Thanks for the pointers. I looked in our account and we have 2 ACs for 3 bedrooms expiring 6 and 8 months from now. Am I required to exchange a week to use these? (We will not exchange because we plan to use our unit for the forseeable future.)
If we can use without exchanging, how do I go about finding a property and using them?
You do not use a week, consider these as bonus weeks. Redemption amounts for the week varies, you'd have to pretend to do an exchange to figure out exactly how much.
One way to use them is to click on Exchange -> My Units. On the right, you should see "My Certificates". Click on View, likely you already got there before. On the one you want to try, click Redeem. It then shows you by month the different places you may be able to go on that certificate. Note, the other one may show different locations, they are not all the same. So, click on a month that sounds good, and, a region and then city or area, you can select up to 6 of those, and when done, click Search. There you go.
I used one today for Hilton Head. I believe the week cost me $289 for the cert I used. So, that's $41 per night. I do always compare the cert cost vs the potential getaway to the same location. It was not available for a getaway.