Beaglemom3
TUG Member
I hope you've used a lot of those MR points on some nice trips!
When I first looked at your post I thought you were sitting on 1,600,000 points and I wondered why you weren't using them. I talked to an owner at the hot tub once who said they had over a million MR points but her husband didn't like hotels. They also have children and grandchildren. I told her I could help her use them
Can I ask. . .when you turn in the timeshares and figure the cost of each MR point what do you come up with?
I wish I had that many in the bank, but as you noted, this is the amount I have used and spent on great places; London x 2, Paris x 2, Key West (upcoming), St. Augustine (Casa Monica), etc. Currently, I have 377,525 points (this includes 2016's MRPs).
Long story short, Cliff Notes version:
Got an excellent deal on these. Right place, right time - for a change. My outlay was small considering the units came with MRPs
I haven't done the cost : point ratio on these yet, but I should.
I acquired these 2 Platinum weeks due to a "blessed fluke". I bought these at a Marriott auction in 2011 for $4k each. At the auction, the attorney-auctioneer for Marriott announced and explained the amount of points that came with each season; 125k for platinum, 110k for gold and 75k for silver. I questioned this as I had never heard of MRPs with resale units even at a Marriott auction. Anyway, I got the units, but had to "go to the top" to get the points. Cannot say enough good things about Marriott's highest management and the CH management. They righted things.
ETA: Marriott corrected this practice and has taken measures not to award MRPs at their own sanctioned auctions. Fortunately for them, I was the lone bidder at the auction.
Here is the long version: http://tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=154467&highlight=custom+house+auction
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