ARP Stragegy

Does anyone have a good strategy on how to book with ARP. As an example, if I own at Steamboat Springs and I'm interested in presidents day weekend, so i'm looking for Saturday to Tuesday, should I first book Thursday, Friday and Sat at the 13 month mark to take a couple units out of inventory, then call a day or two later to cancel those units and and rebook for a couple extra days? Does something like this work?

Also, are there any good ways try to be at the front of the line for a phone connection with a VC at 8:00 13 months out?

Thank you in advance!

It seems to me you are overthinking this.

If you cancel, you lose the ARP on the cancelled points, even though they go back to the original use year. So your strategy would not work unless you had at least twice the number of ARP-eligible points than what you needed.

Are you having problems getting what you want at 13 months? For President's Weekend 2017, there was plenty of Steamboat availability at 10 months, though maybe not for Presidential units.


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uscav8r said:

It seems to me you are overthinking this.

If you cancel, you lose the ARP on the cancelled points, even though they go back to the original use year. So your strategy would not work unless you had at least twice the number of ARP-eligible points than what you needed.

Are you having problems getting what you want at 13 months? For President's Weekend 2017, there was plenty of Steamboat availability at 10 months, though maybe not for Presidential units.


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I've been told by multiple VC's that ARP is not lost if you cancel a reservation while still in the ARP. Is this not true?

uscav8r said:

It seems to me you are overthinking this.

If you cancel, you lose the ARP on the cancelled points, even though they go back to the original use year. So your strategy would not work unless you had at least twice the number of ARP-eligible points than what you needed.

Are you having problems getting what you want at 13 months? For President's Weekend 2017, there was plenty of Steamboat availability at 10 months, though maybe not for Presidential units.


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Have you experienced this since the rule change last fall?

henley1 said:

I've been told by multiple VC's that ARP is not lost if you cancel a reservation while still in the ARP. Is this not true?

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Good question

I know in the past, when cancelled points were "cancelled points they lost ARP

but now that points are supposed tp go back from wence they came, I believe they retain their identity. ie A cancelled Bonnet Creek point is still a Bonnet creek point... So it sounds reasonable that they would retain their ARP as well


Somebody needs to test this I would do it, but ll my points are in the pool, and they do lose ARP there.

Ty1on said:

Have you experienced this since the rule change last fall?

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Only third hand reporting. This was much discussed shortly after the rule came out. I don't have exact threads/posts.

Most of my stuff is in the credit pool so have not had the chance to verify if this is the case.

Assuming that a cancellation retains ARP, the cancel/rebook in the ARP window seems an unnecessary tactic, especially at the OP's stated resort and time.