Originally posted by COACHSTING
What is TUG?
The Timeshare Users Group where membership is $15 for year one with a $10 yearly renewal. They have BBS, reviews of many timeshare, rating of timeshares, classified adds and a lot of other info. You can do the BBS and adds without joining. Not a place someone wants to be if they just want to own and stay at
DVC but a great place for info about other timeshares. I love TU in many ways because I am interested in other timeshares besides DVC.
As for rating DVC, there's been a pretty sparse representation of DVC on TUG both from a BBS and Reviews/Ratings standpoint. There are only 10 ratings and 8 reveiws for HH, 51 ratings and 17 reviews for OKW, 31 ratings and 6 reviews for BW, 11 ratings and 4 reviews for VB and 7 ratings and 0 reviews for WLV. Remember that most exchanges are into OKW although before they changed the rules in 1998, BW got a number also. Unless a DVC member who is also a TUG member stays there AND decides to reveiw and or rate it, you won't see anything on TUG.
DVC members also may want to know that there is somewhat of an anti DVC element on TUG. Some see us as snooty and think we feel we are better than other timeshare members, well maybe they're right there, LOL. The fact that DVC charges exchangers an extra $95 exchange fee is also a rub for many of them. Some have gone as far as to say DVC shouldn't be allowed to participate in II for various reasons to include the $95 fee, OKW deposits no matter the home resort, so hard to get in to, refusal to deposit prime time and the like.
