Been with Westgate Lakes 3.5 years and I have a value - floating week that I am not going to use this year...
Any advice???
Value weeks do not get much value (no pun intended) when exchanging regardless of it being SFX, II or anybody else. Regardless of what others say, my event weeks (wks 6 & 7) keep getting me good exchanges regardless of the resort being Westgate Lakes trading thru II. I must caveat this with "providing one deposits early enough".
A value week is like a VW and an event week is like a Cadillac. Wasn't always that way. However it is now. Westgate now gives II any week it wants regardless of the week you own. Even though this appears to be the fact, I still keep getting good exchanges when I do decide to bank with II. My units happen to be large 4BR/4BA units which allow me to get a possible 3 weeks from the ownership of 1.
This is the order in which we use our Westgate Lakes timeshares---use them, rent what is left over and if not all rented then bank the remaining. It has served me well to date. However, if I owned a 1BR or 2BR instead, I am sure my feelings concerning timesharing might be different. Thius again is largely due to the type of Westgate resort timeshares I own.
There are varying opinions on Westgate Lakes. I can't comment on the other Westgate resorts as my experience has been solely with Westgate Lakes. When you go to Tripadvisor for instance, roughly 50% view the resort as great while the other 50% view it as the pits. Go figure?
frenchieinme