" Enjoy inexpensive dream holidays for a lifetime," promotes the Marriott Getaway Club website, for example. When you can not afford to buy a villa in Hawaii, simply possibly you can afford to purchase a week. To boot, nowadays most of the big timeshare operations allow owners to break out of their holiday ruts and swap that Hawaii week for one in, say, Puerto Rico.

None. There is a button: Request Information. The Marriott website is not alone. Big timeshare sellers hesitate to be upfront about cost. The American Resort Development Association (ARDA), a trade group for timeshare companies, stated in 2012 that the average expense of a timeshare is around $19,000, with a yearly upkeep fee of $660. Understand this: there are ways to make timeshares work.

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