TravelTime
TUG Member
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2018
- Messages
- 8,093
- Reaction score
- 6,460
- Points
- 499
- Location
- California
- Resorts Owned
- All Resale: MVC DPs, Marriott Ko Olina, Marriott Marbella, WKOVR-N, Four Seasons Aviara
I am a relatively new Vistana member. We get 176K Staroptions EOY as an owner at WKOVR-N. I am very happy with how easy it has been so far to make reservations at our home resort and at other Vistana resorts. We have booked and re-scheduled the 1 bedroom lock off part of our home resort several times and have not had any problems reserving what we want. Then we had 81K SOs left. Today I booked the 1 br premium villa at Harborside/Atlantis. We still have a bunch of SOs left. I think we have about 30K SOs left. So we are getting 2 one week vacations in 1 bedroom units (one is ocean front and at Harborside it is floating) and we have about 1/2 a week of SOs left over. While the MF for WKOVR-N is high, if we can get 2.5 weeks out of it in 1 bedrooms, it is actually very affordable to own. The booking tool is easy to use. I am starting to question if I want MVC to merge the Vistana units into the Destination Points program. I own at MVC too so at first I thought it was a good idea. But I think I prefer keeping the 2 programs separate so availability for Vistana owners is not impacted. The only thing I would like if MVC and Vistana fully merge is my MVC ownership level would probably go up from Presdiential to Chairman's Level in a combined program, assuming they give us credit for our WestinMaui week at a high enough point value and there is no enrollment fee.