Timeshare exchanges can provide your entire family with a memorable vacation and save you money, if you plan your timeshare purchase or exchange carefully. You can stay in luxury hotels and resorts for a fraction of the retail expense of their rooms when you exchange into resorts, if you have carefully thought through the transactions.
Buying timeshares can be a bit tricky and everyone should beware of the pitfalls. Consider whether you are buying the timeshare to use or to trade. Some enjoy traveling to and staying at the same resort during the same time every year, year after year. That's a great choice, if you use your weeks.
Annual fees and prices vary greatly. Know what you are buying because you will be spending your hard earned cash to purchase those weeks and for the annual or exchange fees. Also, think about the resell value of the timeshare. Just in case you decide that travel isn't for you, or someone in your family is ill and can't travel, know whether you can easily sell your week and whether it will hold it's value.
Trading timeshares for travel can be exciting, taking you and your family to places you never imagined, while staying in luxury resorts. For those who like to put all the pieces of the puzzle together, planning several weeks in a country and traveling from timeshare to timeshare is a challenge but the results can be vacation memories that truly last a lifetime. Be aware of the expense of trading or exchanging weeks so that you can make an informed decision about the true expense of your travel lodging.
Before you take the plunge into a timeshare purchase, checkout the timeshare markets, talk with other timeshare owners and think about how much you will use or trade the week. This is a situation where you truly "use it" or "lose it." The idea is to Travel Well!
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Friday, July 06, 2007
Skomer Island National Reserve
One of the more beautiful sites and one not to be missed if you travel to Wales is the Pembrokeshire area. Skomer Island lies at the southern end of St. Bride's Bay. We were fortunate to recently visit Skomer Island National Reserve where the puffins are nesting until August.
I've posted 61 photos of puffins, gulls and the island on the website www.awelltraveledpath.com and a short piece about the island, puffins and the travel to Martin's Haven.
Visit Wales and Skomer. You'll find the birds, wildlife and the scenery beautiful and the people warm and friendly.
Travel well!
Monday, July 02, 2007
Scottland, Wales and Ireland
You can see a great deal of Scotland, Wales and Ireland in one month. However, this past June was not a great travel month for this area. It rained and was cold. So, a lot of the visits to sites were just not that enjoyable. Everyone in each of these countries would assure us that they had a great time in April. The weather was perfect.
The fact is that it can rain on your vacation and it can rain for the entire vacation. At some point, you have to just relax and get into the Zen of being there. You realize it's going to rain every day, sometimes all day and that the wind is blowing, sometimes blinding you with the rain. Still you are on vacation. If you are fortunate enough to figure out how to drive in these areas and you are not terrified of the "wee tiny" roads, then you just slog it out and get out there and see those beautiful sights and imagine them in the sun.
I must admit that these roads are some of the more narrow paths, I've driven. There were times when the growth on the hedgerows were brushing both sides of the car. Several times I had to back down a hill to a "passing zone". Of course, there were a number of times when the rear tires would hit and rub the curb, often throwing the car into the right lane. For some reason, there are little parts of the road the protrude just a bit to snag that rear tire as you pass by.
A very nice Scottish lady advised me about driving by saying, "Keep your wits about you!" That sums up the driving. The rain it seems is an Irish thing. A nice Irish lady who was a drenched as I was at Knowth explained the rain in Ireland as her mother has explained it to her: "It rains eleven months out of the year and on the twelfth month when it stops, it drips off the trees!"
We visited Newgrange and Knowth during our last week in Ireland. There was driving rain and strong winds. I could hear some of the guided tour on the outside as I hugged the large stone near the entrance for shelter. It was worth the drenching we received to see these sites.
Dublin in the rain. The City Bus - Hop On-Hop Off - was a life saver. Trinity College and the Book of Kells and the Kilmainham Jail made for great indoor sights to see on a rainy cold day.
This trip was a great lesson in preparation: you need to take a light weight umbrella and rain gear or your trip, so that the trip doesn't become a painful memory instead of a delightful adventure.
Stay dry and travel well!
The fact is that it can rain on your vacation and it can rain for the entire vacation. At some point, you have to just relax and get into the Zen of being there. You realize it's going to rain every day, sometimes all day and that the wind is blowing, sometimes blinding you with the rain. Still you are on vacation. If you are fortunate enough to figure out how to drive in these areas and you are not terrified of the "wee tiny" roads, then you just slog it out and get out there and see those beautiful sights and imagine them in the sun.
I must admit that these roads are some of the more narrow paths, I've driven. There were times when the growth on the hedgerows were brushing both sides of the car. Several times I had to back down a hill to a "passing zone". Of course, there were a number of times when the rear tires would hit and rub the curb, often throwing the car into the right lane. For some reason, there are little parts of the road the protrude just a bit to snag that rear tire as you pass by.
A very nice Scottish lady advised me about driving by saying, "Keep your wits about you!" That sums up the driving. The rain it seems is an Irish thing. A nice Irish lady who was a drenched as I was at Knowth explained the rain in Ireland as her mother has explained it to her: "It rains eleven months out of the year and on the twelfth month when it stops, it drips off the trees!"
We visited Newgrange and Knowth during our last week in Ireland. There was driving rain and strong winds. I could hear some of the guided tour on the outside as I hugged the large stone near the entrance for shelter. It was worth the drenching we received to see these sites.
Dublin in the rain. The City Bus - Hop On-Hop Off - was a life saver. Trinity College and the Book of Kells and the Kilmainham Jail made for great indoor sights to see on a rainy cold day.
This trip was a great lesson in preparation: you need to take a light weight umbrella and rain gear or your trip, so that the trip doesn't become a painful memory instead of a delightful adventure.
Stay dry and travel well!
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