Hasn't it been stated multiple times in this thread that Wyndham can drop a resort at any time from the system? I could also ask you the same question, point to where the legal standpoint is supported that says Wyndham must continue to accept reservations into 2026 for club bookings.
I know I am replying to an older post in the thread, but I was thinking more about this. I am curious what replacement laws exist? Reading up on this some more, I understand that the replacement requirements are part of the trust and really just to compensate owners whose properties are being closed and removed from the system with equivalent points. Wyndham already seems willing to do that by providing owners with CWA points free of charge. So they seem to have met the trust's replacement requirements. Where are there laws stating they need to replace a property that was removed with a different property? When the closed properties in the past, did they replace it will another property?
Seriously, the current message to owners should be “I can’t give you details, but let’s just say that every employee at this resort has been informed they’re out of a job after 12/31/25 <wink>.” It’s true, it seems legal to make public, problem solved!
I agree I think all reservations in 2026 are almost certainly not happening, but that’s not what the missive says. It is completely silent on the issue of 2026 reservations. One might infer that they will not be honored - or one might infer that it’s not yet determined, or that it might vary from resort to resort. The reason we infer that it means that only 2025 reservations will be honored and not 2026 is because we are also aware of credible information that is also not stated anywhere by Wyndham - that employees at all of those resorts have been told their jobs are ending on 12/31/2025 because the resorts are closing (as well as unofficial confirmations from other sources inside Wyndham, I assume). If someone wasn’t aware of that independent information, I don’t think the inference that 2026 reservations will definitely not be honored because Wyndham’s page only mentions 2025 reservations is that obvious.
Well Chuckles, that was petty. Didn't think I had to spell it out.
Given the size of the CWA trust, I wouldn't expect it to have any significant impact on fees when evaluating on $/1000.
We have book Thanksgiving and Christmas week at Bentley Brook.
I'm fairly certain, given the context where they made that statement in response to another, that it was sarcasm and not what they actually believe.
Even the ones who are being advised to have a back up plan who are active in Facebook groups won't do it because it has not come from Wyndham and they are not going to change their plans based on "rumors". Some have even gotten downright nasty about it, and all I tell myself is well you can't help someone who does not want to help themselves.
I didn’t mean to be petty. By all reliable reports, all of these resorts are expected to be closed to all Club Wyndham owners as of December 31, 2025, and the last however many pages of discussion on this TUG thread have largely centered on how late on the year it is and how little official information has been shared by Wyndham at this point given that we’re only 3.5 months away from multiple resort closures. With a sub discussion about how even though there is a core group of diehards here who may know what’s going on, the vast majority of owners have received zero information about this situation. So it was in that context that I had to chuckle a little at the situation because while you thought it was so soon, the discussion here has been that it’s very, very late. It’s not your fault that you didn’t have prior knowledge of the aggressive timeline, but it’s just an example of the lack of official communication we’ve been discussing here for pages and pages.
Same. I also noticed posts being deleted from those groups that mention resorts closing.
Although something that hadn’t occurred to me until now is that once these resorts presumably do sell, the CWA trust should receive its share of the proceeds like any deeded owner, no? If so, I’d assume that may reflect in the maintenance fees a year or two down the road the way that special assessments at CWA resorts do.
It's not that nobody goes to the resorts that are closing, it was stated that SOME of the resorts that are closing have very low overall owner occupancy.
I don't think the trust owns the inventory directly; I think the inventory is owned by some other entity, and the usage rights are granted to the trust. I could be 100% wrong about that, though.
I’ve repeatedly said “low owner occupancy” but he apparently doesn’t understand there is a difference in a broad base of owners using their resort for it’s intended purpose, opposed to a few owners running an illegal rental business.