Staycation Lodges Ltd has its registered offices located at Midland House 2 Poole Road, Bournemouth, BH2 5QY and is a Company owned and Directed by Mr. Mark Antony Rowe and Mrs. Nicola Rowe.
The Company has been formed with a share capital of £100.00. Its Company registration number is 10332646 and it was incorporated on the 17th of August 2016.See Here.
Mr. Rowe feature in other Limited Companies which can be formed into 5 groups and are listed below
- Staycation Lodges Ltd, Staycations lodges (Management) Ltd and Staycations Scotland Ltd.
- Gorley Vale Farm Limited
- Monster Tempco Limited
- Jive Hippo Ltd and
- Tolmax Ltd
The Company has a website which is Located Here
Group 1 are the subject of this report and I will deal with them later, however groups 2-5 are known to many by their past names,
Gorley Vale Farms Ltd was called Monster Lifestyle Ltd and was incorporated on the 3rd of July 2015 and is dormant now.
Monster Tempco ltd was called Monster Rewards Ltd and is the subject of a compulsory strike off petition on the 26 of January 2017
Jive Hippo Ltd was commented upon previously See Here and Tolmex Ltd is the docking station for the Timeshare Consumer Association Ltd TCA and trades under company registration number 8143115. It to was subject to a voluntary strike off and that company was dissolved on the 24th of January 2017. See Here . The TCA does not declare who is behind the enterprise now and were the subject of an article by the Daily Mirror See Here
No doubt many will be aware that there has been some shady dealing in regards to the Monster Travel Companies and other Companies which Mr. Mark Rowe has run in the UK and Spain.
Staycations Lodges Ltd
Stay Vacations has been born from the mind of its Director Mr. Mark Rowe who is a ex timeshare salesman and who operated as a sales manager at the Silverpoint resorts in Tenerife. He is supported by a array of other ex-timeshare salesmen and women who also has connections to timeshare and indeed Sliverpoint. They have sold in the past a product called Monster Reward and Monster Credits which are referred to in the industry as Leisure credits. In doing do they sold many millions of credits and rewards and with the claim that the consumers (who acquired them) would make substantial financial returns and after 14 mounts of ownership of the credits.
Most consumers were told not to “cash in” the Credits but save them, as if they held the credits for 14 months the consumer could/would loss significant sums. For most, the 14 months, has passed and no or very little return on the investment has materialised, leaving many consumers heartbroken, impecunious and furious at the scam they were subjected to. Equally Mr. Mark Rowe was the designer and promoted of the Hideous Sell My Timeshare.tv web site and perpetrated unlawful “bait and switch” tactics against consumers to get them to visit his sales “boiler” rooms. In those boiler rooms, many timeshare consumers met Glenmore Consulting Ltd (another Company controlled by Mr Mark Rowe) whereby the offer made was to re sell the timeshare for £000’s, however when baited, the monitory offers were withdrawn and replaced with another offer to buy his notorious Monster Credits. Many millions were lost by consumers and Mr. Rowe pocked equally many millions for himself.
TESS has reported on this issue though-out 2016, openly berated Mr Rowe and his Companies and have received letter before action (LBA) from his solicitors. When the LBA was received TESS told Mr. Rowe and his Companies to take a hike. No legal action followed. As TESS believe that it has a social responsibility to make known the present scams which are being perpetrated against timeshare consumers and by the Rowes and their companies, it will continue to report events which are reported to TESS by consumers.
In the course of 2016 many of Mr Rowe’s enterprise have been shut down, changed their name struck off and all have been the subject of wide scale investigations. Now we find that Mr. Rowe’s entire focus has now change as he (with his wife Nicola) is now creating a new breed of other enterprises to sell different products. Again unlawful bait and switch practices are evident and delusions are being constructed. The present thrust of the Rowe’s money making adventure is vested in Stay Vacations Lodges Ltd (here in called Stay vacations).
Stay vacations has a website Located Here
They say that Staycation Lodges is a new private company and that they acquire, develop and manage Holiday Lodge developments across the UK. However, they don’t. In the further boast, they claim “Staycation Lodges is planning to build 230+ lodges across six Holiday Lodge Resorts in the UK. This is a planned investment programme over the next 5 years of over £120 m. Planned Staycation Lodges sites include Wales, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Devon, Scotland and the Cotswolds“. Therefore, they have not started the claimed builds and quite clearly (from their accounts submitted to companies house) don’t have the resources to invest £120 million unless they obtain money through off plan consumer sales, noteworthy is that the company is only valued at £100.00.
