It’s back to the Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List today with a look at the timeshare resort that ranks number 70 for the most offers made to buy or rent. With autumn approaching, now is a great time to plan a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia and vacation in a Williamsburg Plantation timeshare resale or Williamsburg Plantation timeshare rental.

You can see the fall leaves in the countryside along the way, get in touch with our nation’s history, ride the thrill rides at Busch Gardens, or just relax in the comforts of the Interval International ranked 5 star, Williamsburg Plantation timeshare resort.

Williamsburg Plantation Timeshare is a Great Family Vacation Destination

Make American History more than a subject in a textbook for your children this school year. Let them walk the battlefields of Yorktown, explore replica battleships of the Godspeed, Susan Constant, and Discovery, or enjoy a taste of the past with period-authentic meals at the King’s Arms Tavern and Christina Campbell’s restaurants.

Williamsburg Plantation timeshare resales and Williamsburg Plantation timeshare rentals offer spacious 2 bedroom timeshare units (to sleep six people) and 4 bedroom timeshare units (to sleep up to 12 people). Each timeshare has a DVD and a VCR player, at least one television, and good selection of cable channels, including HBO and the Disney Channel. Units include either a full or partial kitchen, access to a washer and dryer, and many have jetted bathtubs.

But perhaps the best thing about timeshares at the Williamsburg Plantation is the opportunity to rent or buy timeshare resales there. Sell My Timeshare NOW has over 200 Williamsburg Plantation timeshare units in inventory right now. You can easily shop for the size and the week that suits your vacation needs best, or buy a floating week that allows you even more flexibility in vacation planning.

There’s a reason that Williamsburg Plantation timeshares rank highly among the resorts receiving offers to buy or rent timeshare at Sell My Timeshare NOW, and that reason is very simply, that this resort is a highly desirable, drive-to destination for many vacationers, who like to combine family fun with spacious accommodations.

The Liki Tiki Village timeshare resort is a classic Central Florida timeshare. Located just south of Orlando, in the family vacation hot spot of Kissimmee, this resort is rated 5 stars by Interval International. And while Liki Tiki Village timeshare is a hot spot on the SellMyTimeshareNOW.com HOT 100 List, (ranking number 80) timeshare owners and timeshare renters who vacation there have plenty of opportunities to cool off at the resort’s many water features.

On-site, you can enjoy two pools (heated during fall and winter), two whirlpools, a children’s pool, paddleboats, and a freshwater lake. Liki Tiki Lagoon Water Adventure includes, a 220,000-gallon water park, five waterslides, a wave pool, a waterfall, an erupting “volcano,” spouting tiki heads, an octopus swing, interactive spray jets, dancing fountains, a toddlers’ area and Shipwreck Sally’s Bar and Grill.

When you are ready to dry off, try the two lighted tennis courts, game room, a sand volleyball court, or picnic areas. The Liki Tiki timeshare resort is a 64-acre, gated property, and offers two styles of accommodations. There are 2-bedroom and 2-bath townhouse timeshare villas, and there are 1, 2, and 3-bedroom high rise timeshare condos, all with a living room, dining area, full kitchen, and washer and dryer.

Who Should Buy Liki Tiki Village Timeshare Resales…

The Liki Tiki timeshare resort may not be the place to vacation if you are looking to relax in-season at a quiet, secluded retreat. But if you are looking for comfortable accommodations with lots of amenities to entertain the children, and plenty of water activities to help everyone in the family keep cool, then the Liki Tiki timeshare is a great destination. You will find restaurants of all types conveniently near the resort, as well as a restaurant, grill, and snack areas on property.

Liki Tiki timeshares and timeshare resales also put you close to all the entertainment areas in Central Florida. The resort is within 7 miles of the Walt Disney World® Resort, and is a short drive to SeaWorld, Wet ‘n Wild, Gatorland, Pirates Dinner Theater, Universal Orlando, and dozens of other places to entertain the kid in all of us.

To learn more about the opportunities in Liki Tiki timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, visit SellMyTimeshareNOW.com

Are you familiar with Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? The esteemed psychologist, Maslow, included the concept of the Hierarchy of Needs in a widely respected paper he published in 1943, titled, A Theory of Human Motivation.

In studying human nature, Maslow determined that we all share a structure of needs that we strive to fulfill in the same order no matter our cultural or intellectual status. For example, we don’t worry about needing friends (an need that occurs in the third tier of the 5 levels) until we have first satisfied the more basic needs for air or food, both of which are part of the first tier.

But which need level are we satisfying when we buy timeshare?

