You need to download the PDF of your actual statement to see the detail. If you just look at the online statement it lumps everything together under Maintenance Fees.
Most of 2020 pesso was 20% lower and the MF still went up significantly that year. I do not know about your business, but you would not expect to pay as much in Mexico as in the US, don't you think? The Lagunamar MF are somehow more expensive now than many US locations. That's an accomplishment! The MF increases had been very modest before Marriott took over and the resort was always very well maintained and had a healthy reserve fund. I actually do not mind the 2023 increase but the previous 3 were totally not in line with other costs increases in the region.
I don't own at Lagunamar, but I agree, costs in Mexico should be lower. In fact, years ago, SPG tried several times to sell me Lagunamar (even wanted me to trade in my Maui for Lagunamar) and one of their arguments was how much lower the MFs were, for the same SO value. I guess they can't make that argument any more... but it worked on a lot of people, I think that property largely sold out. (I agree that it's always been well-maintained.)
I noticed that. The database has a separate field for the Club Fee and I hope people are separating it out (I have, for the ones I entered.) In reality the club fee is kind of irrelevant now since different people pay different club fees depending on their OBL, and the club fee is sort of randomly attached to one unit and not others for those who own multiple units. This probably isn't a democracy, but I'd vote to have people just exclude the Club Fee from their MF reports, I don't see how their inclusion does anything but confuse.
I have 2 WKV weeks, the Premium is showing $170.50 club fee in my online account and the standard doesn't have any fee listed. Both units purchased before the Abound eligible cutoff date
I believe the dues you are billed for now are actually for 2023, so that's undoubtedly the justification for billing the new rate now. Plus you are immediately repeating the benefits of Chairman's Club even if you are not able to use Abound.
Can you explain "with the new dues and its all-inclusive coverage of all fees," is about?
Under the new dues scheme, everyone pays higher dues than they did before, but all of the extraneous fees (that used to be assessed) go away.
+No more cancellation fees within 60 and 7 days I believe.
They eliminated the banking fee but they reduced banking from 2 years to 1 so many owners will lose a multiple of that fee when their points expire.
I don't know if the resorts got paid the "extra housekeeping" fee by Vistana in the past, actually. It's quite possible that owners have always borne all of the housekeeping costs and that Vistana just kept the "extra housekeeping" fees collected. I certainly don't remember a line item for housekeeping credit or reimbursement.
If the resorts collected the money but the fee was directed somewhere else, we want our money ASAP. Owners have paid 40 dollars for the additional cleanings and the resorts have incurred additional costs (time and cleaning supplies paid from our budgets). You can't have one entity getting the money and another one footing the bill.
You can, actually. Vistana/MVC can and did apply fees for various things. Whether or not they had to pass any of those on to the various Owner's Associations is a contractual matter between those associations and Vistana/MVC. While it seems logical that fees assessed for housekeeping should be passed on the the OA, this isn't a question of logic, it's a contractual question that I certainly don't know the answer to. But if the contract with Vistana didn't require the payment of additional housekeeping fees, it's likely that those fees were not passed on.
By my calculation a gallon of milk has gone up 50% in under 2 years but I don't think that's Marriott's doing!
I'm finally getting around to opening up my bills and am also shocked at the $307 membership fee. Plus, they added it to my most expensive WKORV OFD week, making that bill a whopping $4,100.000+. I preferred it scattered among two of my bills! It seemed less painful. My fee level is also listed as "Chairman," which I could care less about because I will never use Abound, and have never needed to bank, change names, or pay cancellation fees. If someone has just two intervals, is the fee $239.58? It doesn't seem necessary for me to pay $307/year to book my own home resort reservations. If I opt out, will Marriott decide some year soon to start charging me for transactions that used to be included in SVN?
