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Floating Week???

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Will someone please explain to me how a "floating week" work. I have only had experience dealing with a fixed week. Mostly what I wane to know is how do you book your week, how much time in advance should you book it, and how can you trade a floating week on RCI or any of the other company's like RCI? In advance Thank you. I have never seen a forum that has so many people who care enough to answer questions from complete strangers.
Also if you have any info about this resort I would love to hear about it.


LANDMARK HOLIDAY BEACH RESORT
Panama City Beach
2 Bed/ 2 Bath Annual, Sleeps 6
Floating Weeks (1-22, 34-52)
 

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Will someone please explain to me how a "floating week" work. I have only had experience dealing with a fixed week. Mostly what I wane to know is how do you book your week, how much time in advance should you book it, and how can you trade a floating week on RCI or any of the other company's like RCI? In advance Thank you. I have never seen a forum that has so many people who care enough to answer questions from complete strangers.
Also if you have any info about this resort I would love to hear about it.


LANDMARK HOLIDAY BEACH RESORT
Panama City Beach
2 Bed/ 2 Bath Annual, Sleeps 6
Floating Weeks (1-22, 34-52)

There are probably nearly as many different versions of how/when to reserve a floating week, how/when to deposit it and who will accept that deposit as there are resorts/groups of resorts that have floating weeks. So if you're looking specifically for information about Landmark Holiday Beach, do a search here (in the Search box at the top right just type in Landmark Holiday Beach) - I just did that and it pulled up some threads with people mentioning that they own or have owned there. Then you could send those people a PM through TUG.

I could give you my own example from Trapp Lodge where I own a float week, but have no idea if any of that process is even remotely similar to that at Landmark.
 

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We formerly owned prime-season floating-week units at 2 very nice sister timeshare resorts located across the street from each other in Orlando FL. Our deed identified us as owners of specific units during particular weeks -- e.g., B36A10B on our deed meant we owned the connecting 36-A & 36-B lockoff units in Building B during Week 36.

Owning it during that specific week every year did not give us any special priority for using our own deeded unit, however. That's because the use rules, spelled out in the original condo documents for that timeshare, on file with the Orange County FL registrar along with all the other real estate deeds & covenants, dictated a floating-week system. That meant paid-up owners had to phone ahead for reservations.

The choicest prime weeks got snapped up soonest, so it was important to plan ahead & call early for a good week. The later we waited, the slimmer the pickings.

Waiting too long ran into the possibility of being shut out altogether -- getting no reservation for our own use even though we paid all our maintenance fees on time. How could that happen? If nothing was available when we called for a reservation, then what happened to the timeshare that we paid for via our maintenance fee? Easy. If we waited till too late, then our paid-for week was for one of those vacant units that nobody used, that remained vacant earlier in the year -- a perfectly good timeshare week that went to waste for lack of good planning & early reservation.

Fortunately that never happened to us -- although it did happen occasionally to others, who were hopping mad when they discovered they had been shut out because of their own slowness in calling to reserve their floating weeks.

One year we waiting so late to reserve that nothing was left except an October week that we had not planned on for vacationing. Rather than get shut out completely, we took the October week & had a nice surprise vacation. Live & learn.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 

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Landmark Holiday Beach Resort, PCB, FL
Did you get this resort?? We own at Landmark but it's a fixed week. Floating weeks are booked one year from the date you want to reserve. If you go to the website: http://landmarkpcb.com go to reservations and will describe in detail how to reserve. Also do you know what week this is deeded to for deeding purposes. If it's a week you want to use, I think you have more than 12 months to reserve. If you want any other infor feel free to message me. We've been going there every year for 10 years.
 
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Did you get this resort?? We own at Landmark but it's a fixed week. Floating weeks are booked one year from the date you want to reserve. If you go to the website: http://landmarkpcb.com go to reservations and will describe in detail how to reserve. Also do you know what week this is deeded to for deeding purposes. If it's a week you want to use, I think you have more than 12 months to reserve. If you want any other infor feel free to message me. We've been going there every year for 10 years.
WOW thanks so much. I will ask her that first thing in the morning when I call.
Have you ever traded your week through RCI?
 

