Matt McDaniel has written a great article that both RCI and Interval International timeshare owners will find helpful when using their timeshares world wide.  He lists the top 5 travel apps to download to your smartphone.  And the best part is they’re all free!

His favorites are: 1) WeatherBug 2) Where 3) XE Currency 4) Google Earth and 5) Translator.  I couldn’t find the website for the app he uses for Translator but Google is in the process of developing one now.

You can find this helpful but short article by clicking on this link: Travel Apps

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Jeff Pierce, The Timeshare Expert, has taught thousands of timeshare owners the secrets to getting the best exchanges with both RCI and Interval International for over 21 years.

His two books, The Timeshare Exchange Bible – RCI Weeks Edition, and The Timeshare Exchange Bible – Interval International, are the only books of their kind in the timeshare industry and designed to help you  master at the very complicated art of getting good exchanges.

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Where can you stay in a villa, in one of the best beach front resorts in the world that has its own Penguin colony?

The Hilton Grand Vacations Club at the Kalia Tower

The resort in on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. And it sits right on one of the most famous beaches in the world, Waikiki.

The Kalia Tower has been extensively renovated and the studio and one bedroom suites are absolutely beautiful.  The rooms have ocean or mountain views and are part of a 22 acre complex complete with shops, restaurants and Penguin colony.

There are also 60 variety of tropical birds, swimming pools and waterfalls.  All within steps of the beach.

Don’t miss visiting Pearl Harbor Memorial, The Polynesian Cultural Center and a trip to the north shore to see some fabulous surfing.  Also, don’t miss nearby Hanauma Bay to snorkel with thousands of tropical fish.

If you’d like to exchange to this hard to get resort, make sure you pick up my timeshare exchange guide to learn the insider’s secrets few if any timeshare owners know.  It’s called…

“The Insider’s Secrets to Exchanging Your RCI Timeshare -
The Da Vinci Code of Timeshare Exchanging”

You’ll find more about it at

www.TheTimeshareExpert.com/rcisecrets.html.

 In next resort I review you will be skiing on some of the finest slopes in North America.  And once your checked in you can forget your car.

Exchange Tip #2, like the first tip, is one you may have heard before but read it carefully.  In it I reveal a strategy and technique
that few timeshare owners know or use.  Used correctly, it will give you an unfair advantage over millions of timeshare owners when exchanging.

TIP #2 REQUEST EARLY

O.K. I know you’re probably rolling your eyes at this one because it’s so obvious.  But keep reading to learn some Insider’s Secrets few timeshare owners know of or use.

Requesting early, in either RCI or Interval International, especially combined with banking early, will really increase your exchange power.  But again, many timeshare owners don’t put in their requests until they know exactly where and when they want to go.  It’s natural.

So what do you do?

INSIDER’S SECRET

Put in a request for a resort that you have little if any chance of getting, to timestamp your request date as early as possible. 
 
In the timeshare world, if I request a resort today and you request the exact same thing tomorrow, and everything else between us is
equal, I’ll get confirmed before you because I requested one measly day before you did.

When do you think the bulk of millions of timeshare owners put in their exchange requests in RCI and Interval International?  If you guessed the first quarter of the year you’d be right.  That’s because the holidays are over, people are looking forward to a fresh start on the year AND they’ve just received and paid their HOA’s. 

This serves to remind them to start planning for their vacation. You want to be ahead of the multitudes of exchangers and get your
request in before the first quarter of the year.

This means you had better get a request for next year in this year.

I request from RCI, Borgo di Vagli in Tuscany, Italy in the summertime at the same time I bank my week just to get my request
time stamped early. And later, when I know where I really want to go, I call back simply change my request.

I use the same technique with Interval International requesting the Franz Klammer Lodge, a Fairmont Hotels and Resorts property, for Christmas and New Years and Ocho Cascadas in February. 

Interval International once told me that they only get 30 exchanges a year from Ocho Cascadas and I’d venture a guess that
none of them are February weeks.

If you want to read about how you can learn many more ways to supercharge your exchange power, and exponentially increase your chances of exchanging into the best resorts in the world, go to

www.TheTimeshareExpert.com/rcisecrets.html

That’s it for now.  Look for Tip #3 to tie it all together.