Old Interval International Guide (2006?)

All,

BocaBoy made an important observation in a different thread, noting that older II resort directories used to have color coded seasons for different weeks in the back. I remember this from my first II guides circa 2005-2006.

Does anyone have one of these older guides? His statement was that most (all?) of the Marriotts were rated a Red Season -- and I'm curious if any of them are rated as Green or Yellow.

I'm still thinking about EK's post -- and referencing back to the Aruba trade experiment noted in the Sightings board.

I'd be very curious what the Orlando/Palm Desert/Branson weeks look like, from the color code (are they all red?), since that's where some variability existed in the Aruba experiment.

Please advise and thanks!

I have one that says "2005 - 2006 Interval International Resort Directory". I just had a look and do not see any color coding. All I see is a bar on page 229 that are Peak Exchange Periods and that are weeks 1 through 17 and week 52. This is for the California Desert.

Then you have a column for:

California Bay Area/Wine Country (week 14 through 42 plus week 52).
California Desert (week 1 through 17 plus week 52).
California Northern Areas (week 25 through 34 plus 52).
California Southern Areas (week 6 through 35 plus 48 and 52).
Oregon and Washington, Coasts (week 9 through 36 plus 52).
Oregon and Washington, Inland Areas (week 25 through 34 plus 52)'

The following are peak periods for:

Midwest, USA - Branson (week 16 through 43).
Midwest, USA - Other Areas (week 23 through 35 plus 52).

Central Florida - Orlando and Other Inland Areas (week 6 through 17 and (week 25 through 34 plus week 52).

The different regions are color coded.

I have an older II guide from 2004 - 2005 and all the way up to today.

I also have several old RCI catalogs starting 2004. I never got around to throw them out yet but knew where they were in the garage.

If anyone wants to have them, please let me know by email. I will send them gladly to you at your expense or toss them out eventually.

Emmy,

Thank you very much for the response -- I just sent you an email. I would love to have any extra Interval International guides from the past, if you are willing to send them along. I am happy to pay for the costs.

I emailed you my address, please do let me know.

Thanks very much!

Greg

GregT said:

All,

BocaBoy made an important observation in a different thread, noting that older II resort directories used to have color coded seasons for different weeks in the back. I remember this from my first II guides circa 2005-2006.

Does anyone have one of these older guides? His statement was that most (all?) of the Marriotts were rated a Red Season -- and I'm curious if any of them are rated as Green or Yellow.

I'm still thinking about EK's post -- and referencing back to the Aruba trade experiment noted in the Sightings board.

I'd be very curious what the Orlando/Palm Desert/Branson weeks look like, from the color code (are they all red?), since that's where some variability existed in the Aruba experiment.

Please advise and thanks!

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Unfortunately I have tossed all but the current II edition. Now I wish I had kept them. I do know that all Marriotts were red most of the year, and most (I think) were red year round, but some of the more seasonal ones did have a yellow season and a few had a green season. Sabal Palms was red for the whole year, so I assume that was also the case for the other Orlando Marriott resorts. I never looked at Palm Desert or Branson, but I suspect they may have had more than one season. Most of those with more than one season had a relatively few weeks thta were not red--just the most off season of the off season I believe.

Seasons from 1997-98 II Book

I have an II book from 1997-98 and it shows Marriott's Custom House weeks were all red; all the Marriott's in Hilton Head showed 42 red weeks, 4 yellow (weeks 5-8) and 6 weeks being green (weeks 1-4, 49, 50) - with the exception of Grande Ocean which didn't have any yellow (weeks 5-8 were put in the red); all Marriott's in Orlando were red all year, as well as BeachPlace Towers in Ft. Lauderdale; Desert Springs was red all year; Kauai Beach Club was red all year; and in Colorado, Mountain Valley showed 35 red, 11 yellow (weeks 16, 21-23, 39-43, 46, 47) and 6 green weeks (17-20, 44, 45) while Streamside showed 36 red, 6 yellow (16, 21-23, 46, 47) and 10 green weeks (17-20, 40-45).

The description of Color Codes said "The colors assigned to each week number represent relative exchange demand. Since yearly travel patterns vary, however, color codes should be viewed only as general indicators of exchange demand. In addition, all weeks with the same color do not necessarily have the same trading power, because a static color code system cannot accommodate the wide variety of available timeshare destinations, seasons, and public holidays."

I scanned the pages as I must not know how to read it.

Here is the link.

Greg, I will send the guides to you. I even have some double ones in case somebody else wants one too.

Directory of 2004 - 2005

This was the year when they had the Red, Yellow and Green color coding still. I couldn't understand why I missed it but this explains me why. I was starting to think that I was getting completely senile.

II explains the new Travel Demand Index on Page 14 and 15 in the 2005 - 2006 guide.

I have two 2005 - 2006 guides, if anyone else would like to have one.