Club Casa Dorada Beach and Golf Resort timeshare in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico is as beautiful as any beachside resort you have ever dreamed of visiting. Located on El Medano beach, which is one of Cabo San Lucas’ best beaches for swimming, Club Casa Dorada Beach and Golf Resort offers guests a relaxing Mexico timeshare vacation destination, featuring access to an amazing range of amenities.

Timeshare owners and vacationers who rent timeshare at Club Casa Dorada Beach and Golf resort timeshare can enjoy their days with time on the beach or at the four health spas, the equestrian center, or teeing it up at one of the two oceanfront championship golf courses at the resort. Adjacent to Cabo Real Desert Park Reserve’s 3000 acres of protected land, your timeshare vacation can include ATV trail riding, mountain biking or hiking. There are perfect places for swimming as well as for personal watercraft use, kayaking, fishing, and snorkeling. But you might prefer to simply relax by the timeshare resort’s pool, shop the boutiques of Cabo San Lucas, and dine at one of the resort’s many fine dining or casual restaurants.

Club Casa Dorada Beach Timeshare is an RCI Golf Crown Resort

This exquisite Mexico timeshare resort is part of the exclusive 3500 acre Cabo Real Master Plan Community, which offers more than three and a half miles of some of Cabo’s best and most beautiful beaches. Club Casa Dorada Beach timeshare resort is an RCI Gold Crown property and is part of Melia Los Cabos Hotels in Los Cabos Mexico.

Offering timeshare owners and guests one, two, and three bedroom vacation ownership suites, most timeshare condos at Club Casa Dorada Beach Timeshare have private terraces, ocean views, kitchens or kitchenettes, and rooms with an elegant, clean-line décor. Jetted tubs, flat-screen televisions, and wireless internet provide you the comforts of home, with an upscale touch.

Buy Timeshare Resales at Club Casa Dorado Beach Timeshare

If you are reading this on the day this blog posts to The Timeshare Authority, then it’s Labor Day weekend, a traditional ‘long-week’ holiday in the US. And chances are, you are not on vacation. Because as much as I like to think of this timeshare blog as ‘gripping’ reading, it’s not the kind of thing most people read during their vacations…The Timeshare Authority is what you read when you are dreaming about a vacation.

So if you set aside a little time during your busy Labor Day weekend and peruse the incredible opportunities in Mexico timeshare resales and Mexico timeshare rentals, (timeshare resales and timeshare rentals available anywhere else in the world) advertised at www.sellmytimesharenow.com, then next time a holiday rolls around, you can be doing instead of dreaming; enjoying vacation ownership with your own affordable and luxurious timeshare.

The September 25, 2006 Timeshare Owners Blog told you about Hilton Breaks Ground on New York Timeshare Resort, reported on the groundbreaking of this exciting project. So it was very nice to read this week’s press release from Hilton timeshare, announcing that they are topping off their West 57^th Street Hilton Club project. “Topping off” doesn’t mean the project is complete and ready for your next timeshare vacation, but it does mean that the final bucket of concrete has been poured for the superstructure.

The Hilton timeshare company considers this project to be a significant milestone. According to Mark Wang, president of Hilton Grand Vacations, “Our vision to create a distinctive shared ownership project from the ground up in New York City is another step closer to becoming a magnificent reality. Built in the heart of one of Manhattan’s most prestigious neighborhoods - and upon the legacy of the Hilton commitment to excellence - West 57th Street by Hilton Club transcends traditional timeshare and continues to experience high demand. After years of planning, and working alongside world-class developers including Tishman Construction, we will soon be able to accommodate our owners and guests in unprecedented style.”

Hilton Timeshare Luxury

When complete, the Hilton Club timeshare resort will offer guests the first Spa Chakra in New York City, featuring massages, facials, body treatments, and signature Chakra Health therapies. The property includes 161 luxurious timeshare condos, from studio, to one-bedroom and penthouse suites, all with dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows, fine linens, upscale furnishings, flat screen televisions, entertainment systems and marble and granite detailing. On property will be valet laundry service, a 24-hour doorman, concierge, outdoor dining terrace, and the private Owners Lounge for food and beverage service.

