Great Vacation! - Too Bad It Had To End!

We just came back from a week in Myrtle Beach, SC. What a beautiful place! Unfortunately, it was too hot to get out and do anything. It has been between 90 and 100 degrees all day every day for quite some time now. It was so relaxing to just get to spend some downtime, though. My husband usually has to get up early to go to work, so he has to try to go to bed early. But for the week of vacation, we stay up until midnight or 1 am, and sleep until 10 or 11 am. The kids are night-owls, too, so they enjoy it. And the best part is, with the heat, we couldn't get out during the day, especially with the kids, so we just stayed in the resort or went sightseeing somewhere cool, until about 6 or 7 in the evening, when we ventured out to the beach a couple of nights. One night, a friend of mine came down to take some pictures of us at the beach - they turned out GORGEOUS, despite our 3 year old who wouldn't look at the camera, and our 1 year old who cried when we tried to get her to stand in the sand! When you take 600 pictures, you're bound to get something good! Our favorite place to go in Myrtle Beach is Ripley's Aquarium. Our son loves to see the fish, and our daughter is growing into that same love. We always try to hit some of the local restaurants that we don't get to enjoy when we are at home. My general rule for vacation is that we can't eat anywhere that we could eat at home - we did break that rule a couple times for a cheap lunch at Sam's Club or breakfast at McDonald's, but overall, I don't like to do it.

Our resort was so nice. We stayed at Barefoot Resort, in the Ironwood community. They are privately owned, and the owners rent them out for short term. We got a great deal, through Endless Vacation Rentals. We only spent $680 for the whole week (Saturday through Saturday - 7 nights)! We stayed in a 2 bedroom condo, with full kitchen and 2 baths. In case you are interested in how you can save that much on your next vacation - not just to Myrtle Beach, they have resorts all over the country and all over the world - check out evrentals.com. If you use the code SB72497650, you can get 10% off their already ridiculously low prices. There is a section on that website for last minute vacations, where you can get a whole week for $399, and sometimes even less. So don't pay $150 / night for a hotel room when you can get a condo with some privacy and amenities for even less! Enjoy your next vacation.

We have decided that we prefer to vacation in late August or September, when the ocean is still warm, but the weather is starting to cool off. There were so many amenities that we did not get to take advantage of, just because of the heat. But . . . If you're willing to suffer in the heat, go ahead and vacation in the next few weeks - check out evrentals.com to see how much you can save by Vacationing In Luxury!

Getting Really Excited About Vacation!

I must confess, I'm one of those people who daydreams about vacation for months ahead of time. This year is no exception. In fact, it may be worse this year, because this is our 5 Year Anniversary, and we are going back to where we Honeymooned! You guessed it, we got a great deal! You see, on our Honeymoon, we paid about $600 to stay a week at Sunrise Ridge Resort in Pigeon Forge, TN, so we were looking for that kind of deal. This year, we are taking our two kids and heading to Gatlinburg, TN, where we found a week at Mountainloft Resort, just 2 miles from Downtown Gatlinburg, for $600, thanks to EVRentals.com (Endless Vacation Rentals, by Wyndham Worldwide). The best part: you don't have to pay any sort of membership fee or buy a timeshare to get that price. If you use code SB72497650, you can get it for even less, 10% off! So, Enjoy YOUR Vacation.
We only have 3 months until our vacation. I know, that seems like a long time, but with the weather getting warmer, I just keep thinking about it. I love to daydream about my vacation, it just seems to last longer that way. And why not daydream about it, when I am saving so much money too?

No Time Share For Me! I Prefer To Save My Money!

At every Time Share Presentation I’ve been to, the salesman is selling you on being able to vacation in luxury. He is telling you how inconvenient it is to put your whole family into a tiny hotel room, when you could buy his time share ownership, and be able to stay in a one-, two-, or three-bedroom condo or cabin. Everyone has their own space, and you are not stepping all over each other. All the comforts of home, with the fun of being away from home.

I completely agree with these salesmen, but can’t bear to part with the tens of thousands of dollars to buy into the time share, in addition to the monthly or yearly maintenance fees. For my family, the maintenance fees are about the same amount of money that we spend on our vacation each year, so it just doesn’t make sense.

Most people have been to a Time Share Presentation, and therefore most people have somehow gotten to stay at the resort without being time share owners. There has to be a way around it.

With a time share, you own a deed to a particular piece of real estate. I don’t see the point in this, because I certainly don’t want to vacation at the same location every year. I know, that was the old time share; now I trade points for vacations at my choice of locations. So why do I still own the deed? The only thing I can figure out is that I have to own the deed so they can charge me the maintenance fees for that resort – the one I don’t want to go to every year!

I’ve found a better way! There are several websites where you can book a vacation at a luxury resort for $200 - $1000 for a whole week! Take a look at these sites, and enjoy your next vacation in luxury!

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