Why Timeshares Might Not Just Be For Your Parents

Talking Points

The Points Guy

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Talking Points, host Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, learns quite a bit about timeshares from Wyndham Destinations' chief brand officer, Noah Brodsky, and TPG contributor Ed Pizzarello. Brodksy shares Wyndham's perspective on investing in their properties, the difference between hotel stays and timeshare stays and why timeshares are great for millennial families. Pizzarello is a timeshare owner; he debunks the myths, breaks down the fees and explains how the resell market works.

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0:59.8	And on today's episode of Talking Points, we're going to a place where I know very little about our topic, which I guess isn't all that unusual. We're going to be talking about
1:03.8	time shares with the chief brand officer of Windham destinations, Noah Brodsky.
1:08.9	Noah, thanks for joining us. Thanks Brian. We were just joking so I think is
1:12.4	this the first you know real travel
1:14.2	podcast on time shares? Time share is this amazing but hidden gem of the travel
1:19.4	industry that not a lot of people talk about so I'm excited to tell talk about a little bit here today.
1:25.3	And so just for the listeners out there so Windham is used to be one big company last June,
1:31.8	split and to two separate.
1:34.0	Now, do you want to talk about why Wyndham split the Timeshare company from the
1:39.2	Hotel Company?
1:40.2	That's right, we split the Timeshare company, which is now Windham destinations, the world's largest
1:45.6	Timeshare and Timeshare exchange company, along with the nation's largest professionally
1:50.4	managed North American rental business, Windndham vacation rentals, and that's
1:54.6	split separate from Wyndham hotels and resorts.
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