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I just successfully reserved our 2018 Silver week at Barony Beach Club for week 12 in 2018 for deposit to II. We did the same thing for 2017 and used the deposit to trade-up to September 2017 (Gold season) at Grande Ocean. But in 2018, week 12 is the week leading up to Easter and, according to the II TDI charts for Hilton Head, has a TDI of around 145 for the 2018 week vs. 100 for the 2017 week we used for the GO trade. I recognize TDI is only relevant within the HHI region, but clearly, the 2018 week should have significantly better trading power in II than the 2017 week.
Since we've been primarily a DC points user and the 2017 trade was our first II trade as a Marriott owner, I don't really know what to expect from the trade power of the 2018 Spring Break/Easter week we've secured. So I pose these questions to the TUG trading experts:
Thanks for any tips you can offer.
Since we've been primarily a DC points user and the 2017 trade was our first II trade as a Marriott owner, I don't really know what to expect from the trade power of the 2018 Spring Break/Easter week we've secured. So I pose these questions to the TUG trading experts:
- Based on our 2017 experience, we now know that a typical Barony week 12 can easily trade up to Gold season in HHI. But what can we expect to be able to do with the seemingly more powerful 2018 week 12? I'm assuming it won't touch the power of a summer week (even though the TDI is close to that of summer), but what Marriott destinations and time periods are reasonable targets for us using that week? Note that I'm not a big fan of the uncertainty and waiting around for months and months for a trade to match, so I would want to set my targets for places with a reasonable certainty of a fairly quick match (for example, our September 2017 GO trade matched in late November 2016).
- Please help refresh me on the process for depositing with II. I know I have to go onto the II site and enter my MVC reservation number and manually deposit the week to Interval, but last year that process had a few bumps because I did the deposit right after making the Marriott reservation. Interval first rejected the deposit because Marriott hadn't yet done something on their end to validate the deposit. How long should I wait to do the Interval part of the deposit?
Thanks for any tips you can offer.
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