Great Timeshare Information

• Starwood Vacation Ownership is expanding its Sheraton Vistana Villages, located at 12401 International Drive in the heart of Orlando's theme park attractions. The current expansion phase will include 200 new villas, a new swimming pool complex, a new recreation building that will house a second fitness center, game room and arcade, as well as an activities desk with sports, pool games and equipment.

• Nova Scotia, Canada is joining the luxury Private Residence Club world with its new RCI-affiliated White Point Residence Club, located on Nova Scotia's South Shore.

• Fleetwood Enterprises, one of the nation's largest producers of recreational vehicles, is setting up a new points-based timesharing product, affiliated with RCI. Called the Fleetwood Vacation Club, it will offer consumers access to high-end Class A diesel and Class C gas-powered luxury motor coaches from participating Fleetwood RV franchisees to be located across the United States.

• Fairfield has acquired the Franklin Printing building adjacent to the French Quarter in downtown New Orleans, with plans to convert the former industrial complex into a 119-unit timeshare resort. The new resort, to be called Fairfield New Orleans at La Belle Maison, marks Fairfield’s second timeshare project in the Crescent City.

• In Hawaii, Kapalua Bay, LLC & Marriott have joined forces to redevelop the Kapalua Bay Hotel and neighboring Kapalua Shops property beginning in the spring of 2006. The project will include a Ritz-Carlton Club fractional ownership component.

• Shell Vacations has recently added the Mountainside Lodge to its growing stable of resorts. Located in the popular four seasons resort area of Whistler, in British Columbia, Canada, the property has two components: a 41-unit existing timeshare plan, partially owned by about 1,600 existing interval owners as well as 37 all-suite units. The hotel units will all be converted to timeshare units.

• Eagle Crest Resorts has begun work on its new Brasada Ranch, located in Central Oregon's high desert outside of Bend. Brasada Ranch will feature 900 real estate units spread over its 1,800 acres, half of which will be preserved as open space. Fractional ownership will be one of the components offered at the resort.