Please post successful DClub point reservations

[GregT]

All,

There is a Starwood post going back to 2008 where people posted on their success in securing reservations using their internal point system (the Starwood Vacation Network, or SVN). It is an interesting and important thread considering the lack of transparency in SVN inventory availability.

Consistent with that thread, and in the interests of determining how easy/difficult it is to obtain a DClub points reservation, I'd appreciate your posting on successful (and unsuccessful?) points reservations efforts. This is also especially important if your reservation matched from a Waitlist request.

Please use the following format for standardization (and the following are my actual reservations that I've made for a friend):

First Reservation

Property: Maui Ocean Club (MMO)
Check-in date: June 17, 2011
Date of reservation: October 31, 2010
Length of Stay: 1 Night
Unit: 2BR Garden View
Other view options: No other views available at time of reservation
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: None (but see next ressie)

Second Reservation (for same friend)

Property: Maui Ocean Club - Lahaina Villas (MM1)
Check-in date: June 25, 2011
Date of reservation: October 31, 2010
Length of Stay: 2 Nights
Unit: 2BR Ocean-Front
Other view options: No other views available at time of reservation
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: My friend paid (me) $0.65 per point for making ressie

Thanks very much,

Greg

 

[puckmanfl]

Good afternoon

Greg

Do you want all of mine? TUGggers might be sick of them by now!!

 

[puckmanfl]

Good evening...

Here goes...

Kauai lagoons 3 bedroom of 5/28 6/4 2011. This was not available on opening day 7/26/10 but was a few days later

summit watch 2/8-2/13 2011 immediate availability

Surfwatch 7/30 8/5 2011 os 3 bedroom

Mountainside 1/8 1/13 2012 2 concurrent 2 bedrooms
B

Mountain valley breckenridge 1 bedroom 1/15-1/20 2012



Surfwatch 5/28 6/3 2012 3 bedroom os..

All except kl instant exchange....

There was Frenchman cove availability may and June 2012 as well... Some June Newport as well...

 

[kds4]

Our first ever DClub Points Reservation

Property: Ocean Watch (MOW)
Check-in date: April 1, 2012
Date of reservation: June 3, 2011
Length of Stay: 5 Nights
Unit: 2BR Garden View
Other view options: Unknown
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Used 800 Enrollment Point Bonus and rented remaining points needed at .47 per point. Advised at time of reservation we got the last 2BR Garden View available.

 

[emt]

Property: Mountain Valley Lodge
Check-in date: February 13th, 2011
Date of reservation: Aug 20, 2010
Length of Stay: 5 Nights (Sun-Thurs)
Unit: 1Br
Other view options: N/A
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Legacy points in combination with 800 BonusPoints


Property: Kauai Beach Club
Check-in date: Aug 21, 2011
Date of reservation: Aug 20, 2010
Length of Stay: 7 nights
Unit: 1Br Oceanview
Other view options: Didn't ask
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Reservation cancelled/rescheduled to Ko'Olina


Property: Newport Coast Villas
Check-in date: April 10, 2011
Date of reservation: Jan 21, 2011
Length of Stay: 2 nights (4 Total w/MRP)
Unit: 2Br
Other view options: N/A
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Booked Sun/Mon night DC points and Fri/Sat MRP points


Property: Ko'Olina Beach Club
Check-in date: Dec 17, 2011
Date of reservation: March 12, 2011
Length of Stay: 6 nights (Sat-Thurs)
Unit: 2Br Mountain View
Other view options: Unavailable (including penthouse units)
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Cancelled 6/11 due to II confirmation to MAW for early Dec.
Points, along with 2011 remainder, rolled into 2012.

 

[KathyPet]

Resort: St. Kitts Beach Club
Reservation made: 4/23/11
Dates of stay: 1/29/12-2/1/12
Unit: 2 bR, Garden View
Confirmed immediately upon request, No waiting
Comments: We added three addl nights using points onto the week that we already own

 

[kjd]

Property: SurfWatch
Check-in date: December 20, 2011
Date of reservation: March 5, 2011
Length of Stay: 3 Nights
Unit: 2BR Garden View
Other view options: immediate confirmation
Reservation made via: phone
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: used in connection with previous trade

Property: Ocean Pointe
Check-in date: November 23, 2011
Date of reservation: March 5, 2011
Length of Stay: 1 Night
Unit: 1BR Garden View
Other view options: immediate confirmation
Reservation made via: phone
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: used in connection with previous trade

Property: Beach Place Towers
Check-in date: June 21, 2011
Date of reservation: May 26, 2011
Length of Stay: 2 Nights
Unit: 1BR Garden View
Other view options: immediate confirmation
Reservation made via: phone
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: None

 

[timtax]

Surf Club

Property: Aruba Surf Club (MSU)
Check-in date: April 28, 2012
Date of reservation: May 31, 2011
Length of Stay: 7 Night
Unit: 2BR Ocean View
Other view options: No other views available at time of reservation
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: None

