Hi All,
I have a bi-annual deeded week (3BR, Week 50, Even) at Mystic Dunes, purchased back in 2002. I was single then, probably had no business buying a timeshare, my parents said it was a good investment...
I used it a handful of times in the first 10 years, but always found II do be difficult and ultimately developed a sour taste for timeshare ownership. I've since married, we have three small kids, and we've started trying to use the timeshare for family travel, because we have it. In fact, we went to Orlando back in December, 6 adults, 7 kids, we had a good time.
Generally speaking though, we don't usually plan our trips very far ahead of time and tend to do long weekends more than week long trips. Thus,, we find the deeded bi-annual week a little inflexible, also II's website.....
This weekend we are vacationing on DRI's dime for an Owner Update, they offered us the ability to upgrade our deeded week at Mystic Dunes to DRI points for a purchase of roughly 3100 points @ $4.90 ish. Combine that with a credit of 5900 points for Mystic Dunes, and we walked away with 9k points for $15k. MF are $1900ish annually.
Moving to points seems like a good idea, the added flexibility of points, and the potential to save 50% when booking late could prove to be beneficial. Plus we can use this annually vs bi-annually.
I don't think we'll need more than 9k points at this time. And from what I've read, if I wanted to get into DRI TheClub using resale points, we'd have to do an initial buy-in to get them converted anyhow.
I guess what I'm asking is, does this seem like an appropriate path to increase our usage and flexibility?
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I have a bi-annual deeded week (3BR, Week 50, Even) at Mystic Dunes, purchased back in 2002. I was single then, probably had no business buying a timeshare, my parents said it was a good investment...
I used it a handful of times in the first 10 years, but always found II do be difficult and ultimately developed a sour taste for timeshare ownership. I've since married, we have three small kids, and we've started trying to use the timeshare for family travel, because we have it. In fact, we went to Orlando back in December, 6 adults, 7 kids, we had a good time.
Generally speaking though, we don't usually plan our trips very far ahead of time and tend to do long weekends more than week long trips. Thus,, we find the deeded bi-annual week a little inflexible, also II's website.....
This weekend we are vacationing on DRI's dime for an Owner Update, they offered us the ability to upgrade our deeded week at Mystic Dunes to DRI points for a purchase of roughly 3100 points @ $4.90 ish. Combine that with a credit of 5900 points for Mystic Dunes, and we walked away with 9k points for $15k. MF are $1900ish annually.
Moving to points seems like a good idea, the added flexibility of points, and the potential to save 50% when booking late could prove to be beneficial. Plus we can use this annually vs bi-annually.
I don't think we'll need more than 9k points at this time. And from what I've read, if I wanted to get into DRI TheClub using resale points, we'd have to do an initial buy-in to get them converted anyhow.
I guess what I'm asking is, does this seem like an appropriate path to increase our usage and flexibility?
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