Friday, June 29, 2007

The Advantages To Timeshare Ownership

When you become a new timeshare reseller, you might not be knowledgeable about the advantages you will be getting. In addition to the seventy percent you are going to save off the retail price, the other advantages are:

1. Owning a timeshare provides you with large funds that are not something you get with rent

2. You get the top of the line value for your vacation

3. The cost of a hotel room will be higher than the timeshare

4. Not only will you get a room, you get a kitchen, dining, and living room

5. You will get the full furnishings and amenities

6. Hot tubs and fireplaces are available

7. Towels, blankets, and sheets are provided

8. Television, VCR's, forks, spoons, and house cleaner service are regular

9. Getting the timeshare now will give you the locked in rates before they go up

10. You can take the savings on the rent and put it into something you can own




When you are the owner of a timeshare, you are in control of a vacation home that is within your financial reach. In contrast, the timeshare will give you the amount of time you need to own one unlike the yearly vacation house. The yearly responsibilities are eliminated when you choose the timeshare over home ownership. You also get rid of the maintenance fees, utility charges, taxes, insurance, and house cleaner services that are now only paid for the time you use the home. This is usually included in the yearly maintenance charges of the resort.

Being a timeshare owner means, you have the opportunity to get pleasure from a vacation that is adaptable. It will provide you with over a thousand of resorts around the world. Once you are a timeshare owner, you can be the proud member of an exchange. The exchange will provide you with a plethora of places to choose. You can also vacation at different times in different places or have the availability to change the dates. Exchanging the timeshare can be any time of the year or just pushed to another date. This gives you the ability o use your time when you can or not at all for the year. Some exchanges let you group weeks together by taking years in the future. You have the ability to add four weeks at a time for the year and only have one week available.

Owners can find the ability to save more when they add themselves to an exchange. These will give those who join discounts for adding weeks, airline fares, cruise ship rates, rental vehicles, and others.

When your vacation is under way, you will love the ownership of the timeshare. Your vacating will be the tops and you will be able to enjoy the things from home and with no responsibilities or stresses. You will only have to find the time for your family and others while taking in the good food, fun, and things to see. As an owner, you will soon learn what a real vacation can be. This is yearly for as long as you want it to be.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Ride Free in the Outer Banks During the Labor Day Bike Show

Rev up the Harley, don your leathers, and strap your best buddy into the sidecar. The Outer Banks aren't just for summer vacation, and the Labor Day weekend is proof. For the last seven years, motorcyclists and enthusiasts have gathered in the Currituck area of the OBX to celebrate the rip-roaring two-wheelers that line the main roads annually. At the Outer Banks Bike Show, you don't have to own a motorcycle to have fun, but it helps to have a ride.

The Outer Banks Bike show is held in Grandy, North Carolina, with the Walnut Island Restaurant and Barry's Bar taking on the majority of hosting duties. Proceeds from the event go to benefit the Victory Junction Gang, a camp designed for children with special needs, founded by NASCAR driver and North Carolina native Kyle Petty, in honor of his late son Adam. Starting normally on the Friday of Labor Day, bikers can enjoy live music and dinner specials at the restaurant, while vendors from the around the country display their wares - T-shirts, bike accessories, and other fun items of interest.

Saturday kicks into high gear with a specially priced biker's buffet, followed by games and contests worth cash prizes. There may be poker competitions, contests for the best, fastest, and oldest bikes, and other related events. An auction and live music cap off the night, followed by a Sunday of camaraderie, food, and award presentations.

The only restrictions to attending the Outer Banks Bike Show are the prohibition of dogs, gang colors, and weapons. Otherwise, this event promises to bring together bikers from around the United States. If you're looking for a good time this fall and want to appreciate some beautiful motorcycles and connect with other riders, make the Outer Banks one stop for Labor Day.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Ever Considered Christmas In Hawaii?

Mele Kalikimaka is the traditional Hawaiian greeting of Merry Christmas. Native Hawaiians had some difficulty with their pronunciation of the English version and nowadays Mele Kalikimaka is bandied about with delight every December, accompanied by popular Christmas carols and an original blend of Hawaiian style Christmas decorations. Santa is frequently spotted in Hawaiian gardens lounging about in an outrigger canoe, cocktail in one hand and toy sack in the other.

Palm trees are decorated with tinsel and Christmas stars, restaurants play Christmas songs and offer Christmas fare on the menu, and locals celebrate the festive season as they celebrate everything else in life, with enthusiastic abandon and faultlessly stylish hospitality.

Christmas only arrived in the islands along with the Europeans. Prior to that time, around December, Hawaiians gave their traditional thanks to mother earth for providing them with food (Makahiki) so Christmas festivities became an extension of their own celebrations. In those days the party lasted for around four months, which was quite useful as during the festivities wars were strictly prohibited and islanders minded their p's and q's somewhat. Sort of a friendly Hawaiian version of an ASBO.

With the arrival of other nationalities at Christmas, Hawaii began to include guests' traditional delicacies and treats in the Christmas menu, adding sushi, lumpia, tamales and even coconut pudding to the selection.

At Christmas you might find yourself invited to a lu'au in your neighbour's backyard, where they might offer imu – a pig roasted in an underground pit – not the sort of thing you would serve on toast one supposes! Imus continue far into the night, lit by the Hawaiian version of Christmas lights and rocking to the sound of ukuleles and guitars.

Sounds great doesn't it. And the best thing about Christmas in this part of the world is the clement weather, so the kids can still spend time on the beach, the sand and surf is still on offer and there are still loads of things to do during the day. In Hawaii, Santa arrives in a canoe, barefoot, sun lotion in hand, and with his trousers rolled up. Well why not?

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Friday, June 08, 2007

History of Epcot

Epcot is the second theme park built at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. Epcot is a unique park full of discovery, high tech fun and imagination combined with the wonder of diverse cultures in two distinct worlds, Future World and World Showcase. EPCOT, the second oldest of Disney's Floridian theme parks was opened in 1982, and will probably need two days if you want to see and do everything within the park, (One day in Future World, and one day around the World Showcase, however many may find it less interesting than The Magic Kingdom or the Disney MGM Studios.

Epcot is neatly divided into two areas: Future World and World Showcase. EPCOT Center evolved not out of the narrative tradition which Disneyland sought to evoke, but out of the documentary tradition of Disney's Man in Space and other programs. Epcot, the Walt Disney World celebration of human achievement and discovery, is a one-stop vacation spot for all of that. Epcot is the site for one-of-a-kind world entertainment and special events, including the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, one of the world's largest outdoor festivals of its kind;Epcot International Food and Wine Festival; and Epcot Summer Series, featuring world-renowned live entertainment.

EPCOT has an abundance of possibility, sitting there waiting to be discovered. Epcot Center offers a variety of major attractions, such as the exciting Test Track, which takes riders outside the pavilion to test the high speed capability of new cars, and the brand new Mission Space, which exposes riders to G-forces similar to those in space. To commemorate the opening of EPCOT Center in 1982, the Imagineers who worked on the project put together a massive cake that was a scale model of the park. Everything in EPCOT will be dedicated to the happiness of the people who live, work, and play here, and those who come here from around the world to visit our living showcase.

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