The Lodge

The Lodge & Its Setting

The Lodge is an independent timeshare resort affiliated with RCI, located in Runaway Bay, a small Texas community known for its lakeside, small-town character rather than a big-city resort strip. It's the kind of property that works well for owners who want a dependable home week close to North Texas, with the option to exchange elsewhere when the mood strikes. Being independent rather than part of a national hotel brand, The Lodge is run with its own management and owners' structure, which is worth understanding before you buy, sell, or list a week.

Runaway Bay and the Surrounding Area

Runaway Bay sits in North Texas, within reach of some genuinely useful day trips. Lake Texoma, about 30 miles away, is one of the region's biggest draws for boating, fishing, and general lake-day activity — a popular reason for Texans to book a week in this part of the state. Fort Worth, roughly 45 miles out, brings the Stockyards, museums, and a true taste of cowboy-city culture if you want a change of pace from the water. For owners marketing a rental week, these two names are genuinely useful selling points, since both are recognisable to Texas travellers and worth name-checking in a listing description.

Selling or Renting a Week at The Lodge

If you own a week at The Lodge and want to move it on, BidMyTimeshare.com works as a private, owner-to-owner marketplace: you set your own asking price, write your own listing, and interested buyers or renters contact you directly through the platform. There's no commission taken on the sale — owners pay a single, one-time listing fee to get their week in front of buyers, which keeps more of the resale value in your pocket compared with broker-run resales.

Because The Lodge is an independent resort, resale isn't processed through a big branded transfer department. Instead, transfers typically go through the resort's own owners' association or on-site management, so before agreeing on a price with a buyer, both parties should confirm directly with the resort: the current transfer fee, whether the resort or association holds any right of first refusal on the sale, and the current annual maintenance fee attached to the week. These figures vary by resort and aren't something we can publish here, so treat a call or email to The Lodge's management as a required step before closing any deal, not an optional extra.

What a resale buyer gets is the deeded or contracted week itself and, since the resort is RCI-affiliated, eligibility to use RCI's exchange network going forward — though any points, banked weeks, or RCI membership credits tied to the seller's account typically don't transfer automatically and need to be addressed with RCI and the resort separately. Buyers should always ask the seller or the resort to confirm exactly what is and isn't included before money changes hands.

For owners renting out a week rather than selling, the same platform mechanics apply: list the week, set your own nightly or weekly rate, and deal directly with renters. Renters interested in The Lodge are typically drawn by the lake access and the low-key, small-town Texas setting rather than resort-style amenities, so honest, specific descriptions of the property and its distance to Lake Texoma tend to perform better than generic resort language.

Practical Notes for Buyers and Owners

Anyone new to RCI exchanging should ask the resort how banking and exchange deposits work before relying on it for a specific future trip, since exchange availability depends on RCI's own calendar and deposit rules, not on The Lodge directly. Texas has a clear high season around spring and summer lake activity, so plan exchange requests or rental listings with that seasonal pattern in mind.