As we have mentioned before, the location couldn’t be better. Timeshare owners or timeshare guests will be within walking distance of Central Park, the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, Radio City Music Hall and shopping on Fifth Avenue.

Currently the resort is on schedule to open in the second quarter of 2009.While Hilton timeshare originally listed these timeshare condos as starting at $40,000, up to $100,000, they now quote prices as starting at $58,000.

The Other New York Hilton Timeshare Option

Hilton timeshare already boasts a fabulous Manhattan timeshare resort, the Hilton Club New York. Currently Sell My Timeshare NOW has Hilton Club New York timeshare resales available, starting at around $14,000. The Hilton Club New York timeshare, located at West 53rd Street and Avenue of the Americas. (Sixth Avenue) is also convenient to the Midtown attractions you want to enjoy. As Hilton’s flagship New York property, it has undergone a multi-million dollar renovation, adding dining options in both the New York Marketplace and Etrusca Ristorante, and a new 8,000 square foot fitness center and spa.

To get started enjoying Hilton timeshare ownership in New York City, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW.

Earlier this month, Resort Condominiums International, known as RCI, announced an agreement with Al Ghaith Holdings regarding the Bavaria Executive Suites timeshare resort. Al Ghaith Holdings is a leading timeshare resort development company, based in Dubai. The new agreement will make the Bavaria Executive Suites timeshares part of RCI timeshare exchange.

RCI Timeshare Exchange Helps Shape the Face of Dubai Timeshare

RCI has played an integral role in bringing timeshare resorts and vacation ownership to Dubai. RCI, along with many timeshare developers has worked with regulatory agencies and lawmakers to assist in creating timeshare legislation that protects both the timeshare company and the timeshare buyer, while safeguarding Dubai’s cultural considerations and traditions. Nick Turner, managing director of Group RCI Middle East, commented on the forethought Dubai has demonstrated in preplanning its entry into the timeshare market, saying, “This aims to be well thought through and protects the interests of the consumer, developer, and brand of Dubai.”

The Bavaria Executive Suites will consist of two condominium towers, with a minimum of 450 one and two bedroom apartments. As the first timeshare resort on Shiekh Zayed Road, one tower will flank each side of the highway, giving the property prime access to Dubai’s new commercial and residential hub, and a location adjacent to Dubai Media City and the access route to the Palm Jumeirah. The timeshare resort will be conveniently close to the Mall of the Emirates, Jumeirah beach, golf courses, and many of the city’s attractions and business destinations.

The timeshare resort will include eight restaurants, sports centers, the newest Anagsana Spa, and a shopping arcade. As proof that the timeshare company hopes to attract both business travelers and vacationers, the Bavaria Executive Suites will include 40 fully equipped offices and a meeting center that can be configured to accommodate between 10 and 1000 business people.

The Future of Dubai Timeshare Sales

Dubai has aggressively committed to becoming a global destination for luxury vacations and tourism, yet has embraced timeshare real estate in a cautious and deliberate manner. Dubai is in the enviable position of being able to observe the smart moves and the errors made by other countries in regulating timeshare sales and timeshare resales and avoid mistakes others have made in the past.

People who want to buy timeshare or who are already timeshare owners should keep their eye on timeshare sales in Dubai…it could easily become one of the world’s top timeshare vacation destinations in the near future.

You can now be a Wyndham Vacation owner (Wyndham timeshare) at Yellowstone Park, with the recent opening of a new timeshare resort, located less than one mile from the park’s entrance. The Orlando, Florida based timeshare company, Wyndham Vacation Ownership, has just opened WorldMark West Yellowstone. This new timeshare resort, (according to the official press release issued by Wyndham Vacation Ownership) is the only major branded vacation ownership resort in West Yellowstone, Montana.

