This is Part II of our insider look at Disney timeshare in Hawaii. See yesterday’s The Timeshare Authority blog for “Sneak Peak at Disney Timeshare in Hawaii (Part I)”

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Once again, our thanks to Mary Kraemer, blog writer at Mouse Planet, for her updates on the new Disney timeshare resort in Ko Olina, Hawaii, known as the Aulani.

Disney Finesse for this Hawaii Timeshare

As if just being on a beautiful Hawaii island isn’t enough, Disney has a lot of fun features underway at the Aulani Hawaii Disney timeshare.

Besides its location on a beautiful strip of beach, the twenty-plus acres of the Disney Aulani timeshare will offer a water play area of typical Disney-esque magnitude. There will be a slide, an adventure river and the Waikolohe Pool and Stream, which is positioned between two of the Disney Vacation Club buildings.

For the less adventurous, there’s the Wailana, which is a relaxing tranquility pool. And for children, there will be the Menehune Bridge and Trail water play area. Menehune means “little folk” in Hawaiian and references a legendary race of tiny people who were said to once inhabit the islands accomplishing remarkable feats and magical efforts.

But you can’t spend your entire Hawaii timeshare vacation in the water, no matter how entertaining the setting. The Aulani Resort will offer an 18,000 square-foot spa, an 8,000 square-foot convention center and a wedding lawn.

According to the linguists at Disney Vacation Club, the word, aulani means “the place that speaks for the great ones” or “the place that speaks with deep messages.” The message here seems to be clear: expect a lot from the Aulani Hawaii timeshare; Disney plans to deliver their best.

Updates from The Timeshare Authority Blog on Disney Hawaii Timeshare:

• Disney Vacation Club Timeshare Moving Forward with New Hawaii Timeshare
• Disney Timeshare in Hawaii, But Where’s Space Mountain?

Thanks to Mary Kraemer, blog writer at Mouse Planet, for this eyewitness update. Mary and her husband recently toured the model units for the new Disney timeshare resort in Ko Olina, Hawaii: the Aulani. As this will be Disney’s first Hawaii timeshare, excitement is already high and based on Mary’s description, there’s every reason it should be.

Describing the new Hawaii timeshare as “huge” Mary explains that it seems to dwarf the neighboring properties, with 359 hotel rooms, (16 of which are suites) and 460 Disney Vacation Club timeshare villas (with 21 oceanfront Grand Villas). Tomorrow’s The Timeshare Authority blog will look at the on-property features, but today, let’s look at what you will find inside your timeshare unit as a member of the Disney Vacation Club.

Features of Disney’s New Aulani Hawaii Timeshare

The units themselves are similar in footprint to other Disney timeshare properties. Studio timeshares include a sink, small refrigerator, microwave and coffeemaker in the kitchenette and a queen bed and sleeper sofa in the sitting and sleeping areas. A flat panel television and DVD player is built into the dresser area and a table with chairs provides seating for two. These studio timeshare units are designed to accommodate up to four people comfortably.

One-bedroom timeshare units at the Aulani Disney timeshare will sleep up to five people or when used in combination with a studio unit, up to 9 people. One-bedroom units offer a living room with sleeper sofa that the author points out, (same sleeper in in all units) is uniquely comfortable because it lacks the mid-back metal bar usually found in pull-out couches.

The one-bedroom timeshare units also feature a Murphy-style bed, a full kitchen, dining area with banquette seating, and a stacked washer and dryer. The bedroom has a king bed, private bath with whirlpool tub, and a rainfall showerhead in the separate shower.

All of the new Aulani Hawaii timeshare units include a private balcony and an island-themed décor, complete with lots of “hidden Mickeys” (you know, those Mickey Mouse outlines that Disney carefully hides in unexpected places.)

Hawaii Welcomes Disney Timeshare

This new timeshare resort reflects both confidence in the Hawaii tourism market and Disney’s interest in building resorts and timeshares in venues that don’t include one of their theme parks. And although the Aulani won’t offer a full theme park, you can be certain that Disney has plenty of activities and entertainment planned for the resort. Check Saturday’s The Timeshare Authority blog, where we’ll look at what you can expect at this beautiful new resort.

