Two favorite Mexico timeshares are HOT 100 list property number 58: the Grand Mayan Nuevo Vallarta and HOT 100 list property number 59: the Mayan Palace Nuevo Vallarta.

The Grand Mayan Nuevo Vallarta Mexico Timeshare Resort

The Grand Mayan Nuevo Vallarta timeshare resort is located 12 miles north of the Puerto Vallarta airport, or about a 15 minute taxi ride. This luxurious Wyndham timeshare property offers a half-mile of beautiful Pacific Ocean beach, as well as some amazing on-property amenities, including a lazy river, a flume slide, and a wave pool.

One bedroom timeshare units include a living and dining room, sleep up to five guests, and are called Grand Suites, while two-bedroom timeshare units, also include a living and dining room, and sleep up to eight timeshare guests. These larger units are called Grand Master Suites. All of the timeshare units at The Grand Mayan Nuevo Vallarta have either a private balcony or a terrace.

Many of the spacious guest rooms and suites of The Grand Mayan Nuevo Vallarta timeshare resort include a Jacuzzi or plunge pool, satellite television and international direct-dial telephones.

The Mayan Palace Nuevo Vallarta Mexico Timeshare Resort

Slightly closer to the Puerto Vallarta airport (9 miles), is the Mayan Palace Nuevo Vallarta timeshare resort. All suites there consist of a kitchen, living room, and bedroom with a king size or two twin size beds. Adjoining rooms and suites can be combined as timeshare lock-outs to comfortably accommodate larger families. The Mayan Palace Nuevo Vallarta timeshare resort offers : Master Room timeshare units, Suite units and Master Suite timeshare units.

During your Mayan Palace Nuevo Vallarta Mexico timeshare vacation you can enjoy golf on a Jim Lipe course, recently redesigned by Jack Nicklaus Design group, and scheduled to fully reopen in 2009. (At least 9 holes will always be available for guest play during the redesign).

After a day on the beach strolling Banderas Bay or 18 holes on the course, schedule some time at the Brio Health Spa, where you can choose from a variety of services to restore and rejuvenate your body and spirit. A Mayan Mudpack or Mexican Mescal-lime-lemon aromatic treatment could be just the thing to help you forget about the demands of your daily life in these hectic and stress filled times.

As with all the timeshare resorts on the Sell My Timeshare NOW HOT 100 List, these two popular Mexico timeshares are available as right-priced timeshare resales and timeshare rentals.

In the midst of much positive news about the stability of the timeshare industry and how, in many cases, timeshare sales seem to be anchoring the finances of major hoteliers, a timeshare leader, Westgate Resorts has announced company layoffs. According to an article that appeared in the Orlando Sentinel, Westgate timeshare resorts will lay off hundreds of workers.

In an article that ran on Sept 29, the Orlando Sentinel says, “Company President David Siegel said Friday that Westgate is facing a financing squeeze that came on with the suddenness of a “heart attack.” He blamed the national financial meltdown and said until the situation in Washington straightens out, Westgate and all other time-share companies likely are in for very hard times.”

According to the article, timeshare sales will be shut down for some of the 28 Westgate timeshares, located in 11 US states, although Westgate timeshares’ founder, David Siegel did not comment on how many people would be effected or an exact date when the layoffs would begin.

Siegel sums up the situation like this: “Westgate is managing to pay all its bills and will continue to meet all its obligations. But he said there is no money for new business. We’re having a record year. We’re in the most profitable year in our history and the banks are freezing our money. So we have no choice. In order for our company to survive we’re going to downsize until the money starts flowing again.”

Westgate timeshare is currently the seventh largest employer in Central Florida, employing 8,113 people in Central Florid and more than 10,000 nationwide.

For more information about the history of Westgate timeshares and David Siegel’s skills at empire building, follow these links to past The Timeshare Authority posts:

• When The Economic Slump Hits Vegas, Even Casinos and Timeshares Worry
• Timeshare Resort Mogul Found Guilty of Sexual Harassment
• Timeshare Resort Mogul Found Guilty of Sexual Harassment – Part II

As part of the Disney Vacation Club’s continued growth, Disney commenced sales last week for their new timeshare resort, the Bay Lake Tower. Opportunities to buy timeshare at this new Orlando timeshare, which will be located at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, are made available first to Disney Vacation Club Members, with sales to the public to be available at a later date.

