I was scammed--deceived, defrauded and duped--at the Wyndham Hotel in New Providence, Naussau, in March 2011. I want to express my extreme frustration with Royal Holiday Club's predatory sales practices. Since I was hoodwinked into signing a contract with this unethical company, I havebeen obliged to pay $220 per month and an annual fee in excess of $1,000. In exchange I have received NO net benefits--I would have saved thousands of dollars by making travel arrangements myself for the one resort trip I didmanage to work outwith Royal Holiday Club. Over the past two years I have been obliged to pay them some $7,300. I would like help in taking steps to cancel my contract with The company. The money I've wasted in payments is a secondary concern, but I would like to recover any of it I can. I would also like to do my part in closing down this scam operation once and for all. My wife and I were taken in by a deceptive high-pressure sale at the Wyndham in Nassau in March 2011. Having second thoughts soon thereafter, we attempted to cancel the contract prior to the closing of the five-day window in which cancellations were permitted by law, but a sales representative persuaded us to remain on the timeshare plan with the offer of extra points--which disappeared completely by the time we needed them. Two years after signing I finally managed to get a booking that coincided somewhat with my travel plans. This after numerous phone calls to attempt to get bookings we could use, and after making costly payments to Royal Holiday and receiving evasive explanations from company representatives on the phone. Indeed, my wife and I have spent hours and hours on the phone listening to company representatives give long and convoluted "explanations" of policies. At our last call on May 17, 2013, we sought an explanation of the system by which we could know how many points we needed to transfer to affiliate RCI to get a desired accommodation, but no one could or would explain how. Agents sent our call and query to other departments, whose representatives subjected us to other long and complicated run-arounds. And it turned out that the point transfer and combination of weeks, which I had to do blindly without knowing how many points were needed for my desired accommodation, would cost an additional $260, and the points I had transferred would expire if I didn't use them over the next three months. That, and the extremely long holds on which they put us while we waited on the phone to be served, made the whole process of getting the plan an excruciating ordeal. After we obtained our booking, RCI told us that other substantial charges will likely be added at the resort destination. The ugly truth is this: The surcharges for transfers and combinations, the monthly deductions from my credit card, and the huge yearly fee are seriously damaging my future prospects for financial security. And the yearly fee is steadily going up, no matter what I say or do in protest. All told, the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life is to sign on with this predatory company. There have been no net benefits coming from Royal Holiday and affiliate RCI, to which I was told to send my "transfer powers." I would have saved thousands by making bookings on my own. I"m sick and tired of this consumer fraud of global proportions, and I'm mortified to know that the governments of Arizona, Florida, Mexico and the United States are doing nothing to eliminate this blight on the vacation-travel industry--even after the airing of the 20/20 exposé of Royal Holiday in 2005. Please help us find a way to escape the contract or tell us about any class action suit we can join so we can close down this rapacious and scurrilous "club," to which I sadly and contractually must continue to belong despite my desperate need to break away. Is there anything I can do? Thanking you for any help you can give.

This enterprise is a ripoff. I purchased the silver membership and paid the entire fee. I can;t travel when I want to. The customer service is non-existent. The hotels are are dumps. I rate them 1 star. You cannot roll over points and they want you to pay a 'maintenance fee' for 30 years which is not disclosed during he sales presentation. The maintenance fee increases each year. What a sleazy company !!! Unfortunately consumer protections offered in the USA do not apply since the sleazy company makes of its sales in Mexico. Do NOT buy into this mess.

Royal Holiday scammed me into buying the time share for five thousand dollars in th Bahamas. We have had it for 2 years and have been unable to use our points because they are always "Full". I am pissed. They just want to take your money. I dont believe they vn hav any hotls availabl bcaus no mattr how hard I try, I cant us my points or gt any hotl. How can it b possibl to try to book somthing 8 months in advanc and thy ar alrady full whn thr ar about 10 hotls in that ara with royal holiday?

I was scammed by Royal Holiday along with thousands of other people while vacationing in Cancun in 2004. My coworker wanted addl. points and talked me into signing the contract. I used it a couple times and was very displeased with the property, professionalism and they lied about many things. I have been working with an attorney for 15 months and Royal Holiday just now answered my attorney saying they will not let me out of the 30 year contract. They offered to pay my late fees and give me more points. If there is going to be a lawsuit, please contact me so I can be part of it and inform my attorney.

They said that my points would accumulate year to year and they do not.