When you travel, you have several options for lodging, in addition to the alternative of renting timeshare. All of these choices come with both pros and cons.

Nothing saves vacation dollars quite like staying with relatives, and depending upon the situation, this can be a great way to spend time with people you perhaps don’t see as often as you would like. But spending your vacation in someone else’s home, where their schedules and plans will greatly impact your own, can be like a lot like a summer movie, starring you instead of Chevy Chase. Besides, unless you have lots of accommodating friends and family, or the ones you have relocate like nomads, spending every vacation in the same location can quickly lose its appeal.

For the motivated economizer, there are also lodging opportunities at hostels, fire watch towers, and even college dormitories, but will you be able to find such deals, when and where you need them? Will they meet your needs, and most importantly, will you feel like you are on a vacation while staying there?

Traveling like a movie star and renting a private home can be a very luxurious option, but unless a domestic staff comes with the deal, or you are bringing your butler, you can expect to be pretty much on your own during your stay. If you need anything, there is no one at the front desk to assist you and forget about courtesy tee times and supervised activities for the kids. Besides, staying at a private residence or vacation condo is often a bit of a gamble, unless you have rented there before. Your landlord’s idea of spacious, well appointed, and convenient to local attractions may differ vastly from your own. This leads us to the reason that so many people choose to stay in hotels or motels when they travel.

Hotel and motel lodging is available almost everywhere. Easy to book, easy to find, hotel lodging is relatively predictable. However, as everyone knows, or learns the hard way, cleanliness, quality, and safety can vary enormously from property to property, even though hotels may be owned or managed as part of the same chain.

The Timeshare Rental Solution

Timeshare rentals are more predictable than renting a private vacation home or condo. You can largely rely on the on-site timeshare management to ensure the standard of safety, cleanliness, and service at the resort. Timeshare management, after all, must answer to the timeshare owners at that resort, in a way that demands a different type of accountability than a motel or hotel has with its transient guests. And for many of the same reasons that people want to buy timeshare, they also want to rent it. Timeshare resorts typically offer an abundance of amenities, good security features, and roomy accommodations.

With the economy tight and gas costing more and more each week, this may not be the year you buy timeshare. But there has never been a better time to rent one. Rent timeshare and learn firsthand if timesharing is right for you. Check out a resort, enjoy a vacation, and pay less and get more than you do at a hotel.

The opportunities in timeshare rentals are excellent and with the choices available through Sell My Timeshare NOW, you are bound to find one that is just right for your vacation needs and budget.

Happy July 4! American Independence Day.

I hope you have a cookout, a day at the beach, or something equally fun planned for your holiday weekend. I can’t think of a better day for The Timeshare Authority to be writing about HOT 100 List property number 90– Ron Jon® Cape Caribe Resort.

Ron Jon® Cape Caribe Timeshare Resort

Located on Florida’s Atlantic coast, at Cape Canaveral, this resort is only a few miles from where American history is made at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It’s beachside on Cocoa Beach (where Jeannie and her magic bottle first moved in with the Major Nelson) and is less than an hour’s drive from Mickey and Minnie at Disney’s Magic Kingdom. The theme may be Caribbean, but the fun is all-American.

If hanging ten on your surfboard is not your style, try floating along on the Lazy River tube ride or take the plunge on a 248-foot-long water slide. There’s tennis, mini golf, exercise facilities, basketball courts, a beautiful pool, and a hot tub. And when you’ve had enough fun in the sun, duck into the theater for a movie, or linger over seafood and live entertainment at the restaurant and lounge.

Ron Jon® Cape Caribe Resort offers timeshare units that sleep from 6 up to 12 people, in one, two, and three-bedroom condos. Studio villas, designed to accommodate 4 people, have mini-fridges and microwaves; all other units have full size kitchens.

The Ron Jon® Legacy Comes to Timeshares

The Ron Jon® Surf Shop is an American icon. Long recognized as the largest (and coolest) surf and swim shops on the east coast, the Ron Jon® name and logo have represented America’s surfing Mecca since the 1950’s. Today Ron Jon surf shops can be found in Fort Lauderdale; Key West; Orlando; Fort Myers; Myrtle Beach; Panama City Beach; Ship Bottom, New Jersey; and even on the Pacific coast in Orange, California.

