Wyndham Vacation Ownership (Wyndham Timeshare) has commenced construction on their fifth Las Vegas timeshare resort, the Wyndham Desert Blue.

The initial phase of construction, which is scheduled for completion in 2010, will include a 19-story tower with 281 condominium-style timeshare units. Fifty of the timeshare condos will be penthouse style Presidential suites, while the rest will be one, two, and three bedroom timeshare suites.

The Desert Blue will be adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip and next to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

Wyndham Timeshare Shows Commitment to Las Vegas

The addition of the Wyndham Desert Blue will give Wyndham timeshare 2400 timeshare units in Las Vegas. Franz Hanning, president and CEO of Wyndham Vacation Ownership says, “Our Las Vegas operations have continued to experience tremendous growth since our arrival in 2000. To date, we’ve sold nearly $1 billion worth of product in this market alone…We are committed to expanding our presence in this larger than life city, and once complete, Desert Blue will be one of the most in-demand properties in our portfolio.”

Wyndham Timeshare Resales and WorldMark Timeshare Resales

Currently the four Wyndham Las Vegas timeshare resorts are: the Wyndham Grand Desert, (part of the company’s FairShare Plus by Wyndham portfolio); the WorldMark Las Vegas; the WorldMark Las Vegas Spencer Street, and WorldMark Las Vegas Tropicana.

To find out more about excellent opportunities at these and other Las Vegas timeshare resales, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW.

The Upgrade: Travel Better Blog recently wrote about a topic we’ve discussed here before in the Timeshare Owners Blog…the dreaded mini-bar.

The luxurious Wynn hotel in Las Vegas has apparently taken mini bar insanity to a whole new level. As many of you know, and we have talked about before here in the Timeshare Owners Blog, some hotel mini bars have motion detectors that charge you for mini bar items that you don’t consume, but just touch or slightly move within the fridge.

The Wynn however, (according to the Upgrade: Travel Better Blog), now employs the same strategy with regard to items that are located outside the mini bar. Snacks are offered on a tray in the hotel guest’s room. There is a written warning that the food sits on an electronic scale and that moving it means you bought it. Unfortunately that apparently also applies to accidently bumping it or casually picking up the snack to inspect it. And what happens if you do intend to pick up one snack to purchase, but in the process cause movement of other items on the tray? Well, apparently you have bought those too, whether or not you really want them. But don’t take my word for it, click here to see the actual photo of cookies at the Wynn.

Crazy? Sounds that way to me. So my suggestion is this: when you travel, rent timeshare or use timeshare weeks you own so that you can enjoy the benefits of a full and functional in-suite kitchen, without trying to pull off a balancing act every time you get near the mini bar.

Previous posts in the Sell My Timeshare NOW Timeshare Owners Blog on the topic of mini bars:

• Timeshare Vacationers Don’t Face “Mini-Bar Pressure”