More News from The Timeshare Authority Blog on Disney Hawaii Timeshare:

• Disney Hawaii Timeshare and What It Really Means
• Will You Be Spending Holidays at a Disney Hawaii Timeshare?
• Hawaii Timeshare Expansion Means Good News for the Local Economy
• Disney Vacation Club Timeshare Makes for Optimism in Ko Olina

As August rolls in, many people see this month as their last opportunity to take a “summer vacation.” August also means that it’s time for The Timeshare Authority to post the last updates on the 2010 HOT 100 List of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals. Remember, these timeshares received the greatest number of offers to buy or rent at Sell My Timeshare NOW. They are the “HOTTEST” timeshares on the consumer list to purchase or rent on the secondary market.

Orange Lake’s West Village Timeshare, a Popular Orlando Timeshare

Ranking as number 5 on the HOTTEST 10 list is Orange Lake’s West Village, an Orlando, Florida timeshare resort. Providing you easy access to all the amenities at Orange Lake, West Village timeshare units are the most centrally located at the resort. You’ll be nearby the Disney Planning Center, the RCI timeshare exchange desk, the Connections Business Center & Internet Cafe, (all located in the West Village Clubhouse) as well as close to the Gary McCord Golf Academy, the movie theater, game arcade, and the resort’s pools and hub of water sports.

Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas Timeshare, in Demand in Maui

The Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas is one of two Hawaii timeshares to make the top five on the Sell My Timeshare NOW HOTTEST 10 list. Located on a pristine stretch of north Ka’anapali Beach in Lahaina, Maui, this beautiful Hawaii timeshare resort has an all-villa design, with each unit including luxurious jetted spa tubs and fully equipped kitchens complete with marble countertops. From the beautiful beach to the lagoon pools, the Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas promise you an elegant island holiday at the property ranked number 4 on the list of the HOTTEST 10 timeshares.

Marriott’s Ko Olina Beach Club Timeshare in Oahu, Hawaii

Coming in as number 3 on the list is Marriott’s Ko Olina Beach Club, located in Oahu, Hawaii. Outstanding Marriot timeshares have dominated the HOTTEST 10 List again this year, and the Ko Olina Beach Club is no exception, from the lush tropical foliage, to the coral reefs, to the 18-hole championship golf course. Marriott’s Ko Olina Beach Club is only thirty minutes from the shopping and entertainment of Honolulu, but tucked in a tropical hideaway, it is worlds apart from the demands of daily life.

And although these three hot timeshare properties all offer you endless reasons to finally get around to that vacation you have been promising yourself, don’t decide just yet, because tomorrow’s The Timeshare Authority blog will look at the timeshare resorts that made the list as number 1 and 2!

Women in the Industry (WIN) is a non-profit organization created to promote, educate and connect women in the vacation and timeshare industry. In May, WIN launched its second annual Travel Auction that offers WIN members and their friends and families the opportunity to bid on donated vacation weeks beginning at $200 and including timeshare vacation opportunities at resorts worldwide.

The auction raised $9,348 in support of The Auskell Medical Clinic, located on Abaco Island in the Bahamas. Donors included Bluegreen, Island One, Festiva Resorts, Hawaii Vacation Club, ResorTime.Com, Interval International, RCI Endless Vacations, Dial an Exchange, San Francisco Exchange, Vacations Only, Lagonita Lodge/Alderwood Advantage, Marriott Vacation Club, Massanutten Resort, Shell Vacation Club, American Resorts International, Pollard Brook and Ron Jon Cape Caribe, Condominium Travel Club.

A Lifesaving Effort

This year’s target was to raise money to help fund the purchase of a mammography machine for The Auskell Medical Clinic. Because of the efforts of the women of WIN, five women have been saved through early detection provided by a previous mammogram machine that WIN replaced.

With a threefold purpose to unite and ignite combined strengths; to offer education scholarship and research opportunities; and to partner with charities that support the health, education and welfare of women and adolescent girls in need, the women of WIN represent the timeshare industry well.

To learn more about WIN, go to www.womenintheindustry.org

It’s July, and you know what that means, soaring temperatures in many parts of the country. And while beachside timeshares are definitely among the most popular, you don’t always have to visit an ocean to turn your timeshare vacation into something “really cool”. Consider vacationing at a timeshare that includes an on-property water park, where you and your family can relax, splash, slide, and swim without ever leaving the resort.

