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Acquisition News [Gold Key Resorts] [MERGED]

I saw that on the bill too listed as "insurance" and didn't think twice for the same reasons as you. So I will be asking for a $23 credit.
 
Someone mentioned earlier in the posts, that points or club dues did not include the vacation insurance this year (it did last year). If you have a deeded weeks ownership, through DRI, I would certainly check to see if they included as part of your dues.
 
Point Value Established

My 1 BR week 20 @ OBC was valued at 6500 pts, and my 2 BR week 23 @ OBC was valued @ 12,000 points.
 
No idea why they haven't made them available. It's not the lack of units under DRI control. The transfer documents for Beachwoods lists close to 1,000 weeks that Gold Key had and transferred to DRI. Problem is, they are mostly off season. There might have been a handful of summer, but that's it.
 
Have all of the two (2) bedrooms been updated at Beachwoods and what is best two (2) bedroms unit you would recommend?
 
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All units are done. The 8/4 is really an AB lockout (2, 1 BR) and I'm not sure what the 6/4 is. I have heard those are upstairs units and the second bedroom is up another flight of stairs with no window.
 
Sorry, it's the 8/8 that are the 2, 1 BR lockouts. I think the 10/8 are lockouts upstairs with the extra bed up another flight. I've got an email out to the resort asking what all the different configurations are. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1452715554.686985.jpg
 
Gold Key Resorts begin to appear in Virginia Searches!!

FYI

As of today, I'm seeing a little off season availability for the new Gold Key Resorts in DRI.

Can't however find a point chart. Would appreciate obtaining a copy as soon as anyone finds one.
 
where do you see the point values? i see GK in locations but nowhere else.
 
RuralEngineer said:
where do you see the point values? i see GK in locations but nowhere else.
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The Gold Key resorts were available in the reservation system for about two weeks. Then they were gone. DRI's call center said the resorts became visible due to a glitch in their software. When the glitch was fixed the resorts were gone.
 
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Dri gk

they are now showing up in the reservation system although did not see availability.

stephen
 
I'd guess the inventory on that site is a mix of 2 different things: unsold weeks not held by a deeded owner / weeks DRI has sold that are held by the club & possibly units available as part of the in house rental program (I knew they were going to do this, just not sure if they got it going yet).
 
The Gold Key resorts are now available in the DRI reservation system. I'm a US Collection points member. I looked for 7 nights availability from today to the end of December. All the availability shown to me was then copied to an excel file. Unit type and points for the week are included. This information may or may not be helpful. There is still no point chart, however, so I can't tell which season a week belongs to. If it's not helpful please ignore this.

The file is here. There is a separate tab for each location:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzHfVJaaWOsmY0ZraXdtdlVBUDQ/
 
I'm a Gold Key Owner and my account is not showing the correct seasons

nuwermj said:
The Gold Key resorts are now available in the DRI reservation system. I'm a US Collection points member. I looked for 7 nights availability from today to the end of December. All the availability shown to me was then copied to an excel file. Unit type and points for the week are included. This information may or may not be helpful. There is still no point chart, however, so I can't tell which season a week belongs to. If it's not helpful please ignore this.

The file is here. There is a separate tab for each location:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzHfVJaaWOsmY0ZraXdtdlVBUDQ/
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Many of my Summer weeks show the season as blue and not all my weeks are showing in my account. Someone mentioned to me that they were told by DRI staff that the Gold Key properties' inventory and accounts will be "fixed" by April.
 
DRI adds resort fee for RCI exchanges into Beachwoods.

This appears in the RCI confirmation.
Resort Fees
Resort amenities fee is $25 U.S. dollars.
The Fee is 25 dollars (plus any tax) per day.
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It did not appear when I first booked in October.

The resort is already not on the beach. They have made improvements and it will have nice amenities when complete (but it's not complete yet) but from an exchange perspective I can't see this being worth an extra $175 over the exchange fee plus a unit deposit.

I will be checking in on March 24 and will give an update.
 
Prior Gold Key Owner Question - Fixed Week

I own week 14 and in prior years, this week would automatically appear in II two years ahead. So for example in about a month I should see my 2018 week 14 in II. Does anyone know if this process will continue or will DRI force me to pay MF prior to releasing to II ?
 
I just sent an email to the owner services contact at Beachwoods to find out some details about this. I'm an owner and want to know if they will be adding this to owners that exchange back into the resort.

An extra $175 on top of an $820 MF is outrageous. That puts a week 50% higher than the MF just 2 years ago. And they can't use the excuse that the resort was just remodeled. There was a $1620 special assessment to cover that, with the exception of the money Gold Key put in.
 
This is the wording from the DRI factsheet for Beachwoods

Owner Weeks and Member Points Booking: Photo identification and a form of payment will need to be provided at check-in. Resort fees* will be waived when staying on your owner week or member point reservations.
A resort fee of $25.00 plus tax per night will be added to the reservation if the owner or member of THE Club® is checking in on a rental reservation.
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My impression from that is that any reservation not using your owners week or DRI points will be charged the Resort fee. I hope this is not the case as I am also an owner here and don't want to pay. I would love to hear the answer you are given.

DRI seems like such a money grabbing organization. They have added estoppel fees, a $250 transfer fee and these resort fees on top of raising the MF -with much of it going toward additional management fees. The reserves are still ridiculously underfunded. I know that is the next step but they didn't want to do it on top of the management fees for the first year. Their priority is making sure they realize a healthy profit, doing a good job actually managing the resorts for owners seems to be a distant second.
 
tschwa2 said:
This is the wording from the DRI factsheet for Beachwoods



My impression from that is that any reservation not using your owners week or DRI points will be charged the Resort fee. I hope this is not the case as I am also an owner here and don't want to pay. I would love to hear the answer you are given.

DRI seems like such a money grabbing organization. They have added estoppel fees, a $250 transfer fee and these resort fees on top of raising the MF -with much of it going toward additional management fees. The reserves are still ridiculously underfunded. I know that is the next step but they didn't want to do it on top of the management fees for the first year. Their priority is making sure they realize a healthy profit, doing a good job actually managing the resorts for owners seems to be a distant second.
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This really captures my same feelings so far.

I hope my initial impressions are wrong.
 
tschwa2 said:
"Owner Weeks and Member Points Booking: Photo identification and a form of payment will need to be provided at check-in. Resort fees* will be waived when staying on your owner week or member point reservations. A resort fee of $25.00 plus tax per night will be added to the reservation if the owner or member of THE Club® is checking in on a rental reservation."


My impression from that is that any reservation not using your owners week or DRI points will be charged the Resort fee.
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Identical wording is used in the fact sheets for Ka'anapali Beach Club and The Point at Poipu. Someone here should be able to say how members are charged when they exchange in via exchange companies.
 
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