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- Jun 6, 2005
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Marriott:
Maui Ocean Club
Waiohai Beach Club
Barony Beach Club
Abound ClubPoints
HGVC:
HGVC at Sea World
We’re still in the process of evaluating the best approach to add an EOY Maui Ocean Club week to our ownership. We’ve been considering a hybrid bundle to achieve the EOY week Maui goal, plus that would bump us up to Executive in the DC. But frankly, the $30K cost of that option is causing it to rapidly lose appeal.
We’re starting to lean more toward just buying a third-party resale week at MOC (obviously unenrollable) and making do with our current DC points total - at least for now. While we’ve been focusing mainly on either a 1BR, or maybe a 2BR, in the original towers, I have recently seen some listings for floating EOY 2BR units in the Napili Tower that are not outlandishly expensive. There was a post a few days ago in the ROFR sticky thread from someone who was waiting on a ROFR decision for a deal at $13.5K for an EOY OF Napili. So, for any MOC owners out there I have a couple questions:
1.) Have you ever had issues booking your owned week in the prime winter season – mainly mid-January through mid-to-late-March? We would be fine with any week in that season – i.e. – we don’t need/want Presidents week, but we’ve heard the horror stories of the big multi-week owners booking up everything and leaving nothing for the others. Any difference in new vs original towers?
2.) I think these units are lock-off units, so in years when we only need the 1BR side, can the studio side be used effectively to trade in II? As I’ve posted often on TUG, I HATE Interval trading and don’t enjoy the uncertainty and waiting, but how useful can the studio side be with ongoing searches for other Marriotts? What kind of trades can an ongoing search with a studio get? I can maybe endure a little pain if I can reasonably expect to get good stuff! We’re planners, so we are not inclined to play the last-minute instant exchange/flexchange game.
Thanks for any information you can offer.
We’re starting to lean more toward just buying a third-party resale week at MOC (obviously unenrollable) and making do with our current DC points total - at least for now. While we’ve been focusing mainly on either a 1BR, or maybe a 2BR, in the original towers, I have recently seen some listings for floating EOY 2BR units in the Napili Tower that are not outlandishly expensive. There was a post a few days ago in the ROFR sticky thread from someone who was waiting on a ROFR decision for a deal at $13.5K for an EOY OF Napili. So, for any MOC owners out there I have a couple questions:
1.) Have you ever had issues booking your owned week in the prime winter season – mainly mid-January through mid-to-late-March? We would be fine with any week in that season – i.e. – we don’t need/want Presidents week, but we’ve heard the horror stories of the big multi-week owners booking up everything and leaving nothing for the others. Any difference in new vs original towers?
2.) I think these units are lock-off units, so in years when we only need the 1BR side, can the studio side be used effectively to trade in II? As I’ve posted often on TUG, I HATE Interval trading and don’t enjoy the uncertainty and waiting, but how useful can the studio side be with ongoing searches for other Marriotts? What kind of trades can an ongoing search with a studio get? I can maybe endure a little pain if I can reasonably expect to get good stuff! We’re planners, so we are not inclined to play the last-minute instant exchange/flexchange game.
Thanks for any information you can offer.
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