Marriott Vacation Club Timeshare Goes from Green to Greener

Marriott Vacation Club Timeshare Goes from Green to Greener

We’ve been updating you all year on what Marriott International and Marriot Vacation Club timeshare is doing to protect and preserve the environment. In February, The Timeshare Authority brought you an update on Marriott Vacation Club employees in Orlando, FL who made the switch from plastic eating utensils and Styrofoam serve ware in their cafeterias. They even switched to SpudWare ™, which are eating utensils that are made from potato starch and that completely biodegrade in 100 days after disposal.

Marriott has also taken steps to make their greens environmentally greener on golf courses at Marriott Hotels and Marriott timeshares, by using more eco-friendly methods of golf course maintenance, including reducing their use of chemicals on the greens and fairways.

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Last week in Salt Lake City, Utah, Marriott Vacation Club International expanded their efforts to go green by conducting the Green Fair, involving more than 18 businesses and non-profit organizations. The idea behind the Green Fair is to educate and inform employees and associations about actions they can personally take to recycle and reduce energy consumption.

Over 900 Marriott Vacation Club International associates received reusable eco-friendly mugs and shopping bags. They were also given the opportunity to calculate their individual carbon footprint. Ron Essig, vice president of global owner products and services for Marriott Vacation Club International said, “This is just one step toward Marriott International’s efforts to preserve the environment, acting both locally here in Salt Lake City and across the Marriott Vacation Club International division. With more than 900 associates at the Salt Lake City Marriott Customer Service Center, if we all do our part, we can definitely make a difference-both at the office and at home.”

Marriott vacation club estimates that the immediate result of their effort to go green will be a reduction of nearly 100,000 pieces of plastic ware that would have wound up in landfills.

Sell My Timeshare NOW and Marriott Timeshare

Sell My Timeshare NOW works to reduce, reuse, and recycle in our own work environment. We are proud that our website, www.sellmytimesharenow.com not only advertises and markets right-priced timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, but that our inventory includes Marriott timeshare, a company that is proving their commitment to the environment through their actions.

With timeshare resales from Disney Vacation Club, Westgate timeshare, Hyatt Vacation Club timeshare, and Hilton timeshare, to name only a few, Sell My Timeshare NOW offers you the opportunities of vacation ownership with timeshare companies that are environmentally responsible, at prices that are realistic and affordable in today’s economy.


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New Disney Timeshare Deal with Four Seasons Hotels, Resorts and Timeshares

New Disney Timeshare Deal with Four Seasons Hotels, Resorts and Timeshares

Artist's conception of the new Four Seasons Resort Orlando timeshare, as shown in The Timeshare Blog.
Image Source: The Timeshare Blog

We’ve been talking about this deal for quite some time, as Disney Vacation Club timeshare plans for a new Orlando timeshare resort through their just-completed arrangement with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. First announced in March of 2007, this past week Disney finalized the sale of 298 acres of Disney property in Orlando, Florida, sold to Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

The land will be used by Four Seasons for a 445-room hotel, 18-hole championship golf course, a Residence Club of fractional ownership vacation homes, (timeshare condos),and custom single- and multi-family vacation homes.

The Vacation Fun Disney Vacation Club Already Offers

If you currently own Disney Vacation Club timeshare, or have ever enjoyed vacationing in a Disney Vacation Club timeshare rental, you know that the Disney resorts mean spacious accommodations, loaded with amenities and vacation fun. Disney Vacation Club offers wonderful resorts available at excellent prices as Disney timeshare resales:

But the commitment of Four Seasons Hotels means the Orlando Disney resorts will, for the first time, include a 5-Star hotel and timeshare property.

Four Seasons Timeshares and Fractionals Take Disney Vacations to a New Level

According to The Timeshare Blog, Scott Woroch, the executive vice president of development for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, says, “This project is one with which we are proud to be associated. Having memorable family vacation experiences are more important than ever to our guests, and we are excited about working with Disney to create a unique product in Central Florida.”

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts are ranked as some of the best hotels in the world. The Canadian based company was founded in the 1960’s, and has since gone on to establish some nearly 80 luxurious hotels and resorts, with seven of the properties including a timeshare ownership component.

While timeshare or fractional ownership at a Four Seasons Residence Club is not widely available because of the limited number of resorts, Sell My Timeshare NOW currently has timeshare resales available at four of the Four Seasons property.

Walt Disney World, the self-proclaimed, “happiest place on earth,” has always been about great family-fun vacations. With the addition of the new Four Seasons fractional ownership resorts, you can soon be very happy enjoying a whole new level of luxury.

SuperLiving Magazine Looks at Sell My Timeshare NOW

SuperLiving Magazine Looks at Sell My Timeshare NOW

Australian Magazine reports on timeshare resales and Sell My Timeshare NOW.

Here’s what Australia’s SuperLiving Magazine had to say about timesharing in general, and specifically our company, Sell My Timeshare NOW, in their Monday, June 9 online issue. Overall, it is a very good article and we are sincerely appreciative of their coverage.

