Timeshare - Methods of Use

Methods of Use

Owners can:

• Use their usage time
• Rent out their owned usage
• Give it as a gift
• Donate it to a charity
• Exchange internally within the same resort or resort group
• Exchange externally into thousands of other resorts
• Sell it either through traditional advertising, online advertising or by using a licensed broker

Recently, with most point systems, owners may elect to:

• Assign their usage time to the point system to be exchanged for airline tickets, hotels, travel packages, cruises, amusement park tickets;
• Instead of renting all their actual usage time, rent part of their points without actually getting any usage time and use the rest of the points;
• Rent more points from either the internal exchange entity or another owner to get a larger unit or more vacation time or at a better location;
• Save or move points from one year to another.

Some developers, however, may limit which of these options are available at their properties.

Owners can elect to stay at their resort during the prescribed period, which varies depending on the nature of their ownership. In many resorts, they can rent out their week or give it as a gift to friends and family.