Welcome to Sell My Timeshare NOW’s HOT 100 property number 93… Mayan Palace Puerto Vallarta.

Located in an exclusive area of the Puerto Vallarta marina, overlooking the calm waters of Banderas Bay (Bahia de Banderas), this Mayan Palace timeshare resort is an ideal setting for a Mexico timeshare getaway vacation. Here you can enjoy some of the best beaches on the Pacific coast, perfect for sailing, scuba diving, and sunset strolls.

Part of the fun of a Puerto Vallarta timeshare is that you can experience old Mexico charm by day with cobblestone streets and the peaceful quaintness that once made it a romantic hideaway for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. At night, the clubs offer rock, jazz, salsa, even disco. Or perhaps you prefer an authentic Mexican fiesta or the romance of a moonlight cruise.

What You Will Find at the Mayan Palace Puerto Vallarta Timeshare

The Mayan Palace Puerto Vallarta is easy to access from the airport and offers timeshare units including studios, called Master Rooms; one-bedroom units called Suites; and two-bedroom timeshare units known as Master Suites.

A studio unit or Master Room is designed to accommodate up to 4 people, and includes 2 double beds. One bedroom Suite typically offers one king size bed and two sofa beds. A two bedroom Master Suite can accommodate up to six adults and two children, offering 2 king-size beds and three sofa beds. Suites and Master Suites include a kitchen and dining area, and all timeshare condos are air-conditioned, have cable TV, direct dialing for international phone calls, and the luxury of room service.

Mayan Palace Puerto Vallarta timeshare units are part of RCI timeshare exchange, SFX (San Francisco Exchange), ICE, and Mayan Palace’s owners exchange.

More about Mexico Timeshare Vacations

Some of the most wonderful timeshare destinations in the world are in Mexico, with your choice of Caribbean Sea or Pacific Ocean. Most people know they can go to Mexico to explore the ancient cultures of the Mayans and the Aztecs and to relax on the beautiful beaches. But many timeshare owners do not realize that their Mexico timeshare vacation can include exploring inland Mexico’s rugged natural beauty.

Plan a Mexico timeshare vacation and ride the scenic railroad, the Chihuahua al Pacifico, through Copper Canyon (Sierra Tarahumara). You will experience breathtaking views and get a unique look at nature. Copper Canyon (greater in size than the Grand Canyon) is also home to the Tarahumaras, an indigenous people whose culture was never conquered by the Aztecs.

And timeshare owners aren’t the only ones to head to Mexico’s sunny climate in the winter. Every year, millions of monarch butterflies from the United States and Canada go to Mexico to roost, high in the oyamel trees. Just as mysteriously as they arrive, they leave en masse, creating an audible roar with the sound of their fluttering wings.

There is so much more to Mexico than margaritas and beaches and Mexico timeshares are a perfect opportunity to discover Mexico’s other charms.

Besides enjoying the Mayan Palace Puerto Vallarta, here are some other popular Mexico timeshare resale and timeshare rental destinations:

• Acapulco Timeshare
• Cabo San Lucas Timeshare
• Cancun Timeshare
• Cozumel Timeshare
• Mazatlan Timeshare
• Playa Del Carmen Timeshare
• Puerto Vallarta Timeshare

The HOT 100 timeshare resort number 94, Vacation Village at Bonaventure, is a classic, South Florida timeshare resort. While adjacent to the timeshare condos at Vacation Village at Weston, the Bonaventure offers clusters of timeshare units built around swimming pools, providing more privacy than a larger resort and a more intimate vacation setting.

A timeshare at Bonaventure is a great destination for your Miami timeshare vacation. You are close enough to visit and enjoy the Art Deco district and the charms of South Beach, while staying in the family-friendly atmosphere of the Fort Lauderdale and Weston communities. You can use your Vacation Village at Bonaventure timeshare resale as home base for days at the beach, exploring the Everglades, shopping on the famous Worth Avenue stores in Palm Beach, golf, tennis, or relaxing by one of the resort’s three swimming pools.

Getting to the Vacation Village at Bonaventure is easy. You can fly into Miami International, West Palm Beach, or closest of all, directly into Fort Lauderdale. Vacation Village at Bonaventure is roughly a three and a half hour drive from Orlando to the north, or Key West to the south.

Your Vacation Village at Bonaventure timeshare condo will have a kitchen, dining area, separate bedroom with either queen or king size bed, luxurious Jacuzzi tub, dual headed shower, and televisions in both the bedroom and the living areas.

