Cheap Cozumel Timeshares??

[TheRedHead]

I found a website http://www.redweek.com that lists timeshares for rent. For example, they have a listing for Occidental Allegro for $56 a night.
http://www.redweek.com/resort/P332#rentals

This sounds to good to be true. I can't rent a motel room in Huntsville, AL (where I dive locally) for that price. Anyone had any experience renting timeshares?

Susan

 

[diveborg]

This sounds to good to be true......

I have to think, if it sounds too good, then it probably is.

 

[geraldp]

I found a website http://www.redweek.com that lists timeshares for rent. For example, they have a listing for Occidental Allegro for $56 a night.
http://www.redweek.com/resort/P332#rentals

This sounds to good to be true. I can't rent a motel room in Huntsville, AL (where I dive locally) for that price. Anyone had any experience renting timeshares?

Susan

There are good deals out there. Earlier this year we stayed at the Mayan Palace for $200 for 7 nights (South of Cancun). That was in a single room, 1 bath, 2 double beds, no kitchen room, but it was still very nice, and the Mayan Palace itself is beautiful. Some friends of ours (who are RCI owners) got a flyer in the mail about it and we all went over together. There was no prerequisite for going, and there was no required TimeShare Spiel. We actually got 5 rooms for the 12 of us all at the $200/room price.

Be careful though... some of the really good deals require you to sit through a 4 hour TS spiel.

Jerry

 

[TheRedHead]

Cozumel is a tough place for me to find a deal. The airfare is $645 pp. I can find a package with cheap hotel for $881 and package with good hotel for $1050 to $1150. I would be better off getting a package with a cheap hotel than a cheap timeshare. I would probably want to go for the good hotel and take no chances.

Airfare to the Bahamas is $270 pp and the hotels there are pretty reasonable. Airfare to Belize is $687 (slightly higher than Cozumel). I can fly to Mexico City for $350 and to Thailand for $770.00 on Northwest. It makes no sense to me.

Everyone says Cozumel is a bargain, but I can't find one.

 

[ggunn]

Cozumel is a tough place for me to find a deal. The airfare is $645 pp. I can find a package with cheap hotel for $881 and package with good hotel for $1050 to $1150. I would be better off getting a package with a cheap hotel than a cheap timeshare. I would probably want to go for the good hotel and take no chances.

Airfare to the Bahamas is $270 pp and the hotels there are pretty reasonable. Airfare to Belize is $687 (slightly higher than Cozumel). I can fly to Mexico City for $350 and to Thailand for $770.00 on Northwest. It makes no sense to me.

Everyone says Cozumel is a bargain, but I can't find one.

It really depends on where you are trying to get to Cozumel from, and even then it makes no sense. A couple of years ago, I was quoted (Continental website) $1180 from Austin, TX RT to Cozumel. On the same website, the same date, the same damn plane from Houston to and from Cozumel, but on a ticket originating in Toronto, the fare was $602. Now, Toronto is one helluva lot farther from Houston than Austin; does that make sense?

End rant.

But anyway, the talk of how Cozumel is a bargain is correct, once you are there, though getting there at a bargain rate can be problematic. You can get there really cheaply from Dallas on Funjet. From Houston, too, although the flight times suck.

 

[rkr3000]

Cozumel has always been our cheapest Carribbean vacation. But as the previous post said, alot depends on where you are coming from. We fly out of Dallas with a package through Funjet - 8 days airfare and Iberostar AI lodging = approx $1000 pp. We've paid much more to go to other locations in the Carrib.

p.s. We've also stayed at Iberostar for a quick 5 days: airfare from Dallas + Iberostar AI = $602 each.