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Re: Reviews on Resorts (by Kathleen C.):

HI, I've been exchanging through Interval international for 18 years and found exchanging to be fun and a way to see the world. I have always gotten what I wanted but I learned to plan my vacations in advance and try to be patient. I've also found in the past years to go to www.tripadvisor.com and read there reviews. I throw out the worst and the best review and look at the rest. Usually it's the same complaint in bad reviews so see if that problem would bother you and remember food is a person preference so I ignore food problems. I also call Interval International for there customer satisfaction numbers on that resort to see how other owners liked that exchange. I do not know if RCI has this service but if they do try to use it since they come from surveys given to the members a day or so after there vacation when it's still fresh in there minds. If your not the pickest person alive and you see on tripadvisor that there's a lot of good reviews (try Yahoo reviews also) with bad mixed in I bet you will find the place to be a good place to spend a week. I also think if so many did like it how bad could it really be and it's only a week :o). Good Luck and have fun exchanging!

whaack wrote:
I own at a few resorts and am generally happy with my ownerships, but do like to try new areas as often as possible. I will typically rely on RCI to do my exchanges but have purchased off the web on occasion. The thing that gets me is the Varied reviews you can read on the resorts. Red Week .com tends to have limited reviews mostly of which I would think are put in by the owners, who of course will make the resort sound great. Trip Advisor. Com tends to have many more reviews on each resort and they can Vary Wildly, from The greatest place on earth ,to this this is a dump all within the same week. I sometimes wonder if other Resorts send in some of these reviews to try and Poison there compitition. For the most part I think you have to try and take an avg. on all the reviews and hope your gut feeling is right.