The real nightmare begins when timeshare owners want to dispose of their unwanted timeshare property as the maintenance fees increase on an annual basis sometimes up to over £2,000!

Most of the owners who want to sell cannot do so as they are locked into their ownership and forced to carry on paying annual fees.

In the past timeshares used to be repossessed whereas nowadays the client is being taken to court to enforce these payments.

If the developer discovers that the client is being assisted by a commercial entity to sell their timeshare, in many cases the transfer fee is increased immediately, or other obstacles are put in the way.

Timeshare forces clients to pay maintenance fees and membership fees regardless if they use it or not.

Clients can forget about the possibility of going somewhere other than their own resort as they end up having to accept whatever they are offered at their resort. Even though they can make 3 choices they usually don’t get what they want and on top of that they first have to bank their week and pay the fee. If clients decide not to exchange they have to pay to get their own week back!

Timeshare also limits the choice of accommodation. Basically only self catering accommodation is available and the majority of units are only studios or one bedroom apartments so nowhere near what the client has been promised.

Summing up the features of a timeshare package there is no denying that timeshare offers high quality accommodation and excellent facilities in luxury resorts all over the world. However, it also includes constantly increasing usage costs, ever-increasing maintenance fees, annual exchange company membership fees and resort exchange fees. So, it can be a very expensive and nerve-wracking holiday system, where your first, second or even third choice of holiday destination often turns out to be unavailable!

As the European timeshare industry uses every trick it can find to get around the law (under the cover of their new “whiter than white” image. British tourists have been left to search for other solutions to dispose of their timeshare and to find alternative, simpler ways to continue to enjoy the high-quality holidays they have become accustomed to.

The good news is that there are other possibilities on the market to dispose of unwanted timeshares and also to continue to take the kind of luxury holidays that the timeshare industry promised without the complications or hassles.