Caribbean Timeshare

You may be preparing to eat your Thanksgiving turkey around your dining table this year and then take in a few hours of sports on your big screen TV. Sounds pretty good, but what if you were spending Thanksgiving somewhere warm and sunny, and the sports you were watching were courtside?

Many people will be doing exactly this, enjoying early season collegiate tournaments in NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball while soaking up some sun at a relaxing timeshare resort destination.

For example, fans of Chaminade, Duke, Georgetown, Kansas, Memphis, Michigan, Tennessee, or UCLA can be taking in the fun of Hawaii timeshare and enjoying the EA Sports Maui Invitational.

Fans who root for Arizona State, Dayton, DePaul, Fairfield, Indian State, Minnesota, Texas Tech or Wake Forest can enjoy the Old Spice Classic at Disney’s Wide World of Sports as well as all the amenities of Orlando timeshares, perhaps choosing Disney Vacation Club timeshares to be close to the sports action as well as the theme part fun.

UConn, Harvard, UMass, Charleston, UCF, FSU, UNC Ashville and Utah fans have the option to enjoy basketball at Harborside Resort during the Battle 4 Atlantis College Basketball Tournament, held for the second year at the amazing Atlantis Resort in Nassau, Bahamas.

Although the Maui Invitational has been a staple of college basketball’s Thanksgiving tournaments for more than 20 years, it’s only been in recent years that Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and other popular resort destinations have begun hosting collegiate tournaments. But based on the success of these events so far, maybe it’s time to start thinking about which fabulous timeshare resort you’d like to be roasting your turkey at next year.

Are you missing NBA basketball? Or just excited for the start of college hoops?

How does the idea of basketball in paradise strike you? That is exactly what’s happening next week as eight of college basketball’s most distinguished teams square off for the Battle 4 Atlantis College Basketball Tournament, at the amazing Atlantis Resort in Nassau, Bahamas.

If you are a sports fan, you need to be there; the pairing of the Bahamas and basketball is just too good to pass up.

Scheduled for November 23-27, Thanksgiving week, each of the 8 teams will play in 3 games over 3 days, giving you a chance to see your favorite teams in a total of twelve, Division I collegiate battles.

Contested in the 50,000 square foot Imperial Ballroom, (converted for the event), you’ll see the men’s basketball teams for:

• University of Connecticut, the 2011 NCAA Champions
• Harvard
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• College of Charleston
• University of Central Florida
• Florida State University
• University of North Carolina Ashville
• University of Utah

The Harborside Resort Caribbean Timeshare

And when you’re not cheering on your team, you’ll be at one of the most luxurious, and entertainment-packed venues in the world, the famous Atlantis Resort.

Located in Nassau, Bahamas, the Atlantis Resort is renowned for its excellent spa, casino and a 34-acre waterscape complete with eleven pools. Now, and throughout the year, you will find great deals on Atlantis Resort timeshares, including the popular, Harborside Resort.

Imagine a Harborside Resort timeshare rental –already a great price–and sharing the cost of the spacious accommodations with your friends? Or a great deal on a Harborside Resort timeshare resale, so that you can come back year after year?

Now imagine spending Thanksgiving Day on the beach in Nassau, poolside at the resort, and in the stands cheering on your team … that has all the makings of a Thanksgiving to truly be thankful for and we can help you make it happen.

The addition of new air service from San Juan, Puerto Rico’s Luis Munoz Marin Airport (SJU) has made getting to the beautiful Caribbean timeshare resorts of St. Maarten easier than ever.

New daily direct JetBlue Airways service to Princess Juliana Airport (SXM) in St. Maarten begins today. David Clarke, director of route planni3ng for the airlines, says, “Puerto Rico has become a very strategic and important market for us; this new route to St. Maarten is a natural add. We’re pleased with how the community has responded with a great welcoming and a lot of support.”

The short (under an hour), new direct service from San Juan is scheduled to arrive once daily into St. Maarten at 2:56 PM. It provides convenient connections from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK); Orlando International Airport (MCO); Bradley International Airport (BDL); Boston’s Logan International Airport (BOS); Hartford Tampa International Airport (TPA); Jacksonville International Airport (JAX); and Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (FLL).

“We are very excited about the launch of new daily flights from San Juan as it augments our existing non-stop JetBlue service from New York and Boston and allows travelers from other JetBlue gateways throughout the U.S. to connect to ‘the friendly island’ more conveniently,” says Honorable Franklin Meyers, Minister of Economic Affairs, Tourism, Transportation and Telecommunications.

Easier Access to Caribbean Timeshare Vacations with JetBlue’s Beachy Keen Week-Long Celebration

The new service becomes JetBlue’s second intra-Caribbean route adding to the service between San Juan and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Other JetBlue flights being added this week to enhance US and Caribbean air travel include:

• Westchester County Airport’s only international with the commencement of JetBlue’s new daily nonstop flight to Nassau, Bahamas.
• Twice-weekly nonstop service from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to La Romana, Dominican Republic.
• Nonstop flights launch from JFK to Liberia’s new Daniel Oduber Quiros Airport in Costa Rica

Follow this link to learn more about the opportunities of St. Maarten timeshare resales and rentals

Much that is positive, exciting, and invigorating for the timeshare industry has been discussed these last two days at the VOIC Shared Ownership Investment Conference in Orlando, Florida, which is hosted by Interval International. And frank talk has gone on about all the challenges of the industry, the economy, and the ways (both good and bad) that the industry has engaged with consumers in the past.

But some of the most interesting insights about timeshare and fractionals comes from a simple look at the numbers. Very often in business, the numbers speak louder than the words.

Here is a look at some recent research about Interval International member/owners:

• US resident members of II own approximately 1.9 weeks of shared ownership vacation time or its equivalent and travel an estimated 22 nights per year solely for leisure purposes.
• They report household income of approximately $121,175 per year.
• Twenty percent expect to buy additional vacation time in the future.
• Timeshare owners are attracted to warm-weather locations (Florida, California, Hawaii, Arizona, South Carolina timeshares and Caribbean timeshares) and family-style accommodations.
• Most are interested in, or have a preference for, two-bedroom timeshare units. Just under ten percent prefer three-bedroom timeshares.

And this may be the most industry-relevant factor of all: 83 percent of Interval International’s US members say they are satisfied with their timeshare ownership.

As David Gilbert, Interval International, executive vice president of resort sales and marketing, says, “Even in challenging economic times, it is very encouraging to see that the appeal of vacation ownership remains strong among our members.”