I thought I would "test" Wyndham to see how certain "perks" really pan out. My intent is to figure out how to "maximize" my benefits as an Owner and to better understand ALL of the system. I put a week in their rental program for a 2 bedroom unit to see if they would rent it out and for how much. Obviously: they HAVE NOT rented it out. I called Wyndham reservations about availability for any week in February (using my points)and was told that there is nothing available until the end of March. Then I asked if I could cancel a reservation & then rebook to get my discount and was told I would lose it because they got an email telling them all cancelled inventory would not be available and CANNOT be rebooked by Wyndham Owners, so what the heck are they doing with it? They aren't renting them through their program where they do the split with the owners.......do they have yet another rental company with a name we aren't familiar with? Is it going to Orbitz or something like that? Is it going to the Last Call? I'm totally stumped because it's disappearing but I can't find an avenue of where its ending up at.
Can you tell us what resort?...I bet Sea Gardens
First of all Wyndham does "steal" inventory. Of course they have every right to. They can take unused inventory at 45 days (I think) and use it for their own purposes.
And yes, Wyndham has rental companies other than extra holidays.
Also there are times when a resort gets over booked. or units already booked cant be occupied due to maintenance issues, so they need to grab cancellations to give folks with reservations a place to stay.
Sometimes owner care tries to help an owner correct a mistake and needs to grab a cancellation to do that
and then there are owners like me that just sit on the computer looking for a cancellation. Maybe I was there a split second ahead of you.
And sometimes the reservations "hangs" instead of coming back in a few seconds it takes 15 minutes or more.
Recently at Sea Gardens a maintenance thing took longer than anticipated, and cancelled units were snatched up to give folks with a reservation a place to stay
There are lots of possibilities to answer the question...what happened when I cancel to rebook, and the unit disappears? but we will probably never know the answer.
Im glad you put "perks" in quotes. The ability to cancel and rebook is not a benefit of VIP, it is a loophole that we take advantage of, and not something we are entitled to
Recently I was online looking for cancellations and picked up 2 , inside of a minute or so.. No doubt some other owner lost them to me. And a few days later I had 10 to cancel and re book....I lost one of them...What goes around comes around
Regarding wyndhams rental program, Ive only talked to one Wyndham owner that used Wyndham to rent his excess reservations who came away happy. Everyone else that has reported here has been dissapointed.
