Seems kinda like the debate between using a gas grill vs a wood  fire or charcoal grill. (preferably Mesquite).  Should you rent via one of the impersonal, online, booking broker sites when planning a quality vacation or should you buy a fractional or timeshare?  Well, according to research conducted by Dos Mundos Developments, we offer the attached.

Ok, lets examine this from a practical stand point.   It is really great to step out on your deck, remove a plastic cover, push a button & start cooking steaks over a gas fired burner.  There are worse things, although gas comes from fermented stuff and petroleum that has been buried deep in the ground.   Sure, your gonna enjoy a nice steak with a grilled type flavor.  Its quick, its easy, no fuss, no real clean up and you put the plastic cover back on, wheel the thing back in the corner and that’s it.  Yep, you grilled a steak.  Yes you booked an air bnb.

Versus, lighting a fire to burn a large pile of Mesquite down into a pile of smoldering, delicious smelling, sultry, thick smoke producing coals.  Ahh, this process alone takes about 3 adult drinks or a horseshoe game (playing to 21) or a couple of dips in the pool or river or ocean.  Then you drop several one pound ribeys on a red hot grill which immediately injects smoke and flavor into the meat and broils the onion slices into the meat giving off an aroma that can be matched by nothing.  Now, at this point, there is time for another adult drink, one more jump in the pool, splashing your kids and a sampling of the olive oil drenched veges beside the steak.   Then, while being coached and advised by JV chefs standing around, you flip the steak at the perfect moment and listen closely to the sizzle as the coals do their thing again.  You throw one more horseshoe, push one more kid into the pool and light a cigar…knowing it cost you 50% less to grill those steaks with coals than it would have with gas.    Your guests bring you another adult beverage because they now realize you are on Varsity for a reason.  Then it happens…the steaks are flipped onto a large tray and covered with grilled onions, peppers and veggies and everyone enjoys food as it has been cooked for millions of years as we evolved to a species that does not mind a few extra steps to get to what is best.

So you book lodging online from an individual who lives in Cleveland but owns a flat in the islands. Not sure if he has leprosy, is a crooked politician or kicks puppies but you got a deal on lodging.  Versus pulling into a porta-co where a nice person greets you, loads your bags to your 3 bedroom condo while the kids are floating the lazy river and your wife is at the spa and you are lighting your OWN wood grill and your kids play in your OWN pool and knowing the entire time you can come back at the exact same time next year or swap for a different island, different city or different mountain, all with ease and likely much cheaper than the Cleveland guy’s 1980’s flat beside a green pool.

That is how I compare the online home or room rental options to owning a vacation outright.  Gas grilled steaks will work if that is all your expectations are. Ok fine. For me there is no debate; a wood fired grill beats a gas grill 100 times out of 100 and owning a vacation makes more sense these days than it ever has before.

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