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Re: Buying timeshares (even resale) (by Timothy S.):

danr84 wrote:

Here is a question: what are the advantages and/or dis-advantages to a floating week vs. a fixed week? We've been offerred a floating week for a top of the line 3BR suite in Orlando - unit is only 3 years old. The resort is owned by a Public Company. Our net cost would about $13K after we traded in our Northeast Red week in. All in network privaledges would remain and maintenance fees would be $700/yr. What do you think?

I can give you my experiences of floating vs fixed weeks. Others may be able to enhance what I say below.

My understanding of fixed weeks is that you can have the same villa for the exact same week every year. So, if you always will travel to your timeshare at the same time, you can be assured of that time slot and villa.

If you sould like to have some travel flexibility, then consider variable weeks where you can go during a week in a predefined range of dates defined by the timeshare company. What you must do in this case is contact your timeshare early to get your desired vacation week, especially if it is during a high demand season. When you arrive at your timeshare to use your week, you will be assigned a villa by the management staff.

So, you trade-off same week, same villa for flexibility to vary your week and different villa.

I own flexible weeks with Marriott timeshares and am pleased to have the flexibility to reserve weeks that fit my vacation requirements. Of course, I may have to reserve my villa dates at the earliest possible reservation date.

Hope this helps.

Tim