When You Buy Timeshare from the Developer

The article correctly points out that buying timeshare resort property and then not using it is as impractical as buying a car and leaving it in the garage. The author, Lynelle Johnson, also notes that the Australia timeshare industry is booming, particularly on the Sunshine and Gold Coasts, as well as booming worldwide.

Lynnelle explains the process of buying new timeshare (timeshare sold by the developer) like this: “Sales of timeshare are often done at ‘free’ resort weekends (beware, as extras are often priced to recoup the costs) where high pressure salesmen ply their trade. The result of these expensive sales techniques is high prices for buying into new timeshares.”

The article then goes on to warn that the cost of your new timeshare is not just the average $15,000 -$16,000 you may pay, but there are fees that typically run around $600 per timeshare unit, per year.

But here is where we get to the good part because at this point, the article starts talking about timeshare resales and about Sell My Timeshare NOW.

The Virtues of Buying Timeshare Resales

The SuperLiving Magazine article then asks the question we ask all the time on this timeshare blog, and at Sell My Timeshare NOW, “Why by new when you can buy used?”

Here’s how they describe our services and the timeshare resale marketplace:

There is a cheaper way to get into the significant holiday savings offered by the industry, and that’s in the booming second hand market for timeshare deeds.

Steve Luba is the director of communications at Sell My Timeshare Now. They’re based in New Hampshire in the United States but sell timeshares all over the world.

Last year their customers sold $274 million worth of timeshares and so far this year $150 million worth have moved. (Note of explanation: Sell My Timeshare NOW presents offers to buy timeshare or rent timeshare in these amounts. We do not “sell” timeshares, because the timeshare resales and rentals we advertise and market are not ours to sell. Ours is a buy-owner service.)

Steve says the timeshare industry has changed dramatically over the last few years with companies like Hilton, Marriott, and Disney moving into the market, offering global networks of destination accommodation with water parks, spas and golf courses.

The internet has also transformed the market, with organisations like Steve’s acting like clearinghouses both for the sale of timeshare and allowing owners to rent out unused entitlements.

“With rental you can expect to cover your maintenance fee plus a couple of hundred bucks,” says Steve.

Timeshares selling new for around $6-7,000 go for $2,500 on the second hand market he says.

For the truly brave some timeshares can be snapped up on eBay for as little as a dollar.

Sell My Timeshare Now’s director of sales, Rosanne Luba (Steve’s wife as it happens), told SuperLiving that she had one client who had snapped up 78 timeshare properties on eBay for around $1 each, which he is now selling through them.

While this may sound like an unbelievable bargain, you need to remember that the liability for the timeshare fees kicks in from the time you buy them – and it might take some time to find a buyer for this ‘bargain.’

Going through an established re-seller gives more peace of mind that you’re getting what you pay for and not just a bill for maintenance fees.

“It can take around a year, or even 18 months to sell some of these timeshares,” Rosanne says, “but during that time you can be renting out your share.”

Timeshare isn’t for everyone, but if you take your annual vacation seriously they can offer a luxury experience at budget costs. With the emergence of a secondary market there are some serious bargains to be had.

So thank you to our friends down under at SuperLiving Magazine. No wonder they are interested in timeshare; Australia timeshare truly is a fast growing market, with many new places yet to build timeshare resorts and lots of vacationers to enjoy them.

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Disney Marketing Gives You a New Reason to Buy Timeshare

Disney Marketing Gives You a New Reason to Buy Timeshare

Apparently Disney Vacation Club Timeshare is trying to get the message across that they are not just about Disney vacations.

In an article published by the Orlando Sentinel on April 9, Jason Garcia writes about Disney’s new television commercials designed to promote timeshare sales, in which the actors focus on other vacation destinations before they get around to talking about the Disney theme parks. Now that is an interesting way to back into your timeshare sales pitch.

Disney Vacation Club Timeshare Advertising

The 60-second commercial, called “Little Travelers,” opens with children talking about all the places they have visited with their families, through Disney Vacation Club timeshare membership. The children talk about Costa Rica, the Grand Canyon, and England while the camera rolls on pictures of the Venice canals and the Eiffel Tower. Eventually, of course, the commercial gets around to talking about Disney theme parks.

The strategy is to eliminate any objection that buying Disney Vacation Club timeshare limits you to vacationing only at Disney properties. The marketing minds behind Disney Vacation Club timeshare want consumers to understand that Disney timeshare is owned in the form of timeshare points, which can be exchanged at hundreds of non-Disney resorts around the world.

Morningstar Inc., lodging industry analyst, Jeremy Glaser says, “I think when people look at discretionary spending, time shares are places that are pretty easy for some people to cut out.”

Yet just as we are hearing from so many timeshare resort developers, Disney Vacation Club timeshare’s director of marketing, Sylvia Woolfork says that they have seen no slowdown so far. According to quotes in the Orlando Sentinel, Woolfork says, “We’ve actually seen some pretty healthy trends in our business.”

Opportunities in Disney Vacation Club Timeshare Resales

To learn more about the opportunity to become a Disney Vacation Club timeshare owner, by purchasing a Disney timeshare resale, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW.

There are Disney Vacation Club timeshare resales available at these resorts: