Timeshare Vacations For Dummies

Lisa Ann Schreier

John Wiley & Sons, Jul 29, 2005 - Travel - 236 pages

There are more than 5,400 timeshare resorts in destinations as diverse as England and Africa, Orlando and Shanghai. More than 3 million North Americans own timeshares around the world. Is timeshare ownership for you? Packed with information for current and prospective owners, this guide points out the plusses and the pitfalls and lets you in on the smartest ways to buy, sell, or swap timeshares. It covers:

• Questions to ask yourself
• Questions to ask timeshare sales representatives
• An overview of the types of timeshare ownership
• An update on variations on traditional timeshare vacations
• Financing, maintenance fees, assessments, and other economic considerations

Like every For Dummies travel guide, Timeshare vacations For Dummies includes:

• Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
• What to look for—and what to look out for
• Which options best fit your budget and your vacation style

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Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Part I Understanding Timeshare: 5
• Part II Buying Timeshare: 43
• Part III Discovering a World of Timeshare: 95
• Part IV Using Your Timeshare: 165
• Part V The Part of Tens: 195
• Appendix A Quick Concierge: 209
• Appendix B Timeshare Glossary: 213
• Appendix C Timeshare Around theWorld: 217
• Index: 221

About the author

Lisa Ann Schreier is the founder of Timeshare Insights, an independent and unbiased organization dedicated to guiding consumers through the often mysterious and sometimes tedious world of timeshare. Before moving to the Orlando, Florida, area in 1997, she worked in the advertising and media industry in Chicago, becoming a media buyer for major clients. She formed GRQ Enterprises, an advertising and consulting business providing one-stop marketing expertise for clients.
Since moving to central Florida, she has worked for several timeshare resorts in the Orlando area, as a salesperson, a sales manager, and a trainer. Seeing firsthand the good, the bad, and the ugly in the industry, she first became a contributing columnist to The Timeshare Beat, the industry’s most widely read publication, where she blended her advertising expertise with her timeshare experience. In 2003, she formed Timeshare Insights, where her focus has been on educating potential and current timeshare owners, believing that an educated consumer can bring about necessary changes to the industry.
Ms. Schreier has been featured on WOR-AM in New York City, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, Hiatus Magazine, and both WLS-TV and WGN-TV in Chicago. She is a frequent guest speaker at timeshare owners’ groups, consumer travel shows, and timeshare management university classes. She is also the author of Surviving a Timeshare Presentation . . . Confessions from the Sales Table (Oct. 2004).
You can contact Lisa at www.timeshareinsights.com, or through her agent, Ibach and Associates, at www.ibachsportspr.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Timeshare Vacations For Dummies; Volume 25 of Dummies Travel
• Author: Lisa Ann Schreier
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2005
• ISBN: 0471776041, 9780471776048
• Length: 236 pages
• Subjects: Travel / General