Marriott Vacation Club and its more than 416,000 vacation ownership members want to make your life a little more special…. by giving you the chance to win a dream vacation. If you are the lucky winner in the Marriott Vacation Club Share the Rewards contest, you’ll receive 250,000 Marriott Rewards points for yourself PLUS 100,000 [...]

Marriott Vacation Club is raising its prices on Marriott timeshare. Starting on June 13, 2013, the price of Marriott timeshare points-based vacation ownership will increase when you buy directly through Marriott. How do increases in the price of Marriott Vacation Club points (purchased from Marriott) impact the price of Marriott timeshare resales? Only time will [...]

The three most popular destinations for timeshare vacations this Memorial Day Weekend holiday may not be the places you would guess first. Orlando timeshares? Daytona Beach timeshares? Maybe Myrtle Beach timeshares in South Carolina? Nope. Not if TripAdvisor’s recent Memorial Day Weekend travel survey translates accurately to the vacation ownership industry and timeshare vacations. Although [...]

Yesterday The Timeshare Authority blog reported “Profits Rise at Marriott Vacations Worldwide.” Today’s story is about positive momentum shown in Wyndham Worldwide’s Q1 performance. The report includes a look at Wyndham vacation ownership. Wyndham Hotel Group posted first quarter 2013 revenue of $222 million, which is an increase of 20 percent over the same quarter in [...]

The Orlando, Florida based timeshare company, Marriott Vacations Worldwide saw profit rise from 9 million in the first quarter of 2012 to $18 million in the first quarter of 2013., announced last week that its first-quarter profit was double that of last year. The timeshare company Marriott Vacations Worldwide company executives described the quarter, which [...]

  Two Marriott timeshare resorts, part of Marriott Vacation Club, have announced new options for golf instruction. Both Marriott’s Grande Vista resort, an Orlando, Florida timeshare, and Marriott’s Shadow Ridge resort, a Palm Desert, California timeshare are now home to the new Marriott Golf Academy. Formerly know as the Faldo Golf Institute, the two new [...]

One of many popular resorts of Marriott Vacations Worldwide (Marriott timeshare) is the Las Vegas timeshare, Marriott Grand Chateau. Already with some 450 timeshare villas, the current phase in development will add another 200-plus timeshare villas in a 36-story tower. The Las Vegas Review Journal quoted Ed Kinney, vice president, corporate affairs, at Marriott Vacation [...]

In the wake of the tragic events in Boston, we offer the following information. The City of Boston has established “One Fund Boston.” Boston-based John Hancock (insurance company) has already committed $1 million to the fund which will raise money for families most affected by the bombings. Ten of the victims were taken to Boston’s [...]

How do you feel about spending your Saturday morning shopping at Ikea? Or your Saturday afternoon assembling what you bought at Ikea that morning? Here’s a new thought for you … how would you feel about spending the night at Ikea? Marriott International Inc. (the brand behind the hotels, not the spun off Marriott Vacation [...]

J. W. Bill Marriott, Jr. (Bill Marriott), past President of Marriott Hotels and Marriott timeshare, was interviewed by the BBC just prior to US President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address (February 12, 2013). You can watch the interview in the video below. Bill Marriott has also recently released a new book, Without Reservations: How A Family Root [...]