Ron Jon’s® in Cocoa Beach attracts more than 2 million visitors each year and is open 24/7, every day of the year. With live entertainment, bands, skateboard and surfboard legends, contests, and model searches scheduled all the time, Ron Jon’s® is unique mix of surf shop and theme park attraction, all by itself.

Plan a Timeshare Vacation at Orlando’s Beach

Cocoa Beach is known and marketed as “Orlando’s Beach,” and is less than a one-hour drive from all parts of the Orlando -Kissimmee vacation area. When you take advantage of the great values available on resales and timeshare rentals through Sell My Timeshare NOW, your red-hot timeshare deal means all you need to add are white sand and blue sea to start enjoying a perfect red-white-and blue vacation on one of America’s favorite beaches.

Last week The Timeshare Authority filled you in on the exciting details about Owners Perspective magazine, through a 3-part interview we did with Paul Mattimoe, president, and CEO of Perspective International.

• Exclusive Interview with Timeshare Publication CEO, Paul Mattimoe
• Timeshare Publication Founder, Paul Mattimoe, in an Exclusive Interview PART II
• Paul Mattimoe, CEO of Timeshare Perspective, in an Exclusive Interview, PART III

We thought we told you all the best news about this new publication directed at timeshare owners and people interested in becoming owners. And we gave you lots of reasons to sign up and receive your own free online subscription to Owners Perspective.

But we missed something very important…your chance to win a free timeshare membership! Twenty-five timeshare ownerships/memberships will be offered FREE to the first twenty-five callers who respond to the new publication.

Here’s what you need to do:

If you have signed up for an online subscription, you will receive an email on the day Owners Perspective launches – a date which could be any day now, but is as yet, undisclosed.

Your email from Owners Perspective will include the name of an article you need to find in the inaugural issue of the publication. Find the article and read for the details; you will find a phone number you should call immediately. As Paul Mattimoe explains, “…there are 25 free timeshares offered to the first 25 callers – and we don’t mean a promotional week of accommodation, we mean 25 actual timeshare memberships – all registered subscribers will be emailed at the same time on one of the days, they then have to find the article and call the number as fast as they can.”

If you haven’t already subscribed to Owners Perspective, I can’t think of a better reason to do so NOW!

Follow this link to register for your free online subscription to the industry’s newest timeshare magazine. http://www.ownersperspective.com/free/

The situation with the airlines in the US is getting scary. According to information released by the Travel Industry Association, 41 million flights that typically would have been booked over the past 12 months have not been. In other words, the US economy failed to earn more than $26 billion because travelers decided against flying.

Americans are unhappy (justifiably) with the rising costs of airfares. We don’t like overbooked flights, being packed into planes like sardines, or being nickel and dimed over peanuts, sodas, and a suitcase that weighs too much. The study, conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates and The Winston Group showed that most people do not think things are going to improve any time soon.

Twenty-eight percent of air travelers avoided at least one air trip this past year, which translates to 12 million business trips and 29 million vacations annually or about 112,000 flights not booked each day. Airlines lost $9 billion in revenue; hotels lost $6 billion, while restaurants lost about $3 billion. But we all lost nearly $4 billion in federal, state, and local government tax money that was not collected on these services.

The Economic News Is Still Good for Timeshares

Timeshares are still weathering the declining economy pretty well. People are recognizing them as a smart alternative to hotel rooms and are buying timeshare to lock in the price of accommodations at today’s rates. Timeshare resales are particularly strong because people understand that buying timeshare as a resale property makes good economic sense. At Sell My Timeshare NOW, offers run more than $1 million dollars per day to buy timeshare or rent timeshare advertised on our website. Over the upcoming days, when the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) releases their annual State of the Industry report, I will be providing you more information about timeshare sales in the US.

What Timeshare Owners Can Do During These Tough Times

Each one of us has to write a plan that is good for our families and our futures in dealing with the challenges of the US economy. But in as much as you can, remember that the worst thing that can happen to the economic future of the US is if we all stop spending. Instead, look for ways you can cut back in some areas – like switching from a hotel room to a timeshare rental, or sharing the cost of a timeshare with friends or another family. Millions of families depend on incomes from the airlines and the travel and tourism industries; and if we all stop spending, we will snap the wings off the airline industry and force restaurants and vacation attractions into bankruptcy.

To learn more about timeshare resale and timeshare rentals, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW.