Timeshares can be a cool tool for vacationing regularly, but owning one can also force you to vacation regularly, whether you want to or not. Therefore, you must make sure that you can pay your yearly dues. Timeshare dues can go up over time. The dues usually consist of maintenance fees and taxes. Sometimes you may also get a special assessment- like if the whole timeshare resort needs some kind of special construction- in order to help pay for the new construction or repairs. I was once assessed that from the Oak Plantation Resort a few years back when a couple of hurricanes wrought havoc at the resort and all over Florida.
I belong to RCI, and I own 2 weeks at Oak Planation Resort, so I usually bank one week with RCI and use that week to travel to somewhere besides Disney World. I've been to Fort Lauderdale, FL, to Lake Tahoe (three times), to L'Anse St.-Jean (in Quebec, Canada), to Canmore, Canada (near Calgary, Alberta), to Avon, Colorado (where Oprah and Gayle passed through on their famous road trip together), and Anaheim (at a Resort near Disneyland). I even stayed at the Vistana Resort near Walt Disney World. Three years ago I also stayed at a nice Timeshare hotel in New Orleans, which was really close to the French Quarter and was right off Canal Street (I loved this trip- I learned about so much history there!)
I love traveling, and being able to use RCI is the best thing about owning a timeshare, in my opinion.
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