Thursday, 24 January 2013

5 Tips to find an affordable vacation in your dream resort

Vacations are the best way to beat the stress of a typical life. We often need to relax and re-energize before we kick start our usual business or job. A fulfilling vacation with your family to your favourite vacation spot can boost your energy levels for a couple of months to go. Spending an affordable vacation with your family takes a good amount of research into resorts. Yes! If you’re totally naïve of the resorts you’re going to spend your vacations in, your vacation might turn into a nightmare.
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 Timeshares are very affordable and reliable an option, considering the difficulties you might face choosing the wrong resort for your family vacation. Vacation timeshares are a property owned by a group of individuals for a particular resort. The rights to enjoy the vacation property are divided among the owners in terms of ‘weeks’. Weeks can be ‘fixed’ or ‘floating’; if you’re into vacations in a typical season of an year regularly, you could choose a ‘fixed week’—if you’re unsure of your vacation periods in an year, ‘floating week’ could be the option for you. The advantage of having timeshares for a resort is that—you just land into your resort and start enjoying your vacation. The hassles of finding a good hotel for accommodation, doesn’t even exist! Moreover, hotels are bad for your vacation budget, you’ll lose lot of your hard earned dollars on food and as you know the prices in a hotel are season-based. If you want to spend your vacation, say during “Christmas” or “Thanksgiving”, you’ll have to shell out lots of money for accommodation in hotels. By renting or buying a vacation timeshare, vacation becomes as easy as going to your home.
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  Timeshares market would be a lot puzzling for a novice, and one has to be very careful. Without proper knowledge of the timeshares market one could end-up buying or renting a wrong resort for the vacation. I personally took the consultancy of SMA Timeshare while I was struggling to find the right vacation timeshare. Their expert advice helped me a lot to choose the right timeshares – given my experience; here I list 5 tips to find an affordable timeshare in your dream resort

  1. Get it in the right place: it is very important that you decide on the right spot to buy your vacation timeshare. In a given vacation spot, there might be many resorts; but a few might be very convenient for you when you want to stay – say near to the beach, near to the strip (if it is in Las Vegas), at a short distance within all the major tourist attractions and so on.
  1. Research: this is of prime importance while even attempting to think of finding an affordable timeshare. Timeshare market typically is a market saturated with sellers, at any given point of time you find many sellers! So a buyer has to be very prudent in choosing the right vacation timeshare. A lot of research has to be done before getting into a deal. The easiest way though is to get expert advice from the pros already in the field as I suggested in the introductory paragraphs.
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  1. Weeks: these turn out to be important as ‘weeks’ are the time of your stay at your dream resort. So be very particular on choosing either a ‘fixed week’ or a ‘floating week’ keeping in view the periodicity of your vacations.
  1. Budget: finding an affordable vacation largely depends on the way you plan budget. When you are buying a timeshare you have to take into account all the maintenance costs involved in the timeshare. One cannot simply go by the face value or cost of the timeshare as there might be many hidden costs involved!
  1. Record: last but isn’t the least! Do look into the past record of the vacation timeshare you buy. Like, does the resort provide ample recreational facilities? Does it spend on renovations and providing value for your money? Does it provide any offers to the customers? Etc.
Hope, the above mentioned tips will help you in finding an affordable vacation in your dream resort. Happy vacationing!

Great timeshare rentals in Las Vegas

The Sin City—sobriquet of Las Vegas, though exemplifies the casinos and strip clubs; there’s a lot more for anybody to love the city. Las Vegas is equally a paradise for food lovers and kids. The diversity of entertainment the city offers is what made it the “Entertainment Capital of the World!” So, it’s undoubtedly the best place to have your vacation if you’re into a wide range of fun-packed entertainment—unparalleled!
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Given the enormous opportunities to have entertainment, Vegas draws unimaginable crowds to the city. It’s estimated that around 92% of Vegas is occupied throughout the year with visitors from around the world. With this magnitude of visitors to the city, it’s at times unmanageable to find a decent accommodation—more so, if it’s on a weekend or during prime seasons. The prices of any decent hotel accommodation sky-rocket during prime seasons and makes it tough for an affordable and peaceful vacation in the city. Here come timeshare rentals to your rescue! Vacation timeshares are a collective ownership of any vacation property. The right to enjoy a timeshare property are shared among its owners in terms of ‘weeks’. As long as you rent a timeshare for a particular ‘week’, you are virtually the owner of the resort—doesn’t it sound great! Yes, it’s almost your own resort—you just need to check-in to the resort, have a nice vacation and leave gratified. All with the luxury and amenities of a condo owner, nothing comes near comparable to the convenience of renting a timeshare. No fat hotel bills, no regrets for a bad accommodation and lack of privacy!

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 Timeshares rental market is a bewildering place for a newbie; one will find a splurge of information. And renting the right timeshare can be rightly done only on expert guidance, or by having an in-depth knowledge of the timeshare market—which most of us naturally don’t have! While I’s looking for some great timeshare rentals in Las Vegas to spend my vacations; I’s fortunate enough that I was suggested SMA Timeshare by one of my buddies at work. After getting in touch with experts at “SMA timeshares” I understood a whole lot of nitty-gritties of the timeshares market—and have enjoyed several vacations at Las Vegas later. From my experience, I’d like to list some great timeshare rentals in Las Vegas,  

  • Grandview Resorts: Located on the south-end of the famous Las Vegas strip and across the street from South Point Hotel and Casino—this is a very spacious and well-equipped resort. You’ll find well-built kitchens with Granite counters, where you can comfortably cook for a big family and modern bathrooms with Jacuzzis. Pools are the best here, and kids will love them!
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  • Marriott Grand Chateau: one of the very top-rated resorts in Las Vegas this is designed in a French country style. The best part of being here—it’s just a half-block away from the famous Vegas strip; despite being this near to the strip, the resort stays pretty peaceful; and is an ideal resort for a family vacation. The kitchens are well-furnished with everything ready from coffee makers to microwave ovens. And hey, the internet connectivity is very good and is free!
  • Cliffs at Peace Canyon: this resort is located west of downtown Las Vegas. The best facility here is the shuttle to the strip. The front desk at this resort are very approachable and warm, besides the resort is surrounded by good number of groceries and you can just have a nice walk—buy grocery and cook yourself for the whole family, without having to spend it on the costly hotel food.

