GoldenVIKE
TUG Member
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2017
- Messages
- 92
- Reaction score
- 40
- Location
- Chicago
- Resorts Owned
- GRC Tahoe -5 Wk Ski
St Kitts -Week 52
Ocean Pointe -Silver
DC/AP points
Hi all, I'm back on TUG for the first time in 2 years for selfish reasons again (seeking more advice about increasing ownership in another thread!) but I thought I'd check back here and just give a few updates.
- Since joining MVCI we've took trips to Marco Island (property is just ok but I have a cousin that lives there so it was a good trip), Newport Beach (pretty great), Ko Olina (awesome), and Ritz St Thomas (awesome too, and the island is good to go so highly recommend coming down). We also have trips coming up to Hilton Head (SurfWatch)-April/May, Tahoe (Timber Lodge)-August, Ritz Vail-February 2020, and then planning to use our Ocean Pointe week after that likely April/May 2020.
- We really couldn't be much happier with the MVCI points system. Mostly it's about the ease, flexibility, and units. It's so hard to find 2-bed/3-bed units through normal hotels. I travel a lot for work so have over a million Hilton and Marriott hotel points, but have a really hard time using those for family travel. Even on the rare occasion you can finagle your way into a presidential suite or something, you typically don't have 3 bedrooms and a full kitchen.
- The financial part of this makes sense for us too. For the heck of it I've kept track of what each of our MVCI trips would have cost on the interwebs, and on average our trips would cost about $1.40 per DC point. A couple of our trips avoided one of the weekend nights, e.g. a Sunday-Saturday trip, which helps with that calculation.
Thanks to SueDonJ, Saintsfanfl, JiminNC, Quilter, and everyone else that provided such great advice to us 2 years ago! Offer still stands on drinks in case we cross paths!
- Since joining MVCI we've took trips to Marco Island (property is just ok but I have a cousin that lives there so it was a good trip), Newport Beach (pretty great), Ko Olina (awesome), and Ritz St Thomas (awesome too, and the island is good to go so highly recommend coming down). We also have trips coming up to Hilton Head (SurfWatch)-April/May, Tahoe (Timber Lodge)-August, Ritz Vail-February 2020, and then planning to use our Ocean Pointe week after that likely April/May 2020.
- We really couldn't be much happier with the MVCI points system. Mostly it's about the ease, flexibility, and units. It's so hard to find 2-bed/3-bed units through normal hotels. I travel a lot for work so have over a million Hilton and Marriott hotel points, but have a really hard time using those for family travel. Even on the rare occasion you can finagle your way into a presidential suite or something, you typically don't have 3 bedrooms and a full kitchen.
- The financial part of this makes sense for us too. For the heck of it I've kept track of what each of our MVCI trips would have cost on the interwebs, and on average our trips would cost about $1.40 per DC point. A couple of our trips avoided one of the weekend nights, e.g. a Sunday-Saturday trip, which helps with that calculation.
Thanks to SueDonJ, Saintsfanfl, JiminNC, Quilter, and everyone else that provided such great advice to us 2 years ago! Offer still stands on drinks in case we cross paths!