Time-Share Holiday Brokers in general

Good Evening and Congratulations! You’ve just won a holiday for 2 in Florida. What do you think to this news, I bet you’re so excited you can’t speak etc….. Haven’t we all received such calls and probably haven’t taken the holiday as by the time you pay the insurance and flights you could choose your own destination at a time that suits you and not the promoters. Time share people come in all guises, it can be like that on the telephone coming into your home unasked and usually at dinner time or it can be as you walk along a pretty promenade enjoying the view whist on your holiday that you are accosted. It was such a scenario that happened to us a few years ...  Read the complete review

Having emerged fresh from a second presentation to collect our "Free Holiday", the good lady and I thought it would be a good idea to help the uninitiated/ unprepared understand how these brokers try to get you to sign up. Before going into detail i would add that I do believe timeshare can work, and be a good buy if your cash position and motivation are there. However, the typical sales techniques used to attract people to sign up are still based on getting £5,000 to £20,000 commitments after a two hour presentation with the threat that if you don't do it there and then you won't have a second opportunity. The first carrot dangled to you is a ...  Read the complete review

Please note: This opinion is based on Interval International and not timeshares in general. My family got persuaded into buying a timeshare back in 1998. We were on holiday in Tenerife and we were stopped to scratch off one of those scratch cards. Of course we won and because it was £100 of duty free my dad wanted to go and claim it. We got whisked off into a taxi to have a look at these apartments. My mum and dad promised themselves they wouldn?t buy anything and even began using me as an excuse. After looking around the first apartment they told the rep they would soon have to leave as I had forgot my asthma medication. An hour and a half later they were still ...  Read the complete review

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus Part Two - A couple of days ago the Odd Couple known as dave27 and Mrs D kicked off a Battle of Sexes by writing and posting their differing opinions on shopping at Evans. That little exercise was so successful (Sez who? - Ed.) that we thought we'd try it again and now our jaundiced gaze alights upon the subject of the Timeshare Holiday, variously considered either the route to very cheap but high class holidays for the rest of your life, or alternatively the Hard Sell Exercise from Hades. Hold on to your Flat Cap or your Easter Bonnet, and away we go..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I knew there was trouble ...  Read the complete review

Cockles suitably warmed by the friendliness of the reception and comment on my recent op on Evans, and in the interests of once more locking horns with The Better Half, dave27, I decided to give you my thoughts on this subject, the Timeshare or "Five Star Holiday at a One Star Price". My old man's op on this subject is also being posted tonight so why not check him out and tell him you like my version better. Thanx a million, XXXXX Jackie <;-) Can't even watch a TV programme in peace without someone shouting for my attention or asking me for something! Can't even manage to get my jobs done with ...  Read the complete review