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weekend get-a-way

Filed under travel, vacation at 8:29 pm 

Last weekend we spent 3 days/2 nights at the beautiful Massanutten Resortscenic family portrait. It’s a huge resort (8,000 rooms) in the Shenandoah Valley. We really enjoyed our time there, and would love to go back.

To get the “free” stay we had to make a $75 deposit, and sit through a time share sales pitch. We knew this going in, and we escaped without purchasing anything. It wasn’t too bad, though they certainly had the process perfected. A dedicated sales person was assigned to tell us about the resort, give us a tour of the place, and give us the sales rearranged hotel roompitch. Once we said “no,” she got her manager to cut the prices in half. (I’m sure they don’t do that for just anyone.) After saying “no” to that, they shuffled us through a few other people that each verified some info, at which point we got our $75 deposit back as well as a $100 Visa card. Well worth it.

We stayed in one of the hotels on the resort (they also have condos for all the time share holders). It was a very nice hotel, with impressive staff and a lovely view of the mountains and the valley. The goal of the resort is to keep you on the resort, so they had plenty to do (horse riding, tubing, canoing, golfing, water park, pools, arcades). We went to one of the indoor pools, Luray Cavernswhere Micah had his first swimming experience. He seemed to enjoy it.

It was nice seeing that portion of Virginia, and it was beautiful driving through the mountains. (We even crossed the Apalachian Trial, albeit in our car.) On the way there we hit up the Luray Caverns. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen caverns like that. They were impressive. The weekend was a good combination of adventure and relaxation.

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One Response to “weekend get-a-way”

  1. Morgan on May 17th, 2007 10:53 am

    Oh man, well done. I’ve been on a few weekend time-share sales pitch types of vacations before with my parents, and it’s a pretty sweet deal. I don’t remember the $100 Visa card, however, I doubt my parents would have cut me in on that.

    Man, I gotta find one of those around here. However, I’m a total sucker and would probably come back with a time-share.

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