DRII Diamond Resorts International, Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 2, 2016

Registration No. 333-202450

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Jared T. Finkelstein, Esq.

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Diamond Resorts International, Inc.

10600 West Charleston Boulevard

Las Vegas, Nevada 89135

(702) 684-8000

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,

Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

Mark D. Wood, Esq.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

525 W. Monroe Street

Chicago, Illinois 60661

(312) 902-5200

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This post-effective amendment (this “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement No. 333- 202450 on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), registering shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), of Diamond Resorts International, Inc. (the “Company”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 2, 2015.

On June 29, 2016, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Dakota Parent, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and Dakota Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), providing for the acquisition of the Company by Parent in a two-step all cash transaction, consisting of a tender offer (the “Offer”), followed by a subsequent back-end merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. On July 14, 2016, Merger Sub commenced the Offer and, on September 2, 2016, the Offer was consummated and the Merger was effected.

In connection with the Merger, the Company has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, the Company hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and, in accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in Part II of the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, hereby removes from registration any and all securities of the Company registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the effective time of the Merger.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant, Diamond Resorts International, Inc., certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3, and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Las Vegas, State of Nevada, on September 2, 2016.

Pursuant to Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement.

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