A few of the timeshares that now offer on-property or adjacent water parks include:

• Massanutten Resort in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, featuring The Pipeline for surfing; the Frog Pond for tiny swimmers; The Blue Ridge Rapids; Massanutten Meltdown (complete with water cannons); Avalanche Falls; Tube Slides; a hot springs, and more.
• Orange Lake Resort in Orlando, Florida, with the 12-acre River Island water park, designed to appeal to all ages. The massive water park is lush with tropical scenery and offers a 1,200-foot lazy river-style pool and a 168-foot-long waterslide, as only a few of the ways you can beat the heat during your Florida timeshare vacation.
• Split Rock Resort & Golf Club in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, which includes a $23 million, 54,000 indoor water park along with a bowling alley and a theater.
• Wisconsin Dells timeshare, where you can enjoy over twenty indoor and outdoor water parks. Known as the Water Park Capital of the World, the Wisconsin Dells offers more than seventy acres of cool, clean, vacation fun.

And no timeshare resort with water park list would be complete without mentioning Disney’s newest venture currently under construction in Ko Olina, Hawaii, The Aulani Resort, which promises a salt water lagoon for snorkeling, water slides, and a lazy river.

It may be a long hot summer. Why melt down when you can splash down?

As the summer speeds past, we don’t want to miss the chance to fill you in on all of the timeshare resales and timeshare rentals that made the Top 10 of this years’ HOT 100 List. These are the timeshares that consumers voted (with their dollars) as the most popular timeshares advertised with Sell My Timeshare NOW. In other words, vacationers, like you, made more offers to buy or rent timeshare at these resorts than at any other resort destinations we marketed.

If you have been following the Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List, then you may already know that six of the top ten timeshares on this year’s list are Marriott Vacation Club International properties. In today’s post, we are focusing on three of those six—the timeshares that came in as numbers 6-7- and 8 on the list.

All three are US timeshare but are located in very different parts of the country: (6) Marriott’s Maui Ocean Club (Maui, Hawaii); (7) Marriott’s Newport Coast Villas (Newport Coast, California); and (8) Marriott’s Grande Vista (Orlando, Florida).

Marriott’s Maui Ocean Club timeshare resales and rentals is a past nominee to Travel & Leisure’s prestigious list of “Top 25 Hotels in Hawaii. Marriott’s Newport Coast Villas timeshare resales and rentals offer Mediterranean styling in the heart of Orange County, California. And Marriott’s Grande Vista timeshare resales and rentals are located in the vacation favorite destination of Orlando, Florida, with easy access to great golf and all of the theme parks.

If you are considering buying a timeshare, then the strength of Marriott timeshare resales should give you great confidence that you are buying a vacation ownership product other consumers consider to be among the best.

If you are considering buying a timeshare, then the strength of Marriott timeshare resales should give you great confidence that you are buying a vacation ownership product other consumers consider to be among the best.

• Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas North, a HOT Hawaii Timeshare Destination
• You Could Be on a Timeshare Vacation at Marriott’s Oceanwatch Villas at Grande Dunes

When Sell My Timeshare NOW published its 2010 HOT List of the timeshare resales and timeshare rentals that receive the greatest number of offers to buy or rent, the HOTTEST 10 properties really attract a lot of attention.

And why not? These are great timeshare resorts you can buy with confidence, knowing that other consumers see them as “ideal” timeshare vacation destinations. If you missed the full report, published last month, you can download it by clicking 2010 HOT 100 List from Sell My Timeshare NOW.

Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas North Timeshare – A Timeshare Vacation in Paradise

Today’s The Timeshare Authority Blog focuses on the Hawaii timeshare that came in as number 9 on the list: Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas North. Located on a pristine area of Ka’anapali Beach in Maui, this Westin timeshare offers both ocean-view and island-view timeshare units, ranging from studio timeshares to one-bedroom, and two-bedroom lockoff units. All feature a full kitchen, luxurious master bath with whirlpool tub, and a private lanai or balcony.

Some of the popular details that make Westin timeshares such favorites include:

• Marble countertops in the kitchen.
• Dual sinks in the master bath.
• Plush bathrobes.
• LCD flat panel televisions.
• Blackout drapes for a peaceful night’s sleep.
• A 10,000 square foot Heavenly Spa.
• And of course, the signature “Westin Heavenly Beds” .

Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas North have every reason to have made the list of the HOTTEST 10 timeshares, as measured by the number of consumer offers to buy or rent. And you have every reason to want to learn more about the exceptional deals available on Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas North timeshare resales and timeshare rentals.

