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Banyan Tree Private Collection

Traveling can be such a hassle when you have to scope out resorts or hotel accommodations ahead of time, and then they may or may not be what you expected once you arrive. Timeshares are a wonderful way to avoid all that messing around and make jetting off to a beautiful location on the other side of the world a fairly painless process. The Private Collection program from Banyan Tree gives you 1 week per year in a "dreamy" 2 bedroom villa in all kinds of exotic places like Thailand, China, and Italy.

Annual membership dues are $3000, which doesn't sound too bad until you hear the one time fee to join of $120,000. But once you pay that you own the timeshare forever and can even transfer it to someone else (for a fee) if you ever wanted to.

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Banyan Tree Maldives Madivaru

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

The Banyan Tree Hotels is opening their fourth property in the idyllic Maldives, the Banyan Tree Maldives Madivaru. The property unveils the hotels first tented pool villa concept in the Maldives. Each villa is comprised of three tents that form living, sleeping and bath areas. The bath tent also includes spa beds for in-tent massages and facials. The tents have timber floors, rattan and teak furniture and big ceiling canopies. The villas are priced starting at $3900 but the resort is offering a special deal of 50% savings on accommodation, 25% savings on seaplane transfers, in-villa couple spa treatment, complimentary meals and selected beverages now through October 31st 2007 with minimum three nights' stay.

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Banyan Tree Planning New Resort in Vietnam

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The Banyan Tree group has just pledged about $200 million dollars to a new luxury resort project in Vietnam. Located in Thua Thien-Hue province, the complex will cover 500 acres, will feature 6 separate resort-hotels and offer more than 2,400 rooms. The area of the country that the complex will be in has some of the country's most beautiful beaches and a high-capacity seaport that can accommodate large ships, potentially attracting cruises to the area, as well.

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