The recent thread on enrolling lots of weeks into the DC points system got me thinking/wondering...if eventually enrolling weeks through something like the current special is your goal, what resale weeks would be the best way to go about this?
Any insight into how this works would be much appreciated. Haven’t previously looked into the amnesty program because I enrolled my 2 weeks in 2010 when the DP program first started - 1 was resale, 1 was direct.
My goal is to get from Executive to Presidential level with the least amount of cost involved (of course). I don’t mind buying resale now & waiting for the next amnesty program (yes, I know it’s not guaranteed there will be another) to put plan into effect.
Bought 1000 DP points about 3 years ago to bring total points up to just over 6500. This was done to get to Executive Status right before they upped that status to 7000 points, so we are grandfathered in to Executive.
Will need about 3500 points to get to Presidential status. According to the terms of the current amnesty program, if we had one resale week that would generate at least 3500 pts, would we be eligible for the amnesty program? If so, what would we have to purchase/pay to get the resale week enrolled?
Would it be more cost effective to buy DP points resale?
Or, how does the Marriott resale program work, points + resale (resale enrolled for free?) - cost-ffectiveness?
By the way, vacations are our life! Every day we have off from work, we are looking to go somewhere. We still take week-long vacations sometimes but find we are taking long weekends a lot more as we get older to maximize our number of trips.