- Joined
- Jun 6, 2005
- Messages
- 14,500
- Reaction score
- 3,191
- Points
- 698
- Location
- Kansas
- Resorts Owned
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Marriott Grand Chateau
Marriott Shadow Ridge
Marriott Ocean Pointe
Marriott Destination Club Points
Hilton Grand Vacation Club Las Vegas Blvd
Grand Colorado on Peak 8
Spinnaker French Quarter Resort Branson
Since the inception of the trust, it’s become a little more difficult to book our home resort week for the week we want (typically first week of December) and have a full selection of check in days. Because we both changed jobs, the check in day became important in order to use a minimum number of paid time off hours.
This year we had a choice of only 2 of 4 possible days AND, we couldn’t reserve our full unit, only the master suite. This left us with a studio unit deposited into II and has created some issues with booking our vacations as I try to use that week (I don’t have the patience or time for to play the rental game).
After having spent a week end enjoying our time on Marco Island, we’ve decided to begin depositing our Ocean Pointe week for trust points and booking one of three resorts, either a 1 bedroom ocean front at our home resort (points will be left over but not a lot), 2 bedroom on Marco Island (several points left over) or a 2 bedroom ocean front at Oceana Palms (takes more points than we receive for our unit). Perhaps we’ll even begin to look at Palm Desert or even maybe Hawaii once CoVid restrictions level out.
But what annoys me the most is that, as an owner booking the first day the window opens, only having 2 of 4 check i. Days available and zero check in days available if we wanted to book our full unit. IMHO that’s just not right, but it’s the way it is in this brave new world.
My guess is this is the exception and not the rule. I doubt there are very many owners experiencing the same issues as we’ve had these last 5 years trying to get a specific check in day in our full unit. This is the first year we haven’t been able to book our full unit but not the first year we’ve been limited on our check in days. These past few years we’ve never had the option to book any of the four (Thur-Sun) with most times only having the choice of two of the four, but it is the first time in 20 years of ownership we weren’t able to book the full unit.
This year we had a choice of only 2 of 4 possible days AND, we couldn’t reserve our full unit, only the master suite. This left us with a studio unit deposited into II and has created some issues with booking our vacations as I try to use that week (I don’t have the patience or time for to play the rental game).
After having spent a week end enjoying our time on Marco Island, we’ve decided to begin depositing our Ocean Pointe week for trust points and booking one of three resorts, either a 1 bedroom ocean front at our home resort (points will be left over but not a lot), 2 bedroom on Marco Island (several points left over) or a 2 bedroom ocean front at Oceana Palms (takes more points than we receive for our unit). Perhaps we’ll even begin to look at Palm Desert or even maybe Hawaii once CoVid restrictions level out.
But what annoys me the most is that, as an owner booking the first day the window opens, only having 2 of 4 check i. Days available and zero check in days available if we wanted to book our full unit. IMHO that’s just not right, but it’s the way it is in this brave new world.
My guess is this is the exception and not the rule. I doubt there are very many owners experiencing the same issues as we’ve had these last 5 years trying to get a specific check in day in our full unit. This is the first year we haven’t been able to book our full unit but not the first year we’ve been limited on our check in days. These past few years we’ve never had the option to book any of the four (Thur-Sun) with most times only having the choice of two of the four, but it is the first time in 20 years of ownership we weren’t able to book the full unit.