Investing in timeshares.(vacation planning)

Black Enterprise | February 1, 1999| | Copyright

Today's vacation clubs offer good value and accommodations for consumers looking to get away

For their 10th anniversary, Willie and Elizabeth Hurd wanted to spend four days at Shutters on the Beach, the luxury hotel in Santa Monica, California where they'd stayed during their second honeymoon. This time, they would need two bedrooms--the second for their two small boys--in a hotel where each room with a view cost about $500 per night. For the average traveler, that stay would cost about $4,000.

But for the Hurds from Celebration, Florida, the financial considerations ...

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