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There are probably nearly as many different versions of how/when to reserve a floating week, how/when to deposit it and who will accept that deposit as there are resorts/groups of resorts that have floating weeks. So if you're looking specifically for information about Landmark Holiday Beach, do a search here (in the Search box at the top right just type in Landmark Holiday Beach) - I just did that and it pulled up some threads with people mentioning that they own or have owned there. Then you could send those people a PM through TUG.

I could give you my own example from Trapp Lodge where I own a float week, but have no idea if any of that process is even remotely similar to that at Landmark.
THANKS SO MUCH
 

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Did you get this resort?? We own at Landmark but it's a fixed week. Floating weeks are booked one year from the date you want to reserve. If you go to the website: http://landmarkpcb.com go to reservations and will describe in detail how to reserve. Also do you know what week this is deeded to for deeding purposes. If it's a week you want to use, I think you have more than 12 months to reserve. If you want any other infor feel free to message me. We've been going there every year for 10 years.
THANKS SO MUCH
 

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There are probably nearly as many different versions of how/when to reserve a floating week, how/when to deposit it and who will accept that deposit as there are resorts/groups of resorts that have floating weeks. So if you're looking specifically for information about Landmark Holiday Beach, do a search here (in the Search box at the top right just type in Landmark Holiday Beach) - I just did that and it pulled up some threads with people mentioning that they own or have owned there. Then you could send those people a PM through TUG.

I could give you my own example from Trapp Lodge where I own a float week, but have no idea if any of that process is even remotely similar to that at Landmark.
THANKS SO MUCH
 

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There are probably nearly as many different versions of how/when to reserve a floating week, how/when to deposit it and who will accept that deposit as there are resorts/groups of resorts that have floating weeks. So if you're looking specifically for information about Landmark Holiday Beach, do a search here (in the Search box at the top right just type in Landmark Holiday Beach) - I just did that and it pulled up some threads with people mentioning that they own or have owned there. Then you could send those people a PM through TUG.

I could give you my own example from Trapp Lodge where I own a float week, but have no idea if any of that process is even remotely similar to that at Landmark.
THANKS
 

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There are probably nearly as many different versions of how/when to reserve a floating week, how/when to deposit it and who will accept that deposit as there are resorts/groups of resorts that have floating weeks. So if you're looking specifically for information about Landmark Holiday Beach, do a search here (in the Search box at the top right just type in Landmark Holiday Beach) - I just did that and it pulled up some threads with people mentioning that they own or have owned there. Then you could send those people a PM through TUG.

I could give you my own example from Trapp Lodge where I own a float week, but have no idea if any of that process is even remotely similar to that at Landmark.
THANKS
 

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There are probably nearly as many different versions of how/when to reserve a floating week, how/when to deposit it and who will accept that deposit as there are resorts/groups of resorts that have floating weeks. So if you're looking specifically for information about Landmark Holiday Beach, do a search here (in the Search box at the top right just type in Landmark Holiday Beach) - I just did that and it pulled up some threads with people mentioning that they own or have owned there. Then you could send those people a PM through TUG.

I could give you my own example from Trapp Lodge where I own a float week, but have no idea if any of that process is even remotely similar to that at Landmark.
THANKS
 

Hophop4

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Landmark Holiday Beach Resort, PCB, FL
WOW thanks so much. I will ask her that first thing in the morning when I call.
Have you ever traded your week through RCI?

No. We own week 27 which is July 4th week most years except for this year and next year we miss the holiday. Summer weeks on the Florida Panhandle are hard to come by so we use it most of the time. I did rent it out couple years ago but gave it to the resort to rent so I lost money on it because they charge a commission. If you don't have kids best time to go is May or September on floating weeks. They do have a nice heated enclosed pool. They have been doing continuous upgades to the units.
 
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