mjc775
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- Joined
- Mar 20, 2018
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- Resorts Owned
- Wyndham Waikiki Beach Walk + DRI/HVC
My wife wants to go to a concert in South Lake Tahoe mid-week in July, so naturally I check availability at LTVR - a resort we've stayed at many times in the past. A search through the Diamond website comes up with nothing for the days immediately before and after the concert. Yet I go to Expedia.com and there are several rooms available. Apparently Expedia has bought an exclusive block of inventory from Diamond?
The rub is that this is not the first time I've seen this happen. I've seen this happen twice before with Diamond resorts, and once with a reservation at the Wyndham Canterbury in San Francisco which wasn't available to me as an owner trying to use points.
Has anyone else noticed this? Would my availability be better if I was at a higher membership level? It makes me wonder what the advantages of being an "owner" are? Why not just drop the yearly maintenance fees and enjoy more property flexibility and rent through Expedia when I want to stay somewhere? Am I missing something? I'm guessing the vacation clubs buried in the fine print of stuff we signed that they have the right to sell-off inventory as they please.
The rub is that this is not the first time I've seen this happen. I've seen this happen twice before with Diamond resorts, and once with a reservation at the Wyndham Canterbury in San Francisco which wasn't available to me as an owner trying to use points.
Has anyone else noticed this? Would my availability be better if I was at a higher membership level? It makes me wonder what the advantages of being an "owner" are? Why not just drop the yearly maintenance fees and enjoy more property flexibility and rent through Expedia when I want to stay somewhere? Am I missing something? I'm guessing the vacation clubs buried in the fine print of stuff we signed that they have the right to sell-off inventory as they please.