Timeshare presentations for cheap stay?

[jana616]

We are trying to come up with a super cheap WDW vacation in May. I asked for ideas on another thread, and someone suggested doing a timeshare presentation to get free tickets. I am intrigued by this idea, if it truly means only giving up 90-120 minutes to a presentation (and do we get to choose which day we attend? And do they have childcare for kids during the presentation?). But I would love to hear from anyone who has actually done this before. I found one, for instance, for Calypso Cay Suites, that seems like a good price for a stay and tickets. But I am very leery of anything that sounds too good to be true. So please, if you've done one of these, what was it like? How heavy is the sales pressure? We would have absolutely ZERO interest in actually buying into a timeshare. If you've done it and had a good experience, where did you stay? Any advice? Thanks!

 

[mrsklamc]

I don't have time to do a search right now but there was fairly extensive thread on this lately.

 

[Janet Hill]

Read the fine print. Lots of times you don't stay at the actual resort, but rather they put you up in a hotel.

Lots are high pressure sales, but hey it's part of the job to earn your pay for coming. Just don't exprect them to say "thanks for coming and wasting our time and money and have a nice day, here are your tickets." So no it's not a good experience, but you're doing it to get something from them, and for this perk you give them permission to use all tactics possible to get you to buy (within the stated time limit).

That said we do it all the time.

 

[kimntrent]

Yes I have done this. We did it at the Sheraton just outside the gates. It took about two hours of telling them No though but we loved the property.

 

[Chaoster]

I think it all depends on how good you are at saying no, and how easy do you give into pressure. It's like going to a car dealer,but kicked up a notch or two. Very high pressure. If you bring kids, they lay on the guilt real good about family vacation time and doing it for the kids. If you keep saying no then they pass you to a sales manager and then to the person that fills out your coupon for the tickets. So be ready to say no a lot. Sometimes it takes more than two hours. I think it a lot of stress. Will never do a timeshare presentation again, just my two cents.

 

[tinkerbelletreasure]

It is rarely "only" 90-120 minutes. Some have major strategies for not letting you leave. We had one once (in Branson not Orlando) that had our kids in another room to "babysit" them and they were trying to get us to stay and refused to tell us where we could find our kids until I started threatening to call teh police to report a kidnapping!