Timeshare USA – CNBC exposes dark side of timeshare
First off for our non USA readers, let’s explain a little about who CNBC are and where they fit in the American broadcast market. CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American cable business news channel and website. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 am to 7:00 pm Eastern Time. […]
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Club la Costa pull out of Turkey
CLC have announced the closures of their Kusadasi International Golf Resort and Apollonium Spa and Beach Resort. According to CLC, the closures have resulted from a change in Turkish legislation which states that from 1st January 2024, any rental for less than 100 days is considered a tourism/vacation rental and can only be allowed under […]
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Club la Costa – Ever wondered why there’s never availability?
As CLC owners will know, after the “operational partnership” with Wyndham, all resorts now bear the Wyndham branding. For years now we have all known that virtually no timeshare resorts are exclusive to owners anymore. Most developers will allow non members/owners to book directly and also the majority of resorts may be booked via the […]
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Want to holiday in a timeshare resort? Then book online
Over the years the once exclusivity of timeshare resorts, being for the sole use of owners, has been slowly diminishing to a point where virtually every resort is now able to be booked online by anyone. We hear the explanation from developers that the reason is spare capacity or inventory, fair play if that was […]
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Timeshare EU – We’re confused
As we have written on a number of occasions the EU Timeshare Directive 2008/122/EC which replaced Directive 1994/47/EC is a robust piece of timeshare consumer protection legislation now adopted into all member states statute law. According to EU statistics the economic significance of the timeshare sector is demonstrated by the fact that roughly 1.5 million […]
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Mediation services – Start the New Year with a new scammer
Basically this is just a cut and paste of so many fake Spanish law firm scams we have exposed over the years. For those who can be bothered to play “spot the difference” a catalogue of this rogues gallery may be found here. Below we will once again go over both the supposed law firm […]
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Stay where you want, when you want
Isn’t that what holidays are all about? Deciding when and where you want to go and achieving it. Outside of timeshare that’s exactly what you can do. The modern way to holiday and the revolution created all really started in 1996 when booking.com hit the scene. For the first time in holiday history the internet […]
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Timeshare USA – Lies, damned lies, and statistics – Pt2
Back in February 2023 we published part one of this article in which we featured a satisfaction survey carried out by the American Resort Development Association (ARDA). The survey was carried out amongst 1,600 timeshare owners, at the time we pointed out that with an estimated over 10m households owning timeshare in the USA, how […]
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Season’s greetings – A look back and forward
2023 has once again been a very interesting year for both timeshare owners and the TCA alike. As well as being interesting it’s also been a very busy year. Whilst crunching some numbers we established that our main email contact point has registered slightly over 700 inbound enquiries. Our online chat service soared past this […]
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Timeshare – Investment or not?
We start with a refresher as to what, in basic terms, timeshare is. A timeshare is one of many ways to sort of get your hands on a holiday property. You pool your money with other people and each of you buys a share of time in the property each year. Note the emphasis on […]
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