1in 4 years rule

Hi has anyone exchanged into a resort that they had already went to and now were in the 1 in 4 year rule delima, and did resort refuse your exchange?
Thank you
Linda

I was shut out of Sheraton's Vistana in Kissimmee, FL but got around it by renting. I got a rental through a company for not too much more than the cost of MF (if I'd owned a week there). There are some credible companies that specialize in renting timeshare weeks and sometimes the price is very reasonable. Search the boards here for such companies -- I don't remember the one I used.

Which resorts use the 1 in 4 rule for exchanging?

Grand Pacific Resort has been know to enforce...

The Grand Pacific Resorts, primarily in So Calif has been know to cancel vacations if you violate the 1 in 4 rule for any of their resorts. Primarily they are...

Carlsbad Inn (Carlsbad, CA)
Grand Pacific Palisades (Carlsbad, CA)
Carlsbad Seapoint (Carlsbad, CA)
Southern Calif Beach Club (Oceanside, CA)
Villa L'Auberge (Del Mar, CA) (I think?)
Coronado Beach Resort
Alii Kai, Kauai (I think?)
Red Wolf Lakeside Lodge, in Tahoe (maybe??)

These resorts trade primarily in RCI. Only a few can exchange with II.

You can see the list in the RCI directory/on line in the resort info. The info also restates the 1 in 4 rule.

Exchangers etc. report that they manged to slip by the 1 in 4 rule---but there are also stories that the exchange is canceled at the last minute. Why it takes the exchange co. until the last minute---I don't know!

RCI sent me this list on 9/10/07, but it wasn't even an up-to-date list:

Following is a listing of the RCI-affiliated
resorts in North America currently enforcing a one-in-four year visit
rule for exchange vacations. Also, if the resort has a rule of this
nature it will show up on the resort listing at www.rci.com

We hope this information is helpful.

RCI Resorts Enforcing the One-in-Four Year Rule

ID Resort_Name

2201 Alii Kai Resort
1368 Apple Valley Resort
6790 Aviawest @ Pacific Shores Rst & Spa
6789 Aviawest At Rosewood Victoria Inn
6848 Aviawest At The Pacific Rim
6178 Aviawest In Vancouver
7584 Aviawest Parkside Resort & Spa
1285 Carlsbad Inn Beach Resort
3987 Carlsbad Seapointe Resort
3975 Coral Reef Resort
6736 Coral Sands Resort
2885 Coronado Beach Resort
3298 Cottages At Shipyard
4223 Egret Point By Spinnaker
5824 French Quarter
5362 Grand Pacific Palisades
4865 Hgvclub @ South Beach
5996 Hgvclub At Hilton Hawaiian Village
5426 Hgvclub At The Las Vegas Hilton
3186 Hgvclub Flamingo Las Vegas
6309 Hgvclub On International Drive
6300 Hgvclub On The Las Vegas Strip
3517 Hgvclub Orlando
2788 Kahana Falls
5971 Kona Hawaiian Village By The Sea
0259 Las Olas Beach Club
1588 Las Olas Beach Club Of Cocoa Beach
1540 Lawrence Welk Resort Villas
2318 Lawrence Welk's Desert Oasis
7564 Little Sweden Vacation Resort
5421 Marcus Vacation Club @ Grand Geneva
4908 Mauna Loa Village By The Sea
7576 Mountain Estates @ Smuggler's Notch
0916 Olympic Village Inn
0670 Orange Lake Country Club
7670 Orange Lake Country Club (Mirror)
2517 Pacific Shores Resort And Spa
3031 Pahio At Bali Hai Villas
1376 Pahio At Ka'eo Kai
3681 Pahio At Kauai Beach Villas
2638 Pahio At The Shearwater
4067 Palace View By Spinnaker
2791 Plantation Golf Villas
1797 Plantation Resort Of Myrtle Beach
6045 Plantation Resort Villas
4220 Presidential Villas @Plantation Rst
2327 Rams Horn Village Resort
3991 Red Wolf Lakeside Lodge
4855 Royal Floridian Resort
3008 San Clemente Cove
6060 Sheraton Mountain Vista
0450 Sheraton Vistana Resort
6059 Sheraton Vistana Villages
2610 Silver Lake Resort
0300 Smugglers' Notch Resort
1379 Southern California Beach Club
3400 Southwind Villas
3175 Summer Bay Resort
2101 Sunrise Cove At Village West
7629 Svc @ Little Sweden
3684 The Bay Club At Waikoloa Beach Rst
0902 The Galleon Resort
6884 The Houses At Summer Bay Resort
5082 The Rushes
3640 The Summit At Massanutten
1031 The Yachtsman
2074 Vacation Club
3007 Villa L'auberge
5995 Villas At Summer Bay Resort
5663 Villas On The Greens At Welk Resort
5366 Waterside By Spinnaker
2895 Whiski Jack At Lake Placid Lodge
5319 Whiski Jack At Northstar
5315 Whiski Jack At The Aspens
5183 Whiski Jack At The Cascade Lodge
2002 Whiski Jack At The Fitzsimmons
2314 Whiski Jack At The Ironwood
2003 Whiski Jack At The Powder's Edge
2204 Whiski Jack At The Snowbird
3424 Whiski Jack At The Valhalla
5758 Whiski Jack At The Westin Resort
2096 Whiski Jack At The Whistlerview
3035 Whiski Jack At The Woodrun
4054 Whiski Jack At Tyndall Stone Lodge
1713 Whiski Jack At Village Gate House
0484 Whiski Jack At Whistler Creek
3980 Whiski Jack At Whistler Town Plaza
3880 Whiski Jack Whistler Village Centre
2202 Whistler Vacation Club @ L.P. Lodge
5711 Woodstone At Massanutten
5800 Worldmark Whistler Cascade Lodge
7704 5night-Hgvclub South Beach
7705 5night-Hgvclub Orlando
7706 5night-Hgvclub Intl Dr
7707 5night-Hgvclub Flamingo Vegas
7708 5night-Hgvclub Las Vegas Hilton
7709 5night-Hgvclub Las Vegas Strip
7784 4night-Hgvclub South Beach
7802 4night-Hgvclub Intl Dr
7803 4night-Hgvclub Flamingo Vegas
7804 4night-Hgvclub Las Vegas Hilton
7806 4night-Hgvclub Las Vegas Strip


