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Re: Is anyone familiar with Crown Park Resort in Gatlinburg Tennessee? (by R P.):
Park Place has always been a timeshare resort. While staying next door at Gatlinburg Town Square many times, we saw Park Place being built from the ground up. Park Place has now completely obliterated the view of downtown Gatlinburg from Gatlinburg Town Square. I'm glad we stayed at GTS while the view of downtown was still possible at Christmas one year when we saw all the Christmas lights and decorations from our unit. They tore down an Outback Steak House and parking lot to build Park Place.
I'm glad to know that you're going to either use your week, rent it or exchange it because it's almost impossible to sale a timeshare that has a mortgage on it. Many people have bought from the developer (our first was bought from a developer), but we learned to use that week to our advantage and we went on to buy several other weeks resale.