DavidnRobin
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WKORV OFD (Maui)
WPORV (Kauai)
WSJ-VGV (St. John)
WKV (Scottsdale)
David, you are correct but the issue is WHY? and HOW do they decide which resorts are Mandatory or Voluntary?
If someone with time takes a look at the official filing documents from these resorts they will see a discussion of a "Club" that is NOT SVN. I think may open up a path to determining why and how.
In Owners Manual for WKORV and WKORV-N - on the first page of these docs - the following statements are made:
"To widen your vacation opportunities, the Developer has arranged for the Plan to join the Starwood Pacific Vacation Club (the "Club"). The Club is an exchange program designed to link vacation plans together through a central reservation system. This gives the members of each of the linked vacation plans the opportunity to request a reservation in other participating resorts."
Then there is a strange paragraph describing that the Club was designed so that many different resorts can be included in the Club, and that each vacation plan included in the Club is called a "Club Vacation Plan" and each resort is called a "Club Resort". For WKORV it goes on to state (weirdly) that The Plan is the first vacation plan to join the Club, and as a result there are presently no other Club Resorts and that neither Developer nor anyone else can make promises about any future Club resorts. In the WKORV-N docs it states that WKORV is the first vacation plan to join the Club and that WKORV-N is the second.
I say strange because the next paragraph goes on to state - as Duke points out:
"However. the Club provides access to the SVN ("SVN"). SVN is another exchange program. It links the "Club with other vacation clubs and provides exchange services to owners in other vacation plans. This allows you to exchange your use rights for the right to use property in other SVN resorts."
It then goes on to say that SVN currently includes various Westin and Sheraton vacation ownership resorts located in Hawaii, the Bahamas, USVI, Florida, Colorado, California, Arizona, South Carolina, and other locations. Then again with the Developer or anyone can make promises about which vacation plans or clubs that can be in this program. And then says that each resort included in SVN is called an 'SVN Resort'.
So... why is this 'Club' created differently than SVN? What is it's purpose - to link resorts that are developed together like WKORV, VV, and now WSJ? And somehow separate them from SVN?
This doesn't invalidate SVN - it does discuss a vacation 'Club' that is different than SVN. Notice that both Mandatory and Voluntary resorts are listed as part of SVN but does not distinguish the difference. And the Club seems to only link adjacent resorts.
But I still don't understand for SVN - how this gives a hint to why SVO has created SVN Mandatory and Voluntary resorts - nor what they plan to do with them??? In first reading these docs I thought that the Club was SVN, but apparently it is not. plus - there is no separate reservation system for them - nor does SVO tout this.
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