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Originally Posted by docdvm
What if we like a variety of vacations, not preferring to stay at the same hotel/resort every year. Isn't that what the majority of timeshare traders do? Is it worthwhile to do just that? Are you saving or at least breaking even in comparison to renters? Can you trade as easily as rent? Are there added costs in addition to the Management fees and membership fees in RCI, II, etc? Along the East coast what are the best traders? Is it the popular areas like Myrtle Beach , HH, or Orlando, or the out of the way places like St. Augustine, or Charleston or where?
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If seeing different places and not returning to the same place year after year is the main goal, and you are correct that many timeshare owners prefer that, then buying a week of timeshare someplace is not the best approach anymore. Until the rise of the mini-systems a week to trade was about the only way to accomplish visiting other timeshares away from your home resort but now week for week trades are a poor choice as a primary exchange method. You shold plan to use ownership of a week to get a special resort and or a high demand time over and over again. If your main goal is to travel to different areas nearly every use year then a good points based system with many resorts such as Wyndham, Sunterra, Worldmark and others offer an easy way to do that. They are all flexible enough to stretch your points into 2 or 3 weeks in one year or a single week in a super swank or large unit another. Plus they all have access to RCI or II for the places where they don't have a resort of their own. It is the best choice for variable destinations and usually the points are available resale for very low cost. The Disney Club is also a points based system but has resorts in very few places - you basically are back to being tied to an area again - and costs too much to use as a trade although they trade very well.
