Palm Beach Shores Resort

Hi,
Has anyone stayed at this timeshare? I have been thinking about going there but I have a few questions. First, there seems to always be availability there for a one bedroom. Is the resort nice and is the one bedroom spacious? Although, we are a family of four, and a one bedroom is usually suited for 4 people, I have two sons who are getting bigger by the day! Are the two bedroom units ever available? Also, is the beach nice? I have never been to a Florida beach. Lastly, I am curious why the one bedroom units are so easy a trade.
Thank you all, Sue

There had been a lot of reviews of this resort but they seem to be missing now. Maybe the area review rep can find then again.

This is a small resort, maybe 30 units or less, and only about 2 of them are 2BR units. The 1BR units are probably average size, but a small kitchen. The resort is on the intercoastal waterway and has no beach facility on site. To get to the beach you must cross a street and go north a hundred yards or so to the public beach area. There is pay parking at the public area if you would choose to drive (about $1/hr).

Is this the place? I think it was a Radission Hotel before T/S conversion? Under Daily Management now

http://www.dailymanagementresorts.com/Resort.aspx?resort=1

Palm Beach Shores is on Singer Island. The U-shaped building surrounds the pool and is open to the ocean front--an easy walkout from the pool area to a very nice beach. I'd guess there's about 120 units. Only the units at each end of the "U" are 2-BR (if I remember right it's 6 stories high, so there'd be 12 2-BRs total); all the rest are 1-BR.

The 1-BRs are not large, so your group of 4 will be pretty tight.

Here is is on Google Maps, the building is just below the arrow: as you see it's an easy drive over the bridge to the mainland, and from there the nice parts of Palm Beach are only a few miles away.
Palm Beach Shores

Palm Beach Shores is the U shaped converted Radisson. I haven't stayed there but did spend a week at Sand Dunes Shores, a small resort right next door and walked the grounds of Palm Beach Shores. The beach is fine; decent pool with a large Tiki Bar which I think has live entertainment every night; from the outside looked like what it is, an older converted hotel. The lobby seemed small and the elevators seemed busy and the pool rather crowded. They did have a daily activity list posted. Personally I'm not thrilled with the area as you have to drive from the resort for grocery stores, restaurants, bars, shopping, etc.

GEORGE

I think Jim is referring to the Palm Beach Resort, which is just S of the oceanfront village of Palm Beach ($$$$$$). It is on a long strip on land that goes out into the ICW called Lake Worth in that area.

Pretty close to either the Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton....walk across A1A to beachfront.

Sue,
We stayed at Palm Beach Shores Resort on Singer Island last June if that is the resort you are referring to. It was wonderful and we would go back in a heartbeat. The one bedrooms on the corners are much larger but there's no guarantee you would get one of those. We had one and there was more than enough room for 4. It has a great beach and we loved being able to walk around the lighted walkways of Singer Island at night.

Ken was right. My prior comments were really about Palm Beach Resort & Beach Club. However, we recently have also been to Palm Beach Shores Resort and Vacation Villas (the pink converted Radison). The beach is great and we thought the pool was nice. However, there was no shade at the pool nor were there umbrellas. We were in unit 510 which faced the pool and was very noisy. They loudly play Jimmy Buffet style music from about 11am to 5pm each day. Then at night, the poolside bar is open and very loud. While the view overlooking the pool is nice I would try to get an outside facing unit to avoid the noise.

Very irritating to me was the $5/day parking fee charged to only exchangers, not owners. Also a $1/day safe charge.

The kitchen is extremely small. The unit we were in was showing its age and there seemed to be some neglected maintenance issues.

We did the sales tour and I was very upfront with them that the only reason we took the sales pitch was to recoup our parking fee. What they were really trying to sell was points at their sister resort in Orlando. The usual misrepresentations (and maybe a few extra) were told. For example, (1)within two years almost all weeks will be converted to points and there will be no weeks to exchange into; (2) If you don't have a points account by the end of 2006 you will not be able to use the PFD option for your weeks and,
(3) RCI wants to stop the PFD so that the weeks system can continue.
Somehow, these statements seem to contradict themselves and my wife got irritated wih me when I told them I had never heard such a line of S--t. We soon took our money and left.

We stayed there about a year ago. The unit was pretty nice. Kitchen was only partial unit, but OK unless you really wanted to cook full meals. Single burner and no oven, microwave & fridge. Walls were paper thin !!!! You could hear everything next door. In our case and endless night & day fight between our neighbors. They trashed the place got thrown out of the unit one night and we saw them sitting on the street later that night with their bags, evidently with no where to go. We had a unit that faced north which was nice, loooked out over the public beach. Nice large BR and huge bath.

Biggest problem was the pool. WAY TOO SMALL FOR THE NUMBER OF GUESTS. Pool rules said no saving chairs, but it was not enforced. It was wall to wall chairs, just too much for my taste. We ended up on the beach just to have space to breathe. You had to rent chairs down on the beach or bring you own, which we did. As already mentioned, there was valet parking and a daily charge for that.

I think the unit would work well for 2 adults and 2 small children. But would not recommend it for 4 adults. Just too cramped for that.

caribbean said:

As already mentioned, there was valet parking and a daily charge for that.

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Yes, there is valet parking available, and of course they hog up most of the real close spots for themselves. I doubt many folks stiff the valet attendants and say we have already paid for your service. Thus, you also end up with a tip every time you take your car out.

What really irks me is that there was a $5 daily parking fee just to park my car on their asphalt lot in the boiling sun, and what doubles that irritation is that owners aren't chaarged, only exchangers.

We were there mid-May and the noted pool problem did not seem to be a problem then. Not too many kids around either that week since school was not out yet. There were always chairs available by the pool, and the pool didn't have too many folks in it. What did bother us was the lack of shade and no umbrellas by the pool. I need to have my dermotologist give them a call.

JimJ said:

What really irks me is that there was a $5 daily parking fee just to park my car on their asphalt lot in the boiling sun, and what doubles that irritation is that owners aren't chaarged, only exchangers.

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We own there but have not been there yet (got blown out by a hurricane last year), and my understanding is that the $5 applies to everyone, not just exchangers.

Craig

hey cw
the parking fee of $5.00 daily does not apply to owners. the $1.00 daily fee for the use of the safe is charged to EVERYONE.they tell this to everyone upon check-in but there are still the procrastinaters who must fight with the associate when checking out. winning thru intimidation does NOT work here!!

I'm an owner there and will finally enjoy our 2 bedroom unit for the first time next summer 3 years we are exchanging so time to "use" it! Regarding the 5$ parking fees for non owner that people complain... I was not aware of it and called the resort to ask if it was true. Indeed it is so i told her if i would be charge next summer and she told me, as it has been written on this board, that only non-owner are paying the parking fees... Everybody (no exception) must however pay the 1$ daily fee for the safe...