Attended a presentation Friday at WSJ. Pretty low key. Take aways were as follows: properties that MVC considered premium would receive MVC DC points by dividing SOs by 28, less desirable would be divided by 32. Tried to get more details on that, as in, would Sheraton be divided by 32, while Westin would be divided by 28? I did ask the same thing several different ways. I don’t think they know exactly themselves yet which resorts will get what, but the salesperson thought WSJ and HRA would get the more favorable ratio, as far as within my current portfolio.
so the math was shown to me like this 148,100/32 =4,628 DP but more likely my HRA would be worth 148,100/28 = 5,289 DP
and therefore my SVR will most likely only be worth 81,000/32= 2,531 DP.
The major push was for us to buy an eoy unit to retro my 2 resale units so that they can be included into the merger with Marriott, and get me to 4 star elite, for just under $20,000. Once merged with Marriott, we would be at presidential level based on the speculated range of roughly 13,000 to 14,000 DP my units would be worth, and able to reserve within DP at the 13 month mark. The range was calculated without my SVV Bella unit since it was strongly implied my unqualified resale would not be included in DP. Tried to clarify if there would be an enrollment similar to 2010 MVC offer for resales but they didn’t know and wouldn’t speculate.
Finally, the other offer was to take my developer SVR back, with 1/2 of what I paid as trade in $, and purchase Sheraton Flex. Was told Flex will integrate seamlessly into MVC DP points, and that if I bought flex I would be able to deposit as many or as little flex points for use on DP units (like 40,000 flex could be placed in DP and 41000 could be left as staroptions) whereas my current SVR units when integrated would require the deposit of my entire week in order to trade for DP. (In other words, instead of trading my home resort reservation for SOs, I could elect DP instead if I desired, once merged, but it’s all or nothing and you lose the home week advantage). Nothing was told to us like we would be left out of Marriott if we didn’t buy a flex product, or anything like that. Salesperson said there’s absolutely no way Vistana developer units won’t be added to MVC DP access because Marriott users want in to the Vistana properties, especially WSJ, HRA, Mexico, etc. So I think we now may be getting pretty close to the truth here on what will really be rolling out. Developer = MVC DP access. Resale, probably will be able to access MVC DP for a fee, at initial rollout, for a set amount of time.
Anyway, I got moved through a couple of salespersons when it became clear I knew more than the average person coming in, such as exactly which unit is in phase 2 of the pool villas. I had to explain to one of the long term WSJ salespeople who has only ever sold WSJ, The Marriott Skim and why it made me nervous for the future. He claimed to have never heard of it and called in a Marriott guy that just came in to work there. He then agreed with me about the skim, and told the WSJ guy that Marriott calls it “breakage” and that it is intentional, and that is exactly why the points chart is adjusted according to the demand they think they will have for the coming year.