Peacock Suites is a Shell resort, managed by Wyndham. Shell points are absolutely free. I have no idea how Wyndham is handling sales, but I do know that Peacock Suites is a very inexpensive product to reserve with Shell points. My Shell points are right around .26 per point. The most expensive weeks to book at Peacock Suites are 2 bedrooms (better than the 3 bedrooms for layout), and they are 3,900 points in prime season, less in off-season times of year. So $.26 X 3,900 points + $17.50 for a transaction fee, and you have a reservation for a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, prime season. One bedrooms with two queen beds or one king bed (plus sofa sleeper) are 2,550 points per week. Do the math, and you are talking .26 X 2,550, or about $663 + $17.50 transaction fee + $80 cleaning fee to Wyndham.
But it gets better. If you can go just Sun-Thur, your price during prime season, it is much less. I advertise my Peacock Suites one bedrooms for weekdays as starting price of $72, but I have often rented for less than $50 per night.
It's only 1,250 points for Sun-Thur, so five nights. The weekend nights are 650 points each night, Fri-Sat. So the weekend is the bulk of the cost of a week, and Disneyland is much busier during the weekend, so why go then?
The other resorts in the Shell system are not cheap to book. I think maybe the Scottsdale/Phoenix resorts might be inexpensive to book, have yet to do that, but Vino Bello is very expensive. While a 2 bedroom at Peacock is max of 3,900 points, a 2 bedroom at Vino Bello is 9,050 for prime season, 6,700 for low season. Do the math on that! Crazy. But the units are nice.
One bedrooms at Vino Bello for full weeks are 5,900 in high season, weeknights are less, 600-800 (M-W, 600, Th and Sun 800).
Studios at Vino Bello are 3,250 points in high season.
I would probably stay in a studio during silver season, weeknights only, and that would be reasonable, 1,300 points for five nights X .26 = $338 + $17.50 + $80 cleaning fee. That is pretty cheap. The weekend adds 1,000 more points. So another $260 for two more nights.
There are things with Shell that are annoying, and I can think of two right now that I do not like.
1) I have six housekeeping fees included per year. I never know when Shell will charge for those, so I tell my guests that they will absolutely have to pay the housekeeping fees at the end of their stays. I don't want to promise anyone that they will get it free, because I have no idea when it will be free.
2) The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and you cannot get any answers via phone calls. So for example, I have a guest who wanted 4/2-4/9, but I could only get 4/3-4/9 a couple of days ago, so I got it first thing in the morning. Then about 2 PM that same day, I saw a 4/2 for the same resort, same unit type, and I called Shell to add that night. "Nope, you will lose 20% of your points, if you cancel it now and re-book the 7 nights together." Really? You cannot add a night? Nope. So I said, "let's go ahead and book the additional night as a separate reservation." He booked it for me, and then I asked, "What about housekeeping?" He said my guest will be charged two HK fees, most likely. I asked, "What can I do to keep him from paying two fees?" He told me to call Peacock Suites and tell them this is all one reservation. I called the front desk, but Peacock Suites says the information not to charge the HK fee has to come from Shell. ARRGHH!
What to do? I don't know what I can do, but if I call Shell again, it's another $25 transaction fee (over the phone fee) to get him or her to do anything. The cleaning fee is $80. I may have to wait until I have another guest to call again. I will definitely pay the $25 over the $17.50 to book the next thing, just so I can maybe get someone to help me at Shell.
Mostly I like Shell. I just have no way out of my ownership that won't cost me a lot. I was going to try to sell my Shell points but found out that all of my future reservations would be cancelled, should I sell even a portion of my ownership.
The weeknights are very cheap to book. Disneyland is less busy weekdays, so it works okay for us. Sometimes, Rick and I stay at Peacock Suites for $20 per night because some times of year are just cheap to stay. The $80 cleaning fee almost doubles the cost for us. Still a great deal.
I rent for pretty close to my cost per point, just so I don't lose money each year. It's worked okay. It's work I do for very little money, so I do not recommend getting sucked into a large number of points because they are cheap. You just cannot rent timeshares for a good profit, not the Shell ones, anyway.