Marriott Vacation Club Celebrates 25 Years of Unforgettable Vacations

Marriott’s Grande Vista Continues to Welcome Families to the Sunshine State

Published November 4, 2009

by Amy Immerfall
manager, Public Relations
Marriott Vacation Ownership

Marriott Vacation Club, the premier timeshare brand of Marriott International, Inc., proudly celebrates 25 years of preserving one of the oldest family traditions—the family vacation.

“Frankly, it’s changed our lives,” says Peter Pfiel, an Owner at Marriott’s Monarch at Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island, S.C., since 1984. Pfiel and his family made the trip from Cincinnati to Marriott’s very first vacation ownership resort every summer. A quarter-century later, Pfiel and his wife are retired just three miles from their Monarch villa, where they keep two weeks so their grown children can visit. “The joy of being able to turn over the keys to my son and his family … that’s the fulfillment of a different dream than we had when we bought,” Pfiel admits.

Today the Pfiels are among nearly 400,000 Owner families at more than 50 distinct Marriott Vacation Club resorts throughout the U.S., Caribbean, Europe and Asia.

Marriott’s Grande Vista
Located just minutes from Orlando’s world famous theme parks, Marriott’s Grande Vista in Orlando, Fla. has been welcoming Marriott Vacation Club Owner families for more than 12 years. The resort is the largest within the Marriott Vacation Club portfolio and features 900 beautifully appointed one-, two- and three-bedroom villas. Each villa includes a fully-equipped kitchen with granite countertops; spacious living and dining areas; multiple televisions with DVD players; deep soaking tub in master bath suite; private, screened in balcony or patio, washer/dryer and Wi-Fi Internet access. Three-bedroom villas can accommodate up to 10 guests.

Perfectly situated on 164 acres in the heart of Orlando, Marriott’s Grande Vista boasts a vast array of resort amenities including two outdoor pools, lap pool, interactive water features and children’s pools; two pool bar and grills; The Marketplace convenience store; The Grande Cove food court; The Sweetery ice cream and candy shop; fully-equipped fitness center and on-site spa with multiple treatment rooms. Surrounded by native flora and wetlands, the resort also contains the Faldo Golf Institute by Marriott with nine-hole golf course and the neighboring 18-hole Marriott’s Grande Pines Golf Club, both members of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses.

Marriott Vacation Club is the recognized worldwide leader in vacation ownership with a program highly regarded for its quality and unique flexibility. Celebrating 25 years of providing unforgettable vacations, Marriott became the first branded hospitality company by nearly a decade to enter the timeshare industry in 1984. Marriott Vacation Club continues to expand with a diverse portfolio of more than 11,000 timeshare resort villas throughout the U.S., Caribbean, Europe and Asia. Today, more than 395,000 Owner families around the globe own their vacations “the Marriott way,” offering options to exchange weeks with priority within the Marriott Vacation Club portfolio or within Interval International’s global system of more than 2,400 resorts in over 75 countries, trade their week(s) for Marriott Rewards points, or rent their week(s). For more information, please visit www.marriott.com.