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[Q=tumn] Friends of mine (in their mid-20s) bought into a timeshare that has properties all over North America. Their biggest complaint is that the decent locations are NEVER available. They are competing with hordes of retirees who live in them full time. If you are young and working with limited vacation hours your chances of getting what the salesmen promised is practically nil.[/Q] Utter nonsense. [b]There is NO timeshare property ANYWHERE on Planet Earth with "hordes of retirees who live in them full time".[/b] None, zippo --- not here, not anywhere. What crap... Fyi, timeshare maintenance fees are billed FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL WEEK OWNED, so the cost (or option) for someone to own and pay 52 individual, consecutive weeks of maintenance fees (anywhere --- at [b]any[/b] age) does not exist --- and would be cost prohibitive even if it did exist. It just simply does not ever happen. I don't know what your intent or objective is in posting such blatantly false, ageist nonsense, but you are simply 100% wrong. Your unfounded and baseless drivel is admittedly somewhat humorous to anyone who knows ANYTHING about timeshares, but your input is nonetheless just pure, unadulterated nonsense. That much now clarified, it is certainly true that timeshare reservations (regardless of the particular timeshare stystem involved) are a matter of supply and demand and available space. Disappointments will occur when demand for space exceeds supply. The most desirable locations and highest demand seasons [b]always[/b] have more demand than supply, so once all of the available space supply has been claimed, that's it --- there is simply no more available space to occupy. Available space cannot be created out of thin air, but the laws of supply and demand have absolutely nothing to do with "hordes of retirees". In fact, the highest demand time periods are generally during [b] school vacations[/b] --- which obviously has nothing to do with mythical "hordes of retirees living in timeshares full time" (that exist only in your imagination) and that you falsely disparage out of obvious and complete ignorance. In summary, you (and your alleged “mid-twenties friends”) clearly do not know what you are talking about. Nonetheless, thank you for providing us with a good chuckle with your fairy tale assessment and clueless “input” regarding timeshare reservation availability.