In a press release issued by Disney Vacation Club timeshare, President Jim Lewis said, “Our founder, Walt Disney, was well known for having one foot in the past and one in the future. These new resort developments share that dynamic sensibility, blending modern luxury and design with the nostalgic spirit of two of the most storied resorts in Walt Disney World history.

“What excites me most about this tremendous growth is that we’re not only creating new accommodations, but new experiences. Each of the projects we’ve undertaken at Disney Vacation Club is unlike anything previously available in our resort portfolio, and both Bay Lake Tower and the Treehouse Villas proudly build on that tradition.”

Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort

If you are old enough to remember when Disney Orlando’s Magic Kingdom opened in 1971, one of the things you will also remember is that parts of the park were very specifically designed to honor Walt Disney’s vision of futuristic (George Jetson-style) living. Much of the design of the new Bay Lake Tower timeshares will pay architectural tribute to Disney’s Contemporary Resort.

Bay Lake Tower timeshare villas will include 295 two-bedroom villas and will be the closest resort to the Magic Kingdom Park. Featuring modern artwork, and an ultramodern color scheme, rooms will include flat-screened televisions, full kitchens, washers and dryers, plus plenty of space for relaxing. Designed to accommodate up to nine people, some timeshare units will be lockouts that can be divided into a one-bedroom timeshare villa to sleep five, with a studio timeshare to sleep up to four. A convenient skybridge will link the timeshare high-rise to shops, restaurants, and the Disney monorail station.

Follow these links to read about other recent developments at Disney Vacation Club timeshare:

• New Disney Timeshare Deal with Four Seasons Hotels, Resorts and Timeshares
• Disney Marketing Gives You a New Reason to Buy Timeshare
• Disney Vacation Club Timeshare is Family Fun, but One Disney Restaurant Is No Longer Family Friendly

Yesterday’s The Timeshare Authority reported on Holiday Inn jumping into the timeshare market through a relationship with Orange Lake timeshare resorts. Holiday Inn will be starting first with the Orange Lake resort in Orlando, and later moving to brand all of the Orange Lake timeshare resort properties. And despite the fact that there are already more Orlando timeshare resorts and more Orlando timeshare units than anywhere else on earth, it’s not stopping Disney Vacation Club from building two more vacation ownership resorts there.

Starting in the summer of 2009, Disney Orlando will open the Treehouse Villas at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa timeshares, followed by the opening of the Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort later that year.

This post looks at the new Disney Treehouse Villas timeshares, while Monday’s post will fill you in on the high-rise Disney timeshare property at Bay Lake Tower in Orlando.

Disney Timeshare Sees Unprecedented Growth

Disney’s announcement of two new timeshare properties describes current business as, “an unprecedented era of growth for Disney Vacation Club … (and that) membership has more than doubled since 2004, expanding to include more than 350,000 individuals from approximately 100 countries and every U.S. state.”

Disney’s Orlando timeshare at Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa is the largest of the Disney Vacation Club resort properties, opening in 2004 and selling out in early 2008.

The Treehouse Villas, will expand Disney Vacation Club with 60 new three-bedroom timeshares. The timeshare villas will be elevated 10 feet above ground on pedestals and beams designed to blend into the forest-like environment along the river bend at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa. Each timeshare condo will sleep up to nine people and although the style is called “cabin casual” look for luxuries like flat-screened TVs and granite countertops.

As Disney imaginer, Todd Thomasson explains, “I was lucky enough to have a treehouse as a kid, but it was certainly nothing like this. In developing this resort, we’ve all learned a new word, ‘glamping,’ which apparently means glamorous camping. The Treehouse Villas will be glamping at its absolute best.”

Be sure to read Monday’s blog to learn about Disney’s other new Orlando timeshare property. And for information on becoming a timeshare resale owner at the Disney timeshare resorts, explore these links:

• Disney’s Beach Club Villas Timeshare Resales
• Disney’s BoardWalk Villas Timeshare Resales
• Disney’s Old Key West Resort Timeshare Resales
• Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa Timeshare Resales
• Disney’s Villas at Wilderness Lodge Timeshare Resales

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