My wife and I have been owners at The Ridge Tahoe for what seems like forever. We own a 2BR winter week in the Naegle buildings. We bought this (resale, yay!) about 20 years ago or so when we liked to ski. Now DW likes it warm, and we haven't been into skiing for quite a while. For the last 10 years or so, we just rent out our ski week on eBay. So we've spent very little time at The Ridge, and I've mostly ignored the quarterly newsletters, some of which probably described the point-based Vacation Club system.
We spent last weekend at The Ridge on bonus time, and had a great time. While there, we decided that it might be nice to convert to points and be able to use the time in the summer. We've also discussed (a) trading our week for a summer week, if we could find someone so disposed, or (b) selling the week (which I wanted to do 4 years ago before the market crashed, when we could have gotten more than a few bucks for it, but DW vetoed :ignore: ). But I digress.
Anyway, we didn't want to sit through a sales presentation. BTDT.
Can anyone out there - (a) give a synopsis of how the point system works, (b) give me the real skinny on whether it works (or do you end up giving up your desirable week and find out you can only get the undesirable properties like Ridge Crest), and (c) tell me how much it would cost to do a conversion?
I know there are some knowledgeable TUGgers out there that can give me the real facts, as opposed to what will come out of the mouth of a salesperson. Thanks.
-Bob
We spent last weekend at The Ridge on bonus time, and had a great time. While there, we decided that it might be nice to convert to points and be able to use the time in the summer. We've also discussed (a) trading our week for a summer week, if we could find someone so disposed, or (b) selling the week (which I wanted to do 4 years ago before the market crashed, when we could have gotten more than a few bucks for it, but DW vetoed :ignore: ). But I digress.
Anyway, we didn't want to sit through a sales presentation. BTDT.
Can anyone out there - (a) give a synopsis of how the point system works, (b) give me the real skinny on whether it works (or do you end up giving up your desirable week and find out you can only get the undesirable properties like Ridge Crest), and (c) tell me how much it would cost to do a conversion?
I know there are some knowledgeable TUGgers out there that can give me the real facts, as opposed to what will come out of the mouth of a salesperson. Thanks.
-Bob