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I just got off the phone with Vistana with regards to purchasing a Westin Flex package.
Here is what we currently own:
- SVR EY - 81,000 (Developer purchase fixed/float week 51 - our first)
- SDO EOYE (True-plat resale)
- WKORV-N EOYO (Oceanfront 176,700 resale)
Proposed deal:
67k EOYO Flex package for $13k + $850 closing ("discounted" price equates to about $0.20/point - more expensive than WF every year if you annualized - but not outrageous premium). MF would be $630/year. They would also retro our SDO unit so we would have 148,100 EOY.
Rationale:
67k would allow us to add 2-4 days to our Maui vacation plus get our SDO retro'd as a bonus. I do realize we would have to move rooms on Maui as OF units are not in Flex. It would also give us the flexibility to add a few days at WKV when we go to Scottsdale or to add a week in low season at SVR (probably week 1 right after Christmas). Third-order consideration is that we would get 3* elite status - the only benefit I can see is that we would have the Oct. 1 banking deadline extension and reduced banking fee.
Our alternative would be to purchase a second EOY WKORV-N Oceanfront week; however, the MF's would be quite a bit larger and we would have to commit to two full weeks every second year in Maui as I don't want to use it for SO's.
This would be a cash purchase and we can well afford the MF's. My wife and I are in our early 40's so there is a long-time horizon for potential use.
Thoughts? Should I be asking for additional Bonvoy points to be thrown in?
Here is what we currently own:
- SVR EY - 81,000 (Developer purchase fixed/float week 51 - our first)
- SDO EOYE (True-plat resale)
- WKORV-N EOYO (Oceanfront 176,700 resale)
Proposed deal:
67k EOYO Flex package for $13k + $850 closing ("discounted" price equates to about $0.20/point - more expensive than WF every year if you annualized - but not outrageous premium). MF would be $630/year. They would also retro our SDO unit so we would have 148,100 EOY.
Rationale:
67k would allow us to add 2-4 days to our Maui vacation plus get our SDO retro'd as a bonus. I do realize we would have to move rooms on Maui as OF units are not in Flex. It would also give us the flexibility to add a few days at WKV when we go to Scottsdale or to add a week in low season at SVR (probably week 1 right after Christmas). Third-order consideration is that we would get 3* elite status - the only benefit I can see is that we would have the Oct. 1 banking deadline extension and reduced banking fee.
Our alternative would be to purchase a second EOY WKORV-N Oceanfront week; however, the MF's would be quite a bit larger and we would have to commit to two full weeks every second year in Maui as I don't want to use it for SO's.
This would be a cash purchase and we can well afford the MF's. My wife and I are in our early 40's so there is a long-time horizon for potential use.
Thoughts? Should I be asking for additional Bonvoy points to be thrown in?