Today, timeshare is the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry. It has grown by over 900% during the past 15 years and is predicted to grow by another 900% during the next 15 years. There are now over 4,000 timeshare resorts and over 4,000,000 timeshare members!

• Because timeshare owners commit to take a vacation on average one week per year, they enjoy the space and amenities of luxurious, multiple room apartment accommodation for less than half of the price paid by traditional vacationers who continue to commit to their vacations one vacation at a time.

• Timeshare owners enjoy the flexibility of choosing between thousands of timeshare resorts in countries all around the world and can vacation whenever they want to.

• The timeshare industry has gained tremendous credibility during the past few years as major hospitality companies, such as Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Disney, Intercontinental, Four Seasons and Westin have entered the timeshare industry.

• And timeshare also works for the resort owner. It eventually pays for the cost of the resort one week at a time and eliminates marketing expenses such as advertising, commissions to travel agents and tour wholesalers. In addition, it virtually eliminates the problem of rooms being empty 30% - 35% of the time.

Barbados is an excellent choice for a timeshare purchase. Barbados has all of the advantages of an up market tourist destination. In addition, it allows for very favorable exchanges to other destinations because of the popularity of Barbados and the rarity of time share weeks available. With less than 1/3 of 1% of the world's timeshare units located in Barbados, the law of supply and demand works very much in the favor owners of a Barbados timeshare week.

Within Barbados, The Crane has always enjoyed the reputation as an incredibly beautiful and romantic location. Our spacious, historic rooms all boast breathtaking ocean views. We are blessed with the soft, pink sand Crane Beach (said to be one of the ten best beaches in the world), crystal clear waters and year round tropical breezes. As well, our history as the oldest hotel in Barbados, our romantically secluded location and the feeling of space afforded by thirty eight acres of land and a half a mile of ocean frontage are unparalleled advantages that translate into the difficult annual choice between a wonderful vacation at The Crane and an exchange to one of the world's premier resorts.

If there is a downside to timeshare, its that most timeshare purchasers, although they love their timeshare, hate what they had to go through to purchase it!

And to "add injury to insult", the intensive marketing and selling process favored by the timeshare industry is very, very expensive - averaging 45% - 55% of the final selling price of a timeshare interval. When you think about it, someone has to pay for the free transportation, free gifts, free lunches, the armies of salesmen and sales managers. And that someone is none other than the one person in fifteen who actually purchases a timeshare.

What really separates The Crane from the rest of the world's timeshare industry is our innovative and simple approach to selling timeshare. We break every rule in the timeshare book! We start with the premise that a great product at an unbeatable price doesn't need a "hard sell".

1. We don't pay commissions to anyone to solicit you to hear our timeshare presentation.
2. We don't pay to get you here and once you're here there is no gift or free meal.
3. We don't employ a team of salesmen and we have no sales managers to help "close the sale".
4. But most importantly, the money we save from this policy is passed on to our timeshare customers in a 50% discount off regular prices. For example, we sell 40 weeks "red time" in a huge, luxurious, ocean front, one bedroom suite from US$ 5,675. This week can then be traded for weeks in other luxurious resorts that cost their owners two and three times this amount! We think of this as a win-win approach; The Crane nets the same amount on each sale as it used to when selling at twice the price; our customers save a lot of money; and we end up with lots of referrals and are selling far more timeshare than ever before.
5. We give our best price up front - and then we don't haggle. This saves us both a lot of time and energy! There is absolutely no pressure and if you need a little time to "think it over", we understand.