Florida timeshare, with more timeshare resorts and more timeshare units than anywhere else in the world, continues to rank number one in timeshare vacation ownership. Despite the fact that a recently released study shows the southeastern United States and the Caribbean as the most desired locations to buy a timeshare, California timeshares take the number [...]

Earlier this week we blogged about how timeshare resort management group, Grand Pacific Resort Management, is expanding (see: Grand Pacific Resort Management Adds 3 Timeshare Properties). Now let’s take a closer look as the new properties added, which include another California timeshare for the GPRM managed family of  resort properties, along with a Hawaii timeshare [...]

Declaring that as a timeshare and vacation ownership resort management company it is no longer the “best kept secret” in timeshare management, Grand Pacific Resort Management announces  the addition of 3 new resort properties. The new resorts include Canada, California and Hawaii timeshare. The company, based in Carlsbad, California, is now responsible for the management [...]

What did you do in 2012? RCI timeshare exchange grew by 150 resort properties in 2012. Joining the company’s more than 4,000 global resort properties were 150 new RCI timeshare exchange affiliates. RCI Timeshare President, Gordon Gurnik, says, “We are delighted to be celebrating the addition of 150 new affiliated properties in 2012. These new [...]

  An affiliate of Dallas-based Lantern Asset Management (which is owned by Centerbridge Capital Partners) bid a reported $100 million to purchase the former Ritz-Carlton Hawaii timeshare and fractional at Kapalua Resort in Maui. The Hawaii timeshare and residence resort was previously branded as a Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences Bidding at the foreclosure hearing for [...]

The American Resort Development Association of Hawaii (ARDA-Hawaii) presents Kauai’s 2012 Hawaii Timeshare Employee of the Year award to Julie Pavao  of the Westin Princeville Ocean Resort Villas. Pavao, an Executive Assistant at the Westin, is the first to receive Kauai’s 2012 Timeshare Employee of the Year award through the statewide program. ARDA Hawaii has [...]

In recent years, timeshares across the US, haven’t experienced a healthy period of growth—except in Hawaii. Hawaii timeshares are trending up these days with 1436 new Hawaii timeshare units having been built (or on schedule to be built) between 2011 and the end of 2013. Remarkably, there is even the potential for as many as [...]

How much do you know about the vacation resort options with Disney timeshare? Do you know, for example, that not all Disney Vacation Club timeshares are located at a theme park? Or that each Disney timeshare resort is designed with its own themed personality that makes it unique among all the other DVC timeshare resorts? Disney [...]

The Timeshare Authority blog was among the many observers to note last week that Wyndham Vacation Ownership (Wyndham timeshare), announced its acquisition of Shell Vacations LLC and its subsidiaries. (See: Wyndham Vacation Ownership Timeshare Acquires Shell Vacations) But the Honolulu Star Advertiser took the news a step further, looking at what this timeshare industry transition [...]

Last week, I was reading comments on a message board that is for Disney Vacation Club Owners or as DVC calls them, “Club Members”. The Disney timeshare message board was not part of Disney Vacation Club’s website nor was it a part of our company’s network of websites and we have no affiliation with it. [...]