In Case You Thought Florida Timeshare Was All About the Beach

Vacationing in a Bonaventure timeshare resale or timeshare rental gives you the perfect opportunity to explore one of the most amazing ecological areas in the world. Everglades National Park is a designated International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Wetland of International Importance. It is the largest subtropical environment in North America. Maintained by the National Parks System, Everglades National Park protects about 20 percent of the Everglades and allows visitors to experience the nature and wildlife of an environment unlike any other in the US.

Politics and Protecting the Everglades

The ecosystem of the Everglades, often called a River of Grass, has been threatened both by development in general and by sugar cane farmland built between the Glades area and the fresh water that is necessary to nourish it. In 2000, President Clinton agreed to a 50-50 split between the federal government and the State of Florida to restore ecological balance to the Everglades. While the New York Times has laid the blame for the failures and delays in the Everglades project at the feet of President George W. Bush, calling him, “willfully indifferent to most environmental issues,” they are misrepresenting the facts to do this.

Restoring necessary water flow to the Everglades could not happen until an agreement could be reached with some of the large sugar plantations that own key pieces of land between the Glades and Lake Okeechobee. Just this week, the state of Florida (source: The Miami Herald) reached a tentative agreement with sugar cane baron, Robert H. Buker, Jr., president of United States Sugar Corporation, to purchase nearly 300 square miles of sugar cane farmland that currently cuts off the connection between the lake and the Everglades’ remnant marshland.

Once this buyout is finalized, the negotiations can begin with other plantation owners to trade out key pieces of land, clearing the way to build manmade waterways to return the flow of fresh water into the Everglades and eliminate the water pollution that currently burdens this ecosystem.

Let’s hope this effort is fully realized, protecting one of the most remarkable environmental systems in the world. But knowing that there is a six-year lag before this effort fully begins, and that the Everglades are declining each year, you may not want to wait much longer before you take your children to see the River of Grass.

Have you been to our website lately? In April we launched a new look for our website, making it more user friendly and generally easier to use for timeshare buyers, timeshare sellers, and timeshare renters.

At the time, we did not announce the new look and new features with a lot of fanfare. We wanted to put the site in play…letting our clients and customers use it and report to us on it. If there were more improvements to be made, we wanted time to make them.

May was our first full month for evaluating the Sell My Timeshare NOW website’s performance, and frankly, we are very pleased. Despite the tight economy and rising cost of gas, offers to buy timeshare and rent timeshare went up at Sell My Timeshare NOW.

• Sell My Timeshare NOW’s website traffic was up 22 percent, year over year for the month of May.
• Unique visitors to the website increased 24 percent compared to last May.

But here’s where the news really gets exciting:

• In May, Sell My Timeshare NOW received 10,466 offers to buy or rent timeshare. That’s a 135 percent increase over May 2007. And the amount of these offers made to timeshare owners was $37,979,158 – that’s right, nearly $40 MILLION in the month of May. That’s an increase of 131 percent!

To read the full press release on the Sell My Timeshare NOW website’s new look go to: http://www.prweb.com/releases/SellMyTimeshareNOW/TimeshareResales/prweb1052164.htm

And to check out the look and improved usability of the site for yourself, follow these links to shop for great deals in timeshare resales and timeshare rentals.

Back in April, when The Timeshare Authority reported on complaints against Royal Holiday Timeshare, we weren’t the only one talking about the problems and alleged problems at this vacation club company. First, there was the investigation by ABC’s 20/20, and then came all the sources that followed up the 20/20 story. Among the publications covering the topic was TimeSharing Today, a timeshare owners magazine that has been in print since 1991.

To get caught up on the matter, you may want to read our past blog posts on the subject:

• Royal Holiday Timeshare Making the News for All the Wrong Reasons – Part I
• Royal Holiday Timeshare Making the News for All the Wrong Reasons – Part II

A Response from Royal Holiday Club Timeshare Company

In short, some timeshare owners at Royal Holiday felt that the product they bought was not as it was represented to them in the timeshare sales pitch they attended. Louis Laara Gonzalez, Director General of Royal Holiday Club, responded to the matter in general, and specifically to TimeSharing Today’s coverage of the situation, with a letter that included the following…

In his letter, which TimeSharing Today ran as a front cover item, Gonzalez went on to describe Royal Holiday Club as one of the largest and most successful vacation clubs in the world with a 25-year track record of providing outstanding service and vacation experiences. And in the spirit of fairness, the magazine additionally ran an article from a couple who have owned Royal Holiday Club timeshare since 1998 and who had only good things to say about the years they have spent with them.

For all of us involved in timeshare sales, timeshare resales, and timeshare rentals, it is important that we tell timeshare owners about problems, fraud, or scams that may be out there. But it is just as important, that we all also report on when and how these matters are remedied.