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Re: Can't even give them one star (by Mike J.):

As I noted my first time on here, I googled the resort and saw Redweek and decided to get other owners’ thoughts on the charter member offer. I was “curious” to see if others had tried this. KT72, thanks for being courteous. Others just sound catty. After the reaction I got on here as a fellow owner, I’ve done some research. And the facts are, Land’or has over 30 years of uninterrupted service with thousands of owners coast to coast in multiple resorts, a corporate service center in Virginia is always open except Sundays, and along with their online services provide far more services and benefits than other companies do. According to a recent article in the Development magazine from ARDA, there’s hardly a resort out there that hasn’t had assessments and fee increases back to back through this recession (read it for yourself). One of the Holts caught RCI renting our weeks and keeping the money. Yay for them. Now they’ve given us 11 different exchange companies to work with. And one of them, Platinum, will rent our weeks for a commissionable fee and send us the money. Go to Land’or’s corporate website to see it yourself on the member alert page. And according the the RCI website, Club Land’or holds a 3.1 overall rating with their members, equal to their own Wyndham resort on Cable Beach and higher than some 30 other resorts scattered throughout the Caribbean, all in RCI. (By the way, if you read your letter, Land’or withdrew from RCI, not the other way around). In The Bahamas, Paradise Harbour Club just up the street has a 1.5 rating, Blue Water has a 2.6 rating and Xanadu Resort in Freeport, formerly owned by Land’or , has a 2.6. Every resort has people who are unhappy for whatever reason. (We looked at Bluewater a few years ago and it was a dump.) Land'or's restaurant The Blue Lagoon has the highest ratings of any restaurant on Paradise Island. And talking about fees, look at Harborside next door to Club Land’or. Their dues are higher than ours and they have fees for everything, including picking your trash up...read it yourself. Land’or has its own exchange company. We’ve exchanged into Cypress Point through Flex Plus and it was nice. But more than that, I can call an 800 number and talk to a live person and get my questions answered. These other exchange organizations, I e-mail and wait for days to get a response. Met Ron Holt in Nassau. As I said before, he’s been there a lot. The resort looks good to us and the people we were there with. What I see here is, you want to pay for a hamburger and expect a steak. It’s not The Cove, but I didn’t pay $30,000 plus, either. So, we're happy overall with a tropical place just a 2 hour flight from Charlotte. I doubt I'll return to this forum though. It’s not beneficial and my original question was not answered.