According to Howard Benedel, director of market research and analysis with Interval International, the growth of timesharing mirrors a societal desire to strive to achieve personal goals and agendas. Glenn Haussman wrote an excellent article that appeared in Hotel Interactive, in which he said, “A timeshare vacation facilitates that sense of achievement by serving as a platform where families can reconnect and have new and engaging experiences, which when combined with the comforts and spaciousness of a home sets the state for memories.”

Maslow’s third level or tier of needs includes the need for love and belonging with family and friends. The fourth level includes self-esteem, confidence, achievement, and respect by others, and it seems that buying timeshare works to satisfy needs in both these categories.

In other words, owning timeshare is not just a logical choice for vacationing, but actually appeals to us on an intuitive level. Bendell acknowledges this when he says, “Frankly, it’s (owning timeshare) become a mechanism to elevate sense of self worth and value.”

Go ahead. Buy timeshare. Instead of viewing it as a guilty pleasure or an indulgence, recognize that one reason owning timeshare appeals to us is because it affords a way to satisfy deep and intrinsic human needs. And if you buy timeshare as a right-priced timeshare resale through Sell My Timeshare NOW, you can even help satisfy that need to keep your finances safe and secure.

Dial An Exchange Timeshare Exchange is expanding their offerings to timeshare owners with the addition of timeshare travel insurance provided by CSA Travel Protection.

The travel insurance will be available to timeshare owners to purchase when they exchange their vacation weeks. Fermin Cruz, VP North American operations Dial An Exchange, says, “When combined with our Cancellation Protection Option, we believe that CSA travel insurance is the perfect complement to any exchange transaction, offering the DAE member an inexpensive, yet valuable protection to cover their entire vacation experience.”

Les Maine, CEO of CSA Travel Protection says, “By purchasing travel insurance from CSA when exchanging or banking their timeshare with Dial An Exchange, timeshare owners can protect themselves from losing any of their vacation time already purchased as well as annual maintenance fees.”

Dial An Exchange Timeshare Exchange was founded in 1997. The company’s website says it is the largest privately owned timeshare exchange company with worldwide destination availability. Not only is there no charge to timeshare owners to be a member of Dial An Exchange, but timeshare exchange fees are not charged until the actual exchange is made.

Last week, in a blog post titled, Expansion of SFX Timeshare Resort Exchange Company, the Timeshare Owners Blog told you about the expansion and new services of San Francisco Timeshare Exchange. Like Dial An Exchange, SFX offers timeshare owners another choice in timeshare exchange or banking timeshare for future use or exchange.

RCI and Interval International are well known, but smaller timeshare exchange companies are really claiming a portion of the timeshare resort market, and in many cases, offer service that is as good as or better than the larger timeshare exchange companies offer.

If you have had a good experience or a poor one with a smaller timeshare exchange company, please leave your comments on the Timeshare Owners Blog. No one has better insights about timesharing than timeshare owners who are using their timeshare weeks or exchanging them on a regular basis. We’d love to hear your comments.

When you want to sell timeshare and you put your vacation property on the market as a timeshare resale, it may surprise you which features make it most attractive to people looking to buy timeshare. The rule is the same for timeshare real estate, as it is for residential homes, commercial property, and vacation housing: location-location-location.

Timeshare at highly sought vacation destinations is attractive to people interested in timeshare condo resales and vacation club memberships. But timeshare resales have one huge advantage over other types of real estate when it comes to the subject of location because so many timeshare resorts offer exchange privileges at other resorts, or through timeshare exchange memberships like Interval International and RCI timeshare. In fact, frequently, when people buy timeshare, they look for properties - not at the destination they want - but at a destination where they think other people will want to make a timeshare exchange.

The second factor that strongly affects salability of timeshare resales is the dates or time of the year you own. Many people who buy timeshare must plan their travel and vacation dates around school calendars. However, despite the fact that timeshare sales are increasing rapidly among younger buyers, the largest market for the purchase of timeshare weeks is still among Baby Boomers - the demographic that is the least likely to be concerned about school holiday schedules.

Of course, the features and amenities that your timeshare resort offers, also makes a big difference with attracting people to buy your timeshare resale. Beachside access always attracts buyers, as does a location near popular ski sites. But also attractive are what is known as “drive to” destinations, which may not be on the beach or near the slopes, but do offer the advantage of being geographically located within easy driving distances for large populations of people.

