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A Different<br />
Kind of<br />
Vacation in<br />
PANAMA<br />
CITY<br />
BY J.B. BISSELL<br />
Although the industry has matured and evolved<br />
in countless positive ways over the course of<br />
the last few decades, the average consumer<br />
still has certain preconceived notions about<br />
what a vacation ownership property looks and<br />
feels like. So let’s be clear right from the beginning:<br />
Mega Vacations Club’s two Panama City<br />
resorts — the Mega Vacations Club at Hard<br />
Rock Hotel Megapolis and Mega Vacations<br />
Club at Radisson Decapolis — do not fit into<br />
any of those preconceived notions, no matter<br />
what they are. And that’s exactly what the<br />
company is going for.<br />
“These are our first vacation club projects,” says Roko Setka, corporate general<br />
director of Megapolis Investment Group, parent company to Mega Vacations<br />
Club. “So our goal from the very beginning was to stand out, and we thought<br />
this was a perfect time to introduce a different kind of vacation experience in this<br />
market.”<br />
Check “standing out” off the to-do list. One quick glance at the property’s<br />
description makes it clear that Mega Vacations Club is offering something completely<br />
different from their regional competitors — and quite different from most<br />
global competitors, for that matter.<br />
For starters, while the vast majority of resorts throughout Central America and<br />
Mexico are either positioned right on an idyllic beach or tucked away on some<br />
nearby bucolic hillside, the Megapolis and Decapolis — adjacent high-rises —<br />
are a prominent piece of the Panama City skyline. The “different kind of vacation<br />
experience” to which Setka is referring is a truly urban escape to Punta Paitilla,<br />
one of the most hip and happening neighborhoods in Panama’s bustling capital.<br />
Setka’s Megapolis Investment Group may be new to the vacation club<br />
business, but the company is quite familiar with the ins and outs of the local<br />
hospitality industry, and has had plenty of previous success developing various<br />
multiuse properties throughout Panama. So, the decision to pursue a timeshare<br />
product based in Punta Paitilla was a calculated one, although also a cinch.<br />
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