Which US resorts charge [EXCHANGERS] mandatory resort fees when you exchange in to them?

[Lisa P]

I'd like to know which resorts charge Exchange Guests additional mandatory fees at check-in.

This is not about mandatory AI (all-inclusive) resorts, which are designated as such on exchange company websites. It's possible to select or de-select these pretty easily. But other, individual mandatory fees charged by resorts to exchange guests are less obvious. They require opening the actual resort description and looking for Fee information.

Please share what you know about mandatory resort fees charged to timeshare exchange guests on arrival. Here are some examples:

Wyndham Vacation Resorts At National Harbor, Oxon Hill, MD: self-parking $20/day/car
Wyndham Kingsgate, Williamsburg, VA: resort fee $6/day/unit
Wyndham Smugglers Notch, Smugglers Notch, VT: resort fee $10-$50/unit (per unit size)

Thanks for sharing, Tuggers!

 

[silentg]

We have exchanged to VV in Weston, FL. They charge $25.00 resort fee. They have activities and charge for them too. One time we were there and they had a cook out, because it rained just after they cooked the food. It was complimentary since lot of the families went back inside.
We also had ice cream sundaes $4.00 and Bingo was $5.00.
We are going there again soon.
Silentg

 

[tschwa2]

I think most Vacation village timeshares have the $25 per week fee:
Vacation Village at Parkway
Grandview
The Colonies in Williamsburg
Williamsburg Plantation
Vacation Village at Weston
Cliffs at Peace Canyon
Mizner Place at Weston
Vacation Village at Bonaventure
Vacation Village in the Berkshires

 

[tschwa2]

Hilton has recently added daily resort fees to most of their resorts.
Diamond has resort fees at many resorts.

 

[hurnik]

I think DVC (Disney) is now doing this as well:
weekly usage fee is 190.00 U.S. dollars.

• Mandatory due at check-in At DVC resort

I'm trying to get a list of which HGVC resorts charge the daily fee now. Not all due, but RCI's website isn't being nice to me right now.

 

[alwysonvac]

Manhattan Club
Grand Pacific resorts

And various resorts also charge a housekeeping fee for RCI Points Reservations.

 

[Egret1986]

I'm appalled that one of my resorts on the Outer Banks started charging a $125 cleaning fee for RCI exchange guests. What?!!! I'm not talking about for a partial RCI Points stay cleaning fee. Any and all exchangers will be charged this fee at check-in. This resort has had ultra low maintenance fees forever. I guess they are still trying to keep the maintenance fees ridiculously low and add new income by saddling exchangers with this obnoxious cleaning fee. The resort is Ocean Pines in Duck.

The former Gold Key Resorts (now Diamond Resorts) in Virginia Beach and Kitty Hawk, NC have daily amenity fees for exchangers. They vary by resort. I had a welcome surprise when I checked in as an exchanger in March at the Kitty Hawk resort (Beachwoods). The $25 daily amenity fee was waived since I am an owner at Beachwoods. This is a new initiative.

 

[missyrcrews]

Grand Summit at Sunday River in Maine charges a housekeeping fee to all RCI reservations...weeks/points both. It ranges from $201 for a studio to $261 for a 3BR. You can not opt out. (I do not usually have housekeeping come in when we are timesharing. Still had to pay the fee.) We will never go back.

 

[bbodb1]

Out of curiosity, were these all disclosed prior to you making a reservation?

 

[JudyH]

Hilton Grand Vacations Club At Tuscany Village
Resort ID: 6309
8122 Arrezzo Way
Orlando, FL 32821
USA

$25 per day amenities charge. It was on the RCI website.

 

[Egret1986]

Out of curiosity, were these all disclosed prior to you making a reservation?

Re: Ocean Pines in Duck, NC: The policy changed after a reservation was made and I was notified by RCI that this fee would be charged. This was an RCI Points Home Week reservation. I contacted the resort and was told that it would not be charged to me since it was my Home Week. It is now disclosed by RCI, as are the Diamond Resorts daily amenity fees. As long as it is disclosed, I'm cool with it. It's my decision at the point whether I'm willing to accept the added fees. Not disclosed; then that's not acceptable.

 

[missyrcrews]

Out of curiosity, were these all disclosed prior to you making a reservation?

