• The TUGBBS forums are completely free and open to the public and exist as the absolute best place for owners to get help and advice about their timeshares for more than 30 years!

    Join Tens of Thousands of other Owners just like you here to get any and all Timeshare questions answered 24 hours a day!
  • TUG started 31 years ago in October 1993 as a group of regular Timeshare owners just like you!

    Read about our 31st anniversary: Happy 31st Birthday TUG!
  • TUG has a YouTube Channel to produce weekly short informative videos on popular Timeshare topics!

    Free memberships for every 50 subscribers!

    Visit TUG on Youtube!
  • TUG has now saved timeshare owners more than $23,000,000 dollars just by finding us in time to rescind a new Timeshare purchase! A truly incredible milestone!

    Read more here: TUG saves owners more than $23 Million dollars
  • Sign up to get the TUG Newsletter for free!

    Tens of thousands of subscribing owners! A weekly recap of the best Timeshare resort reviews and the most popular topics discussed by owners!
  • Our official "end my sales presentation early" T-shirts are available again! Also come with the option for a free membership extension with purchase to offset the cost!

    All T-shirt options here!
  • A few of the most common links here on the forums for newbies and guests!

Anyone have some trading tips

M

mkahanek

TUG Member
Joined
May 18, 2007
Messages
573
Reaction score
10
Location
Houston
So I deposited my 1 bedroom side of my Ko-Olina week for 2008 (exp 2010). I am looking at a fairly last minute trip to something in the Carribean (Beach) for Feb 09 or Apr/May 2009. However, I am having no luck finding anything. What are the chances that something will come up in Curacao, or St. Kitts, St. Thomas. Etc. Is Feb/Apr and May too close? Does Ko-Olina not have the trading power I was led to believe? Do I need to place a request and just wait.

Any advice would be appreciated.
 
You need to place a request to have a good shot at getting something in the caribbean.
 
Mid-Dec through Easter is prime time in the Caribean...definitely put in an on-going request. May is off-season (in Aruba anyway & that's my area of expertise!). For prime time, you may have to wait until Flex for availability. For May, you shouldn't have any problem IMHO.

Ingrid
 
ok

Pardon my lack of experience, but can an "ongoing request" be made even though my week is already deposited?

Would it be better to do request first in the future?
 
There are two ways to find a exchange

-first Look for an instant match of your deposit online. What you want may just be sitting there.

-Second - Do an “Ongoing Search" / "Pending Request" With your deposited week, you tell II which resorts/area and what weeks you willing to travel and their computer will try an find a match for you. (Sometime this it is called a "deposit first") Generally II will match someone with a pending request before it lets its computer display the week for instant exchanges.

Hope that helps

A request first search, means you don't deposit your week while II tries to find a match. You'd do this if you wanted to have your current week as a back up in case they can't find a week for you. I only do this if the week I want to travel is before the week I have reserved at my home resort.

PS read "the FAQ of II" at the top of the exchange board
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top