We have owned ours 7 years in July. You do have to be prepared to spend a good proportion of your 'holiday' in the likes of Home Depot. Sometimes its hard to get the balance between home ownership / holiday-maker right, especially if you have children with you. Although I think for us that part has got easier as they have got older. They have 'done' the parks a lot, and are happy to laze around why we do the HomeDepot type things. We have just started to go on our own (first time last Dec.) so that is also an asset as we can spend time on the villa without worrying about the children at all. Chloe