{"id":803,"date":"2011-03-28T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-1199783855.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/smugglers-notch-timeshare-resort-changes-coming-june-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:58:00","slug":"smugglers-notch-timeshare-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/smugglers-notch-timeshare-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Smugglers\u2019 Notch Timeshare Resort Changes Coming June 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Beginning in June, 2011, Smugglers\u2019 Notch Resort<\/a> in Vermont is planning to transform the way it handles its condominium timeshare business.<\/p>\n

In an article posted in the Burlington Free Press, staff writer Dan D\u2019Ambrosio interviewed Scott Tobin, Smugglers’ Notch Resort director of vacation ownership, who explained that in the past, Smugglers\u2019 Notch sold deeded property where a person would own a specific condo for a specific period of time during the year. <\/p>\n

Under a new agreement finalized with Wyndham Vacation Ownership<\/a> in January, people will now buy points for vacation ownership in the Wyndham network of resorts, including Smugglers\u2019 Notch. That allows people to stay wherever they want, for whatever period of time their points are good.<\/p>\n

Tobin said that of the 300 timeshare condos at Smugglers’ Notch, the equivalent of 40 condos, are going into the Wyndham program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe inventory set aside for the program will be registered into a trust,\u201d Tobin said. \u201cYou\u2019ll be buying an interest in that trust and you\u2019ll receive points to travel anywhere in the Wyndham exchange network, including obviously, coming back to Smugglers\u2019 Notch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tobin said the Wyndham connection marks a new era for Smugglers\u2019 Notch. \u201cIt\u2019s a more modernized product that allows the buyer more flexibility in how they use it,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the other benefit for Smugglers\u2019 is that it allows us to have sort of a national distribution for our sales. In addition to selling this product at Smugglers\u2019 Notch, it will be sold at other outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n

As D’Ambrosio goes on to report, Bill Stritzler was one of the old-school condominium owners at Smugglers\u2019 Notch when he was asked to join the board of directors for the homeowners association at the resort more than 30 years ago. He and his wife still own their condominium – along with the rest of Smugglers\u2019 Notch, which Stritzler bought in 1996.<\/p>\n

Stritzler began investing in capital improvements, especially to sharpen the resort\u2019s appeal to summer visitors, by amping up the water parks. \u201cWe wanted Smugglers\u2019 to be the best place you could go on a vacation with a family, summer or winter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The efforts paid off. Smugglers\u2019 Notch has been named the No. 1 family resort by readers of Ski magazine for the past 12 years, something Stritzler calls a \u201cbig deal in our industry, to be at the top and stay at the top for that length of time.\u201d
There are many timeshare rentals available at Smugglers’ Notch Resort for summer and winter family fun.<\/p>\n

To learn more, read “At Smugglers’ Notch, Timeshares are a Changin’<\/a>” by Dan D’Ambrosio in its entirety.<\/p>\n

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