Mountain Lodge Amenities at New WorldMark Timeshare

West Yellowstone is a significant location, not only because Yellowstone is America’s oldest and most famous national park, but because it is the geographic cross point where the states of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana meet. The timeshare resort is part of WorldMark: The Club Portfolio and offers 112 timeshare condos in one, two, and three-bedroom units, along with four-bedroom Presidential Suites. The three-story, mountain lodge-style timeshare resort includes an indoor pool, a recreation and fitness center, and other amenities.

According to Franz Hanning, the president and CEO of Wyndham Vacation Ownership, “As the only flagged vacation ownership property in the West Yellowstone area, WorldMark West Yellowstone offers our owners and their guests a world-renowned, year-round vacation experience. When combining the rugged beauty of Yellowstone National Park with the unparalleled service and comfort people have come to expect from our Wyndham-branded resorts, we are providing a truly unbeatable vacation experience.”

To learn more about becoming a WorldMark timeshare owner by buying timeshare resales or taking advantages of opportunities in WorldMark timeshare rentals, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW.

And to keep an eye on Old Faithful, the largest geyser at Yellowstone National Park, enjoy this link to Old Faithful Geyser Live! - Video WebCam

An article in the March/April issue of TimeSharing Today motivated me to research a situation that sounded like a timeshare owner’s worst nightmare. It seems that a timeshare condo located on St. Pete Beach was closed and then sold at auction as part of a property tax sale in Pinellas County, Florida in November of 2006.

The timeshare unit owners at the Camelot timeshare owned their property by individual deed. Yet despite this, when property taxes went unpaid on the timeshare resort for three years, the individual owners were not contacted by the property tax office. Instead, with unpaid property taxes totaling $180,000, Camelot timeshares (a timeshare resort valued at $15 million) was sold to Luke Investments for two million dollars.

A Questionable Timeshare Owners Association

According to an article that appeared in the St. Petersburg Times last year (March 26, 2007), the president of the Camelot homeowners association said he, “…has not been able to contact timeshare owners because Luke Investments won’t let him in the building’s office where all the records are, including contact information for all the owners.”

The article goes on to explain that when he was asked why he hadn’t looked up the timeshare owners’ deeds and contacted them that way, he (the TOA president) said it would be too time consuming. As an explanation of why this problem went on for three years unchecked, the president said the office manager never informed him the taxes were unpaid.

Okay, surely this response brings up some questions like: why the timeshare owners’ association president never checked to be sure that the property taxes were being paid or why he apparently didn’t notice that there was $180,000 surfeit in the association budget. Nevertheless, the St. Pete Beach police chose not to press charges against any of the Camelot association board members or its employees, so we have to assume they were able to answer those questions to someone’s satisfaction.

A Happy Ending for the Timeshare Owners

The good news for the timeshare owners at Camelot was that a County Judge in Florida agreed with them, that they should have been individually contacted by the property tax office before the timeshare resort was auctioned to pay the back taxes. His ruling voided the timeshare sale.

Of course, this decision did not set well with Luke Investments, who believed they had purchased the property fairly. According to TimeSharing Today, a Florida Appellate Court recently brought the matter to an end, upholding the County Judge’s decision to void the tax sale of the property.

And perhaps the best news of all for the timeshare owners at Camelot is that they have fired their old property management company!

To learn more about opportunities in Florida timeshare resales and Florida timeshare rentals visit Sell My Timeshare NOW.

SunStream Hotels and Resorts is now offering one-bedroom timeshare condos at the Diamond Head Beach Resort on Fort Myers Beach. The nine-year-old resort is a twelve-story, beachside property, that has recently been remodeled and is selling 31 units as timeshare condos.

Historically, SunStream is recognized as a property management company, operating other Florida vacation condos. The Diamond Head timeshare units include kitchens, queen-sized sleeper sofas (in addition to the queen bed in the private bedroom), and balconies with a view of the Gulf.

According to Street Talk Blog, prices begin at $9,990 for deeded ownership of one week in off-season. However, in visiting the SunStream Vacation Club website, it appears that this is a special rate for the first timeshare buyers only and will not be in effect much longer. Also, perhaps the renovation is still underway, as the website says that first occupancy is not until the 2009 season.

