What I mean by not paying additional for what I already purchased is this: we purchased a floating week for any unit, any week. We were not offered a deal to buy a fixed unit or a fixed week. The only stipulation we were given was week 51 52 were not available to us unless we upgraded.
We agreed to that stipulation. As far as the hammerhead, we fully understood that it was available first come first served based on timestamp and logistics. Never did anyone tell us that private parties could possibly take the premium weeks exclusively for the best units by buying them via an up charge.
And yes, there are quite a few of these exclusive owners, one guy has 5 lockouts exclusively over the 4th of july and I know of another lady who has the same deal for one lockout and know her unit numbers. So therefore the selection of probable outstanding view units at the time of year that our family wants to vacation here has been reduced significantly no matter what my time stamp is from SVN. That no longer gives us the run of the resort views.
So if that is ok with you, great. But it certainly diminishes the possible accommodations that I signed and paid for in a full resort of room possibilities in my floating high season week.
And I certainly understand that you cannot request anything specific, but have had quite a few discussions with the GM over the past couple of years and I understand how this particular resort divvies up the room assignments. It is based on view and time stamp over the three check in days. If you pull put the hammerheads due to private ownership, the choice is diminished.
Lucky for you that you were told about this in advance and are fine with it. I was not and am not particularly thrilled.