ibnewt
TUG Member
Long time lurker on these forums and am thankful for all of the information on this site. Unfortunately, I found it after making our initial developer purchase from UVC in Cabo about 5 years ago. Have spent a lot of time on here learning how to best utilize our initial purchase (and subsequent resale purchases) and have been really happy with the results.
Just returned from a week at Grand Luxxe in Nuevo in a 1 bedroom via II etrade after deciding we did not want to do another Disney vacation with the kids. We decided to do the presentation against our better judgment, primarily for the offered room upgrade, from back of Tower 4 to the “ocean view” side, and the 10% discount since we intended to spend the bulk of our time at the resort and do not cook much if at all while on vacation. The upgraded room was actually a lagoon view (and on the first floor…) but was told no other rooms were available on the ocean view side because it was a very busy week.
Following breakfast we toured a few of the units at the Grand Bliss and made our way down to the sales floor for the Cirque video. Overall, we were very impressed with the quality of the properties and were also very intrigued by the Cirque relationship. After we had just sat down and were settling in our sales contact and the sales manager had a little conversation between themselves about running out of slots on available trade ins for our current properties but they would explain what they were talking about in more detail during our conversation. Their first offer was for a 2 bed GL, with trade in of our current properties (they can do that because of the tax credit I have seen referenced in other threads), which they explained were limited to the last few due to the success of the program, and first year credit for the ambassador program, it netted out to about $150K. I was kind of prepared for that but still was shocked at the amount. After a lot of back and forth it was down to $18K for a 2 bedroom at the Grand Mayan. We said thanks but no thanks and were then subjected to a couple of additional rounds of how can we get your business today… We told them they couldn’t, that we can pretty much do whatever we want to do with our current properties, including staying at GL, when they told us Vidanta was going to terminate all relationships with II, RCI, etc. which would mean we will not be able to exchange into Vidanta in the future. We told them there were plenty of other really nice properties in Mexico, including the UVC properties at which we currently own, thanked them for their time and thought we were on our way.
After leaving the sales floor, we returned to the Santuario and were subjected to additional sales pressure from the developer. They said they could offer us the GM 2 bedroom for $9000, with our trade ins because they did not have to pay the sales commissions if we bought directly from them and not the sales teams. We again politely declined when a final guy came in offering what appeared to be a RTU within a limited 150 day booking window for $2K plus use fees and $99 a year for their concierge service (which appeared to include subscriptions to II, RCI and SFX among others). This did not include the trade in of our current properties. We again passed, though my wife was tempted to say yes to just get out of there as our kids, who were along for the duration, were ready to get out to the pools.
All in all, we loved the Vidanta property in Nuevo and will definitely try to exchange again (or rent from current owners), though we will elect to skip the presentation in the future.
Just returned from a week at Grand Luxxe in Nuevo in a 1 bedroom via II etrade after deciding we did not want to do another Disney vacation with the kids. We decided to do the presentation against our better judgment, primarily for the offered room upgrade, from back of Tower 4 to the “ocean view” side, and the 10% discount since we intended to spend the bulk of our time at the resort and do not cook much if at all while on vacation. The upgraded room was actually a lagoon view (and on the first floor…) but was told no other rooms were available on the ocean view side because it was a very busy week.
Following breakfast we toured a few of the units at the Grand Bliss and made our way down to the sales floor for the Cirque video. Overall, we were very impressed with the quality of the properties and were also very intrigued by the Cirque relationship. After we had just sat down and were settling in our sales contact and the sales manager had a little conversation between themselves about running out of slots on available trade ins for our current properties but they would explain what they were talking about in more detail during our conversation. Their first offer was for a 2 bed GL, with trade in of our current properties (they can do that because of the tax credit I have seen referenced in other threads), which they explained were limited to the last few due to the success of the program, and first year credit for the ambassador program, it netted out to about $150K. I was kind of prepared for that but still was shocked at the amount. After a lot of back and forth it was down to $18K for a 2 bedroom at the Grand Mayan. We said thanks but no thanks and were then subjected to a couple of additional rounds of how can we get your business today… We told them they couldn’t, that we can pretty much do whatever we want to do with our current properties, including staying at GL, when they told us Vidanta was going to terminate all relationships with II, RCI, etc. which would mean we will not be able to exchange into Vidanta in the future. We told them there were plenty of other really nice properties in Mexico, including the UVC properties at which we currently own, thanked them for their time and thought we were on our way.
After leaving the sales floor, we returned to the Santuario and were subjected to additional sales pressure from the developer. They said they could offer us the GM 2 bedroom for $9000, with our trade ins because they did not have to pay the sales commissions if we bought directly from them and not the sales teams. We again politely declined when a final guy came in offering what appeared to be a RTU within a limited 150 day booking window for $2K plus use fees and $99 a year for their concierge service (which appeared to include subscriptions to II, RCI and SFX among others). This did not include the trade in of our current properties. We again passed, though my wife was tempted to say yes to just get out of there as our kids, who were along for the duration, were ready to get out to the pools.
All in all, we loved the Vidanta property in Nuevo and will definitely try to exchange again (or rent from current owners), though we will elect to skip the presentation in the future.