Opportunities in Florida Timeshare Resales

Just to refresh your memory about the beautiful beaches in Florida, Fort Myers Beach is way down south on the Gulf Coast side of the state. You can expect temperatures in line with Miami or Boca Raton, but because you are on the Gulf side not the Atlantic, you’ll enjoy much warmer waters and typically balmier breezes…in other words, just about an ideal location for a timeshare vacation.

If you are interested in getting some sun and beach time in the Fort Myers area and you don’t want to wait until 2009, be sure you consider Fort Myers timeshare resales and timeshare rentals. Sell My Timeshare NOW has an excellent inventory of Florida timeshare resales in the Fort Meyers area, and around the state, where you can start enjoying vacation ownership immediately, at highly competitive prices.

Part Two in a Two-Part Blog Post on Westgate Timeshare

Saturday’s Timeshare Owners Blog reported on David Siegel, CEO and founder of Westgate timeshare and Westgate Vacation Villas, who was found guilty last week by a federal court in Florida of sexual harassment.

The $5 million lawsuit, brought against Siegel by a former employee, was not the first storm the self-made billionaire has weathered, nor is it likely to be the last. Siegel’s divorce from his second wife, Betty, cost him over $200 million in cash and assets including a lakeside home so decadent in style that when Michael Jackson first saw it, he made an offer on the spot to buy it for his personal residence.

Yet over the years, David Siegel seems to have done a good job of ensuring that his personal challenges do not affect the quality of service or standards at Westgate timeshare resorts. His motto, “Good enough isn’t good enough,” appears to be something he takes seriously. A 2007 Forbes Magazine profile of Siegel says he personally checks every detail about Westgate timeshare, including sleeping on sample bed pillows and, “…inspecting the furniture he preselected, the showerhead, and flat-screen TV in each unit.”

As an innovative, creative, and driven entrepreneur, Siegel continues to grow Westgate timeshares in his usual big way, building most of his properties three times larger in number of timeshare units than is the industry average for a timeshare resort. His commitment includes not only time, but also money. The company has already spent $100 million (with another $1.1 billion planned in investments) on his current showpiece timeshare resort, a joint venture between Westgate timeshare and Planet Hollywood for a 2,800+ timeshare condo resort in Las Vegas.

But the same Forbes article that extolled Siegel’s attention to detail also quoted him as describing the people who buy Westgate timeshare as being the, “Johnny Lunch-Bucket crowd,” who “shop at Wal-Mart and otherwise would stay in a Ramada Inn.”

…Somehow, I don’t think he meant that as a compliment.

Most people who buy timeshare as new property from Westgate Vacation Villas or Westgate timeshare, make a down payment (according the article in Forbes Magazine) of approximately, “…$2,400 for the right to stay one week per year in a two-bedroom apartment. They pay the other $21,600 over ten years (often borrowing it from Westgate, which makes much of its money on financing), plus a $599 annual maintenance fee.”

In case you missed that part, let me repeat it, “…Westgate, which makes much of its money on financing…“

Maybe It Is Time to Consider Timeshare Resales

I will leave you to draw your own conclusion about a decision to buy timeshare as new property from Westgate Resorts, or the decision to let Westgate Resorts finance your purchase.

On Sell My Timeshare NOW’s website, we advertise timeshare resales and timeshare rentals that belong to Westgate timeshare owners who want to sell or rent timeshare. When you buy timeshare through Sell My Timeshare NOW, you deal directly with the person who currently owns the timeshare weeks or timeshare condo. Because you are buying timeshare resales, you can expect to pay lower prices than if you buy timeshare directly from the developer.

If you are interested in buying Westgate timeshare, do two things before you make your decision. First, search the extensive inventory of timeshare resales available on the Sell My Timeshare NOW website and see for yourself the good deals that are available. Second, take a few minutes to watch this YouTube video of an interview with David Siegel and his wife Jacqueline, as they take you on a tour of their new house, at that time, still under construction.

With a late-season surge in the flu going on in many parts of the US, it is easy to assume that most travel-related illnesses are airborne, but according to a recent health edition article on Forbes.com, experts estimate that up to 50 percent of travel related illnesses are contracted from contaminated water or food.