In July 4 post for The Timeshare Authority, we talked about Disney’s new Hawaii timeshare resort, Aulani, a mixed-use property that offers both hotel and timeshare accommodations.

Disney is already selling timeshares at the Aulani, and as of last week, already taking reservations. But it is interesting to look at what Disney’s venture into Hawaii timeshare really means to the Disney brand and the Hawaii tourist market.

Typically, Disney builds resort properties at or near its parks. But as Michael Corty, a Morningstar Inc. stock analyst who specializes in the Walt Disney Co., told the Orlando Sentinel, “It’ll be a test to see if their brand can extend … outside of their traditional business.”

All of the current Disney Vacation Club timeshare properties are located at a major Disney theme park except Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort located in South Carolina and Disney’s Vero Beach Resort, which is roughly an hour’s drive from the Disney Orlando parks. Both of these resorts benefit from their beachside locations, with the Vero Beach Resort timeshare also being portside where the Disney cruise lines docks. Yet neither of these popular timeshare resorts are as grand scale (or as costly) as is Disney’s undertaking in Hawaii, the Aulani.

The Aulani Resort will include water slides, a salt water lagoon for snorkeling, a lazy river, two restaurants and a spa. In building this Disney timeshare and resort, the company is looking for a strong market of guests and timeshare owners from Japan. It will also need enthusiasm from timeshare buyers (noting that Hawaii is one of the most requested timeshare exchange locations by current Disney timeshare owners) and support from the market of vacationers at large, most of whom only plan theme park vacations approximately once every 5 to 8 years.

Source: The Daily Disney

I don’t know where you will be viewing fireworks tonight but in the future you could be watching them from America’s fiftieth state during a Disney Hawaii timeshare vacation. Knowing the great job the pyrotechnicians at Disney do year round, one has to expect that the new Disney timeshare at the Ko Olina resort will be no exception when it comes to red-white-and boom!

The Aulani Hotel and Disney Vacation Club resort, currently under construction in Ko Olina, Hawaii, will begin taking reservations on August 2, even though the property isn’t scheduled to open until late August 2011. And as of this past week, prospective timeshare owners can purchase Disney Vacation Club timeshare at the Anlani—Disney’s first property in Hawaii.

Although there will be no theme park at the resort, the 800-unit property will have pools and a waterplay area, a children’s club, and a convention center. And while there is nothing in writing to confirm it, it is a safe bet that come July 4, the Anani will showcase the top-notch fireworks we all associate with the magic and memory makers at Disney.

Past The Timeshare Authority news on Disney Hawaii timeshare:
Disney Vacation Club Timeshare Makes for Optimism in Ko Olina
Tokyo’s Getting a Look at Disney Timeshare

This week’s release of the Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List of the timeshare resales and timeshare rentals that are in the greatest consumer demand, is one more validation that timeshare vacation ownership is a product enjoyed by millions and millions of people.

Each year, Sell My Timeshare NOW publishes the list of the 100 timeshares for which we show the greatest number of offers to buy or rent during the previous calendar year. This industry report provides interesting information about consumer patterns, first revealing where consumers are most interested in buying timeshare and also which timeshares have proven to be a good choice if you want to buy timeshare knowing that down the road you may want to sell it on the secondary market. In sharing this company information with you, Sell My Timeshare NOW provides meaningful and transparent insight into the timeshare resale market.

Hottest 10 Timeshares on the Sell My Timeshare List

Click here to see the full Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List. Meanwhile, here’s the hottest ten on the list:

1. Marriott’s Aruba Surf Club (Palm Beach, Aruba)
2. Harborside Resort At Atlantis (Paradise Island, Bahamas)
3. Marriott’s Ko Olina Beach Club (Oahu, Hawaii)
4. Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas (Maui, Hawaii)
5. Orange Lake’s West Village (Orlando, Florida)
6. Marriott’s Maui Ocean Club (Maui, Hawaii)
7. Marriott’s Newport Coast Villas (Newport Coast, California)
8. Marriott’s Grande Vista (Orlando, Florida)
9. Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas North (Maui, Hawaii)
10. Marriott’s Oceanwatch Villas At Grande Dunes (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina)

Interesting note: Critics sometimes claim that the Orlando timeshare market is oversaturated and you can’t resell Orlando timeshare, yet two of the top ten most in demand timeshares on the secondary market are Orlando timeshares and there are three more Orlando timeshare resorts ranked between 11 and 20 on the HOT List.