Therefore, any growth will not be fuelled by the companies own share capital, but incoming capital from consumers who buy into this large-scale idea. If a project was expected to fully perform and deliver a pipe line of profits into the future, then of course you would naturally expect that adventure would be supported financially by the directing minds, however again in this case its not. The projected £120 Million is the sum which they expect to take from consumers in the future. The Rowe family and their millions is not invested, is kept outside the adventure so if the constructed venture fails, like all others have, the consumers losses but the Rowe family don’t. The past swag they have taken appears not evident in this venture.
In further boasts Stay Vacations claim “Our management team has extensive experience heading up large scale online travel companies”.
The company they refer to is Monster Travel and is and has always been a sham. The travel company is/was a department of Hollywood Marketing SLU located in Spain and the purported holiday supplied was to exiting timeshare consumers who were desperate to leave the unceremonious timeshare contacts they thought they were bound to.
To obtain the claimed holidays, the consumers were required to make 2 forms of payment and via 2 monitory systems “cash and Monster credits. In a tape recording TESS obtained, the salesperson claimed the holidays Monster Travel sold, could be obtained at a better price by simply going onto the internet. She did not advice clients to buy the holiday on offer, but to save the credits and redeem them after 14 mounts. As explained the rack of credits bought by timeshare consumers were claimed to deliver a better return if they were not spent however the promised return never materialised, the Rowe companies kept the money and the consumer lost the lot.
Stay vacations further brag that “We also have a consultancy team who have completed over £2 billion of commercial development contracts in UK, Europe and USA”. So if this is believed, they are a huge company however the companies house records show no trading and only £100 in share capital. If they are suggesting this was in other enterprises, then they claim to have sold 2 billion in timeshare, timeshare resales, Monster Credits and high priced holidays. If you look at the embedded trail on the internet and despite the Rowe’s trying to remove the many compliments, 1,000’s are suing Monster Companies or are in a class of dissatisfied consumers.
One simply has to look over the internet so see a mass of broken promises, broken dreams, lies and delusions that the Rowe Companies and employees have perpetrated. In saying this, the authority cannot be fully blamed as the Companies have changed they names over and over again and jumped from one ship to another, from one jurisdiction to another and from one set of offices to another. This is greed and exploitation in is purest form in our opinion.
In the brochure Stayvacations say “Have you ever heard anyone say ‘as safe as the stock market’? Most likely not. Residential property however is a much less risky investment, whilst still having the highest reward of the major asset classes. On a total return basis, residential property has been the best performing investment asset in the UK over most time frames over the past thirty years and there has been no five-year period showing negative total returns since 1973. This means investing into this particular market is not only an attractive opportunity but there is also an additional benefit: property investment coupled with the booming Staycation marketplace”.
Ignoring the inaccuracy of the pleaded promotion, the simple fact is that if you buy, you do not own anything other than a right to receive rent, the claimed property investment is not true and the actual right granted is subject to you paying yearly management fees.
If you don’t pay the fees the right will be taken off you and sold to another. If you consider all the other adventures the Rowe’s have created many have bought into the promises and equally many 1.000’s of consumers have lost their money, all investments have floundered and many consumers are desperate.
The properties are managed by the Rowe Family companies and the deeds and resales are also handled by them, just like a timeshare system however, in the contracts the word “timeshare” is not mentions but the banned word “investment” is.
This Purported “investment” is banned under the 2010 Timeshare regulations which came into force in 2011, it’s a figment of a timeshare salesmen’s imaginations and to date no one has ever received the investment represented by any Rowe company.
They are not members of any timeshare organisation, not regulated investments and with all the hype, the consumer believes they own something and will receive a pipeline of investment income, however the promises are delivered by a collection of ex timeshare salesmen operating in the UK.
The offer being made is to timeshare consumers, they again have been baited to attend high pressure meetings, lied to and in respect to wild promises and expectations.
With the newly granted rights, people can and are tapping into pension pots. In doing so, shady investments are everywhere, money is being lost and to unregulated scammers.
In reality, I expect that when you visit with the sellers of Stayvactions you are exposing yourself to a arduous sale presentation by timeshare salesmen and women and will be expected to part with significant sums, believing you own something which you don’t and will only receive a promise of an investment return which can only be delivered if the management charges are reasonable and the lodges are let. Which as explained, is all under the control of minds of timeshare salesman who is a known scammer.
Our guidance is simply be aware and know who you are dealing with.
Posted on: 2nd March 2017