I may cancel since I was able to trade in thru II using a 1 BR CV deposit after the fact but it is Monday to Monday and I really don't want to travel Mon to Mon

 

[NJMOM2]

Property: SurfWatch
Check-in date: July 10, 2011
Date of reservation: September 7, 2010
Length of Stay: 4 Night
Unit: 2BR Oceanside
Other view options: Garden view not available at time of reservation (didn't ask about Ocean Front)
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Legacy points in combination with 800 BonusPoints

 

[griffinhouse]

Property: Newport Coast Villas
Check-in date: October 8, 2011
Date of reservation: April 18, 2011
Length of Stay: 2 Nights
Unit: 2 br
Other view options: NA
Reservation made via Waitlist: NO
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: used our 800 Bonus Points we received when we joined DC program


Property: Ocean Pointe
Check-in date: February 26, 2012
Date of reservation: February 21, 2011
Length of Stay: 7 Night
Unit: 1BR Oceanside
Other view options: Oceanfront was available but chose OS to save points
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: reserved a studio using a previously cancelled studio to create a 2 bedroom--hope it works

 

[kedler]

Ko Olina Reservation 7/4-7/11 2012

I'm an enrolled weeks and DC Point owner with Premier Plus/13 mth booking window. I called yesterday looking for a reservation in Hawaii for a 2 or 3 bedroom we've never been so I just wanted to try any of the resorts. Yesterday I was told that there wasn't enough inventory yet as most owners hadn't deposited their weeks so I should try back closer to the 12 month point.

Today I called and I was able to get a "trust" reservation at Ko Olina for a 2 bdrm MT V using only trust points. She was able to work that reservation with my trust points. I asked about converting one of my weeks to get enough points for an OC V - which they had - but she said that even if I did I couldn't use those points for this reservation.

I took the reservation and she told me I could keep calling back to see if I could get the OC V after some weeks were deposited.

Seems like a crazy system but I'm happy to get the reservation and Ko Olina seems nice from all I've seen and read.

 

[puckmanfl]

good evening...

kedler...

the minimum number of points for a 2 bedroom koolina MV is 4050 (assuming 7 days). Did you purchase 4000 Trust points in addition to your Legacy weeks? or were some of your Legacy points added in for this ressie, or did you get less than 7 days???

just curious!!!

Looks like the Legacy points <Trust points thing might be picking up some traction.

Talk about the ultimate "smackdown". Some poor shlub like myself, purchases 4 plat developer weeks. Was told that these expensive plat. weeks is the best product MVCI has to offer and will always trade into the good new stuff first. Now along comes Trust points with diminished II inventory and points that will never (through no fault) of my own, will never be equal to the new product...

Trust owners need to be aware. In 3 years they can rollout SUPERTRUST points with inventory not accessible to Legacy or Trust points...

I still believe Legacy points functionally =Trust but a few more stories like this and I could be changing my opinion!!!

yikes!!!

 

[DanCali]

Legacy < Trust and 5 is the new 7.

What a system...

Is there an emoticon for barfing?

 

[dioxide45]

This is leading me to believe that Marriott is not placing the 25% forecasted MRP redemptions in to the exchange company. If they were, there would be ample inventory. I wonder where that inventory is going, are they making it only available to trust owners, to Marriott's coffers? Now I know that Marriott owns the rights to this inventory, but when the program was rolled out, it was indicated that a source of inventory would be MRP redemptions. Are they going back on that promise so soon?

 

[kedler]

Ko Olina Reservation

Hi Dioxide,

The reservation is for 7 nights and I think its 4475? We bought 1750 trust points and we had 1100 (?) bonus points. I banked points from 2011 into 2012 and borrowed some from 2013 to get what I needed for the reservation - that's why I took Mt V not OC V as I couldn't get enough points that Marriott deemed "trust points" to make it. I'll keep calling for now as there is no waiting list until the 12 mth point and if I'm going to fly from NJ to Hawaii then I'd like an OC V - though we may chose to save the points for a weekend excursion to Fairway Villas.

Its a crazy system but right now its working for me.

I wish they would put up the points available, used, etc., in my-vacation club just as they do the weeks. It would make it easier to keep track!

Kedler

 

[windje2000]

Legacy < Trust and 5 is the new 7.

What a system...

Is there an emoticon for barfing?

There's an emoticon for everything!

 

[puckmanfl]

good evening

Dan and Windje...

you guys crack me up!!!!

 

[GregT]

Combined Trust/Legacy Point Reservations

Moved to a new thread to continue topic of Legacy/Trust reservations -- thanks

 

[tlwmkw]

We have lift-off!!

We have now officially used the DC points and it seems to have worked- though not without some hitches.

