Disney Blog - Orlando Vacation Information

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Disney's time-share kingdom grows

Disney is taking some monumental steps forward by aggressively selling time share. Currently, the Disney vacation Club is battling some of the strongest financial headwinds.

Confirming suspicions that the 15-story building rising beyond Magic Kingdom was timeshare related, Disney finally revealed its plans for Bay Lake Tower. Disney who probably is having difficulty booking the secluded 60 Treehouse villas, is now trying to sell them as time shares.

By 2009, Celebration which has 350,000 members will sell more time shares during this year. With the slumping economy, lack of consumer confidence, big ticket items like timeshare are harder to sell. Could the kingdom be experiencing a real collapse since its inception in October 1, 1971?

According to Disney's spokesman Jim Lewis, Disney is providing a unique experience with these two timeshare resorts. Much of the excitement comes from the new Bay Lake tower that is linked to the Contemporary Resort by the fifth floor. Some of these units at Treehouse Villas will sell for the premium price of $18,000, which consist of 60 elevated homes at Saratog Springs.

The Bay Lake Towers with it's unique curved symmetry was design to complement it's larger brother the Contemporary Resort. Some of the final touches like wall-length windows providing panoramic views of the Magic Kingdom are hoped to make the Treehouse Villas the most sought after in the world.