5 Brilliant tips to make your vacation video great!



 A nice vacation is a memory to remember for life! And when the memories are captured—the vacation turns invaluable! We often go for vacations to have that right break from the routine—spend a week or more and are gratified. But capturing your whole vacation episode; especially when you’ve been to the vacation with your family is worth more. Just imagine all those fun your kids made—that serene beach you never wanted to leave—that hustle and bustle on the road of an oriental country—that historical monument which stands as a sole evidence of history; these are but a few reasons for you to make a video out of your vacation. SMA Timeshare help you to reach right vacation place in your destination.
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So once you decided to have your vacation on cam, it’s very important that you choose the right cam and the right paraphernalia that aids you in capturing the right moments without a glitch. I’ve been to many vacations and have loads of videos of my vacations. But initially, I’ve done a couple of mistakes and have regretted that my vacation videos could’ve been much better! So just to make sure that you don’t repeat them, I’d love to give those 5 brilliant tips which would make your vacation videos great,
  1. The cam and the accessories: don’t forget to take the best cam for your vacation if you’re having a couple of them with you. And most importantly carry some good brand new batteries—sufficient enough for your whole vacation. And also don’t underestimate the memory requirements, so do carry memory sticks with the memory capacity a little above your estimated requirements.
  2. Your vacation starts from home: yes! It’s not that your vacation starts only the moment you land on your vacation spot. Your vacation starts right at that moment you’re leaving home. And capturing your video from this moment, makes the vacation video much special. Just try to capture all the important and funny moments, while your family is packing-up for the vacation and I’m sure you’ll be impressed after you play it after the whole vacation ends.
  3. Candid shots-No background noise: while shooting on your vacation try to take the best of shots and avoid jerks/shakes while capturing. Fortunately some of the new camcorders are coming with auto-stabilization features, so that you don’t need to worry about the stabilization part. If you don’t have auto-stabilization in your cam, do take care while shooting. Also, avoid speaking while shooting, unless it adds to the value of the frame!
  4. Geographical specialities: don’t ever forget to capture the geographical specialities of your vacation—like, the flora and fauna of that particular place, the historical monuments if any, other geographical identities like islands or mountains. All these captured geographical specialities stand as a signature to your vacation.
  5. Make a story: it’s very important that you take a note of all the important points while shooting on your vacation; so that you can try to put them as subtitles or a voice-over while editing the video. This adds a lot of value to your vacation video.
For more information you can visit sma timeshare website. Wishing you all a happy vacationing!

How I found the best deal for my dream resort in Florida



Florida—known as the “Sunshine State”, is one of the best tourist drawing states in the USA. The secluded and serene beaches of Florida are a ‘must visit’, besides all the theme parks like Disney World, Universal Studios and Sea World there are many more attractions that Florida offers like Florida Keys, South Beach, Key West, Everglades and many more! The sunny, sand beaches of Florida are no less to any of the best beaches in the world.
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Being from the freezing north, we always love to have our vacations down south. And the best place all of us like is Florida—why Florida? Because of the diversity of entertainment we find there; our kids equally love to have a vacation in Florida. So, being very far from Florida I always encountered problems in finding the right accommodation for our vacations, which usually last at least for a week. Initially, we’d been to hotels for accommodations. But god! It’s a bitter experience with them, partly for the quality of the food they offer and the price of it. We even lost our valuables at times while staying in hotels. Given all our bitter experiences with hotels, I tried searching for an alternative. One of my neighbours who’d been to Florida on a vacation then suggested me to get in touch with SMA Timeshare for an expert advice to rent or buy a vacation timeshare in Florida. I then, got in touch with them as suggested by my neighbour, and was fortunate to receive invaluable consultancy on renting a timeshare.  
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We rented “The Barefoot Suites” formerly called “Barefoot in The Keys”—located besides a serene lake and the lush tropical Florida flora, this resort was truly a “Paradise”. This resort offers many recreational activities too; we may go for boating or swimming in the fresh water lake, and kids will love the children’s pool and playground area in the resort. There are also Jacuzzis available in the resort, so that we can laze after a nice play or trip; besides there’s a facility for a barbeque in the resort’s picnic area. Overall, we had absolute great time being at this resort and I feel truly fortunate to have found “sma timeshare”. 
 Here I want to emphasize that, no amount of online research or inquiry would make you find the best deal for your dream resort; as timeshares market is a bewildering one for a novice and one can easily be deceived! Vacation timeshares buying is a subject in itself and one needs to have a good grounding on the market before they resort to buy or rent a good vacation timeshare. So it’s always advisable to have proper guidance or counsel when it comes to buying or renting a good timeshare. Hope you’ll be benefited with my pointers on how to get the best deal for your dream resort and I wish you happy vacationing!