not have true suites--no kitchen and there's just a room divider between the sleeping area and the sofa area.

Maybe others will weigh in on which other hotel chains have true 1brs.

Wow! I didn't think to think back that far, but, yes, when I/we traveled on business 100-plus days a year, Residence Inn was on top of the list, normally through the Entertainment book. We also occasionally stayed at one of the "extended stay" types of motels. Even when searching for something to fill in before/after/in-between timeshares, we would look for the type of place.

There is a plethora of that type of hotel/motel now.

As said before, on hotwire now.

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So you would sell JLB???

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Yes, just about everyone here, well, the handful that hang out here and chum around, would sell JLB.



Sure. knowing what I now know, if I could have sold when I could have sold, I would have sold.

What good is $3000/year for something we can't use?

http://www.timeshareforums.com/forum...ght=tourniquet

But, only you are you. Since you are in RCI, go look and see if the Extra Vacations and Last Calls are to places you want to go. Then there's the highly-secret Nightly Stays, which semi-transparency has not brought forward from the Dark Ages.

If you sold, and then missed owning ???? , I bet you could again for less.

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It took me awhile to recover from my laughing fit before putting that last reply together. But I'm OK, I didn't hurt anything I use regularly.