Time Share

Good Evening and Congratulations! You’ve just won a holiday for 2 in Florida. What do you think to this news, I bet you’re so excited you can’t speak etc….. Haven’t we all received such calls and probably haven’t taken the holiday as by the time you pay the insurance and flights you could choose your own destination at a time that suits you and not the promoters. Time share people come in all guises, it can be like that on the telephone coming into your home unasked and usually at dinner time or it can be as you walk along a pretty promenade enjoying the view whist on your holiday that you are ... more

I first visited Bahia Blanca resort near Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria some 10 years ago. My brother owned several weeks there and let me have one of them to take my children away after their father left. One week on the third rock from the sun – it was wonderful, we got off the plane and a gust of hot air met us I couldn’t believe the heat out there. Suffice to say I fell in love with place and after borrowing one of my brother’s weeks every year over the next few years I was offered my own week for the sum of £2000, on 12 months interest free credit and through a British company with a British ... more

Having seen an ad in the paper for a company called The Paradise Group, I was curious and went along for an interview. The salary looked good (£25k) and during my 2 week training with an ex IBM trainer(?) I was 'sold' the dream about selling Timeshare. Things had apparently come along considerably since the 80's bad press and resorts were all finished, of an excellent standard 5 crowns (5star+) and you didn't have to go to the same place at the same time each year, year in year out. You could join a club (forgot the name) and bank your holiday, changing it for another destination and time ... more

Time Share Resorts Thurnham Hall, Lancaster. Excellent accommodation, Sports complex and excellent restaurant. The resort over looks Morecambe Bay. Easy access to the Lake Ditrict and the Yorkshire Dales. Now part of the Thurnham Leisure Club which is now affiliated to Interval International. We actually own a week at this resort. You can even use the facilities such as the leisure club and resturant all year round. Balaia Park, Algarve, Portugal. Very good accommodation situated on the outskirts of Albuferia. Facilities include excellent restaurant, 4 swimming pools, tennis courts. Close to ... more

My family stayed in a Timeshare self-catering exchange apartment at Hotel Plas Dinorwic in Y Felinheli (Port Dinorwic)N Wales, in March 2005.The hotel chef extolled the virtues of a timeshare company based at the hotel. Verbal and written guarantees persuaded me to part with money that I will never see again, as it is probably in Spain with him. Surprisingly but understandably top hotel management sought to distance themselves from this individual by disclaiming all responsibility for what happens in the hotel, denying that F****H***** would have made the guarantees, and stating that his ... more