Inflexible Timeshare owners have been watching regular holidaymakers with envy for the last 2 years. With the challenges of the pandemic, travellers have needed flexibility with cancellations and vacation rescheduling. Regular hotels and booking sites have stepped up and accommodated those needs. Timeshare resorts have not. They have charged in full…

Social media is where people voice their thoughts nowadays. And the feelings currently being expressed about Club La Costa by their members are none too complimentary. Big changes Club la Costa (CLC), like all timeshare resorts was once an exclusive club. People paid a lot of money to join (tens of thousands…

As Marriott Vacation Club receives praise for addressing timeshare’s problematic past, Timeshare Consumer Association (TCA) asks: Could the industry have unwittingly stumbled upon the one thing that could save them? Decades of wrongdoing In the 1980s and 1990s, timeshare was a serious problem in Spain and other European hotspots. Flip flop clad armies…

Following six determined years of work by Adriana Stoyanova (AKA the Erin Brockovich of timeshare) Barclays ready to pay a further £181 million to people “mis-sold” Barclays loans enabled by disgraced Maltese timeshare company Azure £48 million already repaid Stoyanova’s first victory was widely reported on in 2021, when the financial giant agreed to…

Bristol based timeshare company Seasons Holidays accused of foul play by appointing estate agents to sell the lodges, despite arbitration process not having reached conclusion Seasons Holidays in the media Seasons have been reported on many times in the last few years, and often for the alleged mistreatment of clients. In November 2020 they were…

A former British solicitor and his partner, a bar owner on the Costa Del Sol, have been sentenced to a total of four and a half years for laundering organised crime money related to a fraudulent timeshare scheme Reading Crown Court On March 24th 2022, Her Honour Judge Cambell sentenced St Helens based…

Financial institutions coming under fire for supporting high pressure timeshare operations. Customers claim their lives were ruined after being lured into huge financial commitments by holiday ownership sales staff Related links TCA contact page Tenacious timeshare lawyer Adriana Stoyanova compared to “Erin Brockovich”…

Financial institutions coming under fire for supporting high pressure timeshare operations. Customers claim their lives were ruined after being lured into huge financial commitments by holiday ownership sales staff A bad business Timeshare has had a terrible reputation for most of its history. In the 80s and 90s it was known for ruthless…

Worrying analysis from timeshare industry experts suggests that Hilton Grand Vacation may have to unload around 40 recently acquired Diamond resorts, despite retaining the 380,000 Diamond members Related links Hilton Grand Vacations Inc Licensing Agreement Diamond Resorts absorbed by…