RCI Points Question

[OldGuy]

I never have paid attention to RCI Points.

What can you do with 55,000 points?

 

[Passepartout]

That's close to my points allocation for a 2 bedroom in high season. So with RCI's notorious devaluation, I can get a 1 bedroom just about anywhere anytime. Usually that's under 40K, so there's some flexibility.

 

[moonstone]

I never have paid attention to RCI Points.

What can you do with 55,000 point?

If you wait for a sale those points could get you 10 weeks in a 1 bedroom, in shoulder season, in an average resort. Or they could get you 2 weeks in a 2 bedroom at a nicer resort, or they could not be enough to get a week in a studio in a popular Gold Crown resort in peak time. As with RCI weeks (TPU's) it all depends on size of unit, type/popularity of resort, location and time of year. We have 77,000 RCI points and always get 3-5 weeks in Florida (in the spring or fall) in at least a 1, often a 2, bedroom unit in the Daytona or Kissimmee area.


~Diane

 

[OldGuy]

Thanks,

I understand the specials and sales angle.

What does 55,000 point compare to in TPUs . . . 15, 20, 25, 30?

What I'm trying to figure out is how to help someone "get rid of" their Points, and that's different than "getting rid of" our various fixed weeks like I have. It's not like you can advertise a week each year at a resort. Or explain what you can do with them simply. It seems like it would be hard to find someone interested unless they understand RCI Points.

 

[Passepartout]

I'd value 55K RCI Points at something like 30ish TPUs.

 

[tschwa2]

The don't necessarily compare. There is a particular OC, MF condo, that when available in the summer is 27,000 points or maybe 26 tpu's. Compare that to another 2 BR in Orlando which might have an rci points of 98,000 but only have a tpu of 6.

So if you are using your points to trade into high season low availability locations (but find availablity) you might do better with rci points. On the other hand if you typically trade into newer resorts in locations with a lot of timeshares but don't want to wait until 45 days prior (when they may be discounted) you might not be able to get a full week using 55,000 rci points but if you had 20 tpus you might be able to get 2 weeks.

 

[OldGuy]

What I'm trying to figure out is how to help someone "get rid of" their Points, and that's different than "getting rid of" our various fixed weeks like I have. It's not like you can advertise a week each year at a resort. Or explain what you can do with them simply. It seems like it would be hard to find someone interested unless they understand RCI Points.

Sorta what I was trying to say, that it's more difficult to find a prospect for 55,000 RCI Points than for one week at XYZ resort.

 

[tschwa2]

Sorta what I was trying to say, that it's more difficult to find a prospect for 55,000 RCI Points than for one week at XYZ resort.

Usually rci points resort have an underlying week. They can advertise the underlying week and also mention that it has been converted to RCI points and gets 55,000 annual points per year. There are enough rci points people that will know what it means and for those that don't want to learn you can sell it to them as weeks and they can remove it from points if they don't want to learn how rci points work.

 

[moonstone]

Usually rci points resort have an underlying week. They can advertise the underlying week and also mention that it has been converted to RCI points and gets 55,000 annual points per year. There are enough rci points people that will know what it means and for those that don't want to learn you can sell it to them as weeks and they can remove it from points if they don't want to learn how rci points work.

Our 77,000 RCI points are tied to week 28 in a 2 bedroom unit at Sunrise Ridge, TN. So I can go there for 1 week or use the points for more weeks, at other resorts, at different times of the year. Our points are automatically deposited into our RCI account and if we want to use them to stay at our home resort we'd need to tell the resort before the points get deposited. If I was going to sell/give my week away I'd list it as a 2 bedroom unit worth 77,000 RCI points, just as it was described when we got it.


~Diane

 

[montygz]

I never have paid attention to RCI Points.

What can you do with 55,000 points?

Looking in my vacation history, here is some of what I found on sale. At full points, you will find mostly older resorts in that range.

2 BR week at Wyndham Bonnet Creek:7,500 points
2 BR week at Regal Vistas: 4700 points
1 BR week at Saratoga Springs, DVC 23,500 points

 

[tschwa2]

Looking in my vacation history, here is some of what I found on sale. At full points, you will find mostly older resorts in that range.

2 BR week at Wyndham Bonnet Creek:7,500 points
2 BR week at Regal Vistas: 4700 points
1 BR week at Saratoga Springs, DVC 23,500 points

I would imagine that most of those were booked within 45 days of check in and even then probably during the off season

 

[montygz]

I would imagine that most of those were booked within 45 days of check in and even then probably during the off season

They were booked within 45 days. Bonnet Creek was a Memorial Day weekend. Regal Vistas was during the summer and Saratoga Springs was in March during my kids spring break week.

 

[tschwa2]

They were booked within 45 days. Bonnet Creek was a Memorial Day weekend. Regal Vistas was during the summer and Saratoga Springs was in March during my kids spring break week.

You must check rci often or have gotten very lucky because my guess is at those point levels they probably weren't available more than an hour, probably less or someone else would have grabbed them. If they were at those levels in rci points, they were probably also available in RCI weeks for 5-11 tpu's.

 

[Free2Roam]

Sorta what I was trying to say, that it's more difficult to find a prospect for 55,000 RCI Points than for one week at XYZ resort.

For me, the appeal of RCI Points is the flexibility. I started timesharing with Club Wyndham and loved the flexibility... RCI Points extended my options, so I could enjoy that flexibility in areas where Wyndham didn't have resorts.

 

[OldGuy]

The person I'm trying to help is most likely reading this, and we are talking privately.

The half-dozen weeks I have gotten rid of went to people who are not intimately familiar with timesharing, so talking about a week at XYZ was simple. The person I'm trying to help concurs, that all the Points stuff and what all you can do with it, clouds the issue, or, IMO, intimates/scares off people.

 

[Free2Roam]

Perhaps... Flexibility breeds complexity.

But if the week and resort are not desirable, RCI points could make the deed/contract purchase more desirable... depending on RCI Points/MF ratio.

 

[montygz]

To get the maximum value out of a timeshare, it requires a good deal of study and experience.

The timesharing system is designed to be complex and confusing, with the answer always "you need to buy something" as the answer from the sales department of whatever timeshare system you've bought.

If you put in the time to understand how to maximize a timeshare, you can extract good value.

 

[JohnPaul]

Again, RCI points don’t exist in a vacuum. There has to be an underlying week.