Resurrecting this thread....we got a very low-information invitation in the mail and decided to go see their dog and pony show at a new office that they've recently opened here. It was a group presentation (there was one other couple, and one other woman taking notes) and then individual sales people came to collect us. When they briefly left us all alone in the room between the two portions, I whispered "Visit TUGbbs and don't buy any thing he was selling!" They definitely tried to make you think you could get Marriott resorts in HHI during the height of summer for less than $1000. Wonder what would happen if Marriott and Wyndham's lawyers knew they were using their corporate photography to sell this vacation club?Anyhoo, I have no idea what weeks they may or may not have access to but, based on the presentation, it would seem like a variety of RCI/II "leftovers" as well as weeks that people who buy into the club "trade in" to them. (That's a new wrinkle for them, based on the above thread.)
I have no idea what the buy-in cost is these days, because when we got into the one-on-one with the sales person, he quickly realized we knew what we were doing. He asked us, "Would you purchase no matter what the price is?" and my spouse said, "Maybe if the buy-in was less that $100." He never even got out a price list and we were on our way to gifting....
...which requires us to
mail in a form with a self-addressed stamped envelope so they can send us our gift. *smdh* Because it's apparently 1985. Still, if we just get the $50 gift card for dinner, and the lodging certificate that was also part of the gift turns out to be unusable, it was still probably worth the 60 minutes of our time when our daughter was in rehearsal anyway.
Anyway, for any one Googling---this is *not* a good deal, no matter what the buy-in cost was/is, and you are much better off renting what you want from an owner than joining this kind of club.