Used the 800+ points to add a night onto a deeded week (only problem is no guarantee that we can stay in the same villa so we have to ask when we check in- hopefully that'll work since it saves them cleaning twice if they move us to another villa in the same building).

Then reserved a week at Easter for next year at Surfwatch- used all 2012 Grande Vista points to do so and borrowed a few from 2013 to get up to full amount needed. We had tried to book the Surfwatch at 12 months but they had no availability and "wait listed" us. Since we heard nothing from them I called and they said that the wait list was cancelled and they had called and left us a message about it. Never got that message so it was a good thing that I called today to find out what was going on. The man on the phone said now was a better time (10 months out) to book because it takes a while for people to cash in their weeks to make them available to others.

If this works as planned we will be happy- while it did work I was on the phone for quite a while and was a bit confused about how to make it all work. The DC club guy on the phone was very good so I'm not complaining and he got us what we wanted.

tlwmkw

 

[pacheco18]

I used my 800 bonus points to add two nights to my March 2012 week at Shadow Ridge (2 bedroom villa). One the phone, instant confirmation, no problem. Rep said she would note on the reservation that it should be linked to my full week stay so that I would stay in the same unit.

 

[californiagirl]

There's an emoticon for everything!

:hysterical:

 

[jimf41]

I was waiting to get a final DC points confirmation before I posted on this thread.

2010
Used 2100 DC points for a NOV 2010 week at Oceana Palms. (1/2 price sale)

2011
OCT week at Oceana Palms. Instant confirmation, later cancelled.
Holloween week at Lakeshore Reserve 3bdrm. Instant confirmation in Nov 2010

2012
Feb week at MFC 2bdrm. This was confirmed in 10 days
Feb week at MFC 2bdrm. This took 6 months to confirm.

None of the above weeks were available through II at the time of confirmation or waitlist request using a 2bdrm Ocean Pointe plat . I still have the FEB 2012 MFC request in with II and if it does come through I'll cancel the DC point reservation.

I'm about to waitlist for Ocean Pointe in July of 2012. I'm looking for multiple OF weeks at the same time. They were available at the 13 month mark but I waited to see if all the kids could go at the same time and when I went back to reserve only OV units were available.

So far I'm a happy camper with the DC program. It is confusing tracking how many points you have, what year there from, when they expire etc. The upside for me is that I can request exactly the view and unit size I want and not have to worry if what I'm trading is strong enough to pull the unit I want. When you waitlist you are reducing the trust/legacy thing. Once you waitlist all points are equal. That's not to say that a trust point owner can't get ahead of you by calling the instant the unit you are waitlisted for becomes available but that's a pretty slim chance IMO.

 

[jimf41]

My last reservation came through this morning.

July 2012
Ocean Pointe
One 3 bdrm OF
Two 2 bdrm OF
One 1 bdrm OF

All of these are for the same week, exact same checkin day.

So far I've converted six Silver weeks and one Plat week at Ocean Pointe. I've received 2 Plat weeks at Frenchman's Cove, 1 Plat wek at Lakeshore, 1 Gold week at Oceana Plams and 4 Gold weeks at Ocean Pointe. I have 900 points still to use in 2012. I'd have to say I'm a happy camper. All of the requests were instantly confirmed except for 1 Plat MFC week noted in my previous post.

 

[JPrisco]

Property: Crystal Shores
Check-in date: October 30, 2011
Date of reservation: June 16, 2011
Length of Stay: 4 Nights
Unit: 2 br
Other view options: Gulf Front
Reservation made via Waitlist: NO
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Used our 800 Bonus Points we received when we joined DC program - borrowed 2012 points for remainder

Property: Crystal Shores
Check-in date: March 4, 2012
Date of reservation: May 3, 2011
Length of Stay: 5 Nights
Unit: 2 br
Other view options: Gulf Side
Reservation made via Waitlist: NO
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Used my Mom's 800 Bonus Points she received when we joined DC program plus her 2012 points (transferred to me). No Gulf Front available.

Property: Harbour Lake
Check-in date: February 26, 2012
Date of reservation: May 3, 2011
Length of Stay: 4 Nights
Unit: 1br
Other view options: NA
Reservation made via Waitlist: NO
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Used our 2012 points

 

[Southdown13]

Property: Marriott’s Lakeshore Reserve
Check-in date: August 28, 2011
Date of reservation: May 10, 2011
Length of Stay: 5 Nights
Unit: 2 br standard
Other view options: None
Reservation made via Waitlist: No
Date of Waitlist Request: N/A
Other Comments: Used 800 bonus points and borrowed 2012 points

Property: Marriott’s Canyon Villas
Check-in date: March 27, 2012
Date of reservation: June 20, 2011
Length of Stay: 4 Nights
Unit: 1 br
Other view options: N/A
Reservation made via Waitlist: Yes
Date of Waitlist Request: May 24, 2011
Other Comments: Cancelled and reserved at a Starwood property.