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We would like to welcome all Festiva Resorts owners and members to share your vacation experiences with us.  Throughout 2009, you can participate in an ongoing vacation story and photo contest.  The winners will be announced at the end of December.

Tell us a story about your most memorable vacation at any Festiva Resort. Include a photo of you or your family if you wish.  Click here to see some of the stories that have been submitted.

OR

Show us your timeshare memories with your favorite photograph(s) from a Festiva Resorts vacation.  Click here to see some of the photos that have been submitted!

Submission Guidelines

- Send all entries to contest@festivaresorts.com. For the story contest, Microsoft Word attachments are preferred. For the photo contest, please send as JPEG or TIF files, minimum of 72 dpi resolution. Files should not exceed 10 MB. Only electronic entries for photos will be accepted.

- Members and owners may submit one entry to the photo and story category per month.

- In an effort to keep the photos as original as possible, please limit photo editing to cropping, red-eye reduction, and basic color correction. Overly edited photos may be ineligible.

- The following information must be provided in order to be eligible:

• Name
• Mailing Address
• Phone Number
• E-mail address
• Name of your home resort or vacation club

Deadline

- All submissions must be received by December 15.

- The grand prize winners will be announced at the end of December.

- Every reasonable effort will be made to contact each winner; however Festiva Resorts is not responsible for unclaimed prizes.

Prizes

- The grand prize for each category (story and photo) is one free week at a Festiva Resort.  Please see prize details here.

- Winners must be in good standing with Festiva Resorts to receive any prizes.

Rules & Regulations

- You must own all copyrights to any photographs and stories entered in this contest. It is the responsibility of the contestant to ensure that publication of photographs or stories by Festiva Resorts does not violate any copyright or other applicable law.

- Submitted photographs and stories become the exclusive property of Festiva Resorts. Festiva Resorts maintains the right to reproduce and use any submitted photographs and stories (with credits) for all legitimate purposes, including but not limited to usage in publications, websites, presentations, etc., without paying compensation to the photographer or photo subjects or to the story author(s).

- Festiva Resorts will not share your personal information, stories or photographs with any other non-Festiva affiliated company or entity without written permission.

- To keep the entries original, Festiva Resorts will not edit stories or photos without written permission from the author. If you do wish for us to edit your photos or stories, please let us know in your submission e-mail.

Tips

- Be creative. Look at your photo albums to jog memories from your past vacations. Was it a special occasion? Did something interesting happen at the resort? Did you attend a local event?

- Make it a group effort. Talk to your family or friends who were with you on your vacation and get the story from everyone who was there.

- Involve the kids. Have one (or all!) of your children write the story, or use a creative picture taken by a child.

Festiva Resorts is not responsible for entries not received due to lost, failed, delayed or interrupted connections or miscommunications, or other electronic malfunctions.

By entering, participants release and hold harmless Festiva Resorts and all its affiliated companies, as well as any directors, officers or employees of those organizations from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the contest.

If, for any reason, the contest is not capable of being conducted as planned, including any causes beyond the control of the administrators, Festiva Resorts reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, modify, suspend or terminate the contest without notice to the entrants.

All winners are responsible for any and all taxes payable as a result of a prize being awarded or received. Entry into the contest does not create any vested right or interest for the participants in the prizes offered for the contest.