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Live From Sheraton Vistana Villages

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I thought it would be fun to do a YouTube live stream from our balcony here at Sheraton Vistana Villages on our YouTube channel. We are here for a four night long weekend trip. I can tell you one thing for sure, it is HOT! 98 degrees at the pool today. We did an owners update yesterday and if all goes well with the live stream, I can answer questions while live. We surprising also bought something while at the update!

I thought this might be a good way to answer some questions with live interaction and live chat on YouTube. So tune in if you are available. It is tomorrow (Tuesday Sept 10th) at 5:00pm Eastern Time!

http://bit.ly/2kCUVC7
 
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No hurricane this week! AWESOME! I own there, but haven't been there in almost 15 years.
 

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Thanks, I own there but have never been and my sister is using my week next year. We will both be interested in watching.
 

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Cool, thanks. Feel free to share the video link with friends and family.
 

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I am all setup and ready to go. Only about 45 minutes till I go live from Sheraton Vistana Villages!

If you want to interact in live chat, you will need to go directly to YouTube to watch. The link below will take you there.

http://bit.ly/2kCUVC7
 
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I know I am not at a MVC property, but I will be going live on YouTube from Sheraton Vistana Villages in about 20 minutes at 5:00pm Eastern Time. If you want to interact in live chat, you will need to go directly to YouTube to watch. The link below will take you there.

http://bit.ly/2kCUVC7
 

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It's nice to see the face behind the posts.
 

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I can see you and hear you, but I don't subscribe to You Tube, so I cannot do anything with that.
 

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That was pretty cool, Dioxide. :)
 

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No worries. Thanks for watching :) It was fun. My first every live stream!
 

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Technology always amazes me, but I am 64, so at first I couldn't figure it out. Yeah, we loved St. Augustine and stayed there with our son and daughter-in-law before they had kids. Our DIL is a Marriott kid, her parents bought Ko Olina a long time ago, when there was barely a building. So she was impressed with St. Augustine. It must have been pretty new back then because I would guess that was 10 years ago. I could check my II history to see when it was.

Our first stay was at Bella. Kind of a bad location, with the playground right outside our door. We were there with my stepdad, so it was around 11 years ago. That was our first trip with him. He was really impressed with timeshare.
 

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Interesting you mentioned Vistana Village has an owners check-in lounge with soda and snacks. This was news to me.
 

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Interesting you mentioned Vistana Village has an owners check-in lounge with soda and snacks. This was news to me.
Thanks for watching @sparty. If when checking in you have been taken down a long hallway to a room where they have you sit down with a receptionist at a desk, that is the owner's lounge. If you just simply walk in and check in in the large lobby, then you have not been to the owner's lounge.
 

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Thanks for watching @sparty. If when checking in you have been taken down a long hallway to a room where they have you sit down with a receptionist at a desk, that is the owner's lounge. If you just simply walk in and check in in the large lobby, then you have not been to the owner's lounge.
Last time we were at WLR which was about 5 years ago, they had just put in an owners' lounge. They had help yourself refreshments and some nuts and stuff. We haven't been back to WLR and I wonder if they still have it.
 

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Last time we were at WLR which was about 5 years ago, they had just put in an owners' lounge. They had help yourself refreshments and some nuts and stuff. We haven't been back to WLR and I wonder if they still have it.
was still there last year, with coffee, water and a couple of computers
 

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Yup, still there as of January 2019 at WLR.
 
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