We survived Memorial Day weekend and those of you that were able to take advantage of this holiday weekend and stay at one of the resortswere able to enjoy the beautiful weather we had!  With the summer season officially underway, InnSeason Resorts has so much to offer at each of our resort locations! 

We had our first succesful Sunset Cruise yesterday.  The weather couldn’t have been better yesterday for the cruise around Buzzards Bay!  Our own Front Desk Agent from HarborWalk, Brenda, went out with some of our members.  She said the service offered by the captain and crew of the R & R was second to none!  She also said it was a great way to experience Cape Cod.

If you have a stay coming up on Cape Cod and you’ll be staying over on a Monday night, book a seat on this great cruise!  You can use your points or pay cash for the tickets – it’s your choice!

Call Owner Services at 888-333-1535 today to book your seat for this great summer activity that the whole family will love!

Come on up to the White Mountains for a fun Golf Weekend.

The Vacation Club University that was scheduled for Saturday May 9, 2009 in Ogunquit has been CANCELLED.

The Vacation Club University that was scheduled for Saturday, June 20, 2009 in Lincoln has been CANCELLED.

On Saturday, June 6, 2009 we will offer a Vacation Club University in Lincoln. The time and location will be announced soon!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Owner Services at 888-333-1535

We received the below note from a member who just returned from The Atrium Resort in St. Maarten. It appears the resort is tacking on use fees, which is common in the Caribbean, but was unknown to us up until now. It seems they had a great time anyway.

“Hi Carla, I’m back from St Maarten had a wonderful time. I just wanted to give you a heads up. The Atrium is charging time-share exchanges $113.00 for the week per couple. This is broken down to $42.00 Utility fees, $21.00 Environmental Fee, and $50.00 time-share tax. It’s not a big deal to me. I’ve been traveling in the Caribbean for several years and I’m use to this treatment. You may want to post or make sure everyone else who is transferring their time to the Atrium is aware of these charges. It’s a bit more than the $40.00 house keeping fee Inn Season is charging it’s owners. Once again we had an excellent time and if this option is available next year we’d probably do it again. I attached a picture for you of the Attrium’s beach. Thanks “

The InnSeason Resorts in Lincoln NH have started to plan their off-season getaways.  Below I’ve listed the first-draft list of events. As always, if you have something you would like to see us do, just drop me a note.

March 28  – Maple Sugar-ing at The Rocks Estate. Join us in Bethlehem, NH to see how maple sugar is tapped from the trees and converted into the stuff we find in the supermarket. There is a “sugaring” demonstration on Saturday afternoon, wth dinner to follow. Breakfast and departing gifts (maple flaovoured) follow on Sunday.

April 4 – Wine Dinner. Not to be outdone by the great event at The Falls in Ogunquit, the Lincoln team is developing a wine dinner, north country style.

April 24 - Brewery Week End. The gang at the Woodstock Inn hold a Friday Night and Saturday event where you taste different beers on Friday night and then make beer starting at 8 AM on Saturday. The Saturday class lasts all day and includes lunch and dinner.

May 24 – Lincoln/Woodstock Mountainfest. This one is still in the works but we are combining a festival planned by the Chamber of Commerce with dinner and our own event schedule. We’ll make it fun and be back to you with more details.

June 13 – Mountain Golf at the Jack O Lantern Country Club. This should be a fun event with a course the rolls along banks of the Pemi.

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve upgraded the telephone system in the InnSeason’s Owner Services department to the latest in communication software. Created and designed by Noble Systems of Atlanta, the system now allows us to handle and track calls much more efficiently.  If you call us from a telephone number that we already have on file, your account information will pop onto the screen for the agents to see!

How does this help you, our members? We will now be better able to schedule and staff for peak call periods, calls will be answered sooner and will take less time. And, best of all, we can now transfer you to Interval International. We no longer have to ask you to call them; with the touch of a button we’ll whisk you off to the Interval offices.

I do want to thank those members that called this week for their patience. We were installing the system and naturally had some hiccups. Early on we couldn’t transfer callers from one person to another.  More than once I simply put on someone’s headset to speak with an owner rather than risk losing the call.

The system will also allow us to send out auto voicemails to our members. We can already think of ways to utilize this service for special announcements, points specials, accrual notices, point expirations and other topics.

Hopefully you’ll see the benefits of the new system right away. I’m proud and pleased to tell you that the staff are excited to have such a great tool to help service our members. We’ll do anything we can to get you on vacation.

The first few InnSeason Vacation Club Specialty week ends have met with great success. We have three more coming up. The details are below.

Brew Pub Week End at the Falls of Ogunquit is just around the corner. On February 28 you can tour and taste the delicacies of the Federal Jacks Brew Pub. We’ll take the resort van just in case some enjoy the tastings too much!

Cape Cod Cooking Class is being held at Captains Quarters Resort in Falmouth on March 7. Come and learn how to cook and open quahogs as well as other Cape Cod specialties from Chef David. It promises to be an enjoyable and educational evening.

We also are looking forward to InnSeason Day at Loon Mountain on March 22. While still in the planning stages we are planning on goofy races, a scavenger hunt as well as a cook out. It should be a fun for all.

The two resort events have a limited capacity, so please call 888-333-1535 soon if you are interested. We’ll send out more information regarding the Loon day later this month.

Remember my slogan, They are your Points, Go use them!

If you didn’t get a chance to travel to Ogunquit for this week’s Wine Weekend.. you missed out!

What a great time it was.  Guests arrived in Maine on Friday evening, dropped the bags and walked over to the cocktail party.  About 20 guests were there and the laughs kept rolling!

Everyone was slow to wake on Saturday morning, so that gave them ample time to rest up before the main dinner.  Around 5:15pm the Angelina’s doors opened and the wine flowed.  The room was set with two family style tables of 20 people.  At first, I must admit I was worried that people may not want to sit with strangers.  Well, my fears were nonsence.  The wine and the laughter and the stories never ended. 

Angelina’s prepared wonderful courses and the wine pairing was perfect.  We tried wines that no one had heard of, a real treat. Mike Connolly with Palm Bay Imports hosted everyone with tales of Italian Wine folklore and a few wine induced stories as well! 

We had so much fun.  As the dinner ended, Angelina’s famous bartender Chris took over.  He created some great Martini’s for us and we continued the evening as if it was New Year’s Eve….

Seriously, if you are looking for something different to do with your weekend, a get-a-way that will recharge you..come to the next  Wine Dinner.

See you soon!

Heather Ault-Durant Falls at Ogunquit

We’ve had three Specialty Week ends so far this year. Two were great successes and one was slow. I attribute the slow week end to being too close to the year end holidays. The recent Wine Dinner Week end was held at Angelina’s in Ogunquit was sold out! All reports are that it was a lot of fun with good company, good food and good wine. All of that was available for under 30,000 points.

Upcoming week ends include events at Cannon and Loon, a brew-pub week end at Federal Jacks in Kennebunkport, a cooking class in Falmouth and then a Cape Cod week end in Falmouth with lighthouse tours, Cape Cod Winery and Cape Cod Potato Chip factory tours.

They are your Points, go out and use them!