A fee to use your timeshare the following year?

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Please let me know if this is common practice. My Timeshare is in Grand Cayman. Following the pandemic, the resort is charging a fee to carry over a week of timeshare to use at a later date, often the following year. The fee is 250.00 and this is not written in my contract of purchase. After many emails back and forth, the timeshare person is still saying they will charge this when I show up. If this is not in my contract, can the resort arbitrarily charge me this fee without any discussion? Can a resort make their own policies? I can pay the fee but I'm unhappy that they are doing this. After 20 years of membership, I'm wondering what comes next?
Can someone comment and advise ? Thank you!

 

[Hindsite]

@GrayFal Have you heard of this?

 

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@GrayFal Have you heard of this?

Hello Hindsite, did you receive any response from GrayFal? I would appreciate any comments from this group. Thanks a lot!

 

[jadejar]

If your resort is Morritt's, they had a grace period of several years after covid that you were allowed to carry your week over into the next several years. They have now reverted to the original pre-covid policy that your week must be used during the current year unless you pay a fee to carry it over to the next year. It is a courtesy to allow this as many timeshares will only allow you to use a year's floating week during that year.

 

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If your resort is Morritt's, they had a grace period of several years after covid that you were allowed to carry your week over into the next several years. They have now reverted to the original pre-covid policy that your week must be used during the current year unless you pay a fee to carry it over to the next year. It is a courtesy to allow this as many timeshares will only allow you to use a year's floating week during that year.

Thank you for your response. My timeshare is not at Morritt's, it is at Grand Caymanian. This must be the common practice for Timeshare on the island. Thanks again for the info!

 

[GTLINZ]

I received some generous ACs from Interval for reservations cancelled by the resorts during 2020. HRC was also flexible with some of my fees for cancellations and also in extending points further. This was a COVID thing and the "good will" went away after a year maybe two. We were willing to travel later in 2020 and early 2021 got some great vacations with smaller crowds.

Sounds similar to me. There were things done to help that were not in the rules for either Interval or HRC.

It balanced out somewhat. Because of these policies, there ended up being a higher than usual demand for stays in 2021 and later. People had to spend their extended points or use replacement weeks in addition to the normal inventory demand for that year.