Havens
Members

Created by Harvard graduates Alex Cole and Dejan Bucevski, Havens would limit their total membership base to just 400 members. The outspoken leaders of the club went so far as to claim that larger clubs "compromise on their promises of anytime, anywhere travel and personal service due to their swelling membership."

In 2004, the club would begin to seek out investors and would launch with a property portfolio that included destinations like Telluride, Colorado and Scotland.

Initially, the club would see a modicum of success and reach nearly 50 members before the club began to fall on dire times. With bankruptcy looming and virtually no assets, the club looked outside of their club for support.

In Utah, an equity based destination club launched during the same time as Havens was enjoying a great deal of success named BelleHavens. Fearing that prospective clients may infer a relationship between the two clubs based on their similar titles and not wanting the Havens' name to spoil the untarnished BelleHavens' brand, Founder Darin Gilson began working with the Havens' management team to work out an arrangement to absorb a portion of their members.

Approximately 25 members elected to transition to BelleHavens, furthering the club's growth to become an established leader in the destination club sector.

Late in 2008, with many Havens members still a part of BelleHavens, the club would be acquired along with Crescendo Residences to form the Abercrombie & Kent Residence Club.

With the BelleHavens and Crescendo foundation, Abercrombie & Kent would quickly become a major player in the sector, bringing an established base of members and the valuable A&K brand to the destination club sector.

If you are a former Havens member and would like to comment on your experiences with the club, please feel free to contact us at contribute@destinationclubnews.com.