Owners Club at the Homestead

The accomodations are spacious three bedroom homes located on the grounds of the Homestead, one of America's first and most prominent resorts. Activities include fabulous golf (Flynn, RT Jones, and Ross designs--the former is one of the top 100 courses in the world), beautiful mountain setting, skiing and ski school, riding, shooting club, indoor and outdoor pools, spa and mineral baths, etc. Dining options in the hotel and nearby are truly excellent or one can prepare meals in one's home.

Staff is very helpful (will even stock the pantry and refrigerator before one arrives) and there is a lot to do off site that they can help arrange--canoeing on the James, Jackson, or other rivers, fishing, hiking, excellent chamber music (at Garth Newel in Warm Springs) for example. But leave your most of your credit cards at home and bring some reading for rainy days--this is not a shopping and bright lights venue. Mall hoppers will likely be bored (there are just a few shopping options on site and they are rather expensive). But outdoors folk, golfers, tennis players, canoe and boating enthusiasts, etc. will be in heaven.

Ownership is for 27 days per year in roughly half week increments up to two weeks at a time. Trades within the Owners Club network include Barton Creek in Austin, Texas; the Owners Club at Hilton Head, in Indigo Run Plantation; and smaller Owners Club locations in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and Telluride, Colorado. There is great golf, and either beaches or skiing, at each of the locations. Owners may trade outside the Owners Club system through RCI.

We have vacationed here each of the past five years, essentially since the Owners Club at the Homestead was founded, and can't imagine a higher quality setting in the world of residence clubs and fractional ownership-- enjoy!