The TimesLeader.com reported last week about some Luzerne County, Pennsylvania officials who were questioned when the word “timeshare” appeared on their government-issued debit card statements.

No, the officials explained, they were not taking timeshare resort holidays. Instead, they were simply spending the taxpayers’ dollars carefully by staying at the Manhattan Club timeshare when they were in New York City on official business.

The timeshare rental, according to the article, appeared as a charge of $208.44 per night (a government rate) and was deemed more affordable than other hotels in the area. According to the officials involved, the trips to New York City included meetings with New York City police personnel in order to learn improved crime-fighting techniques centering around a police records management system that Luzerne County is currently implementing.

The Manhattan Club timeshare was recommended to the Pennsylvania government officials because it offers affordable accommodations in New York City. The article also went on to point out that, some business travel of the county’s officials was paid for through money confiscated in criminal investigations and arrests.

Timeshare rental can be an incredibly affordable travel lodging solution, and it doesn’t matter if you are trying to save tax payer dollars or your own. To learn more about timeshare resale and timeshare rental, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW. In a tight-dollar economy, timeshares make more sense than ever.

Here’s an interesting YouTube video, as unicyclists take to the city streets of Manhattan. Be sure you watch it all the way to the end when you will see a bold (and dangerous) way to travel the Long Island Expressway.

Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific (Wyndham timeshare) is expanding in Western Australia with the acquisition of the former Broadwater Resort & Spa in Dunsborough, Australia. The Timeshare Blog quoted Barry Robinson, president and CEO of Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia Pacific, as saying, “The Broadwater Resort & Spa aligns perfectly with our Asia Pacific inventory expansion plan and will provide much needed standing inventory for our owners.”

The conversion of the Broadwater creates Wyndham Vacation Ownership’s second Australia timeshare resort in the western part of the country, with the Wyndham Vacation Resort The Outram Perth, being located approximately 162 miles (or 261 kilometers north) of Dunsborough.

Both areas are renowned for their wineries, beautiful beaches and water sports, especially snorkeling and scuba diving. The islands off the coast of Perth are charming locales where the residents live without automobiles and travel primarily by bicycle. These islands are also the only place in the world you will find quokkas in their natural habitat.

Confused about quokkas? I didn’t know what the little critters were either until I did my research.

A quokka is an interesting marsupial that looks remarkably like a cross between a house cat, a rat, and a kangaroo. Today the quokka is a protected species, and continues to survive in acceptable numbers.

If observing unique species of wildlife is not your idea of Australia vacation excitement, Perth itself is quite cosmopolitan with excellent shopping areas, restaurants, and nightlife that vacationers sometimes compare to Paris.

In Dunsborough, the newly converted Wyndham timeshare resort will offer beachfront vacationing, a pool, day spa, wedding chapel, tennis, and excellent dining.

The Wyndham timeshare brand includes 15 resorts in the Asia Pacific region, with timeshare resale and timeshare rentals available at many locations.

Check out this YouTube video to learn more about Australia’s quokka.

Forget the news Donald Trump and the Trump Organization received last week from the Aberdeensire Formartine area committee giving them the go-ahead to build his masterpiece golf course, hotel, and Aberdeen, Scotland timeshares. The Scottish tide has turned and, in a meeting held November 29, 2007, The Donald has been trumped by the Aberdeen Council.

Plans for Trump International Golf Links Scotland were rejected by a narrow margin with the committee’s failure to approve the planning application. The vote was initially deadlocked, leaving it to the committee chairman to cast the deciding ballot.

According to a Press Association Limited news file and an article that appeared in Hotels Magazine, George Sorial, who has been the Trump representative onsite through most of the past year of negotiations, warned the committee that their negative vote, “…sends out a devastating message that if you want to do big business don’t do it in the north-east of Scotland.”

Okay, Sorial, that just sounds like sour grapes.

If this golf course and Scotland timeshare resort is never built in this location, (and I say “if” because the Trump Organization still has the option to appeal) then I am sure that somewhere in the world there is a suitable venue where the local residents would welcome construction of a multi-billion dollar vacation resort.

Aberdeen residents voiced many different objections to the hotel and timeshare deal – so many different types of objections that it would have seemed difficult for even Donald Trump to have put them all to rest. Among the project’s leading opponents was Councilor Alastair Ross, a member of the Aberdeenshire Council, who was quoted by The International Herald Tribune as saying, “Very little of the money generated from the project would have remained in the area. There was a fast buck to be made.”

Fast buck or not, one thing is certain; this is (or was) a big buck project. As the Timeshare Owners Blog has reported in the past, Trump’s plans for the development included a 1 billion pound (€1.4 billion, US $2.1 billion) resort, with two 18-hole golf courses, a 450-room hotel, 950 vacation homes (timeshare units), 36 golf villas (timeshare units) and 500 upscale private residences.

Overall, there has been enough drama about this hotel and timeshare deal to have easily beaten out Trump‘s old TV series, “The Apprentice” in the viewer ratings. But hold on for the next round, because this made-for-TV conflict may not be over yet.

So what’s your opinion? When a majority of the area residents oppose a project, is the local government justified in approving it anyway? Is this a case of opposing worthwhile progress and development that could revitalize a struggling local economy? Or should the residents of the links land north of Aberdeen have the right to veto the project in favor of protecting their environment and their quiet lifestyle?

I’d love to hear what you think about this…

Here’s an interesting YouTube, in which Donald Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki discuss “Why We Want to Be Rich.”

Orange Lake timeshares is generally known as a great place for a relaxing vacation with amenities to please the whole family, but I bet you never knew that they are also a swan’s best friend.

Orange Lake timeshare resort (in Orlando, Florida) employs a duo of resident naturalists, twin sisters, Shirley and Sheila Bolin. Sheila A. Bolin, MS, is the official swan keeper for Orange Lake Resort and Country Club in Orlando, Florida, while her twin, Shirley A. Bolin, AGS, is the head photographer there. Shirley’s photographs and stories have been published in Sports Illustrated, The Miami Herald, USA Today, and other prestigious publications.

The sisters not only help safeguard the wellbeing of the swans, but work to protect the ecosystems at all Orange Lake timeshare resort properties. Together with the Orange Lake timeshare Grounds Superintendent, Shawn Boschert, the dedicated sisters work as members of The Regal Swan ®, a scientific research team that has discovered how to correct a threatening bacteria discoloration in swans.

This past April, US Congressman Tom Feeney presented the Florida Governor’s Points of Light Award to The Regal Swan ® at Orange Lake Resort & Country Club. The researchers had pioneered the use of a specific cattle vaccine used to treat botulism and an equine West Nile Virus vaccine to be used on swans. They were recognized by the Governor for their important contribution to environmental education.

Obviously there is a lot more going at timeshare resorts than most of us ever realized.

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