Original Message:
My timeshare resort is demanding an additional £215 per week owned to contribute to their serious financial position (by Margaret S.):
Hi, My husband and I own 2 weeks time shire in Ibiza, we have owned for approx 15 years and never have missed our maintainance fees. We are due to go for our 2 weeks holiday in our resort - Es Pueto at Aldea Bonsei on July 31st and have this week received 2 letter one for each of the weeks owned saying we have to pay an additonal £215 for eaxch of the weeks as the resort is having serious financial difficulties due to 800+ members having their weeks taken from them for non payment of maintainance fees. They say if we do not pay this money before the 15th July it will result in the loss of any rights acquired as a member? The resort since we bought it has not upgraded its apartments- although I believe the company own only a proportion of the apartments the original services, maid service included have severely depleted and the resort offers non of the entertainment etc we were promised on buying , it is the smaller of two resorts they own in Ibiza, the main one being Es Pueto which I believe is fuilly owned by the company, and for some time their main priority. Can anyone advise if this is legal for us to be charged such an outragous amount for 2 weeks in a 1 bedroom apartment [this will take the fee to over £1000 for our 2 weeks] especially as we have paid £18,000 for something that has not been updated in the full time we have been a member. How can we know that if we pay this money the resort wont go bankrupt and we will have lost a further £500 it is a terrible dilemma as we are retired and cant offord to lose money so easily.
Any help any one can give would be great also if any one is also in the same situation perhaps we could communicate with other members to see if their is anything as a group we can achieve. Thank you Margaret