StructureGuy
TUG Member
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2019
- Messages
- 88
- Reaction score
- 103
- Points
- 94
- Location
- Columbus, Ohio
- Resorts Owned
- Vidanta
My story:
In 2008, I joined a “Vacation Club” called Global Discovery Vacations. In essence, this company contracts with timeshare companies such as Vidanta, Wyndham Resorts, Diamond Resorts, etc. to fill potentially unused rooms. I paid a $10,000 lump sum fee, plus $385 per year to obtain 8 “stars” per year. Each “star” got me 1 week in a 1-bedroom at a resort, within the 48 states, in the low season for a usage fee of $99. Another “star gets me in season, another a 2-bedroom, another overseas, etc. In 2008 I got a Mayan Palace 1- bedroom suite for $99 (2 stars) for the whole week. In 2015, I got a 2-bedroom in Tuscany, Italy for $110 (plus 4 stars) for the week. In April 2018 I got a Mayan Palace 1- bedroom suite for $113 (3 stars) for the week. I paid no fee to Vidanta at all except for expenses incurred on site. (plus taxes etc. but no resort fee.)
In 2018, we attended a sales presentation in Riviera Maya and purchased a Junior Suite DeLuxxe Club Level (1-bedroom) unit in Celebrate Park. The salesman said that people can come to a Vidanta resort only once every 5 years and only 3 times total through RCI or Global Discovery Vacations etc. unless they buy in. After 3 trips without buying, they get cut off. (He did look me up in his computer and showed me my 2008 trip data.)
So, has anyone else heard of this rule? (I ask because of the recent poster Vacation Guy didn’t buy since he figured he could repeatedly get into Vidanta through an RCI exchange.)
In 2008, I joined a “Vacation Club” called Global Discovery Vacations. In essence, this company contracts with timeshare companies such as Vidanta, Wyndham Resorts, Diamond Resorts, etc. to fill potentially unused rooms. I paid a $10,000 lump sum fee, plus $385 per year to obtain 8 “stars” per year. Each “star” got me 1 week in a 1-bedroom at a resort, within the 48 states, in the low season for a usage fee of $99. Another “star gets me in season, another a 2-bedroom, another overseas, etc. In 2008 I got a Mayan Palace 1- bedroom suite for $99 (2 stars) for the whole week. In 2015, I got a 2-bedroom in Tuscany, Italy for $110 (plus 4 stars) for the week. In April 2018 I got a Mayan Palace 1- bedroom suite for $113 (3 stars) for the week. I paid no fee to Vidanta at all except for expenses incurred on site. (plus taxes etc. but no resort fee.)
In 2018, we attended a sales presentation in Riviera Maya and purchased a Junior Suite DeLuxxe Club Level (1-bedroom) unit in Celebrate Park. The salesman said that people can come to a Vidanta resort only once every 5 years and only 3 times total through RCI or Global Discovery Vacations etc. unless they buy in. After 3 trips without buying, they get cut off. (He did look me up in his computer and showed me my 2008 trip data.)
So, has anyone else heard of this rule? (I ask because of the recent poster Vacation Guy didn’t buy since he figured he could repeatedly get into Vidanta through an RCI exchange.)