In Reply to: timeshare.. can anyone enlighten me???? posted by balibetty on Friday, 25. February 2005 at 07:07 Bali Time:
I dont know anything about how the timmeshare stuff works but we have twice stayed in accomodation that we have *WON* from scratching the tickets from the touts and then going along to the presentation. The first time was not long after the bombings and a young guy begged us to please go along to the presentation as he would get US$10 from the administrators of the time share if we went and stayed at least 45 minutes. As everyone was doing it hard at that time we couldn't see any problem with giving up 45 minutes of our holiday to help someone out. To cut a long story short we ended up winning a weeks accomdation with Royal Bali in Candi Dasa which we used 18 months later and it was fantastic. I ws very very suspicious and so didn't take up their offer of extending it for another week for $50 or upgrading to an apartment for $50. I wish I had. The resort was great. So its not a rip off. The prizes are real. And at no time did we feel pressured into buying into the scheme.