Last updated 1/16/06

Garnet said:

These resorts trade primarily in RCI. Only a few can exchange with II.

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Anybody know the answer to this: If the resort trades in both II and RCI, does the 1 in 4 apply to both exchange companies? Or could you go trade one year through RCI and the next through II, and they would both be legitimate trades that wouldn't/couldn't be cancelled?

The 1-in-4 rule is an RCI thing. II does not have any restrictions about trading into a resort. So one strategy is to trade through RCI one year and then trade through II (or one of the independent exchange companies). Good luck!

Evelyn

RCI does enforce the 1-in-4 rule, but it is the resorts that request it. II doesn't allow resorts to do it, is my understanding, which is strange because there are more upscale resorts with II, like the Marriotts, Hyatts and Sheraton/Starwood/Westins.

RCI should back off on the restrictions because it makes for a large inventory of some resorts. Why was I able to get a Hilton Seaworld 3 bedroom one year out with a blue week? Because the 1-in-4 keeps that inventory from a large percentage of people with better traders. We bought at PAHIO to get around the 1-in-4 rule.

I love II! Love those Marriotts! I specifically am talking about Disney. If it wasn't for II, we would have to plan our trips differently, always going to different resorts, but because II doesn't have restrictions, we can have our favorite resorts.

Also a reminder that if you own at the resort you are exempt from the 1 in 4 rule. We have back to back weeks booked at Christmas next year at Pacific Shores on Vancouver Island because we own the Christmas week and were able to exchange an October Big Sky unit for the New Year's week.

Sometimes you are exempt within a "family" of resorts

I should add that sometimes you are exempt with a family of resorts IF you OWN ONE of the FAMILY. This is true for the Grand Pacific Resorts-if you own at say, Carlsbad Inn, you can trade into it or Grand Pacific Palisades or Carlsbad Seapoint as often as you want. We own at Grand Pacific because it suits us best-and to get around the 1 in 4 rule for the other GPR resorts since we live in Nor Cal and like to vacation So Cal coastal. I'm guessing there are other "famillies" with the same rules. Maybe Pahio?

I think we heard that if you use RCI Points the 1 in 4 rule does not apply to the Carlsbad Seapoint (Carlsbad, CA) but does apply to all of the other Grand Pacfic resoerts. But check with RCI Points to confirm about theCarlsbad Seapoint (Carlsbad, CA).

That being said we have stayed at the Coronado Beach Resort once and the Carlsbad Inn twince in a four year time period using RCI Points once for the Coronado Beach Resort, and other exchange companies for the Carlsbad Inn.

I think if you rent a 1 in 4 unit that does not count fpr the RCI 1 as a exchange in regards to the one in four rule. But check with RCI as their rules as most of us know tend to change without notice.

We own a week 26 at the Rushes RCI resort number 5082 because of the 1 in 4 rule but more importantly because it is very hard to get as a summer exchange.

Bruce

Garnet said:

The Grand Pacific Resorts, primarily in So Calif has been know to cancel vacations if you violate the 1 in 4 rule for any of their resorts. Primarily they are...

Carlsbad Inn (Carlsbad, CA)
Grand Pacific Palisades (Carlsbad, CA)
Carlsbad Seapoint (Carlsbad, CA)
Southern Calif Beach Club (Oceanside, CA)
Villa L'Auberge (Del Mar, CA) (I think?)
Coronado Beach Resort
Alii Kai, Kauai (I think?)
Red Wolf Lakeside Lodge, in Tahoe (maybe??)

These resorts trade primarily in RCI. Only a few can exchange with II.

You can see the list in the RCI directory/on line in the resort info. The info also restates the 1 in 4 rule.

Exchangers etc. report that they manged to slip by the 1 in 4 rule---but there are also stories that the exchange is canceled at the last minute. Why it takes the exchange co. until the last minute---I don't know!

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