At the resort, it has long been the standard that location at a golf course or with golf access makes timeshare resales more desirable. But according to recent information released by M.I.C.E, (an acronym for MEETING - INCENTIVE - CONFERENCE - EXHIBITION , a professional organization for meeting and event planners) interest in tennis between the years 2000 and 2005 increased by more than 12 percent. According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, tennis is experiencing the highest growth rate of the 114 traditional sports tracked in the United States. So if your timeshare resale offers tennis courts on property or nearby, be sure to make that point known to potential buyers. In these tighter economic times, the cost of playing tennis as compared to the cost of playing golf, is bound to be a consideration by some vacationers.

For more information about the easiest and most effective way to sell timeshare, visit the timeshare resales experts at Sell My Timeshare NOW.

The newest issue of TimeSharing Today Magazine, includes a letter from Lori Card-King, who is the vice president of Quality Assurance for Interval International timeshare exchange. Ms. Card-King is responding to a letter TimeSharing Today received from a reader who had questions about Interval International’s exchange policy.

My summary of both letters may give you more insight into the thinking behind policies at timeshare exchange companies and the viewpoint of timeshare owners who question the policies.

The timeshare owner’s position was that when she needed to cancel her timeshare vacation within seven days of the travel date, it was unfair for Interval International timeshare exchange to refuse to let her select another timeshare interval at a future date against her banked timeshare week. The timeshare owner acknowledged that Interval International not only kept her banked week and refused to let her make a future exchange but also charged her a fee for the cancellation. While the timeshare owner had no objection to paying the fee, she did object to having to forfeit all possible exchange against her banked week.

Interval International timeshare exchange’s explanation was that last minute cancellations often result in unused timeshare weeks because no one else is able to make travel arrangements fast enough to use the timeshare interval. II pointed out that they try to protect their members by refusing to accept banked or deposited timeshare for dates that are less than two weeks in the future, and not permitting exchanges with less than 7 days notice.

When you hear both sides, you can see that the timeshare owner and the timeshare exchange company each raise good points and TimeSharing Today did a good job of showing both sides of the issue when they printed the two letters side by side.

One option that was recommended was for the timeshare owner to purchase insurance from Interval International for just this reason. The timeshare owner also pointed out that two other timeshare exchange companies with which she had dealt, do allow you to still exchange for another week, even if you make a last minute cancellation. These two companies are: RCI and Donita’s Dial An Exchange.

In the past, I have listed the names of several timeshare exchange companies here on the Timeshare Owners Blog, but maybe it is time to do it again. The Timeshare Owners Blog does not endorse or recommend any particular timeshare exchange company, because different ones are best suited for different vacation patterns and individual needs.

According to ARDA, the American Resort Development Association, diverse segments of the population own timeshares, but currently the majority of timeshare units are owned by baby boomers and empty nesters. Howard Nausbaum, ARDA president, says, “Baby Boomers like the value proposition and agility of ’sharing’ resources such as vacation condos and homes.”

I’ve pointed out to you before that people born between 1946 and 1964—the boomers—are the fastest growing demographic in our society, so it stands to reason that they will represent the largest group of Americans who buy timeshare or rent timeshare for their vacations. They also, as a group enjoy the highest income earning levels with many of them having not yet even reached their earning potential. In the book Boom, (by Mary Brown and Carol Orsborn) a source you have seen me quote before, boomers are benefiting from inheritances left them by their parents and in-laws, adding to their resources of expendable income.

But boomers are not the only ones who rent timeshare or buy timeshare. And a closer look at Interval International’s most recent profile of timeshare buyers bears this out.

Profile of Vacationers Who Buy Timeshare

Research done by the timeshare exchange company, Interval International, (as reported in Hotel Interactive) revealed that, “leisure travelers interested in vacation ownership have a strong commitment to their values, personal needs, and lifestyles.”

The study goes on to identify that 36 percent of the people who buy timeshare are between the ages of 42 and 60. But here’s where I think, the research gets particularly interesting; 33 percent of the people who buy timeshare are between the ages of 28 and 41, with another 12 percent being under the age of 27.

The math’s not difficult here. People over the age of 42, do in fact, make up the largest percentage of timeshare owners, but it has clearly become a pretty tight race. People between the ages of 21 and 41 are purchasing an amazing 45 percent of all timeshares!

Proof once again, that timeshare ownership today is no longer a concept struggling to define itself and find ways to create flexibility and options. Nowadays, if you want to buy timeshare, your choices are flexible and packed with enough options to suit almost everyone’s vacation style and budget, especially when you look at the opportunities to buy timeshare on the resale market.