The policy changed after my reservation was made. The only way out was to cancel the reservation. We chose to go and make the best of it...but as I said, we will never return. I don't mind a modest resort or activities fee...but over $200 for housekeeping that I wasn't using was over the top. It was the HOA's decision to pass those fees on to the exchangers. :/

 

[SmithOp]

The policy changed after my reservation was made. The only way out was to cancel the reservation. We chose to go and make the best of it...but as I said, we will never return. I don't mind a modest resort or activities fee...but over $200 for housekeeping that I wasn't using was over the top. It was the HOA's decision to pass those fees on to the exchangers. :/

They will usually honor the terms at the time the reservation is made, its important to print the original reservation document.


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[missyrcrews]

They will usually honor the terms at the time the reservation is made, its important to print the original reservation document.


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Umm...NOPE. This made sense to those of us who are reasonable, thinking folk. But not to the Grand Summit! Believe you me, I went with every piece of paper I had....I'm no novice. Worked my way up to the top of the house. "It's a decision made by the HOA. I can not help you." Fine. We won't go back. Other fish in the sea!

 

[Passepartout]

DRI (Diamond) charged us $70 ($80.78 including tax) in resort fees, and put a hold on a CC for $200 (?) for 'incidentals or damage' at Santa Fe, NM recently.

Jim

 

[youppi]

Out of curiosity, were these all disclosed prior to you making a reservation?

In Fees

 

[missyrcrews]

In Fees
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Yes...this was posted AFTER my reservation was made. It's been a couple of years since we've been. I'd made the reservation almost 2 years in advance, and the policy changed in the mean time. The resort would not honor what was in effect at the time my reservation was made. No worries.

 

[Lisa P]

In Fees...

Yes...this was posted AFTER my reservation was made... the policy changed in the mean time. The resort would not honor what was in effect at the time my reservation was made. No worries.

Sorry to disagree but I could not say "no worries". Once the exchange is confirmed, the contract is set. If RCI contacted us prior to check-in to say that we were now going to be subject to a new fee $xyz, I'd be very, very upset. Unless RCI had an exceptional alternative resort available at the last minute, we could be forced into either paying the fee or cancelling the trip for which possible purchase airfare and for which we had already gotten approved time off from work. This is so unacceptable! Shame on that Diamond resort!!!!

 

[Lisa P]

Grand Summit at Sunday River in Maine charges a housekeeping fee to all RCI reservations...weeks/points both. It ranges from $201 for a studio to $261 for a 3BR. You can not opt out. (I do not usually have housekeeping come in when we are timesharing. Still had to pay the fee.) We will never go back.

That sounds steep for a timeshare. Is this for daily, hotel-style housekeeping service?

 

[missyrcrews]

Sorry to disagree but I could not say "no worries". Once the exchange is confirmed, the contract is set. If RCI contacted us prior to check-in to say that we were now going to be subject to a new fee $xyz, I'd be very, very upset. Unless RCI had an exceptional alternative resort available at the last minute, we could be forced into either paying the fee or cancelling the trip for which possible purchase airfare and for which we had already gotten approved time off from work. This is so unacceptable! Shame on that Diamond resort!!!!

It's a Boyne resort...not Diamond. And yes, back when this all happened, I did all of the things you mentioned, both for several months before checking in, and then once we got there. I got nowhere. I had to decide to continue to be upset, let it ruin my vacation, or to pay this once, and then let my future dollars talk. We'll never spend another cent on that particular place. There was no other alternative of a place to stay. It was a summer-in-Maine reservation, and it was a sleeps 8 unit. Those are hard to come by, especially within 6 months. I'm over it!

Yes, it is for daily hotel-style housekeeping....use it or not, still have to pay.

 

[silentg]

Do you think they are charging fees because owners are not paying maintenance fees?

 

[youppi]

Yes...this was posted AFTER my reservation was made. It's been a couple of years since we've been. I'd made the reservation almost 2 years in advance, and the policy changed in the mean time. The resort would not honor what was in effect at the time my reservation was made. No worries.

I was answering to bbodb1 question but I miss-read his/her question. I read "where" but he/she wrote "were".
Sorry

 

[dioxide45]

There was a time where when you exchanged, you were exchanging what you owned for what the other person owned. You get what they pay for and they get what you pay for. It hasn't been this way for a long time. Exchanging is now just another way to make a reservation at a different resort. No guaranty you will actually get the same amenities that the owner pays for.