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Previously a member of the hotel section of Starwood North America, Westin St. John will soon become a member of Starwood Vacation Ownership with their upcoming transformation into a vacation ownership resort. Come the year 2017, the make-over will be complete and this once-hotel will be a vacation ownership resort composed of deluxe villa timeshare units.

Currently, Westin St. John has a total of 96 hotel rooms. When renovations begin next week, those rooms with be reduced to 45 to allow guests to visit the resort during the year-long revamping. In time, those will likely become villas as well, once the other rooms have been transformed into villa units. There is also room for the resort to expand in the upcoming years as business has been booming, and there is more customer demand to purchase vacation ownership properties.

Director of Operations for Westin St. John, Sam Hugli, talked about the industry wide shift to vacation ownership, saying, “You’re basically a part-time owner of the unit. Vacation ownership units give customers more flexibility to travel to other locations” (more so than traditional timeshare).

Changing the model of the resort will also lengthen the length of the resort’s season. Summer months are traditionally slow in this area, but now customers will be forced to purchase their vacation weeks during this time as more popular weeks fill up.

Read more about the changes to come at Westin St. John here.

This year marks a huge milestone for Disney Vacation Club (DVC), celebrating its 25th anniversary. The established vacation ownership brand first debuted in 1991 and now has over 200,000 member families from all 50 states and approximately 100 countries. These members are able to stay in any one of Disney’s 13 Vacation Club Resorts, as well as thousands of other resort destinations around the world. [Read more…]

Three major theme parks in Central Florida have decided to increase security measures with the installation of metal detectors at the park’s entrances today. Walt Disney World, SeaWorld and Universal Orlando will now require park guests to adhere to this extra precaution before entering the parks. This also extends outside of Orlando to California where the same measures will be put in place in Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood. [Read more…]

Palace Resorts established its nonprofit organization, Palace Foundation, in 2004 based in Cancun, Mexico. In 2015 alone, the organization has awarded 75 scholarships, fulfilled more than 125 dreams for terminally ill children, assisted with the protection of 2,221 turtle nests, and has provided healthcare to 3,700 people through different types of therapies and 1,611 locals with medical care. [Read more…]