Let's help our newest members

[Silverdollar]

Have you noticed that we sometimes use abbreviations in our posts that our newest Tug members may not understand? Please allow me to list a few and see who can provide the full spelling and a brief description of each.

CWA, CWP, MF, ROFR, OP, UDI, VIP, OB, ARP, RCI, PR, WBC, PIC, RT, II, WVO, HOA, SA, WM

Feel free to add other abbreviations that you have seen in this forum. You can provide the spelling and description yourself, or see if others can answer.

Hopefully, this will help those who are new to the site, but too afraid to ask its meaning.

 

[ronparise]

CWA, Club Wyndham Access CWA is a non deeded timeshare membership club that is part of Club Wyndham Plus Club Wyndham Select and Presidential Reserve and Margaritavlle are the others

CWP, Club Wyndham Plus One of the 3 timeshare systems managed by Wyndham (the others are Worldmark and Shell Vacation Club

MF, Maintenance fees

ROFR, Right of First Refusal

OP, Original Post or Original Poster

UDI, Un Divided Interest. Some wyndham timeshare deeds are UDI others are fixed weeks

VIP, very Important Person There are three levels of VIP club Wyndham plus VIP owners Silver, Gold and Platinum VIP membership is based on the number of points purchased directly from Wyndham Silver is 400,000, Gold, 700000, platinum a million. VIP owners get certain benefits primarly discounts and upgrades


OB, Ocean Boulevard .. resort in Myrtle Beach

ARP, Advanced Reservation priority Owners get to make reservations at 13 months ahead of check in at their home resorts. At 10 months everything opens up to everyone

RCI, Resort Condominiums International, A timeshare exchange compant owned by Wyndham

PR, Presidential Reserve one part of Club Wyndham Plus

WBC, Wyndham Bonnet Creek aresort in Orlando

PIC, Personal Interval Choice owners of non Wyndham timeshares can bring them into Club Wyndham plus and have points assigned to them and the points can be used as if they were from Wyndham resorts. You are allowed 2 such weeks with the purchase of points purchased directly from Wyndham. PIC points count toward VIP

RT, Reservation Transaction every transaction requires a transaction credit . every account gets these credits annually at the rate of one per 77000 points. Exceed your allocation and they cost $19


II, Interval International a timeshare exchange company Most wyndham resorts are not affiliated with II

WVO, Wyndham Vacation Ownership The division of The Wyndham Worldwide Corporation that does timeshares (CWP, WM, Shell) Wyndham Worldwide is splitting into two seperate companies, Hotels will be one, and Timeshares the other. so WVO will no doubt cease to exist as a division , It will be reincarnated as its own publicly traded company

HOA, Home Owners Association

SA, Special Assessment

WM Worldmark

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Gee Thanks Ron ,
It took me 9 months of reading " recent posts" to figure out all the Wyndham lingo - and you go and give every new member the key to TUG TS wisdom in one post .

*****

Very well done

I am sure it will be appreciated and linked .

 

[Eric B]

I thought UDI was undivided interest - you own an undivided interest in a specific week for a specific unit rather than an allotment of points that would allow you to use some unit sometime depending on availability, which would be a divided interest in a group of weeks and units.

 

[ronparise]

I thought UDI was undivided interest - you own an undivided interest in a specific week for a specific unit rather than an allotment of points that would allow you to use some unit sometime depending on availability, which would be a divided interest in a group of weeks and units.

exactly right "undivided" Ive corrected my post

Ive been making that mistake for the last 7 years but you are mistaken too. Its not for a specific unit or specific week.. You own a fractional interest in a block of rooms, or even the whole resort, For example your deed might say you own 770,000 / 2,345,567,000 of phase 1 of abc resort they make the numerator in that fraction equate to the number of points you are allocated

 

[ronparise]

Gee Thanks Ron ,
It took me 9 months of reading " recent posts" to figure out all the Wyndham lingo - and you go and give every new member the key to TUG TS wisdom in one post .

*****

Very well done

I am sure it will be appreciated and linked .

all you have to do is to read the directory Its all in there

I learned what i know by answering questions posed on tug.. most of the time I didnt know the answer, Heck I wasnt smart enough to ask the question. But I had a directory, So rather than waiting for someone that did know, to answer, Id take out the directory and look it up.