trading spaces

BY MADISON FELTMAN WITH TRILOGY® AT LAKE FREDERICK MEMBER COLEEN CECIL AND TRILOGY® AT VISTANCIA® MEMBER DIANE MOLL

When you own a home in Trilogy®, you have access to several unique offerings that connect Trilogy Members across the country. As was highlighted later in this issue (Here, There, and Everywhere, page 30), one of these features is Reciprocal Access, which allows Trilogy Members to experience other Trilogy communities’ amenities while traveling. Hand-in-hand with that idea is Trilogy’s Home Swap program, which allows Members to swap homes, either in real-time (meaning they trade concurrently) or as a “credit” for a future stay. (For example, a Member in Washington may offer a week in their home in August for a week in a Florida home in March.) Trilogy Members Coleen Cecil and Diane Moll are just a couple of Trilogy Members that have taken advantage of this program. In this case, they left the rolling hills of the Shenandoah Valley for some time in the sun in Peoria, Arizona.

After COVID began to dissipate and travel started to become popular again, Coleen and her husband Dave began seeking new opportunities and stumbled across Home Swap on MyTrilogyLife.com. They knew they wanted to see their family in Arizona, and they felt staying in a Trilogy would enhance their visit. Coleen and Dave have always been travelers that enjoy the comforts of home while traveling. As hotel rooms don’t always have everything that encapsulates, they felt confident that a home in Trilogy would give them a great ‘base camp’ for their trip.

For Diane and her husband Jeff, they ended up with an easy excuse to explore a place they’d always wanted to visit anyhow, Washington, D.C. “We did the whole D.C. thing for a few days, we would also get up in the morning and get in the car and just take off and travel to nearby wineries. We really enjoyed our time there,” Diane said.

Not only were Coleen and Diane able to enjoy new experiences while traveling, they were also able to enjoy being a part of a different Trilogy community. Coleen and her husband were excited to take advantage of the beautiful Kiva and Mita Clubs at Trilogy at Vistancia and even invite their nearby family to dine with them at Trilogy. While Diane and her husband joined other Trilogy Lake Frederick Members at a Fourth of July BBQ, where they found everyone welcoming.

After their Home Swap experience both ladies spoke very highly of the program. “What a cool way to see the rest of the country without having to rent hotel rooms,” Diane said. “The way I see it, we all have similarly valued homes, and everybody that I have met in our community, I would trust in our house. So, I would imagine with other Trilogy communities, it would be the same.”

Coleen was most excited about the welcome she received from everyone out west. “Michael Santonino [Vistancia’s General Manager] met us and toured us around the community, which was really nice of him. The community is just beautiful, it’s just a lovely place. Dave played pickleball while we were there. All our experiences were just very positive, everyone was so kind and nice to us.”

Both ladies highly recommend taking advantage of the Trilogy Home Swap program and encourage open and often communication while corresponding with the other Member(s) you are ‘swapping’ with.

If you are interested in taking advantage the Home Swap program along with other unique Trilogy programs, be sure to visit the More Fun Stuff page on MTL. n

THE TRILOGY® TEAM’S FAVORITE 5

In preparation for this year’s magazine, we took an informal poll of the BlueStar and Trilogy team’s favorite Trilogy-wide programs. Here’s their list, in completely unscientific order.

#5 The Food & Beverage Weeks - including Wine Week, Craft Beer Week, Trilogy Loves Chocolate Week, and more

#4 Explore 52 - the insider’s guide to regional travel available for each community

#3 Keynote Speaker Series - particularly Dr. Roger Landry’s series on empowered aging

#2 Explore 360 - the multi-community travel program which has trips coming up to Cuba, Ireland, and more

#1 The Gait-to-Gate walking challenge in support of St. Jude - the annual November fundraiser that raised more than $40,000 in 2022

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