Wyndham & DVC thru RCI

I am researching buying Wyndham resale via ebay. I was hoping someone here that owns Wyndham club can help me understand the process of using your Wyndham points for an RCI reservation for DVC.

If I purchase 182,000 points for instance and want to book a 2 bedroom DVC in a low season how does that work? If you trade 182,000 Wyndham points into RCI what does that convert to exactly?

I found a Wyndham point chart for full weeks but I don't understand how that all translates to the RCI side of things.

Any information is appreciated.

You search for ALL vacations in Wyndham points by using the LINK (portal) from the Wyndham web site to the RCI web site.

The number of Wyndham points is shown in RCI (instead of TPUs or the RCI Points values). As a resale buyer, you would NOT have access to RCI Points thru the Wyndham portal.

The Wyndham points will be shown as "deposited points - where you bank/deposit points into RCI" and unused points currently available under your Wyndham account. Will separately list Regular and Cancelled points and the use years (2013, 2014, etc).

As a TUG member, go to the Sightings Thread. You will be able to see what has been found on RCI - many are in the Wyndham points values, too.

lalahe said:

I am researching buying Wyndham resale via ebay. I was hoping someone here that owns Wyndham club can help me understand the process of using your Wyndham points for an RCI reservation for DVC.

If I purchase 182,000 points for instance and want to book a 2 bedroom DVC in a low season how does that work? If you trade 182,000 Wyndham points into RCI what does that convert to exactly?

I found a Wyndham point chart for full weeks but I don't understand how that all translates to the RCI side of things.

Any information is appreciated.

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No conversion is needed.

182000 points deposited to RCI is 182000 points

As Linda already said when you access RCI you will see week denominated in Wyndham points

That sounds great to me!

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Thank you!!

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Getting a dvc reservation with my wyndham points

So I am a new timeshare owner and i have 138K wyndham points left. If i deposit them into RCI will it be enough to get a 1 bedroom DVC in late july or August 2015? Pretty flexible about which one to stay at but if I had to choose I would like AK or BLT or SS.

Right now, summer DVC 1 bedrooms are running 105,000 for 2014. Doesn't really matter what resort. If you have flexibility and a wide range of dates, you should be fine. September dates are running 63,000 and October is running 77,000 for a 1 bedroom at DVC resorts. That can always change by next year, but hey...

allenwyn said:

Right now, summer DVC 1 bedrooms are running 105,000 for 2014. Doesn't really matter what resort. If you have flexibility and a wide range of dates, you should be fine. September dates are running 63,000 and October is running 77,000 for a 1 bedroom at DVC resorts. That can always change by next year, but hey...

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Is it 63,000 points for a DVC week in September? A week at Wyndham Bonnet Creek in a 1BR during value season is 84,000 points. Am I missing something?

montygz said:

Is it 63,000 points for a DVC week in September? A week at Wyndham Bonnet Creek in a 1BR during value season is 84,000 points. Am I missing something?

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The exchange fee and the $95 Disney fee for exchangers. About $300 in difference of real dollars out of your pocket for DVC stay.

vacationhopeful said:

The exchange fee and the $95 Disney fee for exchangers. About $300 in difference of real dollars out of your pocket for DVC stay.

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Not necessarily a difference, but an added cost that does need to be tallied in the DVC column. For our May exchange, a DVC 2BR was 126K and I believe Bonnet Creek for the same week is 189K. By points alone, DVC looks less expensive, but with the added fees, the costs would be almost exactly the same for us based on our MFs. And since we're currently points poor, I have no problem paying the $300 out of pocket and saving some Wyndham points.

montygz said:

Is it 63,000 points for a DVC week in September? A week at Wyndham Bonnet Creek in a 1BR during value season is 84,000 points. Am I missing something?

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Usually when you get within a few months of check-in Wyndham reduces the points required for Bonnet Creek in low season. I've noticed the one bedrooms are usually within that point range of 63,000 thereabouts, too. Without having to pay the trade fee and inbound $95 DVC fee.

Do not try to compare what something costs in RCI and what the *same* resort costs via an internal Wyndham directory. They use the same "currency", but they are priced completely separately.

For now, RCI averages across all Orlando area resorts. So, for a given week, and a given unit size (e.g. 1 bedroom vs. studio vs. 2 bedroom) every single Orlando resort costs the same number of Wyndham points in an exchange. So, if you find any other Orlando-area resort with a deposit for the week(s) you are hoping for, you can use those to tell you what your hoped-for DVC exchange will cost.

Note that these values *can* sometimes change, so it is not a perfect prediction, but they don't seem to change very often.