this is a staggering number. Does anyone else think that this is due to the fees? As others asked, what is this going to do to their trading power? How happy are the Vidanta owners gonna be when eventually will not be able to trade into comparable resorts?
Hi Danny ,
1) Using your Grand Luxxe-Vidanta registered week to trade is probably a very poor use of the ownership .
Most recent owners also have “ no pay/ no go - MF on use only “AND pay on use only Vida - SFX bonus weeks that are designed for exchange use .
2) IMO - Vidanta does not do developer deposits in the traditional way .
Those 300 weeks are still available to Vidanta members directly ,& likely through SFX and perhaps other platforms .
IMO - they have deals with the exchange systems that allow this . The Vidanta system is more
like a hotel putting 2019 rooms on Expedia & every other booking app.
If someone books 75 rooms for an event directly with the hotel - those rooms are gone .
Vidanta reservations tracks ALL of this and removes inventory from all platforms as it is booked .(IMO)
3) IMO - Vidanta has had & will continue to have lots of availability from mid April to mid Dec.
They build in pesos for peak season - Christmas to Easter .
Income is in $ USD . / so having excess off season developer capacity works for Vidanta , AND gets new prospects for their sales team at Vida .
4) (IMO)- If you own Vidanta - the best use of your RTU / float week ownership is to book Presidents Week in Feb on the first day of your ARP .
5) the resort fee structure - (Vidanta just revised it again / lower ) -on RCI
On RCI they also put RM at a different dollar amount than NV . This was likely because of the
many Mayan Palace buildings / units in RM ( compared to a single MP building in NV .)
6) I do not have ll .
In RCI - Vidanta has some real TPU deals . I would look at the total cost -
including the resort fee .
It is a bit like renting a car - a $280 per week rental ( $ 39.95 per day ) - if you get unlimited miles / can be a better deal than $ 19.95 and 20 cents a mile .
7) Of course staying home and not vacationing is the cheapest option - but sort of cold in February , for us folks in Canada .