Timeshare Resale and By-Owner Timeshare

Timeshare resales and by-owner timeshare have taken down the price barriers and made timeshare ownership available to an enormous segment of the population. People who want to sell timeshare have often used and enjoyed their vacation ownership for many years; when they sell, they may be ready to simply relieve themselves of the commitments of timeshare ownership and move on to something else in their lives. Lifestyle changes, job transfers, health issues, marriages, divorces, and income changes are all reasons that some timeshare owners are willing to resell timeshare at very competitive prices. And if you’ve never looked at just how competitive the prices for timeshare resale and timeshare rental can be, I can think of no better place for you to start looking than at Sell My Timeshare NOW.

RCI and II offer excellent services, but timeshare owners should also consider timeshare exchange companies of all sizes as they select the exchange option that is best for them.

Most timeshare vacation property owners have at least heard of the two largest timeshare exchange companies, Interval International (II) and Resort Condominiums International (RCI). But many timeshare owners are surprised to learn that there are a number of other successful timeshare exchange companies and that for some timeshare owners, a small company is the best choice.

Dial An Exchange International (DAE) is a small timeshare company with offices in the US, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. In recent weeks, Dial An Exchange has announced new operations throughout Asia in conjunction with Highpoint Business Solutions and in South Africa. The goal of Dial An Exchange is to establish a network of representative offices thought Asia, starting with China, India timeshare, and Thailand timeshare and to better serve the growing South Africa timeshare market.

To find about more about Dial An Exchange, visit their website, http://www.daelive.com

To learn more about timeshare exchange companies in general, visit the Sell My Timeshare NOW website and read about “Timeshare Exchange Companies” and the benefits they offer timeshare owners.

Buyers and sellers of timeshare need to stay on top of the trends.

When you buy a timeshare or timeshare resale, you can base your decision-making solely on the location, amenities, options, and price that best suit your personal budget. But if you see resale or even exchanging in your future, then you also should consider factors that other people most frequently seek in a timeshare resort or vacation club.

Two-bedroom units are by far the most popular and of course, you need to consider the desirability of the week or timeshare interval you own. But a sometimes-overlooked factor that influences resale-ability is brand. As I have mentioned before, people are comfortable with names they already know and trust. If someone likes a certain hotel chain, they naturally assume they will like timeshare resorts developed under the same brand. And big-names give buyers a sense of assurance that the company they trust is going to be around for awhile.

Of course you know and recognize the major brand players in timesharing. Disney, Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, Starwood, are only a few of the companies that inspire confidence among timeshare buyers. HOTELS magazine recently added to that list with some other timeshare names you may or may not know, but should watch for. Based on research from HOTELS magazine, here’s RCI’s list of “fast-track” timeshare companies:

• In the US and Mexico: Bluegreen Corporation, Burroughs & Chapin, and Mayan Resorts (Mexico)
• In Europe: Pestana Hotels & Resorts, Porto Bay Group, Sol Meliá, Hilton International, and Ramada
• In Asia: Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India, Royal Resorts (Australia)
• In Africa: Sun International

Interval International’s list includes:

• In the US and Mexico: Gold Key Resorts, Westgate Resorts, and Villa Group (Mexico)
• In Europe: DeVere Hotels & Resorts (UK), and Royal Savoy Resort (Portugal)
• In the Middle East: Caryatid Properties, developer for the Royal Club at The Palm, Beijing’s Xiang Luxiang, and Development Corp.’s private residence clubs

Other notables: Grecotel, Club La Costa, RMI, and HC (Europe).

To find resale timeshare from these developers and many others, visit www.sellmytimesharenow.com

Overlooking the Dubai Marina and the Arabian Gulf in the United Arab Emirates is the seventy-four story Dubai Torch Tower. When completed in 2008, the building will house between 200 and 500 apartment units, as well as numerous indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a health club, gymnasium, restaurants, aerobics room, shops and parking garages.

Dubai Select has recently announced that they will sell timeshare condo units in the prestigious Torch Tower. The units will be available for exchange through Interval International’s worldwide interval timeshare network and will be sold in two-week increments.

The entire Marina project is an amazing undertaking. It is billed as the world’s largest man-made marina and the world’s largest master planned waterfront development. The design objective has been to create a city within a city, with the marina area offering the best and most luxurious in a city already known for opulent luxury.

The first phase of the Dubai Marina in Al Marsa was completed in 2003 at a cost of roughly $200 million US dollars. Built to be a modern interpretation of Venice, this waterside community occupies valuable real estate on the Persian Gulf. Man-made lakes on both sides of the community connect the land with the sea. A 700-berth marina, already completed, accommodates ships and yachts of all sizes.

The Torch Tower is among the tallest skyscrapers which will be in the community, although a few of the buildings rise about it with roughly 100 stories.