We have resale Sheraton Desert Oasis Platinum one bedroom premiere and SVV Belle (67,100 SO points) We were able to exchanged the SDO to KORVN for a one bedroom. We are here now. We got our SVV Bella 67,100 just closed in February, 2019. Not able to use it yet.
We just took a owner’s update in KORVN today. This is our first ever update with Westin. Both my husband and I were very impressed with Dennis. He is knowledgeable and very helpful. He gave us a history of Westin, Marriott and their split of the hotels and timeshares. We took a tour to Nanea. He show us how to use the week and points... He asked us if we got call to convert to Flex... No, we did not answer any phone call which is not in our contact list. He told us not to convert to Flex, that is Marriott’s way to get us and we will loose our deed. He said Maui would be the last deeded properties that Marriott may come to deal with it in 3 to 4 years. But any owners got the deeded property, will grand father in and one can refuse to change to Flex and lost the deeded privilege. It was one of the best update we have in all timeshare. After Dennis, another sales person was trying to sell us Nanea, or KORV. She offer to bring our resale to the system if we purchase from developer. I remember that I read somewhere in TUG, that if we have more resale purchased, and all of the resale could be bring in and qualified for elite 3*, 4* or 5*. We have no ambition to be 5* or remotely to be 4*, but they showed us, we could be 3* since we have 67,100 plus SDO (currently, it is a week one bedroom, but it worth 44,000 points). But we decline all the offer to purchase of Nanea. We bought a explorer package for $1495 + $99. Committed to come back within 2 years for a 5 nights/6 days stay and go for a sales presentation..
We own HGV (elite premier), DRI (platinum member), BlueGreen (gold elite) and some VI and Wyndham... and fractions of ski resorts (two quarter share of Killington Grand resort, and Ridge Tahoe.. We just recently retired and busy skiing in the winter and traveling after ski season. We do like KORVN. We have a partial ocean view one bedroom and if we do want to buy resale, we want a ocean view. We travel mostly just by my husband and myself. We have one son and he is not married. He has his life and busy with his work and girl friend. We just leave him along and sometime let him use our timeshares with his friends.
We would like to have opinion on if there is value to upgrade to elite 3* or 4*. I browsed eBay trying to find staroption resale, but it seems most of the KORV are island view and every other year. Please advice what is the best way to search for resale and should I pay attention to points, or add ocean view to my criteria? It seems both ocean view and island view takes the same 148,100 for two bedroom. (The sales person do emphasize buy the two bedroom is the best choice.). By buying the Explorer package, they freezer our price for 12 months for The Westin Nanea Ocean villa. The below are the price offered.
Resort view. 0.425 (annual). 0.24 (biennial)
Ocean Front. 0.53 (annual). 0.3 (Biennial)
We just took a owner’s update in KORVN today. This is our first ever update with Westin. Both my husband and I were very impressed with Dennis. He is knowledgeable and very helpful. He gave us a history of Westin, Marriott and their split of the hotels and timeshares. We took a tour to Nanea. He show us how to use the week and points... He asked us if we got call to convert to Flex... No, we did not answer any phone call which is not in our contact list. He told us not to convert to Flex, that is Marriott’s way to get us and we will loose our deed. He said Maui would be the last deeded properties that Marriott may come to deal with it in 3 to 4 years. But any owners got the deeded property, will grand father in and one can refuse to change to Flex and lost the deeded privilege. It was one of the best update we have in all timeshare. After Dennis, another sales person was trying to sell us Nanea, or KORV. She offer to bring our resale to the system if we purchase from developer. I remember that I read somewhere in TUG, that if we have more resale purchased, and all of the resale could be bring in and qualified for elite 3*, 4* or 5*. We have no ambition to be 5* or remotely to be 4*, but they showed us, we could be 3* since we have 67,100 plus SDO (currently, it is a week one bedroom, but it worth 44,000 points). But we decline all the offer to purchase of Nanea. We bought a explorer package for $1495 + $99. Committed to come back within 2 years for a 5 nights/6 days stay and go for a sales presentation..
We own HGV (elite premier), DRI (platinum member), BlueGreen (gold elite) and some VI and Wyndham... and fractions of ski resorts (two quarter share of Killington Grand resort, and Ridge Tahoe.. We just recently retired and busy skiing in the winter and traveling after ski season. We do like KORVN. We have a partial ocean view one bedroom and if we do want to buy resale, we want a ocean view. We travel mostly just by my husband and myself. We have one son and he is not married. He has his life and busy with his work and girl friend. We just leave him along and sometime let him use our timeshares with his friends.
We would like to have opinion on if there is value to upgrade to elite 3* or 4*. I browsed eBay trying to find staroption resale, but it seems most of the KORV are island view and every other year. Please advice what is the best way to search for resale and should I pay attention to points, or add ocean view to my criteria? It seems both ocean view and island view takes the same 148,100 for two bedroom. (The sales person do emphasize buy the two bedroom is the best choice.). By buying the Explorer package, they freezer our price for 12 months for The Westin Nanea Ocean villa. The below are the price offered.
Resort view. 0.425 (annual). 0.24 (biennial)
Ocean Front. 0.53 (annual). 0.3 (Biennial)