Many people today find it difficult to work more than one vacation into their schedules and budgets each year; for others, those treasured vacation days roll around even less frequently. So what could possibly be worse than saving dollars and vacation days for months, even years, only to plan a trip and spend any part of it feeling ill?

The Forbes online article quotes Dr. Susan McLellan, director of the Tulane University Travel Clinic and associate professor of medicine in infectious disease at Tulane University School of Medicine as saying, “Traveling without taking some precautions is like driving without your seatbelt. You’re probably going to be fine-unless something bad happens.”

Here are some worthwhile tips about staying healthy on vacation, and a few thoughts on how owning a timeshare or timeshare resale makes guarding your health when you travel even easier.

Playing it Safe with a Timeshare Condo

Everyone knows that they should drink only bottled water when traveling abroad. And most people even remember that rules applies to the water they use when they brush their teeth, or wash a piece of fruit. But here’s something many travelers don’t know: play it safe with bottled water and drink only from bottles that you open personally.

Restaurants have been known to serve bottled water to guests, but to “graciously” remove the bottle cap first. While you may think they are being accommodating, (and maybe they are) they may, in fact be serving you tap water that has been poured into the bottled water container as a cost saving measure.

And here’s another food-handling tip that could make the difference in a great vacation and a week spent tethered to the bathroom: the fewer times food is handled, the lower the risk of it making you ill. As Forbes writer Allison Van Dusen points out, “You might be better off eating something straight from a street vendor’s boiling pot than off a swanky hotel buffet that’s been sitting around for a while.”

A week in an exotic location may be just the recharge your brain and body needs. Even a not-so-exotic location, like Mexico timeshares, can offer you the sun, sand, and the climate change your body craves, without traveling halfway around the world. But wherever you go, vacationing in a timeshare condo with kitchen facilities might turn out to be the difference between a fabulous holiday and a miserable experience.

You don’t have to bypass dining in restaurants when you go on a timeshare vacation; new and diverse cuisines are part of the fun of travel. But the truth is: you dramatically improve your odds of avoiding travelers’ illness by limiting the number of times you eat food prepared by others. An in-suite kitchen and dining area is a rarity in most hotels, and not available in every timeshare resort. But there are plenty of timeshare resorts in the US and abroad that do offer kitchen and in-room dining areas. Selecting a timeshare condo that provides a kitchen means you personally have control of the food handling and safety of the meals you and your family eat. Like the experts say, you’ll be fine, unless something bad happens…so when you plan a vacation, make it a timeshare vacation. You will be improving your odds of staying healthy as well as enjoying wonderful accommodations and amenities.

To learn more about the opportunities in timeshare resales and timeshare rentals visit Sell My Timeshare NOW.

Last September the Timeshare Owners Blog gave you an update on expansion by Wyndham Vacation Ownership (Wyndham timeshare) in Panama City Beach that had just made an acquisition of 100 timeshare condos at the Emerald Beach Resort.

That must have proven to be a good move for Wyndham timeshare as late last month, they finalized the addition of another 100 timeshare condos at the Emerald Beach Resort. Wyndham timeshare has also entered into a contractual agreement to purchase more timeshare condos at this location in the future, although terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Franz Hanning, president and CEO of Wyndham timeshare said, “Last fall, we initiated a deal that would expand our presence in the Florida Panhandle through the incremental acquisition of existing vacation ownership units in Panama City Beach…Our continued investment in this popular beach destination ensures that even more of our owners will have the opportunity to experience it.”

Wyndham Vacation Resorts Panama City Beach are part of the Wyndham FairShare Plus program and include one, two, and three-bedroom timeshare condos with views of the Gulf of Mexico. All of the timeshare condos offer a private balcony, a full kitchen with washer and dryer, and living and dining areas.

Wyndham timeshares in the Florida Panhandle also are available at:

• Wyndham Beach Street Cottages
• Wyndham Bay Club II timeshare
• Wyndham FairShare Plus Timeshares
• Wyndham Majestic Sun timeshare

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.